Strand Theater Seeks Friends and Neighbors Festival Production Manager 6/9-7/9
by Gabrielle Sierra - February 03, 2011 The Friends and Neighbors Festival Production Manager is the point of contact for the 5 shows included in the 2011 Friends and Neighbors Festival (festival runs June 9 - July 9, 2011). ...
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Announces 2011-12 Studio Series
by Gabrielle Sierra - September 06, 2011 The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) has announced the details for the 2011-12 CCM Studio Series of opera, musical theatre and drama....
Art Garfunkel's THE SINGER Receives 4/10 Digital and Physical Release
by Kelsey Denette - February 15, 2012 Pulling together all the roots and branches of Art Garfunkel's career in music, THE SINGER is a 40-song collection of songs hand-picked by the artist himself. Spanning the years from the first Simon & Garfunkel album of 1964 (Wednesday Morning, 3AM) up through 2007's Great American Songbook album (...
WICKED at the Fox Theatre Goes On Sale 9/15
by Kelsey Denette - August 30, 2012 After breaking box office records in the three previous engagements, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return to the Fox Theatre this holiday season from December 12, 2012 through January 6, 2013. Tickets for the return engagement go on sale Saturday, September 15. Internet sales through ...
Photo Flash: Raven Theatre Presents The Price
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2012 Raven Theatre will present Arthur Miller's drama, The Price, directed by Michael Menedian. Opening is Sunday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m. at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, with a reception following in Raven's lobby....
Photo Flash: Raven Theatre Presents The Price
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 30, 2012 Raven Theatre will present Arthur Miller's drama, The Price, directed by Michael Menedian. Opening is Sunday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m. at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, with a reception following in Raven's lobby....
BWW Reviews: POTTED POTTER Perfect Family Summer Show
by Amanda Mashack - July 08, 2013 Summers away from Hogwarts might have been rough on Harry Potter, but Potter fans can celebrate this summer with the return of Potted Potter - The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff to the Little Shubert Theater after its New York premiere last year. For die-hard Potterphiles, ...
Holland Taylor to Star in ANN: AN AFFECTIONATE PORTRAIT OF ANN RICHARDS, 11/13-12/4
by Nicole Rosky - September 14, 2011 Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce ANN: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards with Emmy® Award-winning stage and screen actress Holland Taylor is coming to the Bank of America Theatre (18 West Monroe Street) for a limited three-week engagement, Nov. 13- Dec. 4, 2011. Tickets for ANN: AN ...
David Daniels to Perform at Glimmerglass Opera 7/30
by BWW News Desk - July 30, 2010 Internationally renowned countertenor David Daniels will sing a concert to benefit Glimmerglass Opera on July 30 at 3:30 p.m. in the company's Alice Busch Opera Theater....
BWW Reviews: Audiences Once Again Revel in Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway's SIBLING REVELRY at 54 Below
by Stephen Hanks - September 03, 2013 In mid-August, the news website Bloomberg.com reported that 54 Below, the popular new nightclub that opened last June in the basement of the old Studio 54, needed a major cash infusion in the six-figure range if it was going to survive. Perhaps if they just book Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway on a reg...
FWCT Holds Auditions for RENT, 12/12
by Nicole Rosky - November 22, 2010 Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. The physical and emotional complications of AIDS pervade the lives of Roger, Mi...
BWW Reviews: Browder Directs Proud Revival of THE BOYS IN THE BAND For Out Front on Main
by Jeffrey Ellis - June 08, 2012 There's not a lot to be proud of in Crowley's epochal play that made history as the first piece for mainstream theater to look at homosexuality with a clear, if assuredly off-putting, gaze. The playwright took off the rose-colored glasses that his character Emory would likely have worn to present a ...
Holland Taylor Set for Bway in Chicago's ANN: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 07, 2011 Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce ANN: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards with Emmy® Award-winning stage and screen actress Holland Taylor is coming to the Bank of America Theatre (18 West Monroe Street) for a limited three-week engagement, Nov. 13- Dec. 4, 2011....
