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BWW Reviews: AVA's COSI FAN TUTTE Shows How To Do An Update That Works
by Marakay Rogers - December 03, 2013

The Academy of Vocal Arts performed an updated version of Mozart's comic opera that makes sense in its handling and boasts some fine performances...


FX, Stephen Gaghan to Develop New 6-Part Vietnam Miniseries
by Tyler Peterson - April 01, 2013

FX is heading to Vietnam. According to Deadline, the cable network and Oscar-winner Stephen Gaghan are set to adapt Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss' book THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT into a six-part miniseries. Eric Simonson, documentarian and playwright, will pen the script....


'Breathless' by C. Everette Hagler is Released
by Christina Mancuso - October 21, 2013

The thought of spending one's life with a single person has been considered by many jaded individuals to be a futile gesture and that the concept of true love is nothing more than a cheap commercial gimmick concocted by Valentine's Day card companies. And yet true love does exist in author C. Everet...


TV: A FIERCE GREEN FIRE Trailer Released
by Nicole Rosky - March 01, 2013

Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, this Sundance documentary brings to light the vital stories of the environmental movement where people fought-and succeeded-against enormous odds. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to fighting toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace to Chic...


Folk Music Society of NY Present Next Artist in Legends Concert Series: Peggy Seeger
by BWW News Desk - March 28, 2014

A singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and activist songmaker, Peggy Seeger plays six instruments: piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and English concertina. She has recorded 23 solo albums and participated directly in more than a hundred others. Peggy lived in Engl...


LULU Makes NYC Concert Debut, 2/16 at BB King's
by Kelsey Denette - January 02, 2013

Britain's iconic singer LULU will make her NYC concert debut with a February 16th performance at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, backed by an All-Star Band, featuring Will Lee, Jimmy Vivino and Rich Pagano from The Fab Faux, plus Paul Shaffer....


BWW Reviews: AVA's COSI FAN TUTTE Shows How To Do An Update That Works
by Marakay Rogers - December 03, 2013

The Academy of Vocal Arts performed an updated version of Mozart's comic opera that makes sense in its handling and boasts some fine performances...


The Adobe Theater to Stage Neil Simon's LOST IN YONKERS, 6/28-7/21
by Tyler Peterson - June 07, 2013

Yonkers, NY is city just north of the Bronx, where playwright Neil Simon was born on the 4th of July, 85 years ago. He has chronicled family life in the Great Depression and after in a series of prize-winning plays, musicals and films. His frequent theme shows "likeable people in difficult situati...


Lindsay Harris Friel's TRAVELING LIGHT Set for Philly Fringe, 9/6-14
by Tyler Peterson - July 26, 2013

London's "Summer of Love" comes to Center City in the Philly Fringe with the Philadelphia premiere of 'Traveling Light' by Philadelphia playwright Lindsay Harris Friel. The play is directed by Liam Castellan and produced by Liam's Sofa Cushion Fortress in The Skybox at The Adrienne Theater, Septemb...


Publishamerica Releases DYNAMITE RUNS IN THE FAMILY by Cabot Barden
by Rosie Hertzman - December 11, 2013

'Dynamite Runs In The Family' by Cabot Barden will be released on December 20, 2013 by Publishmerica....


Jeff Bridges Narrates Documentary PABLO, Coming to DVD Today
by Movies News Desk - November 05, 2013

Breaking Glass Pictures and Goldstreet Films are proud to announce the nationwide releases of Richard Goldgewicht's Pablo. The film is narrated by Oscar winner Jeff Bridges and features appearances by Anjelica Huston, Stan Lee, Beau Bridges, Jon Voight, Leonard Maltin and many more. Pablo was availa...


Joseph DeFranco's Passion for Food and Italy Unraveled in GROWING UP IN THE BUTCHER SHOP
by BWW News Desk - November 22, 2013

BANGOR, Pa., Nov. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ Deeply inspired by his grandmother, author Joseph DeFranco's love for food and country is engraved within him ever since. Now he shares this passion to all with the release of his book, Growing up in the Butcher Shop....


San Diego Gay Men's Chorus to Present FEELIN' GROOVY - SONGS OF THE 60s, 7/27-28
by Tyler Peterson - June 21, 2013

It's time to step back into the psychedelic Sixties with the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus (SDGMC) as they presentFeelin' Groovy-Songs of the '60s, the greatest hits of that free-spirited yet socially charged decade. Tickets are now on sale at www.sdgmc.org for the July 27 and 28 shows at the Birch N...


