VIDEO: Watch a Trailer for THE PREPPY MURDER: DEATH IN CENTRAL PARK on AMC!
by Sarah Leiber - October 16, 2019 The five-part series reexamines one of the most infamous crimes in recent American history – the 1986 killing of Jennifer Levin at the hands of Robert Chambers....
The 26th Annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Launches 2018 Festival App
by Macon Prickett - February 28, 2018 The 26th Annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Presented by Regions Bank has launched the 2018 Festival app. The intuitive app was introduced last year and quickly became a popular tool for attendees to make the most of the five-day event. Several hundred songwriters are set to perform at 10 of ...
BWW Interview: Robert Townsend of LIVING THE SHUFFLE at The Marsh Berkeley Has Some Hollywood Tales to Share with You
by Jim Munson - October 28, 2019 Filmmaker Robert Townsend has truly had a singular career ever since coming to prominence with his groundbreaking 1987 film a?oeThe Hollywood Shuffle.a?? That satirical comedy about Black actors dealing with racial stereotypes in the film and TV industry was famously self-financed by Townsend maxing...
Discovery's Five Deeps Expedition Breaks Record on Dive to Bottom of Challenger Deep In Mariana Trench
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 13, 2019 For the fourth time, the Five Deeps Expedition has successfully dived to the bottom of one of the world's five oceans. The team completed a mission to reach what is commonly known as the deepest point on planet Earth: Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench. Victor Vescovo set a new deep-diving re...
Kravis Center To Present THE GUTFELD MONOLOGUES LIVE
by Stephi Wild - December 10, 2018 The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts today announced the following hilarious, insightful and engaging addition to its 2019 performance schedule:...
Musicals Tonight To Present 29 Hour Reading Of New Cole Porter Musical
by A.A. Cristi - February 04, 2019 Musicals Tonight,which has revived one hundred musicals since 1998, will be producing its first new musical, THE FIVE MINUTE DAN MCGEE....
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Celebrates 140th Anniversary With World Tour Beginning With Debuts At Wolf Trap And Ravinia
by A.A. Cristi - July 11, 2019 Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO), Asia's oldest symphony orchestra, celebrates its 140th anniversary with a three-week world tour fresh off the heels of the release of its new album on Deutsche Grammophon, Gateways. Led by Music Director Long Yu, the SSO kicks off its tour by making two debuts in t...
Blue Man Group Boston Announces Finalists For Fifth Annual Drum-Off Competition During The Summer Block Party
by Julie Musbach - June 29, 2018 Blue Man Group Boston announced today the five finalists that will perform at their fifth annual Drum-Off competition July 7th at 5:00 pm at the free Summer Block Party at The Lawn on D in Boston....
East Meets West at New Hong Kong Philharmonic Concert
by BWW News Desk - January 18, 2019 The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is proud to present a concert in which East meets West on 18 & 19 January in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Our Principal Guest Conductor Yu Long, who is an ambassador for contemporary Chinese music, will open the concert with The Five Elem...
Center Theatre Group Selects Elementary Schools For Disney Musicals In Schools Program
by A.A. Cristi - November 20, 2018 Center Theatre Group is pleased to announce the five new schools that have been selected to participate in the 2018-2019 Disney Musicals in Schools program. The program is an initiative developed by Disney Theatrical Productions to create sustainable theatre programs in under-resourced elementary sc...
Greg Gutfeld Coming To Orpheum Theater This Fall; Tickets On Sale This Friday
by A.A. Cristi - July 29, 2019 Omaha Performing Arts presents Greg Gutfeld. Join Greg Gutfeld for an unforgettable evening of hilarious, insightful and engaging conversation on topics from his New York Times Best Seller The Gutfeld Monologues, Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 7:00 PM in the Orpheum Theater's Slosburg Hall....
5BMF to Present Finale of THE FIVE BOROUGH SONGBOOK, VOLUME II at National Sawdust
by BWW News Desk - November 16, 2017 On Today, November 16, 2017 at 7:30pm, preceded by a 7:00pm Composer/Poet chat, Five Boroughs Music Festival (5BMF) presents the Brooklyn premiere and grand finale performance of the Five Borough Songbook, Volume II with expanded casting at National Sawdust. The project, which premiered in Ma...
Five Student Playwrights Honored As Finalists In Playwriting Competition At Delaware Theatre Company
by Stephi Wild - January 14, 2019 Delaware Theatre Company announces the five finalist plays and playwrights in the 2018-2019 Delaware Young Playwrights Festival!...
