Juneteenth Celebration Highlights Culture and History at Fair Park
by Stephi Wild - May 20, 2022 The Blair Foundation and the Elite News will host the North Texas Juneteenth Celebration, March, and Festival on Saturday, June 18, 2022, from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm at Fair Park. ... 
Ford's Theater Announces Dates For Radio Play NECESSARY SACRIFICES
by A.A. Cristi - March 23, 2021 Ford's Theatre has announced an audio drama adaptation of Richard Hellesen's Necessary Sacrifices, featuring acclaimed Washington actors Craig Wallace as Frederick Douglass and Paul Morella as Abraham Lincoln. Psalmayene 24 makes his Ford's directorial debut. ... 
Greenwich House Hosts JUNETEENTH JUBILEE An Outdoor, All-Ages Arts Celebration
by A.A. Cristi - June 03, 2022 On Friday, June 17 at 4 PM, Greenwich House will host a “Juneteenth Jubilee” ahead of Juneteenth Independence Day (June 19). This commemorates the date in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger, accompanied by federal troops, arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Pro... 
Previews: Bipoc Play Reading Series to Feature LeAnne Howe at Straz' Teco Theatre
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - May 17, 2023 In Savage Conversations, the President's largest mass execution of thirty-eight Dakota nightly haunts the First Lady. Although she has never met an American Indian, grappling with grief, she claims that a Savage Indian enters her bedroom, slashes her face and scalp, and is committed to Bellevue Plac... 
JUNETEENTH JUBILEE to Take Place at Greenwich House Pottery
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 13, 2022 On Friday, June 17 at 4 PM, Greenwich House will host a 'Juneteenth Jubilee' ahead of Juneteenth Independence Day (June 19).... 
NECESSARY SACRIFICES Extended At North Coast Repertory Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - October 12, 2020 North Coast Rep's award-winning theatre located in Solana Beach, CA is doing innovative theatre during this time by being the first theatre in the US to film a live stage performance for streaming. ... 
Terence L. Cranert's New Musical THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD To Open in Illinois This Summer
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 27, 2023 Terence L. Cranert's stirring new musical for the whole family, THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD, premieres in Springfield, Illinois, with sights set on New York.... 
VIDEO: Netflix Releases Season Three Date Announcement for JESSICA JONES
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 29, 2019 Netflix announces that the final season of Marvel's Jessica Jones, the groundbreaking, award-winning series about a New York City private investigator with incredible strength, will launch on Friday, June 14. All 13 episodes will be released to Netflix members globally on this date.... 
VIDEO: Watch A.J. Shively Sing 'Why Should I Die in Springtime' from PARADISE SQUARE
by Nicole Rosky - March 01, 2022 BroadwayWorld is very excited to bring you an exclusive sneak peek of the cast in action below. Watch as A.J. Shively performs 'Why Should I Die in Springtime', written by Jason Howland, Nathan Tysen, and Masi Asare.... 
Stray Cat Opens Season 17 With Annie Baker's THE ANTIPODES
by Stephi Wild - August 23, 2018 Following the successes of her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick and her haunting and enigmatic John, Stray Cat once again brings the latest work by in-house favorite playwright Annie Baker. An unnamed conference room. A group of creators on an intense and intensely surreal brainstorming session for ... 
San Diego REP Extends Viewing for Aaron Posner's JQA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 31, 2020 San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced today extended viewing access for the theatre’s filmed version of Aaron Posner’s play JQA. Directed by REP Artistic Director Sam Woodhouse, the film of Posner’s play about President John Quincy Adams will now be available for viewing through Nove... 
BWW Review: NECESSARY SACRIFICES at Taproot Theatre
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - September 22, 2019 NECESSARY SACRIFICES at Taproot Theater is both necessary and a gift to audiences. In a time of great division, this show reaches deep into the psyche of our nation and reminds us how even those with great differences can work together. With compelling dialogue, witty and heartfelt performances, and... 
