Rec Room Arts Announces 2018-2019 Season - EXIT STRATEGY, HANSEL AND GRETEL, and More
by Stephi Wild - July 26, 2018 Rec Room Arts launches into their third year with a powerhouse of a season that boldly tackles several of America's most divisive issues: guns, education, and race. The lineup, consisting exclusively of regional premieres and world premiere adaptations, includes a regional premiere of EXIT STRATEGY ...
Griffin Theatre Company Presents EXHALE By Black Birds 9-13 April
by Stephi Wild - March 07, 2019 Following the enormous success of Brown Skin Girl at Griffin's inaugural Batch Festival in 2018, Sydney interdisciplinary collective Black Birds return to the Stables stage with their powerful show, Exhale. Created and performed by Ayeesha Ash and Emele Ugavule, this intercultural, intersectional wo...
TV ONE Goes BEHIND THE MOMENT In Rosa Parks Bio Pic Premiering February 11
by Macon Prickett - February 07, 2018 Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat 62 years ago was only the beginning. Premiering on TV One on Sunday, February 11 at 7/6C, “Behind The Movement” offers a closer look at how the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott was planned in just three days and ultimately led to the Civil Rights Move...
Roundabout Announces THE 24 HOUR PLAYS OFF-BROADWAY
by Stephi Wild - March 14, 2018 On Monday, April 9, Roundabout Theatre Company's Roundabout Underground playwriting alumni will gather to present The 24 Hour Plays Off-Broadway. Six playwrights, six directors, 24 actors and a musical guest will perform six brand new short plays written & rehearsed over the course of a single day...
BWW Interview: Bailey Boudreau Talks ON THE EXHALE at Slipstream Theatre Initiative and Why It's Important Right Now
by Katie Laban - April 22, 2019 Slipstream Theatre Initiative is having a conversation that is long past due - gun violence. It's one they admit is uncomfortable, upsetting, and can make you cringe, but it is a topic that is long past time and very necessary right now. Now in their fifth season, Slipstream has always been determin...
BOBBIE CLEARLY Enters Final Two Weeks of Performances
by Julie Musbach - April 24, 2018 Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) will conclude the New York premiere of Bobbie Clearly by Alex Lubischer, directed by Will Davis, on Sunday, May 6. This is the second play in Roundabout Underground's expanded two-play season, following Too Heavy for Your Pocket by Jire...
St. Louis Musician Beth Bombara Set To Unleash New Album
by Tori Hartshorn - June 17, 2019 Michigan-bred, St. Louis-based musician Beth Bombara's album Evergreen began thousands of feet above sea level. Looking to step back and clear her head after a long bout of touring, the rock & roll-influenced Americana artist nestled herself in the Rocky Mountains in a remote cabin. The cabin's name...
Christopher Hayden Directs UK Premiere of ON THE EXHALE at Edinburgh Festival
by Marianka Swain - July 04, 2018 ...
Theatre in the Park Indoor Presents IN THE HEIGHTS
by Stephi Wild - September 27, 2018 Before Lin Manuel Miranda's star soared with HAMILTON, he wrote and starred in an amazing musical about community and family called IN THE HEIGHTS. This 2008 Tony-Award winner for Best Musical will be presented by Theatre in the Park INDOOR Oct. 5-21 at the Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center loca...
TV One Releases 'Behind the Movement' Clip for MLK Day
by Tori Hartshorn - January 15, 2018 TV One Releases 'Behind the Movement' Clip for MLK Day...
Ann-Margret, Jane Curtin, Christopher Lloyd and Loretta Devine Join Cast Of WELCOME TO PINE GROVE!
by Tori Hartshorn - August 01, 2018 Two-time Academy Award Nominee & Emmy Winner Ann-Margret (Grumpy old Men, Bye, Bye Birdie), Emmy Award-winner Jane Curtin (The Spy Who Dumped Me, “Saturday Night Live”), Emmy Award-winner Christopher Lloyd (Going in Style, Back To The Future) and Emmy Award-winner Loretta Devine (“Grey's Anatomy”, W...
HADESTOWN's Rachel Hauck Wins 2019 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical
by BWW News Desk - June 09, 2019 Rachel Hauck has won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for HADESTOWN....