WICKED at the Fox Theatre Goes On Sale Today, 9/15
by BWW News Desk - September 15, 2012 After breaking box office records in the three previous engagements, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return to the Fox Theatre this holiday season from December 12, 2012 through January 6, 2013. Tickets for the return engagement go on sale today, September 15. Internet sales through met...
'The Showtune Mosh Pit' for August 7th, 2013
by Paul W. Thompson - August 07, 2013 The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. BIC's Summer Concert, Lyric casts 'Sound Of Music,' Munster's 'Godspell,' youth productions of 'Ragtime' and 'Legally Blonde,' '48 Hour Musicals,' the world ...
The Stryker/Slagle Band Performs At Makeda Tonight
by BWW News Desk - April 30, 2011 The Stryker/Slagle Band performs Sat., April 30th from 9pm - 1am...
Target Margin Theater Announces Line Up for 20th Anniversary Season
by Gabrielle Sierra - September 28, 2010 The past and present will converge as Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director) celebrates its 20th Anniversary Season with a "retrospective of new work." How can a retrospective consist of new works? ...
BWW Reviews: The Renaissance Players' BYE BYE BIRDIE Brings Nostalgic Fun and Frivolity To The Stage
by Jeffrey Ellis - June 04, 2012 Valenti (playing Rose Alvarez, Albert's girl Friday/girlfriend) and Fair (as his overbearing mother, Mae Peterson) pretty much dominate the action as they deliver perfectly-timed, expertly crafted performances as the two women in feckless Albert's life, ensuring that a good time will be had by all i...
Venue Change Announced For The Stryker/Slagle Band 4/30
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 25, 2011 The New Brunswick Jazz Project presents The Stryker/Slagle Band on Sat., April 30th Three sets 8.00 to 9.15, 9.45 to 10.45 and 11.00 to 12.00...
UWM Department of Dance Announces Second Four Year Cycle of New Work Award Program
by Kelsey Denette - October 15, 2012 The UWM Department of Dance has announced the second four-year cycle of the New Work Award program, made possible by the generous contribution of an anonymous local donor for the amount of $20,000. This award will allow us to continue with two important missions of the UWM Department of Dance - supp...
An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards Plays Charline McCombs Empire Theatre
by BWW News Desk - December 10, 2010 The Charline McCombs Empire Theatre presents the San Antonio premiere of ANN: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards, with Emmy® Award-winning stage and screen actress Holland Taylor....
THE WHIPPING MAN Begins 1/23 at Kitchen Theatre
by Kelsey Denette - January 08, 2013 In 1865, the Jewish holiday of Passover began the day after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. This historical moment is the jumping off place for Matthew Lopez's suspenseful Civil War drama The Whipping Man, which receives its Central New York premiere at the Kitchen Theatre in downtown Ithac...
BWW Interviews: Joe Iconis and THE BLACK SUITS - After Barrington a Future Off-Broadway Musical?
by Stephen Hanks - August 31, 2012 Originally written in 2003 and given a New York workshop reading in 2005, the Joe Iconis musical, The Black Suits, is concluding a mid-summer run at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA. Could the next stop for this energetic Rock and Roll musical about a Long Island garage band be Off-Bro...
Generationals Launch US Tour Today, 10/3
by BWW News Desk - October 03, 2012 Consider this new EP Generationals' New Orleans record....
BWW Reviews: Cirque du Soleil's QUIDAM Still Wows
by Michael L. Quintos - April 24, 2011 Internationally famous for their fantastical, imaginative circus shows, the Montréal-based troupe's brand of whimsy and jaw-dropping acts are in full display in QUIDAM, one of several Cirque du Soleil shows now touring the globe. First produced in 1996, QUIDAM's Southern California stops continue at... |