In Real Life

BILINGUAL SMART for Toddlers Helps Build Fluency Through Bilingual Games

Bestselling authors put the powerful interaction between parents and their young children to work in 15-minute Spanish and English bilingual immersion games for toddlers. Nationally known language development experts and moms, Ana Lomba and Karen Nemeth, heard from many families who wanted their children to learn a new language, and they put their expertise together to create the Bilingual Smart© series for toddlers. Just released in April, Mi Habitacion/My Room: 12 Bilingual Smart Games to Learn Spanish in Your Child's Room, the first e-book in their series, provides the information parents need to support language development and go beyond memorizing colors and numbers. Language fluency develops best when exploring ideas In Real Life and having fun together. Brain and development research shows that a child's future success is directly connected to how parents speak to him and how much they engage with him during the first five years of life. (more...)

BWW Interviews: Black Lab Theatre's Director and Cast of CHINGLISH Talks Abut the Show

Black Lab Theatre is hard at work preparing the Regional Premiere of David Henry Hwang's CHINGLISH for Houston audiences. Recently, I visited a rehearsal at Asia Society Texas to talk to director Troy Scheid and her cast, featuring Mike Yager, Vivian Chiu, John Dunn, Xin Jian, Janice Pai Martindale, William Wu, and Andrea Huang about the show. (more...)

Review - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/5/13 & Theatre Quote of the Week

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NCIS Star Mark Harmon Visits CBS SUNDAY MORNING Today

NCIS star Mark Harmon maintains he's a team player and refuses to take credit for the popular CBS series' success, he tells Tracy Smith in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH Charles Osgood to be broadcast today, May 5, 2013 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. (more...)

BWW Interviews: Denise Devin on Researching RICHARD III for Zombie Joe's Underground

Zombie Joe's Underground is getting ready to open RICHARD III on May 10 and what a wild ride it promises to be. The North Hollywood theatre company has become well-known for its action-packed, explosive adaptations of Shakespeare's classics and director Denise Devin is having a field day doing the research for this one. (more...)

NCIS Star Mark Harmon to Visit CBS SUNDAY MORNING, 5/5

NCIS star Mark Harmon maintains he's a team player and refuses to take credit for the popular CBS series' success, he tells Tracy Smith in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD to be broadcast May 5, 2013 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. (more...)

Great Small Works to Bring 10th INTERNATIONAL TOY THEATER FESTIVAL to St. Ann's Warehouse, 6/14-23

St. Ann's Warehouse will present a colossal celebration of tiny art, Great Small Works' Tenth International Toy Theater Festival, June 14-23. (more...)

NEXT TO NORMAL Opens this Weekend at Broad Brook Opera House

The Opera House Players will present the creative, thought-provoking musical NEXT TO NORMAL from May 3 - 19, 2013, at the Broad Brook Opera House, 107 Main Street, Broad Brook, CT. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Following the Sunday, May 5th performance, the audience is invited to stay for a panel discussion on 'Bipolar Disorder: On Stage and In Real Life.' Tickets can be purchased online at www.operahouseplayers.org or by calling the box office at 860-292-6068. The show will be directed by area performer and director Sharon FitzHenry, with musical direction by Bill Martin. (more...)

Emily Blunt to Join INTO THE WOODS Film as 'The Baker's Wife'?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Emily Blunt is in talks to join Disney's movie adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall. Blunt would play the role of the Baker's Wife. (more...)

UPDATE: Emily Blunt to Join INTO THE WOODS Film as 'The Baker's Wife'; Plus Christine Baranski as 'The Stepmother'?

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Emily Blunt is in talks to join Disney's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall. Now, sources have told The Wrap that that Christine Baranski, who was part of the original reading last October, is in talks to take on the role of Cinderella's evil stepmother. (more...)

Houston Based Triple Threat SHEVYN ROBERTS Releases Debut EP

On the supercharged dance/pop title track to her highly anticipated debut EP Superstitious, Shevyn Roberts (www.shevynroberts.net) sings playfully about astrological signs and the things presumed to bring us good and bad luck. In the infectious song, penned by EP's producer Louis Yoelin, she may be looking up at the stars wondering which boy to hang with—but In Real Life, the multi-talented singer and dancer is fully grounded with an intense work ethic and a burning desire to get out there and spread her joyous sense of fun. (more...)

