Louie Anderson Set for 7/18 at Bay Street's Comedy Club
by BWW News Desk - July 18, 2011 Louie Anderson comes to the Comedy Club at Bay Street Theatre on Monday, July 18. Louie made his national television debut on the 'The Tonight Show' in 1984. He has guest-starred in sitcoms like 'Grace Under Fire' and dramas like 'Touched by an Angel' and 'Chicago Hope,' and he has had featured role...
Ireland & Rylance Complete Cast for THREE SISTERS
by Robert Diamond - December 03, 2010 Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen announced today that acclaimed actresses Marin Ireland (Tony nominee for reasons to be pretty) and Juliet Rylance (Obie winner for The Bridge Project's As You Like It) have joi...
BWW JR: Joe DiPietro Talks MEMPHIS
by Robert Diamond - February 15, 2011 Usually when we think of taking our kids to a Broadway show, we think of the shows that seem child-like....Lion King, Mary Poppins....basically anything Disney. The Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, a show about segregation and prejudice in the deep south during the 1950's and the birth of rock n'...
Broadway Blog - In Paradise/ She Plundered Him & Tales of an Urban Indian
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2009 Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, March 4, 2009. ...
CSC's Opens THREE SISTERS, 1/12
by BWW News Desk - January 12, 2011 Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present Anton Chekhov's THREE SISTERS, featuring 2010 Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal (Masha), Josh Hamilton (Andre) 2010 Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht (Olga) ...
REVIEW: "Garden" – Brothers vs. Sisters at Mobtown
by James Howard - August 07, 2006 WHO: Mobtown Players & Baltimore Playwrights Festival WHAT: 2 One-Acts Plays: SOD and The Return of the 5th Sister WHEN: Thurs - Sat at 8PM, Sun at19PM through August 20. TICKETS & INFO: $12/Gen $10 Students & Seniors www.mobtownplayers.com...
Kennedy Center Announces Schedule For 8th Annual Page-To-Stage Festival, Runs 9/5-9/7
by BWW News Desk - September 07, 2009 On Saturday, September 5, 2009 through Monday, September 7, 2009, the Kennedy Center hosts its eighth annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, featuring more than 30 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work. The three-day, Center-wide event offers a...
Louie Anderson Set for 7/18 at Bay Street's Comedy Club
by Lauren Wolman - July 10, 2011 Louie Anderson comes to the Comedy Club at Bay Street Theatre on Monday, July 18. Louie made his national television debut on the 'The Tonight Show' in 1984. He has guest-starred in sitcoms like 'Grace Under Fire' and dramas like 'Touched by an Angel' and 'Chicago Hope,' and he has had featured role...
Dane Cook & Josh Hamilton Bring FAT PIG to Broadway in 2011; LaBute Directs
by Jessica Lewis - November 18, 2010 Comedy superstar and actor Dane Cook will make his Broadway debut this spring in the first Broadway production of Neil LaBute's FAT PIG at a theatre TBD. Cook will be joined by stage, film, and television actor Josh Hamilton (The Coast of Utopia, Away We Go). LaBute will make his Broadway directoria...
Brooks Ashmanskas, Vincent D'Onofrio and Zoe Kazan join Ethan Hawke in New Group's CLIVE
by BWW News Desk - November 13, 2012 The New Group has announced that Brooks Ashmanskas, Vincent D'Onofrio and Zoe Kazan have joined the cast of Clive, up next in the company's 2012-2013 season. Written by Jonathan Marc Sherman and directed by and featuring Ethan Hawke in the title role, Clive begins a limited Off-Broadway engagement o...
CenterStage's Stunning "Death and the Maiden"
by James Howard - November 10, 2006 WHO: CenterStage WHAT: Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman WHEN: Through November 26. Tues - Sun, performance times vary. No performance on Thanksgiving. HOW MUCH: $10 - $60....
Review - Overusing Broadway's F-word
by Ben Peltz - July 30, 2011 Lenny Bruce used to say that if you used a hurtful word often enough it would lose its meaning and its power to harm. I think Broadway has reached that point with the F-word. You know the F-word I'm talking about. Flop....
