Photo Flash: Memorial Day Weekend Saturday Intermission Pics - NEWSIES, JERSEY BOYS, West End's THE 39 STEPS and More!by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012Do you ever wonder what your favorite Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tour and regional stars are doing during intermission? Thanks to NEWSIES' Andrew Keenan-Bolger (@KeenanBlogger), dedicated performers and excited fans, now you can see for yourself. Keenan-Bolger started the trend when he was in Mary Poppins three years ago. Keenan-Bolger Tweeted today, May 26: "Hey theatre tweeps, its time for Saturday Intermission Pics! Snap a pic of you or ur cast at intermish and tag #SIP" (more...)
Hey, Jef, Here's My Headshot: MATTHEW HAYES HUNTERby Jeffrey Ellis - May 26, 2012Who's who in Tennessee theater? Sometimes, without a program in your hand, it’s difficult to know who’s playing whom—hence, our newest feature: Hey, Jef, Here's My Headshot...featuring some of the Volunteer State's best-known—or soon-to-be-known all over the freakin’ world—thespians. And have you ever wondered who the amazing photographers are who make them look damn good? We’re gonna tell ya…Today’s actor/subject/model is the handsome and talented Matthew Hayes Hunter, photographed by Elizabeth Fletcher. (more...)
Amy Adams Says Broadway Transfer of INTO THE WOODS Would 'Be Amazing'by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012According to a report by Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch, Amy Adams, soon to be playing The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, "would definitely consider," continuing her role in the production if it moves to Broadway. "That would be amazing," she said. (more...)
TAPA's Dora Mavor Moore Awards Set for 6/25; Thom Allison to Hostby BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) today announced that the 33rd annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, celebrating extraordinary Toronto talent in the performing arts, will take place on Monday, June 25 at 8pm at the St.Lawrence Centre for the Arts in the Bluma Appel Theatre. (more...)
Playwrights Theatre Holds Broadway Showcase Informational Meeting, 6/12by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012The Madison Department of Recreation, in partnership with Playwrights Theatre will produce a Broadway showcase in August 2012. An informational meeting will be held on June 12, 2012, 4pm at Playwrights Theatre administrative offices, Madison Civic Center, 28 Walnut Street, Madison, NJ. (more...)
Photo Coverage: Joel Grey & More Honor Bernadette Peters with New Dramatists Lifetime Achievement Prizeby Walter McBride - May 25, 2012Yesterday, May 24, New Dramatists honored two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters with their 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute at the New York Marriott Marquis. Among those who offered tributes were Emmy Award-winner Mary Tyler Moore, Peters’ Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music co-star Elaine Stritch, and New Dramatists Artistic Director Todd London. Tony and Academy Award-winner Joel Grey and Peters’ Tony-nominated Gypsy co-star John Dossett offered musical tributes. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below! (more...)
Daniel Berryman, Aaron C. Finley, Naomi Morgan & More to Star in 5th Avenue Theatre's RENT, 7/21-8/19by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012It’s a brand new season of love this summer when The 5th Avenue Theatre brings a bold and innovative production of RENT to the stage. Fresh from his smash success with First Date, Bill Berry directs this electrifying new staging of Jonathan Larson’s modern rock-opera classic. A cast of Seattle’s young rising theater stars, featuring Daniel Berryman, Aaron C. Finley, Naomi Morgan, Jerick Hoffer, Ryah Nixon, and Andi Alhadeff will take center stage, belting hits including “La Vie Boheme,” “Take Me or Leave Me,” “One Song Glory,” and “Rent.” Based on the Puccini opera La bohème, the hit musical premiered in 1996 to instant acclaim, and swept a host of theater awards — the Tony, the Obie, and the Pulitzer. (more...)
BWW Interviews: Just in Time for the Opening of The Wedding Singer, TRAVIS KENDRICK's Friday Fiveby Jeffrey Ellis - May 25, 2012Today, the spotlight falls upon Travis Kendrick, who continues his run as one of the go-to guys at Clarksville’s Roxy Regional Theatre in The Wedding Singer, opening tonight. Coming up for Travis is the role of Chachi in Happy Days, which will close the company’s 2011-2012 season. Not only an actor, Travis is also a certified yoga instructor, teaching classes around Clarksville and at the Roxy, and he’s choreographer of note, having choreographed Just Another High School Musical at Clarksville’s Northeast High School, Gallantry for Austin Peay State University Opera and he’ll be doing a number for The Roxy’s 101 Dalmatians the Musical later this year. (more...)
