Nevada Public Radio to Take Utah Shakespeare Festival Excursions, 7/14, 7/27 & 8/4by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012Nevada Public Radio is accepting reservations for their annual summer theatre excursions to Utah Shakespeare Festival, Neil Simon Festival and for the first year, Tuacahn Amphitheatre. (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...)
54 Below to Launch BACKSTAGE Series with SMASH Cast, 6/17by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2012?54 BELOW, the nightclub and restaurant to open next month at 254 West 54th Street, has announced three exciting new series. 54 BELOW is the new Broadway nightclub in the grand tradition of New York City nightlife. (more...)
Way Off Broadway to Present FOOTLOOSE, 6/15-8/25by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2012The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre is getting ready to cut loose this summer with the dance musical Footloose. The stage production, based on the Paramount Pictures film, will open at the Frederick theatre on Friday, June 15th and run through August 25th. (more...)
Joel Grey, Mary Tyler Moore, et al. to Honor Bernadette Peters at New Dramatists Galaby BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012NEW DRAMATISTS, Tony Honor recipient and the nation's premiere playwright development workshop, today announced that two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters will be honored with their 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, to be held Thursday, May 24th at the New York Marriott Marquis. Among those on the program offering tributes will be 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 will offer musical tributes. (more...)
Christine Pedi, Michael West and More Extend in NEWSICAL Through 12/21by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2012Christine Pedi, Michael West, Christina Bianco and Tommy Walker – the four principal cast members in NEWSical the Musical: End of the World Edition – have extended their contracts in the show through December 21, 2012 at which point the world will definitely end. A new block of tickets is now on sale at Telecharge.com. (more...)
Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre Presents THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY, 4/14by BWW News Desk - Mar 27, 2012Following The Way Off Broadway Children’s Theatre’s sold out run of Pinkalicious – The Musical, which opened the theatre’s 2012 Season, another children’s character is getting ready to move into Way Off Broadway for the spring and summer. (more...)
Way Off Broadway Hosts Spring Youth Musical Theatre Workshop, Begins 3/27by BWW
News Desk - Mar 26, 2012Started in 2003 as an extension of Way Off Broadway’s Children’s Theatre Summer Camp program, the Actors’ Studio picks up where the summer camp leaves off, offering workshops and classes during the spring and fall. (more...)
Way Off Broadway Presents JEKYLL AND HYDE, 3/23-6/2by BWW
News Desk - Mar 23, 2012The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre will present Jekyll & Hyde, described as "an evocative tale of the epic battle between good and evil, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story,The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart. Convinced the cure for his father's mental illness lies in the separation of Man's evil nature from his good, Dr. Henry Jekyll unwittingly unleashes his own dark side, wreaking havoc in the streets of late 19th century London as the savage, maniacal Edward Hyde." (more...)
Rebecca Blackstone, Adam Levy, et al. Join Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths in THE SUNSHINE BOYS; Full Cast Announcedby BWW News Desk - Mar 19, 2012Joining Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths as the ageing vaudevillian team Willie Clark and Al Lewis in Neil Simon’s award-winning comedy The Sunshine Boys are Rebecca Blackstone (Miss MacKintosh), Nick Blakeley (Eddie), Peter Cadden (Voice of TV Director), Johnnie Fiori (Registered Nurse), Adam Levy (Ben Silverman) and William Maxwell (Patient). (more...)
NEWSical Welcomes Tommy Walker to Principal Cast, 4/6by BWW News Desk - Apr 5, 2012 NEWSical the Musical: End of the World Edition, the ever-evolving, completely unsanitized musical mockery of all the news that’s fit to spoof, will welcome Tommy Walker to the principal cast on April 6, 2012. Walker has been a swing in NEWSical since 2009. He replaces John Walton West, who played his final performance on April 4.
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Bernadette Peters Plays the Jorgensen Stage, 4/13-14by BWW News Desk - Apr 4, 2012Bernadette Peters is set to perform at Jorgensen's Cabaret on Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14, at 8 p.m. Fresh from wowing audiences in the Broadway revival of “Follies” and coming to Storrs on her first East Coast stop of her national tour, Peters will perform selections from a rich stock of musicals and popular tunes by Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers & Hammerstein and others. (more...)
