AVENUE Q, BEEHIVE, BOEING, BOEING and More Set for Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's 2017-18 Season
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2017 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre has announced its 2017-2018 season....
VIDEO: Go Inside Rehearsals for EMMA! A POP MUSICAL At Raue Center
by Alan Henry - March 28, 2019 Williams Street Repertory (Founding Artistic Director, Richard Kuranda**), McHenry County's growing professional theater company, is excited to announce 'Emma! A Pop Musical,' is coming to the stage in downtown Crystal Lake this spring. This production is the first in a series of high profile theatr...
Photo Flash: First Look at PETER AND THE STARCATCHER at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
by BWW News Desk - July 27, 2017 Metropolis presents the Tony-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher through August 20, 2017, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!...
Ants Reveals Opening Party Lineup
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 16, 2019 Following the recent line-up announcement for their seventh consecutive season at Ushuaïa Ibiza, ANTS have revealed a slew of the finest names in electronic music set to open the Ibiza residency on Saturday 1st June....
New York Composer, Producer Emily Wells' New Album Out Today, Touring West Coast in April
by Tori Hartshorn - March 22, 2019 New York composer, producer and singer Emily Wells' new album This World Is Too ____ For You is out today on her label Thesis & Instinct—listen here and purchase here. The album is featured today on NPR's New Music Friday where they praise it as, “mind-blowing” and “genre-bending”—listen here....
Photo Flash: First Look at THE MOUSETRAP At Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
by Julie Musbach - February 07, 2019 Metropolis presents Agatha Christie's classic whodunit murder mystery The Mousetrap through March 16, 2019....
LOST SONGS (UK) VOLUME 2 Album Released
by BWW News Desk - April 10, 2017 Following on from the success of Lost Songs (UK) Volume 1, we are delighted to announce the release of a second album to shine a light on wonderful new songs which otherwise would be 'lost' – Lost Songs Volume 2....
Photo Flash: BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY Rocks Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
by A.A. Cristi - July 29, 2019 Metropolis presents the biographical rock & roll musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story July 18 August 31, 2019. Buddy tells the true story of Buddy Hollys meteoric rise to fame from the moment in 1957 when Thatll Be the Day hit the airwaves until his tragic death less than two years later on The Day ...
The Slow Readers Club Announce Additional Tour Dates
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 24, 2019 The Slow Readers Club have announced the addition of a further four shows for their headline tour this winter, with dates in Cork, Limerick, Dublin and Belfast joining their already announced shows in London, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Glasgow....
GKIDS Presents MFKZ English Language Voice Cast, Releases with Fathom Events in Movie Theaters Nationwide
by Tori Hartshorn - September 06, 2018 GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, has announced the English voice cast for MFKZ. MFKZ is a collaboration from French comic artist Guillaume “Run” Renard, original creator of the comic series, and ultra-hip Japanese animation house Studio 4°C,...
Cast Announced for All Star Productions' METROPOLIS
by BWW News Desk - September 13, 2017 All Star Productions has announced the cast for METROPOLIS. The cast includes Rob Heron as Steven, Miiya Alexandra as Maria / Futura, Gareth James as Freeman, Kitty Whitelaw as Warner, Michael Levi as George, Alex Ely as Jeremiah, Marc Mackinnon as Groat, with Annabel Edwards, Kieran Wynne, Tami Sto...
WSRep Announces Casting For EMMA! A POP MUSICAL At Raue Center
by Julie Musbach - March 08, 2019 Williams Street Repertory (Founding Artistic Director, Richard Kuranda**), McHenry County's growing professional theater company, is excited to announce 'Emma! A Pop Musical,' is coming to the stage in downtown Crystal Lake this spring. This production is the first in a series of high profile theatr...
Sketch Comedy Goes META with a Show as Unique and Absurd as its Title
by A.A. Cristi - June 08, 2017 Bovine Metropolis Theater goes down the social media rabbit hole with their new comedy show this summer. Today everything is crowdsourced; Uber, AirBnB, where to eat lunch, and now the name of the newest sketch show at Bovine Metropolis Theater. Sketch writing at the Bovine is a collaborative proce...
