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Around the Broadway World: Regional Highlights for the Week of 9/17

Another week, another roundup! Today, we bring you a list of the most-read stories in our regional markets for the week of September 21. Browse over to your favorite far-away city/country to see what's making news, check out what productions are playing around the country and overseas and get to know new performers! Enjoy this virtual trek around the globe and stay tuned for next week's recap of regional not-to-be-missed news! (more...)

BWW Reviews: ACT's UNCLE HO TO UNCLE SAM - One-Note & Filled With Anger

The problem with so many one-man, autobiographical shows is that they are so often just someone exorcising their own demons. And that's fine when it has someplace to go. But as is the case with ACT's World Premiere of Trieu Tran and Robert Egan's "Uncle Ho To Uncle Sam" it just feels like a big rant for 90 minutes culminating in nothing. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Marc Robin's GYPSY Shines at Fulton Theatre

Lancaster's Fulton Theatre opens its 160th season with a sparkling production of the classic show-biz musical. (more...)

Around the Broadway World: Regional Highlights for the Week of 9/10

Today, we bring you a list of the most-read stories in our regional markets for the week of September 10 in another edition of 'Around BWW: Regional Highlights of the Week'. Browse over to your favorite far-away city/country to see what's making news, see what productions are playing around the country and overseas and get to know new performers! Enjoy this virtual trek around the globe and stay tuned for next week's recap of regional not-to-be-missed news! (more...)

ACT Presents Trieu Tran in UNCLE HO TO UNCLE SAM, 9/13-10/7

Vietnamese refugee, former gang member, and now rising Hollywood actor Trieu Tran comes to Seattle to tell a compelling coming of age story in his fearless one man show Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam. ACT - A Contemporary Theatre is proud to stage the world premiere of Tran's bold autobiographical solo performance directed by Robert Egan. Egan also assisted in creating the script. (more...)

Comedian Rajiv Satyal Comes Home to Ohio Tonight, 10/5

From corporate cubicles to comedy clubs, "Funny Indian" Rajiv Satyal has been making people laugh all over the world for a decade. Now, the former Procter & Gamble marketing manager will bring his unique brand of sidesplitting humor to his hometown of Fairfield, Ohio, for the first time in 10 years tonight, October 5 at the new Fairfield Community Arts Center Theatre. It will be the first ever standup comedy show at the center. (more...)

ANNIE, CINDERELLA, ELF & More Set for MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE on NBC

This year's MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE will feature performances from Broadway's best musicals, including "Annie," "Bring It On," Rodgers + Hammerstein's "Cinderella," "Elf" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It." In addition, the world-famous Radio City Rockettes® will join the presentation to help kick-off the holidays. (more...)

La MaMa La Galleria to Exhibit 'From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America'

Bold, daring works from a United States national exposition of theatrical designs assembled for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space will be exhibited at the La MaMa La Galleria in New York City. An opening reception is slated for 7 p.m. Thursday, December 6, 2012, with many of the artists and designers exhibited in attendance. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Circle X's Thrilling BAD APPLES Will Hopefully Have Legs

Based on the actual atrocities committed circa 2004 onward at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Bad Apples is another bold undertaking by Circle X, one that is scathingly real and at the same time exhilarating theatre. Two soldiers Specialist Charles Graner - named Chuck Shepard (James Black) in the play and his fiance Lynndie England - here named Pvt. Lyndsay Skinner (Kate Morgan Chadwick) were convicted in courts martial, imprisoned and dishonorably discharged for torture, abuse, and sexual crimes including rape of Iraqi prisoners. (more...)

ANNIE, CINDERELLA, ELF & More Set for MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE on NBC

This year's MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE will feature performances from Broadway's best musicals, including "Annie," "Bring It On," Rodgers + Hammerstein's "Cinderella," "Elf" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It." In addition, the world-famous Radio City Rockettes® will join the presentation to help kick-off the holidays. (more...)

