Viceland Announces Nine Summer Series
by Tori Hartshorn - May 23, 2018 VICELAND is bringing nine series to air this summer with a wide range of diverse talent from returning network staples to newcomers covering everything from food and friendship to internet celebrity, fringe science and skateboarding....
BWW Interview: Elaine Alvarez of San Diego Opera's Production of Florencia en el Amazonas
by Ron Bierman - March 17, 2018 I spoke recently with Elaine Alvarez who will be singing the lead role this weekend in the San Diego Opera's production of Florencia en el Amazonas by Mexican composer Daniel Catan and librettist Marcela Fuentes-Berain. Alvarez told me that when she got a call from the San Diego Opera's General Dire...
Season 3 of Gaby Dunn's Podcast BAD WITH MONEY Premieres on Panoply
by Tori Hartshorn - April 11, 2018 Join TV writer, actor, and New York Times best-selling author Gaby Dunn (aka America's DEADBEAT Sweetheart) for season three of Bad With Money, which premieres today with new episodes every Wednesday. After two seasons of reckoning with her own financial identity, Gaby's ready to give the American f...
Norway Punks SLØTFACE Unleash Colorful New Video
by Tori Hartshorn - June 26, 2019 Norway's premiere punks Sløtface celebrated the release of recent comeback single 'Telepathetic' with a sold out London show last night. Today, they share the new track's surreal visuals. As part of a collaboration with local artists, the band perform to bring their artworks to life in bizarre fashi...
BWW Interview: Nathan Lee Graham Talks ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL: A SONDHEIM SALON at The Green Room 42
by David Clarke - October 08, 2018 Nathan Lee Graham returns to the cabaret setting with his newest show ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL at The Green Room 42. This world premiere concert will feature many of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer's most beloved compositions, including 'Loving You,' 'Bounce,' and 'Being Alive.' We sat do...
Opera In The Heights Presents World Premiere Of YELTSIN
by A.A. Cristi - January 16, 2020 Yeltsin in Texas, a world premiere, will open the Opera in the Heights (Oh!) New Works Festival during Spring 2020. This comedic chamber opera, with music by Evan Mack and libretto by Josh McGuire, dramatizes the unlikely but true story in 1989 of Russian president Boris Yeltsin's visit to a Houston...
SLØTFACE Address Climate Change On New 'Sink or Swim' Single/Video
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 27, 2019 Norway's Sløtface today share “Sink or Swim,” a meditative track and video that looks into the effects of climate change in intimate, personal detail. The song is coupled with lyric video visuals highlighting the work of Rich Horner and Caroline Power, who have been documenting the littering of ocea...
BWW Interview: When Dreams Come True! 23 Year Old Graduate Had a Dream She Joined The PHANTOM ensemble. Six Months Later She is playing Christine Daae
by Christian Ranke - October 30, 2018 The opening premise of 'The Phantom of the Opera' is all too familiar. The leading lady can't go on, and a chorus girl has to step in and save the performance with close to no time to prepare or rehearse, but her debut is a triumphant success. This scenario actually became a reality at Folketeatret,...
New BAD WITH MONEY Podcast Episode About U.S. Farming & Food System
by Tori Hartshorn - June 13, 2018 A new episode of Gaby Dunn's podcast BAD WITH MONEY has been released! The episode is titled 'Think Before You Open Your Mouth (aka the Food System)' and takes a look at the farming industry in the U.S., exploring urban farming, the need for access to better food in low income area, how food is a so...
Huntly Releases DROP GEAR Single and Video
by Tori Hartshorn - September 26, 2018 Introducing Melbourne trio Huntly, who have just released 'Drop Gear,' their brand new song. 'Drop Gear' premiered on triple j and Noisey last night. Huntly have built an underground reputation as one of Australia's most evocative and dynamic live electronic acts, bringing emotional vulnerability to...
BWW Review: KEY LARGO Brings Andy Garcia into the Eye of the Storm at the Geffen Playhouse
by Shari Barrett - November 16, 2019 The play adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and Andy Garcia, produced in association with Frank Mancuso and Andy Garcia, and directed by Doug Hughes, honors the original story in which disillusioned World War II veteran Frank McCloud (Danny Pino) travels to a hotel in Key Largo to pay his respects to Nora (...
BWW Review: THREE PIGS at Downtown Cabaret Children's Theatre
by Sean Fallon - January 13, 2020 On Saturday, January 11, I had the pleasure of seeing THREE PIGS at the Downtown Cabaret Children's Theatre in Bridgeport, CT. This was an excellent start to a new decade of theatrical experiences! The stellar cast brings their A game to this Chris Gensur adaptation of this classic children's tal...
