VIDEO: Hear the Theme Song for PBS Series ALMA'S WAY, Featuring Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda!
by Sarah Leiber - August 10, 2021 ALMA’S WAY, a new animated series from Fred Rogers Productions, will premiere October 4, 2021. Listen to the theme song here. ...
VIDEO: Disney+ Releases New Trailer for HOLLYWOOD STARGIRL
by Michael Major - May 02, 2022 Disney’s “Hollywood Stargirl” is a sequel to the 2020 Disney+ film about free spirit Stargirl Caraway (Grace VanderWaal), a silver-voiced teenager whose simple acts of kindness work magic in the lives of others. The upcoming film follows Stargirl’s journey out of Mica, Arizona and into a bigger worl...
BWW Review: HEATHERS Packs a Punch from Actor's Express and Oglethorpe University
by Obie Outlaw - October 13, 2021 If you’re in a Halloween-type mood and down to see a cult classic come to life onstage, then HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL is a must-see this October. You’re sure to have some “Big Fun” revisiting high school. ...
Review: THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL at East West Players
by Evan Henerson - November 30, 2022 Prince Gomolvilas’s tale of a pair of aspiring sibling ghostbusters is actually a shrewd rumination on cultural identity and the processing of grief that also happens to contain – in director Jeff Liu’s solid production – some first-rate scares....
Bryan-Keyth Wilson Will Receive a Play Reading as Part of the Fulton's 'Stories of Diversity'
by Stephi Wild - May 04, 2021 Award-winning playwright Bryan-Keyth Wilson was selected by a committee as one of the four playwrights to receive a reading at the nationally regarded Fulton Theatre....
BWW Review: Audacious and Inspiring, Garden Theatre's THE MOUNTAINTOP Puts Us in a Room with Martin Luther King Jr.
by Aaron Wallace - January 25, 2022 THE MOUNTAINTOP is a daring and compelling piece of theatre, powerfully staged this month at The Garden Theatre in downtown Winter Garden, FL. It wastes no time in restoring King from the marble statues and speckled newsreels of history to beating heart and flesh and blood......
Review: HAMILTON at Kennedy Center Opera House
by Mary Lincer - August 08, 2022 What did our critic think of HAMILTON at Kennedy Center Opera House? Hamilton, the 11 Tony award-winning musical, has returned to the Kennedy Center Opera House through October 9. ...
Student Blog: Industry Expectations: Why a College Senior is Scared to Work
by Student Blogger: Emily Ownby - August 11, 2021 Adulthood is coming into focus, and for a life in professional musical theatre, there are some sacrifices I’m not sure I’m ready to make. I want to build my own rule book, and be authentic to myself, but how? Everything is so competitive, it seems impossible to get work if you're not the perfect bla...
Ocean City Theatre Company Announces 2021 Summer Children's Theatre Series at the Music Pier
by Stephi Wild - May 21, 2021 The lineup will feature five fully staged family musicals on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. beginning July 6 until August 3....
Madeon Shares New Song 'Love You Back'
by Michael Major - April 27, 2022 Madeon received his first Grammy nomination for his 2019 album, Good Faith, worked with Lady Gaga on her hit single “911” from Chromatica, released a remix of “No Fear No More” with hip hop duo EARTHGANG and debuted the Lena Headey-directed video for “Miracle” starring Maisie Williams. Plus, check o...
BWW Interview: THE LION KING's Kyle Banks Talks Diabetes Diagnosis, Building a School for LGBTQ Children of Color & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 19, 2021 Kyle Banks, who could be seen in the touring and Broadway casts of The Lion King and more, is not only a talented performer, but a changemaker and philanthropist at the helm of multiple forward-thinking organizations. Taking this Broadway season off, Banks has put his focus on his other greatest pas...
BWW Interview: John Fagan, Director of FALSETTOS at Proud Mary Theatre Company
by Neil Shurley - October 24, 2021 'Falsettos is one big, warm hug of a musical'...
AND THEN THE RODEO BURNED DOWN Comes to King's Head Theatre, Islington
by Stephi Wild - December 28, 2022 It's the best place in the world so why would anyone burn it down? Can these two cowboys figure it out before time is up? In this thrilling hour of clowning, physical theatre and comedy it's a race against time to capture the culprit, put out the metaphorical fires and save the show. ...
