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The Vietnam War was a decade of agony that took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans, and that Not since the Civil War have we as a country been so torn apart. In an immersive narrative, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. The Vietnam War features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

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NewFilmmakers NY Presents THE ROAD HOME, War-Themed Documentary Series and More, 9/19
by BWW News Desk - September 03, 2012

On Wednesday, September 19th, NewFilmmakers goes to War with our Documentary Series, our Short Film Program and the new Feature THE ROAD HOME. ...


Author and Vietnam Veteran Ray Gleason Uses Humanity and Combat Experience in Latest Novel, THE VIOLENT SEASON
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2013

The Vietnam War was a long and costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States, from 1954 to 1975 (1). While these days, many people learn about a war through the media and pop culture, Vi...


STAGE TUBE: On This Day 3/31- HAIR
by Nicole Rosky - March 31, 2012

Today in 2009, the second Broadway revival of HAIR opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it ran for 519 performances. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-...


DROUGHT AND RAIN Opens at Arts Centre Melbourne Tonight, Sept 20
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2012

French-Vietnamese choreographer, Ea Sola, brings Drought and Rain (re-creation 2011) to Arts Centre Melbourne tonight, 20 - Saturday 22 September. Exploring 'traditional Vietnamese song and dance in a contemporary framework, Drought and Rain will see twelve elderly Vietnamese women present their exp...


Artist Series Presents HAIR, 4/10
by Kelsey Denette - March 15, 2013

HAIR: a celebration of peace and love!, the 2009 Tony Award-Winning Best Musical Revival directed by Diane Paulus, comes to Jacksonville's Times- Union Center's Moran Theater for one performance only on Wednesday, April 10th at 7:30PM!...


Video: MISS SAIGON Revival Releases Teaser!
by Oliver Oliveros - June 28, 2013

Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.'s highly-anticipated 25th anniversary production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's beloved mega-musical 'Miss Saigon' has just released the show's first teaser....


TheatreWorks Offers Stage Two Program Free to Teens; HAIR Auditions Set for Today
by BWW News Desk - July 08, 2013

Thanks in part to an anonymous donor, the TheatreWorks Stage Two Teen Program is now being offered FREE OF CHARGE to all teens ages 14 to 19....


NewFilmmakers NY Presents THE ROAD HOME, War-Themed Documentary Series and More Tonight, 9/19
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2012

Tonight, September 19th, NewFilmmakers goes to War with our Documentary Series, our Short Film Program and the new Feature THE ROAD HOME. ...


Photo Flash: Remembering George McGovern (1922-2012)
by Walter McBride - October 21, 2012

According to published reports, George McGovern passed away on October 21. He was 90 years old. BroadwayWorld brings you photos of the famed politician below....


Long Wharf Theatre's MACBETH Plays 1/18-2/12
by Kelsey Denette - December 15, 2011

Long Wharf Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Josh Borenstein, presents MACBETH [1969] from January 18 through February 12, 2012, on the C. Newton Schenck III Mainstage....


LATW tours China with Top Secret: The Battle The Pentagon Papers
by BWW News Desk - December 04, 2011

L.A. Theatre Works has been invited to bring Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons' riveting historical drama, Top Secret: The Battle for The Pentagon Papers, to China for two weeks of performances, November 22 through December 4....


Combat Infantryman Releases New Memoir About WWII
by Christina Mancuso - June 18, 2013

Never in the history of the world, before or since, has there been such cataclysmic destruction as there was in World War II. The entire face of the earth changed as millions died and entire cities were razed to rubble. World War II was the harbinger of the Holocaust and the herald of the Atomic ...


Suffolk U. & Actors’ Shakespeare Project To Present American Requiem 2/15
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 23, 2012

Suffolk University & Actors' Shakespeare Project are set to present the first public reading of James Carroll's play based on his National Book Award-winning memoir....


White Plains Performing Arts Center Opens HAIR Tonight
by BWW News Desk - May 03, 2013

HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, with book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot, is the story of the 'tribe', a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the 'Age of Aquarius' living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscrip...


Adalbert Lallier Discusses A PEACE WITHOUT HONOR
by Christina Mancuso - May 22, 2013

Misled by the hawkish proponents of the Domino theory, the United States, the world's greatest ever democracy and most powerful country, launched in 1965 a massive attack upon Vietnam, an undeveloped mainly agricultural country whose sovereign territory amounted to barely three per cent of the geogr...


STAGE TUBE: On This Day 7/13- HAIR
by Nicole Rosky - July 13, 2013

Today in 2011, the return engagement of the second Broadway revival of HAIR opened at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 67 performances. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of...


John Koprowski Plays the Laurie Beechman Tonight, 5/2
by BWW News Desk - May 02, 2012

John Koprowski 'takes us on a musical journey through the days that created the '60s sound: the campus free speech movement, the Vietnam war and anti-war protests, civil rights marches, Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary, Haight-Ashbury and the Summer of Love, Fillmore East and West, the Beatles and the Br...


NewFilmmakers NY Presents THE ROAD HOME, War-Themed Documentary Series and More, 9/19
by BWW News Desk - September 03, 2012

On Wednesday, September 19th, NewFilmmakers goes to War with our Documentary Series, our Short Film Program and the new Feature THE ROAD HOME. ...


'Across the Mekong River' Wins Four Independent Book Awards
by Christina Mancuso - July 25, 2013

Competing with books from small and university presses as well as other independent publishers, author Elaine Russell's novel, 'Across the Mekong River,' won four 2013 independent publishing book awards for multicultural fiction over the past few months:...


Dale Dye's OUTRAGE Looks at the 1983 Bombing of the Beirut Marine Barracks
by Tyler Peterson - January 21, 2013

On October 23, 1983, a terrorist slammed a truck packed with thousands of pounds of explosives into a barracks where U.S. Marine peacekeepers were sleeping in Beirut, Lebanon. More than 240 military men died as a result of the dawn attack, the heaviest loss of life in a single incident involving U.S...


LATW tours China with Top Secret: The Battle The Pentagon Papers
by BWW News Desk - November 22, 2011

L.A. Theatre Works has been invited to bring Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons' riveting historical drama, Top Secret: The Battle for The Pentagon Papers, to China for two weeks of performances, November 22 through December 4....


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....


Photo Flash: First Look at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University's MISS SAIGON
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2013

This August will see Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University's Final Year Musical Theatre students in the fully staged production of Miss Saigon. The production will run from tomorrow 9 through 17 August 2013 at Conservatorium Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, South Bank,...


Russell J. Jewett's New Book Recounts USMC Exploits in Vietnam
by Christina Mancuso - June 10, 2013

Over the past ten years, author and veteran Russell J. Jewett has been attending reunions with the members of the United States Marine Corp's Third Battalion Lima Company, a group also known as Ripley's Raiders. Inevitably, war stories are traded during these gatherings, but the details of these acc...


The Wall That Heals Traveling Vietnam Memorial Comes to Orlando 1/16
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 11, 2012

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and the City of Orlando are bringing The Wall that Heals, a traveling half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to downtown Orlando January 16 through 22....






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