Photo Flash: Norbert Leo Butz Gives Webster University Commencement Speech at the Muny

Tony Award Winner and Webster University alumnus Norbert Leo Butz delivered the commencement address and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Webster University's 2013 commencement ceremony this morning, May 11 at The Muny in Forest Park. Scroll down for a photo of the new 'Dr.' Butz giving his speech! (more...)

Cady Huffman Set for SONNET PROJECT Launch, 5/20

New York Shakespeare Exchange (Ross Williams, Artistic Director) is thrilled the announce the 12 sonnets that will launch the year-long interactive SONNET PROJECT on May 20, with an invitation only launch event happening from 7 - 9 PM at The Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue in Astoria). For more information, visit www.ShakespeareExchange.org. (more...)

SOUND OFF: GLEE Goes Out Singing 'I Love It'

'I don't care / I love it!' And so goes the chorus of Icona Pop's current chart-climbing hit covered on last night's GLEE. And, so, too, goes Glee 4.0 as it is - or, now, as it was. Indeed, this was a game-changing year for the pop culture mainstay and the season finale was a fulfilling sampling of many of the reasons why. Plus: Patty Duke! (more...)

BWW Reviews: It's a Recording Session from Hell When the Star Gets LOOPED

A single line of dialogue is the catalyst for Matthew Lombardo's multi-layered and laugh-filled play LOOPED making a tour stop this week at The Bushnell in Hartford. (more...)

TNT Cancels SOUTHLAND

After five seasons, TNT has pulled the plug on its cop drama SOUTHLAND, Deadline reports. (more...)

Amanda Quaid, Frank Wood and More Join Larry Pine in Lucas Hnath's Disney Play at Soho Rep, Beg. Tonight

Soho Rep presents the world premiere of Lucas Hnath's play A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Fusion Theatre Co. Presents HUMBLE BOY

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the Fusion Theatre Company. Their productions are highly professional, well produced and consistently deliver good, solid theatrical entertainment. So it pains me considerably to have to say that HUMBLE BOY, which opened at the Cell Theatre on April 25, falls disappointingly short of the mark. (more...)

InDepth InterView: Alison Fraser Talks LOVE THERAPY, Plus FALSETTOS, SECRET GARDEN, GYPSY, Web Series, Upcoming Solo Shows & More

Today we are talking to a versatile stage and screen actress who has scored in a number of unique roles on Broadway and around the country in addition to making a recent mark with her work on the Broadway-themed web series IT COULD BE WORSE - the passionate and compelling Alison Fraser. Discussing her vast resume and some of her most fondly remembered performances to date, Fraser opens up about her remarkable career thus far - including her work originating parts in IN TROUSERS, MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS, THE SECRET GARDEN, ROMANCE/ROMANCE, GUNMETAL BLUES, THE DIVINE SISTER and more - and looks ahead to her most recent projects, current, upcoming and beyond. Most importantly, Fraser details the finer points of LOVE THERAPY, the new Wendy Beckett play she stars in Off-Broadway and outlines her continuing collaboration onstage with the playwright, having previously starred in CHARITY CASE, as well as what we can expect from the realistic new drama, opening April 29. Additionally, Fraser sheds some light on her recent work in the world premiere of the Tennessee Williams play IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE and how that led to her new solo revue, THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS SONGBOOK. Plus, memories of appearing in GYPSY on Broadway with Patti LuPone and working with Arthur Laurents on that as well as his own final play, cameoing on SMASH, reflections on her memorable musical partnerships with husband Rusty Magee and noted FALSETTOS songwriter William Finn, as well as thoughts on the contemporary theatre scene and her various theatre-related web projects, favorite recent shows and much, much more! (more...)

BARNUM to Bring Big Top to Lake Worth Playhouse, 4/11-28

Want to run away and join the circus? Now is your chance! Barnum arrives at the Lake Worth Playhouse April 11th - 28th. Directed by actor and former drama teacher Hal Johnstone, Barnum is a musical based on the life of showman P. T. Barnum, the Prince of Humbug! The production combines elements of musical theater with the spectacle of a circus. (more...)

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