STAGE TUBE: Tonya Pinkins Sings in Joe's Pub's BRING ON THE MEN Series
by Stage Tube - Mar 15, 2013
Joe's Pub recently welcomed Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins in her return to their stage for an ongoing series BRING ON THE MEN. Best known for her celebrated roles in Caroline, or Change and Jelly's Last Jam, Tonya made her Broadway debut in the original cast of Merrily We Roll Along. Broadway audiences have also delighted in her performances in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Play On!, The Wild Party and Radio Golf, while television audiences know her from As The World Turns, All My Children, Army Wives and 24.
Check out highlights from her concert below! (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Michael Cerveris & NHS Chamber Choir Sing 'Sunday' at FROM BROADWAY WITH LOVE
by Stage Tube - Jan 29, 2013
'From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook' took place yesterday, January 28, 2013, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. The evening was a concert of love and healing for the Newtown community from the composers, musicians and more than 100 stars of Broadway together with over 100 students from several Newtown dance groups and the Newtown High School Chamber Choir. All proceeds and donations go directly to United Way of Western Connecticut's Sandy Hook School Support Fund. (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Brooke Tansley Previews FROM BROADWAY WITH LOVE
by Stage Tube - Jan 24, 2013
'From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook' will take place 7:00 pm on January 28, 2013, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. The evening will be a concert of love and healing for the Newtown community from the composers, musicians and more than 100 stars of Broadway together with over 100 students from several Newtown dance groups and the Newtown High School Chamber Choir. All proceeds and donations will go directly to United Way of Western Connecticut's Sandy Hook School Support Fund.
In the video below, Connecticut native and Broadway vteran Brooke Tansley gives a special preview of the show, singing 'Someone Like You' from Jekyll & Hyde. Check it out below! (more...)
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VIDEO: Tony Kushner Talks LINCOLN and Modern Politics
by Movies News Desk - Dec 23, 2012
Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for Lincoln, recently joined Bill Moyers to talk about what Abraham Lincoln can still teach us all about politics, compromise, and the survival of American democracy. Click below to watch the interview! (more...)
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BWW TV: First Look at Jim DeSelm, Mary Ernster and More in Court Theatre's THE DEAD
by BroadwayWorld TV - Nov 19, 2012
Court Theatre Artistic Director Charles Newell and Executive Director Stephen J. Albert present James Joyce's "The Dead," with book by Richard Nelson, music by Shaun Davey, lyrics conceived and adapted by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey, and directed by Charles Newell with musical direction by Doug Peck. "The Dead" is running through December 9, 2012 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue. BroadwayWorld has a first look at highlights from the show below. (more...)
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BWW TV: Next Broadway Sensation: Heat 2- Ashanti J'Aria
by NYMF Next Broadway Sensation 2012 - Oct 1, 2012
Ashanti J'Aria is an alumnus from Fordham University Lincoln Center and has been singing and dancing and acting ever since she was 4 years old
She has had the honor of being asked to lend her talents over seas, in voiceovers, and television shows that include 'The Good Wife', 'Family Matters', and American Idol. On and off stage experiences include productions of 'Saturday Night Fever', 'Little Shop of Horrors', 'Beehive', 'The Kink In My Hair' (Naacp award winning production) 'Guys & Dolls', 'Caroline Or Change', 'Hair', NYMF's 'The Groove Factory' and most recently NYMF's own Off-Broadway production of 'The Last Smoker In America.' Ashanti Is honored and humbled by this opportunity. (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Behind-the Scenes Look at Barrington Stage's THE BLACK SUITS
by Stage Tube - Aug 10, 2012
Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, presents a workshop production of the new musical The Black Suits with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and book by Joe Iconis and Robert Emmett Maddock. The Black Suits is part of Barrington Stage's Musical Theatre Lab, William Finn, Artistic Producer. Directed by John Simpkins, with musical direction by James Sampliner, The Black Suits will run August 16 through September 2 at BSC's St. Germain Stage (formerly Stage 2), located on the upper level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the show below. (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Oskar Eustis Talks Public Theater's 2012-13 Season, Part 3!
by Stage Tube - Jul 31, 2012
Public Theater reecntly announced the line-up for its 2012-2013 Season, beginning in the fall with an October rededication of The Public's historic downtown building. The season continues the theater's nearly 60 year tradition of developing new theatrical voices and presenting Shakespeare to the entire New York community. In the video below, Artistic Director Oskar Eustis continues his discussion about what's to come this season! Scroll down to watch. (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: On This Day 7/16- Tony Kushner
by Stage Tube - Jul 16, 2012
Happy Birthday Tony Kushner! Kushner's best known work is Angels in America, a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into a miniseries for which Kushner wrote the screenplay. His other plays include Hydriotaphia, Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, and the book for the musical Caroline, or Change. His new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children was performed at the Delacorte Theater in the summer of 2006 starring Meryl Streep and directed by George C. Wolfe. Kushner has also adapted Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, Corneille's The Illusion, and S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk. (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Oskar Eustis Talks Public Theater's 2012-13 Season!
by Stage Tube - Jul 11, 2012
Public Theater reecntly announced the line-up for its 2012-2013 Season, beginning in the fall with an October rededication of The Public's historic downtown building. The season continues the theater's nearly 60 year tradition of developing new theatrical voices and presenting Shakespeare to the entire New York community. In the videos below, Artistic Director Oskar Eustis chats about whats to come in the upcoming season! (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at Guthrie's ROMAN HOLIDAY Rehearsal!
by Stage Tube - Jun 8, 2012
Roman Holiday begins preview performances on June 9, opens June 15 and continues through August 19 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage at the Guthrie Theater. Single tickets start at $29 and are now on sale through the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224, toll-free 877.44.STAGE, 612.225.6244 (Group Sales) and online at www.guthrietheater.org. (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: In the Recording Studio with NEWSIES- 'The World Will Know'
by Stage Tube - May 16, 2012
NEWSIES is currently playing at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 W 41st St) for a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed stint at Paper Mill Playhouse last fall. IN the video below, go inside the recording studio with Jeremy Jordan and the rest of the cast as they perform 'The World Will Know.' (more...)
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