LULU Makes NYC Concert Debut at B.B. King's, 2/16
by Emily Stubbs - January 31, 2013

Britain's iconic singer LULU will make her NYC concert debut with a February 16th performance at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, backed by an All-Star Band, featuring Will Lee, Jimmy Vivino and Rich Pagano from The Fab Faux, plus Paul Shaffer....


The Adobe Theater Stages Neil Simon's LOST IN YONKERS, Now thru 7/21
by BWW News Desk - June 28, 2013

Yonkers, NY is city just north of the Bronx, where playwright Neil Simon was born on the 4th of July, 85 years ago. He has chronicled family life in the Great Depression and after in a series of prize-winning plays, musicals and films. His frequent theme shows 'likeable people in difficult situati...


Ariel Pink to Compose Music for BAD VIBES Film
by Movies News Desk - September 07, 2013

Avant-Garde rock musician Ariel Pink will compose original music for the upcoming SpectreVision production of Bad Vibes, a werewolf tale set in the psychedelic '60's music scene. Produced by SpectreVision partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller, the film will be directed by Dave Gebroe ...


GO!! Show Gold Comes to the Palais Theatre in August
by Kelsey Denette - May 14, 2013

Go Show Gold! is back again in 2013 with another sensational line-up featuring some of the artists that became household names back in the sixties through their appearances on the iconic 60's show GO!, which was the first national pop program to go live to air in Australia....


Sir Tony Robinson to Open RE-STAGING REVOLUTIONS Exhibition at Camden Archives, Feb 11
by BWW News Desk - February 04, 2014

On Tuesday, 11 February, Blackadder and Time Team star Sir Tony Robinson opens Re-staging Revolutions at Camden Archives, an exhibition celebrating the alternative theatre movement of the sixties, seventies and eighties. The exhibition runs until 10 May. Other speakers include Ian Saville: socialist...


Strand Theater Company and StillPointe Theater Initiative Will Present 'The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin,' Beginning 2/8
by Kelsey Denette - February 06, 2013

Strand Theater Company joins forces with StillPointe Theatre Initiative to co-produce The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin - an Obie Award-Winning, autobiographical, "smartly sweet" musical about a woman named Bubbly learning to embrace her color, as she pursues a dream of becoming the gre...


HULLABALOO - A '60s POP MUSIC FLASHBACK Retrospective to Debut on PBS, 3/2
by TV News Desk - February 22, 2013

Transporting viewers back to the days of go-go dancers, mod mini-skirts and swinging pop-rock sounds, HULLABALOO - A '60s FLASHBACK (MY MUSIC) is the first-ever retrospective of the fondly-remembered and highly-influential 1965-66 NBC-TV primetime series Hullabaloo. The top singers and groups of the...


Folk Music Society of NY Present Next Artist in Legends Concert Series: Peggy Seeger, 3/28
by Courtnie Mele - March 11, 2014

A singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and activist songmaker, Peggy Seeger plays six instruments: piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and English concertina. She has recorded 23 solo albums and participated directly in more than a hundred others. Peggy lived in Engl...


Life is Beautiful Curates Music Showcase During SXSW Today
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2014

Life is Beautiful, the successful lifestyle experience that celebrates music, food, art and learning, continues to support home-grown talent by inviting Vegas bands to participate in a special music showcase during Austin's SXSW. Open to the public, the showcase, hosted by Caesars Entertainment and ...


Sir Tony Robinson Opens RE-STAGING REVOLUTIONS Exhibition at Camden Archives Today
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2014

Today, 11 February, Blackadder and Time Team star Sir Tony Robinson opens Re-staging Revolutions at Camden Archives, an exhibition celebrating the alternative theatre movement of the sixties, seventies and eighties. The exhibition runs until 10 May. Other speakers include Ian Saville: socialist conj...


Memoir Shares the Life Story of a Chinese Boy During the 40s Through the 60s
by Robert Diamond - February 22, 2014

Author Paul 'Monty' Choy's father was born in Canton, China while his mother was born in Malaya. His father was very autocratic and conservative and did not share with his family, his own family history. His mother also remained silent on her own family history. The author and the rest of his siblin...


Stage Designer Lloyd Burlingame Pens Memoir SETS, LIGHTS, AND LUNACY Released Today
by BWW News Desk - October 15, 2013

Renowned designer Lloyd Burlingame pulls back the curtain to reveal the triumphs, trials, tribulations, and travesties of a stage designer in his upcoming memoir, Sets, Lights, and Lunacy: A Stage Designer's Adventures on Broadway and in Opera. Sets, Lights, and Lunacy (Design Adventures, ISBN: 9781...






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