HAIRSPRAY Begins Thanksgiving Weekend at Syracuse Stage
by Anna Bencivengo - November 21, 2014 Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray is the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance, and deliriously tuneful songs. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV ...
SOUND OFF: GLEE's Fits, Fights & Feuds
by Pat Cerasaro - March 15, 2013 Elton John's 'The Bitch Is Back' to N Sync's 'Bye Bye Bye' to Nicki Minaj's 'Super Bass', last night's Glee was filled to the brim with attitude and - to crib a phrase from Stephen Sondheim in his score for GYPSY - 'fits, fights, feuds and egos.' And a whole lot more, amigos....
Dennis Shinners' BOYS IN SUMMER Wins Pride Films and Plays' 2013 Great Gay Screenplay Contest
by Tyler Peterson - November 19, 2013 Pride Films and Plays has announced the winner of the 2013 Great Gay Screenplay contest is Boys In Summer by Dennis Shinners. The award was presented Sunday, November 17 at the conclusion of PFP's Gay Film Weekend in the Hoover-Leppen Theatre of Center on Halsted. The weekend included 'enhanced stag...
SOUND OFF: GLEE's Fits, Fights & Feuds
by Pat Cerasaro - March 15, 2013 Elton John's 'The Bitch Is Back' to N Sync's 'Bye Bye Bye' to Nicki Minaj's 'Super Bass', last night's Glee was filled to the brim with attitude and - to crib a phrase from Stephen Sondheim in his score for GYPSY - 'fits, fights, feuds and egos.' And a whole lot more, amigos....
BWW Reviews: High-Flying, Adored Revival of EVITA Hits Hollywood
by Michael L. Quintos - November 05, 2013 In one of this season's most pleasantly stunning surprises, the latest Broadway iteration of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's grand stage musical EVITA has arrived in Southern California at the beautiful Pantages Theatre in Hollywood (its three-week L.A. tour stop concludes November 10). A faithfu...
BWW Reviews: VIVIAN REED Signs, Seals and Delivers a Soulful and Powerful Performance at 54 Below
by Stephen Hanks - April 03, 2014 In the late '70s, Vivian Reed captured a Tony Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award for her work in the Broadway musical Bubbling Brown Sugar, and although Reed has delivered some critically-acclaimed work in the many years since (a Tony nomination for the 1992 musical The High Rollers Social ...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek - 'Truth Be Told' on Next THE FOSTERS
by - July 08, 2014 Callie worries about the drastic effect her recent actions have had on Jude in a new episode of "The Fosters," airing Monday, July 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Family....
Review Roundup: THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA Opens Off-Broadway
by Review Roundups - November 21, 2013 Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA by Amanda Peet, directed by MTC's award-winning artistic director Lynne Meadow opens tonight at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). Let's see what the critics had to say......
BWW Reviews: Second City Alumni Hilariously Present A CHRISTMAS CAROL: TWIST YOUR DICKENS!
by Shari Barrett - December 13, 2013 L.A.'s Hottest New Holiday Tradition A CHRISTMAS CAROL: TWIST YOUR DICKENS! Returns to CTG's Kirk Douglas Theatre for a Limited Run through December 29, 2013....
Susan Cain Receives 2013 Toastmasters Golden Gavel Award
by Christina Mancuso - August 30, 2013 Susan Cain received Toastmasters' 2013 Golden Gavel award Friday, August 23, at Toastmasters' annual International Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio....
OLIVIERS 2014: From the Party in the Covent Garden Piazza
by Gary Naylor - April 13, 2014 Gary Naylor spends a couple of hours on the Covent Garden cobbles watching the pre-show and the big screen feed of first half of the Oliviers 2014. On a perfect spring evening, Covent Garden was buzzing more than ever as I pushed past the men doing that 'hover above the pavement' trick you see in al...
Bassist Chip Shearin to Release 'Truth Be Told' Single from HOW I LIVE ALBUM This Summer
by BWW News Desk - July 24, 2014 Los Angeles based, North Carolina native Chip Shearin may not be a household name, but you've felt his presence and heard his bass playing as the original bass player who played the iconic bass line for Sugar Hill Gangs, 'Rappers Delight!'...
BWW Reviews: PRINCESS IDA Produced by Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin is Hysterical and Current
by Jeff Davis - June 16, 2013 There's certainly a reason why the works of Gilbert and Sullivan have remained a fixture in popular culture for nearly 150 years. Their operas are fun, frivolous, and tinted with social and political satire. Though Princess Ida, their eighth operatic collaboration, may not be as well-known as some...