Black Ensemble Adds WOMEN OF SOUL To 2018 Lineup
by Julie Musbach - September 19, 2018 Black Ensemble Theater continues its 2018 Season (Movers and Shakers) with Women of Soul, (With a Tribute to the Queen) written and directed by Black Ensemble Theater Associate Director Daryl D. Brooks....
VIDEO: Go Inside Rehearsals For Berkeley Rep's PARADISE SQUARE: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL
by Alan Henry - December 26, 2018 In the video below go inside rehearsals for Paradise Square: An American Musical. The world premiere is helmed by acclaimed director Moises Kaufman, with choreography by the legendary Bill T. Jones and a book by Marcus Gardley, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan. Music by Jason Howland and Larry Kirwan, ...
Dallas Schools Selected For Disney Musicals In Schools Program
by Julie Musbach - November 26, 2018 The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce the five schools that have been selected to participate in the 2019 Disney Musicals in Schools program. The program is an initiative developed by Disney Theatrical Productions to create sustainable theatre programs in under- resourced ...
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF Will Come to the Five Towns College Performing Arts Center
by Stephi Wild - October 29, 2019 Five Towns College brings FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, to the Five Towns College Performing Arts Center beginning this Friday, November 1, 2019. Tickets are available now and cost $15, $12 for seniors & students....
The HBO Miniseries Companion THE CHERNOBYL PODCAST to Debut in May
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 18, 2019 Craig Mazin (creator, writer and executive producer of the miniseries 'Chernobyl') and NPR's Peter Sagal (host of 'Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!') have recorded a five-episode podcast, THE CHERNOBYL PODCAST, as a companion piece to the five-part HBO miniseries. In each episode of the podcast, Mazin and ...
Photo Flash: Public Theater's Mobile Unit presents A WINTER'S TALE
by A.A. Cristi - November 10, 2017 This fall, The Public Theater's Mobile Unit, which strengthens community engagement with the arts by bringing free, world-class productions of Shakespeare to communities all across New York City, will journey through tragedy into comedy with an enchanting new production of THE WINTER'S TALE, directe...
Netflix to Release Ava DuVernay's WHEN THEY SEE US on May 31
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 01, 2019 In 1989, the media dubbed them the Central Park Five and they were forever linked together by that moniker. On May 31, their true story will come to Netflix as a four-part limited series from Academy Award® Nominee and two-time Emmy Award® Winner Ava DuVernay. Now titled When They See Us, the serie...
East Meets West at New Hong Kong Philharmonic Concert
by Stephi Wild - January 10, 2019 The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is proud to present a concert in which East meets West on 18 & 19 January in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Our Principal Guest Conductor Yu Long, who is an ambassador for contemporary Chinese music, will open the concert with The Five Elem...
TOM FOOLERY: The Words And Music Of Tom Lehrer Returns To Adelaide
by A.A. Cristi - May 09, 2018 Tomfoolery, the words and music of acclaimed American musician, singer-songwriter satirist and Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer (now aged 90) , returns to Adelaide for a limited five performance season from 18 to 22 July at the Marion Cultural Centre, 287 Diagonal Road, Oaklands Park. ...
Black Ensemble Theater Announces Casting for HAIL, HAIL CHUCK: A TRIBUTE TO CHUCK BERRY
by Julie Musbach - January 25, 2018 Black Ensemble Theater opens its 2018 Season (Movers and Shakers) with Hail, Hail Chuck: A Tribute to Chuck Berry, written by L. Maceo Ferris a senior member of the Black Ensemble Theater's BPI (Black Playwrights Initiative) and directed by Black Ensemble Theater Associate Director Daryl D. Brooks. ...
Could A Spice-Girls Themed Animated Superhero Movie Be In the Works?
by Macon Prickett - March 23, 2018 According to Variety, an animated film project starring the Spice Girls is being shopped to potential production partners. According to a source, all five members of the group have signed off on their likenesses being used for a superhero-themed movie working off of the "girl power" message. Each c...
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Celebrates 140th Anniversary With World Tour Beginning With Debuts At Wolf Trap And Ravinia
by A.A. Cristi - July 11, 2019 Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO), Asia's oldest symphony orchestra, celebrates its 140th anniversary with a three-week world tour fresh off the heels of the release of its new album on Deutsche Grammophon, Gateways. Led by Music Director Long Yu, the SSO kicks off its tour by making two debuts in t... |