Magnet Theatre Announces CHICKENS Creative Team
by Kelsey Denette - October 15, 2012 A stellar creative team will bring Gabriella Pinto's play Chickens to life when it is performed at Magnet Theatre from 25 October to 3 November....
Deuce: Matchless
by Michael Dale - May 17, 2007 In theory Terrence McNally's new plays is about a doubles team that dominated the game in their youth but really there's nothing to distract us from the fact that we're watching Marian Seldes and Angela Lansbury having a 90 minute chat...
Kennedy Center Announces Schedule For 8th Annual Page-To-Stage Festival, Runs 9/5-9/7
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2009 On Saturday, September 5, 2009 through Monday, September 7, 2009, the Kennedy Center hosts its eighth annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, featuring more than 30 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work. The three-day, Center-wide event offers a...
20th Annual San Francisco Fringe Festival Runs 9/7-18
by Kelsey Denette - July 01, 2011 The San Francisco Fringe Festival returns for its 20th year with over 40 shows that promise to uphold the Festival's reputation for pushing the envelope of imagination....
Spall, Park Join Radcliffe Comedy, THE F WORD
by Caryn Robbins - August 16, 2012 Variety reports that Prometheus star Rafe Spall and Megan Park have signed on for the Michael Dowse-helmed comedy THE F WORD. The actors join previously announced cast members Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Mackenzie Davis and Adam Driver....
'Jerry Springer: The Opera' Has Two-Day Reading in Vegas
by Ellen Sterling - March 20, 2007 If it is true that everyone wants to be famous - that everyone wants to be on TV - then 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' is, among other things, a demonstration of this truth....
The BWW Q&A: Jack Shalloo Of HAMLET! THE MUSICAL
by Carrie Dunn - April 26, 2011 Welcome to a brand-new feature, where we find out more about the real person behind the theatre star. We start with Jack Shalloo, who's just finished The Kissing Dance and is about to return to the title role in Hamlet! The Musical....
BWW Reviews: If It Only Even Runs a Minute 4
by Jena Tesse Fox - October 18, 2010 Fans of forgotten musicals should be flocking to this freshman concert series, which celebrates Broadway's hidden treasures....
CABARET LIFE NYC: Adam Shapiro's Hilarious 'Guide to the Perfect Breakup' is Also a Primer On Creating Great Cabaret Musical Comedy
by Stephen Hanks - January 28, 2013 If you're a cabaret performer thinking about staging a musical comedy theme show, or even if you're just a cabaret fan who appreciates a thoroughly entertaining show on multiple levels, you should try to squeeze yourself into The Duplex on Wednesday night at 7 pm to see Adam Shapiro's encore perform...
Full Cast Announced for Chris Noth and Chris Pine Led FARRAGUT NORTH at Geffen Playhouse
by Robert Diamond - May 08, 2009 Fresh off his lauded New York production of Farragut North, director Doug Hughes reunites much of his ensemble cast, including Juno's Olivia Thirlby, The Wire's Isiah Whitlock, Jr, Mia Barron, Dan Bittner and Justin Huen, at the Geffen Playhouse to join the previously announced Chris Noth and Chris ...
BWW Reviews: WORKING FOR THE MOUSE Creates a New Happiest Place on Earth Now Through Dec 17
by Harmony Wheeler - November 11, 2011 Why is a raven like a writing desk? Trevor Allen could tell you. He worked at Disneyland as a character for four years while attending college. Now, years later, he's sharing the answer to this riddle and much more at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. His one man show, "Working for the Mouse," whic...
BroadwayGirlNYC: Audience Love!
by BroadwayGirl NYC - August 19, 2010 I sat next to the most perfectly expressive old lady at Next to Normal this week! ...
Barron, Alladin, Parker and More Join LCT3's WHAT ONCE WE FELT
by Eddie Varley - September 24, 2009 LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's initiative devoted to producing work of new playwrights, directors and designers, has announced that Opal Alladin, Mia Barron, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lynn Hawley, Ronete Levenson and Ellen Parker will be featured in its world premiere production of WHAT ONCE WE FELT, ... |