Flat Rock Playhouse to Conclude 2017 'Music on the Rock' Series with 'WOMEN OF WOODSTOCK'
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2017 The final Music on the Rock of Flat Rock Playhouse's 2017 Season, August 1969: A Tribute to the Women of Woodstock celebrates these four women who remain symbols of the legendary festival, leaving an indelible and provocative mark on popular music, American culture, and the world....
Al Pacino Joins the Star-Filled Cast of Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
by Macon Prickett - June 08, 2018 Al Pacino joins the star-filled cast of Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Deadline reports....
The Carpenters 'The Vinyl Collection' To Be Released Worldwide This November
by Caryn Robbins - October 12, 2017 On November 17, A&M/UMe will release The Vinyl Collection, a new career-spanning 12-LP vinyl box set chronicling the recorded output of one of the most celebrated and best loved duos in pop/rock history, the Carpenters....
Folk Music Icon Arlo Guthrie to Play the Davidson, 10/19
by BWW News Desk - September 07, 2017 In 1967, the career of Arlo Guthrie, eldest son of America's beloved singer/writer/philosopher Woody Guthrie, exploded with the release of Alice's Restaurant, whose title track helped foster a generation's commitment to social consciousness and activism....
Players Guild of Leonia Celebrates 50th Anniversary of HAIR
by Julie Musbach - April 09, 2017 HAIR: THE AMERICAN TRIBAL ROCK MUSICAL, book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDemott, made its debut at Joe Papp's Public Theater on October 17, 1967 before moving to the Cheetah and ultimately to Broadway six months later. Nominated for Best Musical in 1969, Winner of ...
BWW Review: IN EVENT OF MOONE DISASTER, Theatre503
by Charlie Wilks - October 18, 2017 In Event of Moone Disaster marks Andrew Thompson's debut. The play was chosen by a panel for the 2016 Theatre503 playwright award, out of 1,629 scripts submitted from 52 countries....
Velvet Underground's 50th Anniversary Celebrated With Career-Spanning Vinyl Box Set
by Caryn Robbins - December 20, 2017 To celebrate the Velvet Underground's 50th anniversary, Verve Records/UMe is releasing The Velvet Underground, a limited-edition career-spanning box that collects all four of the pioneering band's studio albums, Velvets collaborator Nico's debut LP, Chelsea Girl, and a reconstruction of the fabled '...
Echo Productions to Tackle the Infamous Charles Manson with CHARLIE: SON OF MAN
by BWW News Desk - November 08, 2017 Echo Productions is a Toronto-based theatre company with a mandate to bring theatre to a generation of millennial Canadians (18-30 years of age) who generally do not consider live theatre to be a viable or preferred medium of visual entertainment....
Resonance Records Releases Previously Unissued Music from Jazz Guitar Icon Grant Green
by Macon Prickett - May 25, 2018 Resonance Records is proud to release the first official previously unissued recordings of Grant Green in over 10 years, representing the earliest (1969-1970) and latest (1975) known live recordings of Grant Green as a bandleader. Funk in France: From Paris to Antibes (1969-1970) and Slick! - Live a...
La MaMa to Celebrate the Life and Career of Sam Shepard this October
by BWW News Desk - August 29, 2017 American playwright, actor, author, and director, Sam Shepard - who died on July 27, 2017 and was a prominent playwright during the early years of the Off-Off-Broadway movement in the 60's and 70's - will be remembered at one of the theatres he regularly called home during that era, La MaMa, on Octo...
CBS Sports to Celebrate Black History Month with Premiere of THE BLACK 14: WYOMING FOOTBALL 1969
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2017 CBS Sports Network presents THE BLACK 14: WYOMING FOOTBALL 1969, the story of 14 African-American University of Wyoming football players who were dismissed from the team in 1969 due to their desire to protest racial injustices....