It's Back! MUSIC CITY CONFIDENTIAL Number 8
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 24, 2014 You will not believe it! The last time we gave you a Music City Confidential (number seven), the London Olympics were winding up, LaToya Gardner and Kevin Mead were starring in Circle Players' Aida, Maggie Richardson and Cody Rutledge were headlining Xanadu at the Arts Center of Cannon County, and M...
THE DIVINE MISS BETTE with Catherine Alcorn Set for Slide Lounge Sydney, 19 March
by Tyler Peterson - March 10, 2015 The Divine Miss Bette cabaret starring Sydney stage sensation, Catherine Alcorn returns to Sydney for one night only at 8.15pm, Thursday 19th March, 2015 at Slide Lounge Sydney. The Divine Miss Bette forms part of the 4 week SLIDE LOUNGE MARDI GRAS program featuring cabaret, comedy, circus, visual a...
X FACTOR RECAP: The Top 12 Becomes the Top 13; All the Performances!
by Kelsey Denette - November 07, 2012 'We have some very important news,' Mario Lopez says at the top of tonight's episode of The X Factor. What is this news? The top twelve has just become the top thirteen, with an act returning after being eliminated last week. Who is it? Read on to find out!...
26 Hours of Live Performances Set for Chance Theater's 24-Hour Chance-A-Thon This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - March 22, 2014 Chance Theater is officially announcing the performance line-up for our third annual 24hr Chance-a-thon, which will take place today, March 22 from 10am-11pm, and Sunday, March 23 from 9am-10pm....
BWW Recap: SURVIVOR- BLOOD VS WATER 10/22; Full Results!
by Kara McCoy - October 22, 2014 Last week, in what was probably the most satisfying tribal council of the season so far, we said goodbye to Drew. And not, like, a particularly sad goodbye. Not one of those 'handkerchief-waving, sending your son off to college' goodbyes. No, no. More like a 'champagne-popping, gone with the wind FA...
BWW Reviews: Revamped Broadway-Bound JEKYLL & HYDE Makes Hollywood Debut
by Michael L. Quintos - February 20, 2013 Now in the final stretches of its 25-week national tour before ultimately making its sit-down Broadway transfer later this Spring, the brand-new, revamped revival of JEKYLL & HYDE - THE MUSICAL has finally returned to Southern California for the next few weeks, this time playing performances at the ...
Photo Flash: First Look at Syracuse Stage's HAIRSPRAY
by Tyler Peterson - December 02, 2014 Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray is the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance, and deliriously tuneful songs. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV ...
BWW Blog: Adam Lendermon of Maltz Jupiter's A CHORUS LINE - Costume Junction, What's Your Malfunction?
by Guest Blogger: Adam Lendermon - January 27, 2014 The other night during the final kick line in the finale of the show, I completely blew out the crotch of my costume. There I was (just inches from center stage) doing 24 successive battements in Rockette fashion with a giant hole down there. Did I mention that the vast majority of our patronage con...
BWW Blog: Young Artists of America Participants Talk WEST SIDE STORY + ROMEO ET JULIETTE, 3/8
by BWW Special Coverage - February 19, 2015 ...
Bassist Chip Shearin Debuts New Single and Forthcoming CD on Innervision Records
by Courtnie Mele - July 24, 2014 Los Angeles based, North Carolina native Chip Shearin may not be a household name but you've felt his presence and heard his bass playing as the original bass player who played the iconic bass line for Sugar Hill Gangs, 'Rappers Delight!', The bass line that American Band Stand's, Dick Clark said ....
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Johnson West
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 18, 2015 Today, our spotlight falls on Johnson West, one of the most likable actors to ever walk onto a Nashville stage. Johnson is the type of actor you cannot help but fall a little in love with every time he enters stage left, the kind of guy you can just imagine being the best friend you've always dreame...
BWW Reviews: TOMMY's Talented Cast Rocks the Stratford Festival
by Kelly Cameron - June 02, 2013 The Stratford Festival's production of TOMMY was arguably one of the most highly anticipated shows of this season. It marks Des McAnuff's return to the festival and to the 'rock musical' genre, and also marks the twentieth anniversary of the original production. With a cast of some of Canada's bes... |
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