Coney Island 'SIDESHOW' Relics, Freak Show Memorabilia in NYC Exhibition & Sale, Now thru 5/25

While the golden era of New York's most beloved amusement park is long gone, relics of Coney Island's colorful history and photos of its amazing cast of performers grab the spotlight in 'Sideshow,' an exhibition and sale running today, May 2-25 at The Ross Art Group's Manhattan gallery. Sideshow's featured collection belongs to Dr. Robert M. Lerch, a New York City physician and longtime collector of the bizarre and unusual. The exhibition chronicles roughly the first 50 years of Coney Island whose first enclosed amusement park area opened in 1895 with additional pieces from other early 20th-century carnivals and circuses. (more...)

Seattle Theater Writers Announces the 2012 Nominees of Gypsy Rose Lee Awards

Seattle Theater Writers, a critics' circle of local theater writers and reviewers, today announces the 2012 slate of nominees of the second annual Gypsy Rose Lee Awards, theater awards devoted to recognizing excellence across the economic spectrum of professional Seattle theaters. (more...)

RED EARTH, GOLD GATE, SHADOW SKY Receives 2013 ACT New Play Award

Announcing ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's New Play Award: Red Earth, Gold Gate, Shadow Sky by Mark Jenkins is the recipient for 2013. ACT has also committed to producing the play in the 2014 Mainstage season. Jenkins' play is a harrowing tale of a Cambodian family who lives through the American bombing of Southeast Asia, survives the horrors of the killing fields and the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, struggles to adapt as immigrants in modern Seattle, and has to fight for a place in America where incarceration and deportation are a constant threat. (more...)

Stephanie Hayes, Alenka Kraigher and More Set for The Public's OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE)

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced complete casting today for the world premiere of OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE). Written, directed, and designed by Richard Foreman who has been working with The Public Theater for more than 36 years, OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE) begins performances in The Public's Martinson Theater on Tuesday, April 30 and runs through Sunday, June 2, with an official press opening on Tuesday, May 7. (more...)

Oxford Film Festival Hosts Mississippi Table Read, Featuring BEULAH, Today

The Oxford Film Festival has announced working with the Mississippi Film Office, MFVA and OxFilm to host the third Mississippi Table Read today, February 20 at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center. The free program begins at 5:30 p.m. with a reception followed by Table Read Mississippi at 6 p.m. (more...)

Oxford Film Festival to Host Mississippi Table Read, Featuring BEULAH, 2/20

The Oxford Film Festival has announced working with the Mississippi Film Office, MFVA and OxFilm to host the third Mississippi Table Read on Wednesday, February 20 at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center. The free program begins at 5:30 p.m. with a reception followed by Table Read Mississippi at 6 p.m. (more...)

Photo Flash: Blake Jenner is Mr. July in GLEE's 'Men of McKinley' Calendar!

Before GLEE creator Ryan Murphy Tweeted a picture of Blaine (Darren Criss) shirtless and posing with a candy cane for the supposed 'Men of McKinley' calendar last week, he revealed Mr. July--Blake Jenner, also shirtless, in an Uncle Sam hat and patriotic boxers. God bless America. Check it out below! (more...)

H-E-B Slim Down Showdown Awards $18,000 to Healthy Contestants

Now in its second year, the H-E-B Slim Down Showdown presented by Dole awarded $18,000 on Saturday to three contestants who made the greatest gains in health improvement and fan engagement over a three-month period. (more...)

Coney Island 'SIDESHOW' Relics, Freak Show Memorabilia in 5/2-25 NYC Exhibition & Sale

While the golden era of New York's most beloved amusement park is long gone, relics of Coney Island's colorful history and photos of its amazing cast of performers grab the spotlight in 'Sideshow,' an exhibition and sale running May 2-25 at The Ross Art Group's Manhattan gallery. Sideshow's featured collection belongs to Dr. Robert M. Lerch, a New York City physician and longtime collector of the bizarre and unusual. The exhibition chronicles roughly the first 50 years of Coney Island whose first enclosed amusement park area opened in 1895 with additional pieces from other early 20th-century carnivals and circuses. (more...)

The Public's OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES Begins 4/30

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) will begin previews for the world premiere of OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE) on Tuesday, April 30. Written, directed, and designed by Richard Foreman, who has been working with The Public Theater for more than 36 years, OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE) and runs through Sunday, June 2, in The Public's Martinson Theater, with an official press opening on Tuesday, May 7. (more...)

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