WaterTower Theatre Announces HIT THE WALL, Directed by Joanie Schultz
by A.A. Cristi - February 28, 2017 WaterTower Theatre Artistic Director Joanie Schultz today announced the Company will produce Hit the Wall, the groundbreaking Ike Holter play about the 1969 Stonewall uprising. This production, the first to be selected and directed by Schultz, will replace the previously scheduled Sunday in the Par...
King Crimson to Perform at NJPAC on 10/31; Tickets on Sale Friday
by BWW News Desk - July 18, 2017 Progressive rock icons King Crimson, have announced an extension to their 2017 North American 'Radical Action' Tour, including a stop at in Newark, NJ for one night only on Halloween, October 31, 2017 at 7:30pm....
Fenella Fielding Returns to The Crazy Coqs On 2 June
by Marianka Swain - May 28, 2018 Due to popular demand, Fenella Fielding returns to The Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel on Saturday 2nd June at 2:00 p.m....
James Marsden Joins the Cast of Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
by Macon Prickett - June 08, 2018 James Marsden and “American Housewife” actress Julia Butters will join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” sources tell Variety....
Judy Garland's Last Concert to Be Released on High-Definition Audio In 2018
by Caryn Robbins - October 02, 2017 High Definition Tape Transfers, which specializes in high-definition releases of classical, jazz and pop classics and whose extensive catalogue goes from Duke Ellington to Gustav Mahler, is proud to announce the high-definition release in 2018 of Judy Garland's very last concert, recorded at Falkone...
New Book By MC5's Bassist Michael Davis I Brought Down The MC5 Now Available
by Macon Prickett - April 23, 2018 Famed bass player from MC5, Michael Davis, takes us on a rollercoaster ride of triumph and tragedy in his superb new 350-page memoir titled "I Brought Down The MC5"! The book includes rarely seen photos and original artwork by Davis!...
Andre Cymone 'We All Need Somethin' Premieres at Impose
by Caryn Robbins - March 30, 2017 Sonically bracing and lyrically incisive, 1969 draws some startling parallels between its titular year - the year when the utopian ideals of the '60s came face to face with harsh reality - and today....
Flat Rock Playhouse to Conclude 2017 'Music on the Rock' Series with 'WOMEN OF WOODSTOCK'
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2017 The final Music on the Rock of Flat Rock Playhouse's 2017 Season, August 1969: A Tribute to the Women of Woodstock celebrates these four women who remain symbols of the legendary festival, leaving an indelible and provocative mark on popular music, American culture, and the world....
VIDEO: Claire Danes Chats Her Upcoming Film A KID LIKE JAKE On JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE
by Macon Prickett - June 01, 2018 Claire talks about her new movie A Kid Like Jake and the insanity of applying to elementary schools in big cities on Jimmy Kimmel Live!...
VIDEO: Future Performs 'Nowhere' on Jimmy Kimmel Live
by Stephi Wild - June 12, 2018 Future performed the song Nowhere, from the Superfly soundtrack, on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Watch the clip below!...
Ko-Thi Dance Company Returns To Marcus Center With VIBRATIONS, 2/2-3
by BWW News Desk - February 03, 2017 Ko-Thi Dance Company will debut VIBRATIONS: Rhythmic Motion in Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall on February 2-3, 2017. Ko-Thi's much anticipated return to the stage in Milwaukee will feature Ko-Thi's Adult Company and Ton Ko-Thi Children's Performing Ensemble, a post-performance talk back with the Comp...
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for Damien Chazelle's FIRST MAN Starring Ryan Gosling
by Macon Prickett - June 11, 2018 On the heels of their six-time Academy Award®-winning smash, La La Land, Oscar®-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for Universal Pictures' First Man, the riveting story of NASA's mission to land a man on the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the years 1961-1969. A visc...
Three Sharon Tate Plays Coming to Long Beach This October
by BWW News Desk - September 08, 2017 In three plays in three views, Sharon Tate aka 'Jennifer' in VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, talks as a girl and a ghost to her best friend Mia Farrow, her murderer Charlie Manson, and her husband Roman Polanski after her murder in the summer of 1969 when she was on top as America's 'Future Girl.' A comedy dra... |