Music Educator To Debut His Show INFAMOUS THE MUSICAL at St. Edward High School
by Stephi Wild - August 23, 2022 Infamous the Musical is set to premiere as a Staged Concert this September at St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio. Infamous is a musical recount of the events leading toward Abraham Lincoln's assassination and subsequent manhunt for his killer, John Wilkes Booth.... 
Ford's Theatre Hosts Annual Gala
by Stephi Wild - June 02, 2019 Ford's Theatre Society celebrated the legacy of President Abraham Lincoln at its Annual Gala on Sunday evening, June 2, 2019, at Ford's Theatre (511 10th Street NW). For more than 40 years, the Society has hosted this bipartisan event, which provides crucial support to the non-profit's theatrical an... 
Lincoln, Douglass, And Booth All Sing In COMMON GROUND
by Julie Musbach - August 29, 2018 The New York New Works Theatre Festival in association with Quill Productions are proud to present Granville Wyche Burgess' musical play about the first time our nation faced a civil war.... 
Photos: Joel B. New's TEMPTING MR. LINCOLN Premieres In Concert At Green Room 42
by A.A. Cristi - February 17, 2022 Joel B. New’s Tempting Mr. Lincoln premiered in concert at The Green Room 42 on Saturday, February 12th (Lincoln's birthday), directed by Stanley Martin (Aladdin) with musical direction by Gillian Berkowitz (Lehman Trilogy).... 
Satirical Take On Aristophanes' THE FROGS To Premiere At Chain Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 15, 2021 DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK. After sixteen months of closure, the Chain Theatre is opening its doors to the playwrights, actors, directors, and audiences hungry in NYC for a festival of original works.... 
THE BRUTES Will Be Presented At The Players
by Julie Musbach - September 23, 2019 On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. THE BRUTES by Casey Wimpee will be presented at THE PLAYERS - once the historic home of Edwin Booth - 16 Gramercy Park S, New York City. Members of the Booth family will be in attendance, and the performance is presented in collaboration with spit&vigor by P...
Inaugural Juneteenth Celebration, March And Festival Coming To Fair Park
by A.A. Cristi - March 18, 2021 The Blair Foundation and the Elite News will host the inaugural Juneteenth Celebration, March and Festival on Saturday, June 19. The event will begin at 10:00 AM at William Blair Jr. Park with a three-and-a-half-mile march and end at Fair Park with a festival featuring a Negro League Baseball exhibi... 
The Abbey Theater of Dublin Announces Live Streamed Production of EMANCIPATION
by Stephi Wild - September 15, 2020 In celebration of the 158th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln issuing the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, the Abbey Theater of Dublin presents a live streamed performance of 'Emancipation' - an adaptation of the 1876 speech delivered by Frederick Douglass at the unveiling of Th... 
How Often Are American Presidents Depicted on Stage?
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - February 18, 2024 This time, the reader question was: Oh, Mary! currently has so much buzz off-Broadway. What is the history of American presidents being depicted on stage?... 
Notting Hill-Inspired Gay Musical Romcom Premieres At Green Room 42 Tonight
by Nicole Rosky - February 12, 2022 Joel B. New's musical comedy Tempting Mr. Lincoln premieres in concert tonight at The Green Room 42. The concert is directed by Stanley Martin (Aladdin) with musical direction by Gillian Berkowitz (Lehman Trilogy).... 
Stage and Screen Actor Hal Holbrook Dies at 95
by Stephi Wild - February 02, 2021 BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen actor Hal Holbrook has died at 95 years old.... 
VIDEO: JESSICA JONES Returns in Trailer for Final Season
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 06, 2019 Netlix has released the trailer for the final season of Marvel's Jessica Jones. When Jessica (Krysten Ritter) crosses paths with a highly intelligent psychopath, she and Trish (Rachael Taylor) must repair their fractured relationship and team up to take him down. But a devastating loss reveals thei... 
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for the New Netflix Series MEDAL OF HONOR
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 04, 2018 Netflix has released the trailer for Medal of Honor, a new series that honors eight men who went above and beyond the call of duty. Watch the trailer below!... |
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