WICKED in Dayton to Offer $25 Lottery Ticketsby BWW News Desk - May 24, 2012A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of orchestra seats will be held for WICKED, which is returning to the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center with performances from May 30 – June 24. Two and one-half hours prior to each performance, people who present themselves at the Ticket Center Stage Box Office, located in the Wintergarden of the Schuster Center, will have their names placed in a lottery drum; thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only. This lottery is available only in-person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person. Lottery participants must have a valid photo ID when submitting their entry form, if chosen, when purchasing tickets. (more...)
Bloomington Civic Theatre's 2012-2013 Season Announced: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, CABARET and Moreby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2012Bloomington Civic Theatre (BCT) is pleased to announce its 2012-2013 season, featuring 5 musicals and three plays. On the Schneider Theater stage, BCT presents 42nd Street, Sunday In The Park With George, Cabaret and On The Town. (more...)
NewFilmmakers NY Presents MY LIFE AS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 5/30by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012On Wednesday, May 30th, NewFilmmakers presents its Documentary Series, Short Film Program and the new feature MY LIFE AS ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (more...)
BYE, BYE, BIRDIE Runs June 1-17 at Dickson's Renaissance Centerby Jeffrey Ellis - May 21, 2012Bye Bye Birdie—conjuring up memories of Elvis Presley and the fan fervor that greeted a lot of musical acts in the 1950s and ‘60s—takes center stage at Dickson’s Renaissance Center in June as the Renaissance Players present the musical theater classic June 1-17. (more...)
John Davidson and Heather Provost Set for MAN OF LAMANCHA 6/19-7/8by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012The Ocean Professional Theatre Company will present MAN OF LAMANCHA on 6/19-7/8 at the Bengal Theatre, 180 Bengal Blvd, Barnegat, NJ 08005 to open their Premiere Summer Season. The production will star John Davidson as Don Quixote with Broadway Producer and actress Heather Provost as Aldonza. (more...)
Stephanie J. Block, Sebastian Arcelus, Lauren Kennedy, Josh Young et al. Set for BABY Concert, 6/18by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012Transport Group, the Drama Desk and OBIE award-winning theatre company, has announced initial casting for its one-night-only, all-star concert of the acclaimed 1983 Broadway musical Baby, which will take place Monday, June 18 at 7pm at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street. Additional casting will be announced at a later date. (more...)
Photo Flash: Evening Saturday Intermission Pic Round-Up - Ricky Martin, NEWSIES and More!by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2012Do you ever wonder what your favorite Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tour and regional stars are doing during intermission? Thanks to NEWSIES' Andrew Keenan-Bolger ?(@KeenanBlogger), dedicated performers and excited fans, now you can see for yourself. See below for last night's Saturday Intermission Pics, featuring EVITA's Ricky Martin, the "Oldsies" of NEWSIES, HOW TO SUCCEED's last SIP show, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR "getting bloody," and more! (more...)
WE ONLY DO IT TO GET GIRLS, Featuring Songs By Sterling and Orton, at the Freedom Bar, Soho, June 3by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2012The next of the monthly Gigging For It cabarets at Freedom, Soho, on June 3, features the brand new original songs of Joe Sterling and Christopher J. Orton. (more...)
Photo Flash: New Saturday Intermission Pics - HOW TO SUCCEED, NEWSIES, BOOK OF MORMON and More!by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2012Do you ever wonder what your favorite Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tour and regional stars are doing during intermission? Thanks to NEWSIES' Andrew Keenan-Bolger (@KeenanBlogger), dedicated performers and excited fans, now you can see for yourself. (more...)
Melissa Minyard to Lead Mad Cow's NEXT TO NORMALby BWW News Desk - May 18, 2012Mad Cow Theatre today announced the cast for Next to Normal, the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey. (more...)
Photo Flash: Nicole Parker Joins National Tour of WICKED as 'Elphie' in Denver Tonight, 5/18by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2012The company of the first North American tour of WICKED welcomes PJ Benjamin as The Wizard on Tuesday, May 8 and Nicole Parker as Elphaba on Friday, May 18 in Denver, CO. (more...)
CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM Concludes 2011-12 Season At Pull-Tightby Jeffrey Ellis - May 18, 2012Camping With Henry and Tom—directed by Lynda Gibbs—focuses on a 1921 camping trip that Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and President Warren G. Harding took into the Maryland woods to escape civilization. Inspired by that actual event, Camping with Henry and Tom is an exploration of friendship, politics and leadership; a comedic and dramatic clash of three great historical figures, and what might have happened when they ventured off Into the Woods together. (more...)
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