New Documentary 'Home of the Brave' Covers Voting Rights Act
by Robert Diamond - June 29, 2013 'Home of the Brave,' the powerful, award-winning documentary about murdered civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo and the role she played in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been released digitally by SundanceNow and New Video. With this week's Supreme Court action striking down the law...
Memphis And The Meantimes Comes to Chanhassen Dinner Theatres October 24-25
by Robert Diamond - October 16, 2013 Twin Cities' singer-songwriter and multiple Minnesota Music Award winner Mick Sterling, leads an all-star local lineup with MEMPHIS AND THE MEANTIMES, in a musical salute to songs of the Grand Old Opry and Sun Records. Sterling leads MEMPHIS AND THE MEANTIMES through the songs proven to be the pill...
Jodie Foster Weds Partner Alexandra Hedison
by Caryn Robbins - April 24, 2014 Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster married her girlfriend of one year, photographer Alexandra Hedison in April 2014....
Monty Python's SPAMALOT to Play the Grand Theatre in Williamstown, 1/16-2/1
by BWW News Desk - December 13, 2013 The hilarious, Tony-winning Broadway musical hit Monty Python's Spamalot with book and lyrics by Eric Idle and music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle, makes its South Jersey premiere exclusively at the Grand Theatre in Williamstown....
THE ODYSSEY Voyages to the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, 2/14-3/17
by Emily Stubbs - February 26, 2013 Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (http://www.orlandoshakes.org) concludes its inaugural Studio Series season with a captivating World Premiere of the ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey, playing at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center from February 14- March 17, 2013....
VIDEO: Valerie Harper on Her Diagnosis - 'We Are All Terminal'
by Stage Tube - March 09, 2013 Broadway and TV veteran Valerie Harper has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. The actress received the tragic news on January 15th and has as little as three months to live. The 73-year-old is best known to millions of fans as quirky New Yorker 'Rhoda Morgenstern' on TV's 'The Mary Tyler Moo...
Top Reads: Nora Roberts' DARK WITCH Rises to Top of New York Times' Fiction List, Week Ending 11/17
by Tyler Peterson - November 17, 2013 Nora Roberts' DARK WITCH dethroned John Grisham's A TIME TO KILL sequel SYCAMORE ROW on the New York Times' fiction list for the week ending Nov. 17. 'SYCAMORE' took second , while Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel ENDER'S GAME was the third best-seller for the week....
Great Arizona Puppet Theater to Present BIG BUG CIRCUS and PUPPET SLAM
by Tyler Peterson - January 24, 2014 'THE BIG BUG CIRCUS': A carnival of silly and exciting circus acts starring insects: marvel at the powerful strongman ant! Gasp at the brave tightrope-walking caterpillar! Cheer for the juggling dung beetle! A fantastic original show featuring marionette (string puppet) bugs that's fun for the whole...
Four Humors Presents APRIL FOOLS, 4/1
by Kelsey Denette - March 13, 2013 Four Humors has announced its 2013-14 season with its annual production of April Fools. This year's festivities will be held at the Brave New Workshop Student Union in Uptown. It will be accompanied by a silent auction, beer and wine bar, and the official unveiling of Four Humors' upcoming season....
Axis Theatre to Present SEVEN IN ONE BLOW, 12/14
by Tyler Peterson - November 08, 2013 This December, on the heels of the sold out run of Asi Wind's Concert of the Mind, Axis Theatre Company will present its beloved family holiday show, Seven in One Blow, or the Brave Little Kid. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive winter play is conceived by Ax...
BRAVE NEW WORLD Reading Will Feature Colin Hanlon, Kyle Dean Massey, Emma Hunton and More
by Kelsey Denette - April 26, 2013 Brave New World Enterprises, LLC has completed casting for its pre-Broadway workshop table reading of the new musical based on Aldous Huxley's novel, BRAVE NEW WORLD....
The New Royales Release Album FREEDOM'S FOR THE BRAVE: THE MIXTAPE Today
by BWW News Desk - January 14, 2014 The New Royales have a background as interesting as the music they create together. The band will release Freedom's For The Brave: The Mixtape on January 14th- an album of covers featuring some of their various influences, including tracks by Depeche Mode, The Zombies, Jefferson Airplane & more....
Top Reads: Robyn Carr's THE HERO Tops New York Times Best Seller List, Week Ending 9/15
by Tyler Peterson - September 15, 2013 Robyn Carr's THE HERO took the number one spot on the New York Times best selling fiction list, with Lian Moriarty's THE HUSBAND'S SECRET in second. Last week's best seller, J.K. Rowling's THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, fell to the fourth spot for the week ending today, September 15. On the nonfiction side o...