BWW Review: A Disfigured War Vet Struggles to Find – and See – Herself in UGLY LIES THE BONE
by Perry Tannenbaum - January 30, 2020 With Andrea King as a disfigured war vet going through an excruciating rehab in Three Bone Theatre's UGLY LIES THE BONE, it's a perverse pleasure to have Scott Tynes-Miller and Peter Finnegan making asses of of themselves as they make the road to recovery that much tougher....
Semi Improvised Dance/Comedy Show PHRASES is Headed For Fringe
by Stephi Wild - June 25, 2019 Can you have your cake and eat it too? Wound up? Or wounded? Is it time to hit the sack? Phrases can be complicated, nonsensical and misleading and yet, somehow, we all know what they mean. Or do we?...
BWW Review: ROAN @ THE GATES at Berkeley's Central Works Explores Privacy and Personal Responsibility in Our Uneasy World
by Jim Munson - July 30, 2019 Christina Gorman's a?oeRoan @ The Gatesa?? currently in its world premiere production by Central Works at the Berkeley City Club could not be timelier. Lest that sound like a vapid platitude, in this instance it is well deserved. In a taut 70 minutes, it explores themes of online and IRL privacy, pe...
Pete Firman to Embark on New UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - July 26, 2019 Award-winning magician and comedian, Pete Firman will tour the UK with his most ambitious show yet, following his return to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer. Beginning in Maidenhead at the Norden Farm Arts Centre on 13th March 2020, the tour will take in an initial total of 22 dates and will conclud...
Interview: LIGHTNING THIEF's Rob Rokicki Shares Why JTF is the Best Way to Kick Off His Year, and More!
by Sally Henry - January 19, 2020 When it comes to the Junior Theater Festival, Rob Rokicki is all in....
BWW Interview: Criss Angel Appears on Broadway to Levitate Your Spirits
by Naomi Serviss - July 01, 2019 The master illusionist is bringing his bag of dazzling how-did-he-do-that illusions from Vegas to Broadway in a limited run....
Disney, Dolly And Dancing! Lyric Theatre Returns To OKC Civic Center For Summer Season
by Julie Musbach - May 14, 2018 Disney, Dolly and Dancing will highlight Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma's 2018 Summer at the Civic season, which begins June 26 in downtown Oklahoma City....
AIRPLANE MODE Premieres in January 2020, Only on Netflix
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 20, 2019 Netflix revealed today the key art of Airplane Mode, Brazilian feature starred by Larissa Manoela and Erasmo Carlos. The movie, which marks the first role of Larissa in a Netflix original production, has already a premiere date. Write down on your calendar: January 23, 2020....
Freeform Releases its New Lineup Of TV And Movie Offerings for February 2018
by Tori Hartshorn - January 25, 2018 Freeform, Disney's young adult television and streaming network, will premiere brand new episodes of breakout comedies “grown-ish” and “Alone Together,” as well as fan-favorite series “The Fosters” and “Beyond.” Also in February, Freeform will celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the release of the bel...
BWW Review: The Barlett Theater's Site-Specific Production of THE FLICK Capitalizes on Every Multileveled Morsel of Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play
by Lauren Van Hemert - November 09, 2018 At the core of Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, THE FLICK is the juxtaposition between celluloid and digital film projections, art and commercialism, reality and make-believe. But it's more than that. It's a character study of the everyman navigating familial workplace relationships and di...
John Waters is Returning to Camp John Waters with Special Guests Including Kathleen Turner
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 13, 2019 Director John Waters ('Female Trouble,' 'Cry Baby,' 'Cecil B. Demented') will return to Club Getaway in Kent, Connecticut to host his 4th Annual Camp John Waters. This once in a lifetime sleepaway-camp experience for his super fans takes place from September 11th - 14th, 2020. The 300-acre adult sum...
Sløtface Releases New Single, Announces Tour With PUP
by Sarah Jae Leiber - August 30, 2019 Norway's premiere punks, Sløtface have shared a new song entitled “Stuff”today via Propeller Recordings/Nettwerk. The release follows their comeback with the acclaimed blistering single “Telepathetic” and a sold out summer show at London sweatbox Electrowerkz. In support of the addictive new singles...
Superfonicos Announce Debut Release, Suelta
by Stephi Wild - August 23, 2018 Austin, TX based band Superfónicos is the musical meeting point between Colombia, Africa and the U.S. Their debut E.P. Suelta, which is set for release on October 5th, pays homage to all three locales with a foundation in Cumbia, sprinkled with healthy doses of Afrobeat and marinated in the school o... |