New Dramatists to Honor Bernadette Peters With Lifetime Achievement Award, 5/24by BWW News Desk - Apr 3, 2012New Dramatists, Tony Honor recipient and playwright development workshop, today announced that two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters will be honored with their 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, to be held Thursday, May 24th at the New York Marriott Marquis. (more...)
Photo Flash: 'FLAT STANLEY' at Way Off Broadway Children's Theatreby BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2012The Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre's production of THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY runs through July 14th with performances every Saturday afternoon and the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, with select added weekdays. See photos from the production below! (more...)
Way Off Broadway Announces MAY MUSICAL MADNESS Specialby BWW News Desk - Apr 24, 2012The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre and Children’s Theatre has announced that it will cut ticket prices now thru May 20th. The new ticket prices will be $38 for dinner and show to see the current Mainstage production of Jekyll & Hyde – The Musical and $13 for lunch and show for the Children’s Theatre’s presentation of The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley. (more...)
Star-Studded List of Presenters and Recipients Highlight Upcoming Bistro Awards at Gotham Comedy Clubby Stephen Hanks - Apr 18, 2012The lineup of people either receiving or presenting honors at the 27th Annual Bistro Awards on Monday, April 23 (at 6:30pm at the Gotham Comedy Club on 208 West 23rd Street) just keeps getting better. The Bistro’s will be the place to be that evening because there won’t be as much cabaret/nightlife talent in one room, well, since last month’s MAC awards. (more...)
Terrence Mann, Marie Zamora, et al. Set for DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING Concert, 4/20-22by BWW News Desk - Apr 18, 2012Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Choral Arts Society in a concert featuring popular favorites from musicals such as Les Misérables and Miss Saigon on Thursday, April 19 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 21 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 22 at 3 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Entitled “Do You Hear the People Sing,” this program celebrates music by two of the world’s most prolific writers of modern musical theatre, Alain Boublil and Claude?Michel Schönberg, whose masterpiece Les Misérables is the longest?running musical in the world. Also included in the program are selections from the award?winning team’s shows Martin Guerre, Pirate Queen, and La Revolution Francaise. Please see below for complete program details. (more...)
Marvin Hamlisch, Liz Smith et al. to Present Awards at 27TH Annual Bistro Awards, 4/23by BWW News Desk - Apr 17, 2012Columnist Liz Smith, composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch, choreographer George Faison, and jazz artist Annie Ross are among the presenters appearing at the 27th Annual Bistro Awards on Monday April 23 at 6:30pm at Gotham Comedy Club in New York, 208 West 23rd Street.
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Photo Flash: Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths in Rehearsal for SUNSHINE BOYSby BWW News Desk - Apr 12, 2012Thea Sharrock's production of The Sunshine Boys begins previews at the Savoy Theatre from 27 April with press night on 17 May. The Sunshine Boys, which is booking for a strictly limited run until 28 July 2012, is designed by Hildegard Bechtler with lighting by Neil Austin, music by Adrian Johnston and sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph. Joining Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths as the ageing vaudevillian team Willie Clark and Al Lewis in Neil Simon's award-winning comedy The Sunshine Boys are Rebecca Blackstone (Miss Mackintosh), Nick Blakeley (Eddie), Peter Cadden (Voice of TV Director), Johnnie Fiori (Registered Nurse), Adam Levy (Ben Silverman) and William Maxwell (Patient).
Check out photos of the duo in rehearsal below! (more...)
Tickets for Marvin Hamlisch, Meat Loaf and More Go On Sale at BergenPACby BWW News Desk - Apr 10, 2012NEW bergenPAC shows on sale: Cinderella (June 26th), Meat Loaf (July 23rd), Marvin Hamlish (October 21st), David Caserta (October 28th) on sale Friday,April 13th at 11:00am. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com or bergenPAC.org or by calling the box office at 201 227 1030. (more...)
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