STAGE TUBE: On This Day 7/14- Arthur Laurents
by Nicole Rosky - July 14, 2013 Happy Birthday Arthur Laurents! Laurents' first play, Home of the Brave, opened on Broadway in 1945, followed by many others. He wrote his first musical, West Side Story, in 1957, followed by Gypsy and others. His first screenplay was The Snake Pit in 1948, followed by others including Rope, Anastas...
NOGGIN THE NOG Set for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014, 31 July - 26 August
by Tyler Peterson - June 10, 2014 This year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a group of terribly charming Viking storytellers recreate the wonderful world of Noggin the Nog in this new piece of theatre for children, families and fans. With silly vikings, puppets, live music and original film. The production plays every day at the ...
newTACTics Present FORTUNE as Part of New Play Festival Tonight
by BWW News Desk - June 19, 2013 In the midst of global economic disaster, Cookie, a pregnant Romani fortune teller desperate for a mark, strikes gold when she checks into an anonymous New Jersey motel. A grieving mother, a pair of jobless stock brokers, and a landless cowboy gamble everything on Cookie's intuition, in the hopes th...
A Novel of Love and Loss is Presented in JABUTI'S QUEST
by Christina Mancuso - June 25, 2013 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CND7K3W (Amazon US)...
PRiMA Presents AIDA at Steinman Hall at the Ware Center Today
by BWW News Desk - September 08, 2013 Chess, Glee, West Side Story with Tony Award Nominee Josefina Scaglione - PRiMA has brought these large stage productions to life and now comes the biggest to date. PRiMA Theatre will present Elton John & Tim Rice's AIDA at Steinman Hall at the Ware Center today, September 8, and again on September ...
Plethora Of Punk Performers Take On Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT
by Pat Cerasaro - June 14, 2014 An impressive array of punk music stars have taken on Green Day's popular rock opera AMERICAN IDIOT via a number of new covers now available to peruse as part of the upcoming album collection KERRANG DOES GREEN DAY'S AMERICAN IDIOT....
BNW to Present Spring Reboot of 'A PEDALPUB NAMED DESIRE,' 4/17-6/28
by Tyler Peterson - March 18, 2014 The Brave New Workshop Theatre (BNW) is pleased to announce a spring reboot of its current hit winter show. The updated version will be titled 'A Pedalpub Named Desire: Love in Minnesota.' Previews for the show run April 17-24, with opening night on Friday, April 25. The show runs through June 28. A...
VIDEO: Singer/Songwriter Sara Bareilles Talks WAITRESS THE MUSICAL on Today
by Caryn Robbins - May 12, 2014 Sara Bareilles appeared on this morning's TODAY and spoke about her upcoming project, The American Repertory Theater 's stage adaptation of the 2007 Adrienne Shelly film 'Waitress,' to be titled 'Waitress, the Musical.'...
The New Royales to Release Album FREEDOM'S FOR THE BRAVE: THE MIXTAPE, 1/14
by Courtnie Mele - December 10, 2013 The New Royales have a background as interesting as the music they create together. The band will release Freedom's For The Brave: The Mixtape on January 14th- an album of covers featuring some of their various influences, including tracks by Depeche Mode, The Zombies, Jefferson Airplane & more....
Stella Adler Theatre to Present THE HUMAN SPIRIT, Begin. 9/26
by Tyler Peterson - September 13, 2013 Apartheid in South Africa has now been gone more than twenty years but the heroes of their struggle to achieve a 'Rainbow' coalition midst a Black majority-run democracy are still being revealed. The Human Spirit, a play written by author Carole Eglash-Kosoff, will be playing at The Stella Adler The...
JABUTI'S QUEST Now Available on Kindle; Epic Novel of Friendship and Love Set in the Steaming Rainforests of Venezuela
by Robert Diamond - June 23, 2013 Friendship, love and high drama. All of life's rich tapestry are told in this compelling story by British author, Heath Shedlake....
The Danger Committee Presents DANGER 101, Now thru 5/17
by BWW News Desk - May 03, 2014 The Brave New Workshop Theatre (BNW) will host The Danger Committee, presenting 'Danger 101' in the BNW's ETC Event Centre in Downtown Minneapolis. The family-friendly show opens tonight, May 3 2014 and runs for just three Todays, through May 17.... |