Sea Wolf Releases New Single 'Witchknife' From New Deluxe Album
by Michael Major - September 29, 2021 'Through A Dark Wood (Deluxe)' includes 5 new songs from the original sessions where Church, coming out of a bruising divorce, wrote, recorded and scrapped a full album's worth of material before starting anew....
70 New Shows Showcased Over 4 Weeks At Emerging Artists Theatre's NEW WORK SERIES
by A.A. Cristi - August 25, 2022 Seventy diverse new works including musicals, short and full length plays, dance, cabaret, and solo shows will be showcased at Emerging Artists Theatre's bi-annual New Work Series (NWS). ...
VIDEO: Morgan Wade Channels Bonnie & Clyde in New 'Run' Music Video
by Michael Major - January 28, 2022 Reckless (Deluxe Edition) features six brand new tracks. One of these is ‘Run’ and marking the release Morgan has revealed the stunning video for the new track. The ‘Run’ video finds the fiery live performer trying on personas and channelling gangster Bonnie Parker – who found infamy with her partne...
BLACKOUT SONGS Returns to Hampstead Theatre
by Stephi Wild - January 26, 2023 Hampstead Theatre has announced the return of Blackout Songs - Joe White's compassionate and unflinching new play about love, addiction and memory, directed by Guy Jones....
Landon McNamara Releases New Single 'If You Only Knew'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 18, 2022 Hawaii based, singer songwriter, Landon McNamara is presenting his newest single 'If You Only Knew.' Out now on Controlled Substance Sound Labs/Silverback Music, the song shines a light on a life lived and asks: 'If you were to die tomorrow, what would you do today? When you take that last breath, w...
Alison Cook Beatty Dance to Present 10th Anniversary Performance at New York Live Arts in November
by Blair Ingenthron - October 02, 2022 Alison Cook Beatty Dance will perform at New York Live Arts in their 10th Anniversary Performance In collaboration with the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention on November 6th at 7:30 pm. ...
Band For Sale Release New Single 'Is There Anybody?'
by Michael Major - November 22, 2022 Brandwein previously oversaw the growth of Turkuaz, the nine-piece funk band he’d fronted since college, into an internationally touring powerhouse sharing the stage and collaborating with legends like The Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew (King Crimson, David Bowie, NIN)....
Student Blog: Industry Expectations: Why a College Senior is Scared to Work
by Student Blogger: Emily Ownby - August 11, 2021 Adulthood is coming into focus, and for a life in professional musical theatre, there are some sacrifices I’m not sure I’m ready to make. I want to build my own rule book, and be authentic to myself, but how? Everything is so competitive, it seems impossible to get work if you're not the perfect bla...
BWW Interview: Debra Ann Byrd of BECOMING OTHELLO: A BLACK GIRL'S JOURNEY at Shakespeare & Company
by Marc Savitt - July 12, 2021 “BECOMOING OTHELLO taught me how to get over things that I am. I’m a mixed-race girl, and I am on the fairer side of blackness. I had so many issues with colorism and racism and all the isms that I needed to tell this story. If audience members are listening, no matter where they come from; what ...
Student Blog: Doubts and Doubles: When Sometime in the Future Becomes Now
by Student Blogger: Melis Tavmergen - October 15, 2021 The midterm season is that time of the year for me. The season of what-ifs. What’s different than my yearly mid-term crisis is that this year I actually need to make some decisions for next year, and for the first time in my life, the sense of uncertainty makes me nervous rather than excited....
Mikey Ferrari Releases 'Crash Course' in Advance of London, Paris Shows
by Michael Major - January 20, 2023 Earlier he shared the piano ballad “Montana”, aptly named after where he spent his adolescent years, and his harrowing, heart-wrenching track 'Oxycontin' (+ live video directed by Jax Anderson). The latest signee to esteemed Neon Gold Records (HAIM, Matt Maeson, et. al) will release these tracks on ...
BWW Interview: TICK, TICK… BOOM!'s Isaac Robinson-Smith On His BOOMing Career
by Gil Kaan - November 15, 2021 Upnext Productions’ of Jonathan Larson’s TICK, TICK… BOOM! will open November 21st at The Atlas Space at Thymele Arts. Clint Foley directs the cast of Isaac Robinson-Smith, Mandie Hittleman and Christopher Fishburne. Isaac opened up to me about his history with Upnext Productions and his thriving ca... |