Drummer-Composer Mareike Wiening Leads New York Crew On Greenleaf Music Debut
by Julie Musbach - October 02, 2019 An in-demand sidewoman on the fertile jazz scenes of both New York City and her native Nuremberg, Germany, drummer Mareike Wiening [pronounced: Mar-eye-kuh Vee-ning] asserts her extraordinary talents as composer, player and bandleader on Metropolis Paradise, her first full-length CD and debut on the...
Spiritual America by William Brittelle featuring Wye Oak and Metropolis Ensemble will Premiere at Hollywood Bowl
by Macon Prickett - May 29, 2018 Brooklyn-based composer of post-genre electro-acoustic music William Brittelle, along with indie-rock duo Wye Oak and New York City-based group Metropolis Ensemble led by Andrew Cyr, will perform Brittelle's Spiritual America, a series of electro-acoustic orchestral art songs exploring issues of sec...
This Week: TENET And Metropolis Ensemble Perform New Works By Caroline Shaw And Timo Andres
by A.A. Cristi - April 16, 2018 This Week: TENET and Metropolis Ensemble Perform New Works by Caroline Shaw and Timo Andres Inspired by Versailles at The Met...
YouTube Orders New Comedy WEIRD CITY from Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders
by Tori Hartshorn - June 29, 2018 YouTube Orders New Comedy WEIRD CITY from Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders...
Photo Flash: ANYTHING GOES At Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
by A.A. Cristi - October 08, 2019 Metropolis presents Cole Porter's classic musical Anything Goes through November 2, 2019. A high-seas romp showcasing one of Cole Porter's most magical scores. Music, dance, and romance are set to the age old tale of boy meets girl in this breezy classic....
Photo Flash: AVENUE Q Comes to Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
by Julie Musbach - June 08, 2018 Metropolis presents the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q through June 30, 2018. What exactly does a recent college graduate do with a BA in English? Well, if that graduate also happens to be a puppet they move to Avenue Q, of course. There he'll find others like him trying to make sense of...
St. Charles Singers To Open 35th Season With Mozart Festival Weekend
by A.A. Cristi - August 13, 2018 Professional chamber choir St. Charles Singers, conducted by Jeffrey Hunt, will open its 35th concert season with a three-day Mozart Festival Weekend August 24-26, 2018, joined by the Metropolis Chamber Orchestra and guest soloist, soprano Michelle Areyzaga....
EtM Con Edison Composer in Residence Taylor Brook Conducts Free Workshop for Young Composers
by A.A. Cristi - January 31, 2019 Bloomingdale School of Music (BSM) is pleased to host 2018-19 Exploring the Metropolis Composer in Residence Taylor Brook in a free workshop for young composers on the use of electronics on March 5, 2019 at 7:00 pm. Featured as part of the event will be Taylor's composition, 'Alluvium.' The worksho...
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for POKEMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 12, 2018 The first-ever live-action Pokémon movie, “POKEMON Detective Pikachu” stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular character in the first-ever live-action movie based on the iconic face of the global Pokémon brand—one of the world's most popular, multi-generation entertainment properties and most successful m...
BWW Review: BON IVER & TU ~ MUSIC AND THE MOVES ~ ENTERTAINING AND EVOLVING ~ COME THROUGH at The Hollywood Bowl
by Valerie-Jean Miller - August 09, 2018 August 5th, 2018 During the summer months at the Hollywood Bowl, it is still light out when the evening's program begins, which afforded me the chance to take a look around and peruse the patrons. It seemed a bit atypical as far as age range of most Bowl goers; a rather young and hip group. It wa...
New Series METROPOLIS Coming From Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment
by Tori Hartshorn - January 30, 2018 Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment today announced that Gotham executive producers John Stephens and Danny Cannon will explore the world of Metropolis in an all-new live-action drama series to air exclusively on the upcoming DC-branded direct-to-consumer digital service, operated by Warner...
Francisco Fullana Announces Recording Debut and CD Launch Event
by A.A. Cristi - January 23, 2018 Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana's debut recording will be released on March 17, 2018 on the Orchid Classics label. Entitled Through the Lens of Time, the recording brings together four modern perspectives reimagining the Baroque tradition: a dialogue that prompts both composers and perfor... |