Review Roundup: What Do Critics Think of THE HEIRESS at Arena Stage?
by Alan Henry - February 21, 2019 THE HEIRESS is playing at Arena Stage in Washington, DC through March 10, 2019. Finding one's voice is never easy. Socially awkward and plain Catherine Sloper has struggled her entire life under the disapproving and resentful gaze of her father. It is the unexpected visit from a suitor full of since...
Rachel Chavkin Directed STATUS His the Fringe
by Julie Musbach - July 03, 2018 Everybody has a nationality: most are inherited, and some are given to us. In the midst of a cultural and political climate dominated by Brexit, the Windrush scandal and debates about who has the right to belong, Chris Thorpe questions how we acquire these narratives and the internal and political c...
Roundabout Hosts Panel on Women In Theatre: RESETTING THE STAGE, 1/22
by A.A. Cristi - January 19, 2018 Roundabout Theatre Company will present Women in Theatre: Resetting the Stage, hosted in partnership with StubHub and The Interval. An intimate panel conversation addressing inequities in the theatre industry and inclusive pathways to creative leadership roles....
Sore For Punching You Presents EXHALE
by Julie Musbach - September 06, 2018 Allison Cummings, the creative force behind Sore for Punching You, presents Exhale, a complex and personal response to witnessing a last breath and shortly thereafter a first breath, and the juxtaposition between these events, October 17 - 20, 2018 at DanceMakers Centre for Creation. Choreographed b...
Chester Theatre Company Announces 2019 Season
by A.A. Cristi - January 16, 2019 Co-founded by Vincent Dowling and H. Newman Marsh in 1990 with the belief that every town should have a professional theatre, Chester Theatre Company (formerly The Miniature Theatre of Chester) prepares to celebrate its landmark 30th Season with four works, each a New England Premiere. ...
Chester Theatre Company Announces 2019 Season Casting
by Stephi Wild - April 29, 2019 Co-founded by Vincent Dowling and H. Newman Marsh in 1990 with the belief that every town should have a professional theatre, Chester Theatre Company (formerly The Miniature Theatre of Chester) prepares to celebrate its landmark 30th Season with four works, each a New England Premiere....
Beggars Arkive To Release 20th Anniversary Edition Of Bowery Electric's Classic Lushlife Album
by Tori Hartshorn - January 10, 2019 Originally released in early 2000 by Beggars Banquet, Lushlife album peaked at No. 14 on the CMJ Top 200 chart and No. 11 on the Core Radio chart. Nearly two years in the making, Lushlife, in what would become the band's final album, took even greater strides forward from previous releases. The albu...
MUAHS Guild Awards Announces Lifetime Achievement Honorees
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 20, 2018 Susan Cabral-Ebert, outgoing Local 706 President and Emmy®- nominated make-up artist, and Robert Louis Stevenson, legendary Emmy-winning hair stylist, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706) honoring outstanding a...
Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette, and Felicity Huffman to Star in Netflix's OTHERHOOD
by Macon Prickett - June 21, 2018 According to Entertainment Weekly, Angela Bassett, Felicity Huffman, and Patricia Arquette are set to star Netflix's Otherhood....
BWW Review: Kennedy Davenport Puts Emotion on Display in Cathartic THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO KENNEDY DAVENPORT
by Troy Frisby - September 06, 2018 "There's nothing formal about this but this dress." Kennedy Davenport's aside, just several minutes into her August 23 performance of THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO KENNEDY DAVENPORT at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, couldn't have been truer. And, to put it in RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE speak, that informality repre...
Fall in Love with Autumn at Meatpacking District's 5th Annual HARVEST FEST
by BWW News Desk - October 28, 2017 Celebrate the autumn season at the 5th Annual Harvest Fest, a family-friendly outdoor artisanal market and seasonal fair produced by the Meatpacking Business Improvement District (BID). The beloved event brings together an eclectic mix of local brands to sample and sell various foods, crafts and act...
OFFSónar Announces Lineups for Detroit Love x Rush Hour, Bonobo Presents Outlier and Amelie Lens Presents Exhale
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 06, 2019 Bringing Europe's biggest party weekend of the summer into sharper focus, OFFSónar announce lineups for Detroit Love x Rush Hour, Bonobo Presents Outlier and Amelie Lens Presents Exhale adding to those previously announced for Innervisions Barcelona and OFFSónar Closing Party.... |