Lillias White Celebrates THE NIGHT AFTER THE TONYS at Catalina Jazz Club, 6/11by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012Chris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret proudly present Broadway diva Lillias White: The Night After The Tonys, as she belts out the best of Broadway and Jazz, at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, for one performance only, on Monday, June 11. Showtime is 8pm, with cocktail and dinner service beginning at 6:30pm. (more...)
Patrick Cassidy Joins Upright Cabaret's VIVA LAS VEGAS, 6/8by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012Chris Isaacson has announced that Upright Cabaret’s AMERICAN ICON Series ends another stunning season with VIVA LAS VEGAS - a presentation of personality and pop that honors the flashiest performers of all time: Elvis, Cher and Elton John. Joining the group of all-star performers will be Patrick Cassidy. (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...)
The Media Theatre Announces 2012 Delco Idol and Delco Idol Jr. Contestantsby BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012The Media Theatre held auditions for the 2012 “Delco Idol” contests on May 21 and 23. More than 150 singers participated, and now the theatre has chosen this year's contestants. The final list of contestants for “Delco Idol” and “Delco Idol Junior” is available online at www.mediatheatre.org. (more...)
KC's Crown Center Announces Events, June 2012-Aug 2013by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012Crown Center has announced its schedule of events for June 2012 through August 2013, including events from the Coterie Theatre, American Heartland Theatre, Musical Theatre Heritage, and much more. See details 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...)
Music-Theatre Group Features Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner, 6/7by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012Music-Theatre Group has announced a special interview with Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner, to be moderated by Thomas Schumacher (Producer and President, Disney Theatrical Group) on Thursday, June 7th at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music (450 W. 37th Street between 9th and 10th) at 7:30 p.m. (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...)
Photo Coverage: Matt Doyle, Betsy Wolfe, et al. in York Theatre Company's NEO 8by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - May 23, 2012York Theatre Company presented the 8th Annual NEO 8 (an acronym for “New, Emerging, Outstanding”) on Monday, May 21, at The York Theatre at Saint Peter’s (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). The event celebrated songwriters primed to pen the next generation of musicals. BroadwayWorld brings you photos of the performers below! (more...)
2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - Day 11: GLEE Starsby Pat Cerasaro - May 22, 2012Today we continue the 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - culminating in the final entry on June 10, aka Tony Sunday - with a focus on two tremendous theatrical talents who have crossed over from Broadway fame to international acclaim on Fox’s hit musical dramedy series GLEE, which ends its third season tonight: HAIRSPRAY’s Matthew Morrison and Spring Awakening’s Lea Michele. (more...)
2012 World Science Festival Launches 5th Anniversary Gala, 5/29by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012The 2012 World Science Festival opens its 5th anniversary season with two star-filled nights dedicated to Science and the Arts: The 5th Anniversary Gala Celebration, “A Performing Arts Salute to Science” on Tuesday, May 29th, The Allen Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, 7:30 pm. The 5th Anniversary World Science Festival Gala will feature Broadway and Classical Music stars in a performing arts salute to science. Broadway celebrities and classical music stars will perform. In addition to the starry musical performances, Festival co-founder Brian Greene will conduct two mind-blowing and rarely-seen-in-public Physics experiments: the “Quantum Levitation” and “Double-Slit” experiments. (more...)
2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - Day 10: RENT Ownsby Pat Cerasaro - May 21, 2012RENT owned the 90s. No other Broadway show managed to have the dual impact on society by becoming not only a pop culture phenomenon, but also changing perceptions of what a musical on Broadway could be - and, most importantly, how it could sound. Contemporary, cool, caustic and engaging, RENT updated LA BOHEME to the East Village just as Jonathan Larson updated the way the general public looked at Broadway at a time when musicals had fallen farther out of fashion than they had since their early years approaching the turn of the last century. Yet, at the end of the millennium - to quote one of the show’s lyrics - RENT represented the hopes, dreams and desires of many Broadway babies and what we hoped would be achieved on the Great White Way in the new century. While Spring Awakening, AMERICAN IDIOT and NEXT TO NORMAL certainly stand as solid continuations of the rock musical formula recalibrated and made anew in the mold made by RENT, no show since RENT has quite managed to have the cultural impact and win over audiences and critics alike in as major a way as that Tony Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical has - with the exception, perhaps, of WICKED, which obviously owes a debt to its Oz-ian source inspiration and the built-in audience that comes along with that. Yes, indeed, RENT represents an entire generation in its sound, style, ideals and overall feeling, mood and tone and the subsequent success of the many members of the simply astounding assortment of talents that comprised the original cast acts as evidence that the show may have had the cast of the decade, as well. (more...)
glory|struck Productions' SPRING AWAKENING in Concert Supports 'Love is Louder', 7/20-29by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012Spring Awakening, the 2007 Tony Award winning best musical, comes to vibrant life on the Hayworth Theatre stage, courtesy of glory|struck Productions, in a new and exciting rock-concert format this summer to raise the volume of awareness for the LOVE IS LOUDER movement. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: GLEE's Lea Michele Talks Hidden Tattoosby Stage Tube - May 21, 2012GLEE and Broadway star Lea Michele discusses her 14 hidden tattoos on the Late Show with David Letterman. For Michele, tattooing is a family event. Watch the video below! (more...)
Current Economic Outlook Fails To Dampen the Spirits of Members of the Class of 2012by Jeffrey Ellis - May 21, 2012Among them (according to The National Center for Education Statistics, some 1,781,000 students at the bachelor’s degree level will graduate as part of the Class of 2012), of course, are a fresh crop of would-be actors, directors, stage managers, playwrights, designers, critics and others who hope to parlay that degree in theater into some semblance of a career that will pay them a living wage and foster their future growth and continued devotion to their chosen field. (more...)
AMERICAN IDIOT Comes to the Paramount Theatre, 6/5-10by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012AMERICAN IDIOT will make its Seattle premiere on June 5 at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre as part of the KeyBank Broadway at The Paramount series. (more...)
Barksdale Theatre and Theatre IV Merge to Form Virginia Repertory Theatreby BWW News Desk - May 20, 2012Barksdale Theatre and Theatre IV announce that the two nonprofit theaters will formally merge effective July 1, 2012 under a new name - Virginia Repertory Theatre (Virginia Rep). With a budget exceeding $5 million, four distinct venues, and an annual audience over 550,000, Virginia Rep will become the largest professional theater and one of the largest performing arts organizations in Central Virginia along with the Richmond Ballet, Richmond Symphony, and the Virginia Opera. Barksdale and Theatre IV celebrated the announcement and the unveiling of the new Virginia Rep sign today, May 20, at the November Theatre (formerly the Empire Theatre) at 114 West Broad Street at 4:00 p.m. after the closing of Seussical, thelast mainstage children’s production under the Theatre IV name. Virginia Rep will transition into the new organization between now and July 1. (more...)
BWW Reviews: 'Tommy (Tour)' Admiralspalst Berlinby Marcel Konrath - May 20, 2012Als Kind sieht Tommy Walker einen Mord mit an – mit verheerenden Auswirkungen. Durch dieses Trauma wird Tommy blind, taub und stumm. Er wird von vermeintlichen Freunden und sogar seiner Familie über Jahre misshandelt. Schließlich wird Tommy wie durch ein Wunder zum "Pinball Wizard" (Flipperkönig) und versammelt bald als Heilsbringer eine große Anhängerschaft um sich. Doch auch als Star nutzt man ihn aus. Als er das erkennt, beschließt er, alles radikal zu ändern... (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...)
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