Louis Armstrong House Museum Kicks Off 10th Anniversary Bash Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 15, 2013 The Louis Armstrong House Museum celebrates its 10-year anniversary today, October 15th, 2013. It has welcomed 100,000 visitors since opening its doors to the public as a historic house in 2003....
Louis Armstrong House Museum Announces 10th Anniversary Bash and Reveals Life Mask
by Robert Diamond - October 01, 2013 The Louis Armstrong House Museum celebrates its 10-year anniversary on Tuesday October 15th, 2013. It has welcomed 100,000 visitors since opening its doors to the public as a historic house in 2003....
WSR Signature Theatre to Present 1776, 7/2-3
by Tyler Peterson - June 26, 2014 It's the summer of 1776, and the nation is ready to declare independence...if only our founding fathers can agree to do it! 1776 follows John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia as they attempt to convince the members of t...
BWW Reviews: BroadHollow's 1776
by Melissa Giordano - March 05, 2015 In seeing the Tony winning Sherman Edwards/Peter Stone musical 1776, we get an interesting account of historical events. The cast at BroadHollow's BayWay Theatre in East Islip are comical, comfortable in their roles, and are extremely talented....
Richard Easton, Liz Larsen and More Star in Peccadillo's LIGHT UP THE SKY Reading Tonight
by BWW News Desk - July 29, 2013 Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Liz Larsen, Steve Vinovich, and Glory Crampton are set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Moss Hart's 1948 play LIGHT UP THE SKY tonight, July 29th at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street (between Ninth & Tenth A...
BWW Reviews: Ideas Pop at Dog & Pony DC's TOAST
by Pamela Roberts - September 23, 2014 Toast playfully explores innovation, technology, crowd-sourcing and the very roots of inspiration. You don't 'see' a show at dog & pony dc, you become part of it. Dog & pony is committed to "Audience Integration" or participatory theatre - that means when you attend a show you are intimately knit in...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek - 'The Kindred' Episode of FOX's SLEEPY HOLLOW
by - September 23, 2014 On the next episode of FOX's SLEEPY HOLLOW titled "The Kindred" - Ichabod Crane and Lt. Abbie Mills concoct a daring plan to try to rescue Ichabod's wife, Katrina, from the Headless Horseman by resurrecting a Frankenstein-like monster created by Benjamin Franklin. ...
Richard Easton, Liz Larsen and More to Star in Peccadillo's LIGHT UP THE SKY Reading; Full Cast Announced!
by BWW News Desk - July 23, 2013 Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Liz Larsen, Steve Vinovich, and Glory Crampton are set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Moss Hart's 1948 play LIGHT UP THE SKY Monday, July 29th at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street (between Ninth & Tenth Av...
2nd Annual BPYO Young Composers Initiative Set for 3/21 at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2015 The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra announces the 2nd annual BPYO Young Composers Initiative, set for Saturday, March 21st from 2:30pm-6:30pm at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, 41 Berkeley Street, Boston. Free and open to the public....
STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at A.C.T.'s 1776
by Christina Mancuso - September 12, 2013 American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) kicks off its 2013-14 season with passionate (and patriotic) fireworks with the West Coast premiere of Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati's triumphant new staging of the musical 1776. A.C.T.'s production of 1776 runs September 11-October 6, 2013, at The G...
BWW Reviews: ACT's 1776 Drums Up Patriotic Fun
by Harmony Wheeler - September 23, 2013 The creators of '1776' held political opinions that strongly disagreed with the ideals of many, like former president Richard Nixon, who ultimately came to enjoy and appreciate the musical. One can easily assume members of both major political parties made up the opening night audience of American C...
1776 Restored Director's Cut Set Makes Blu-ray Debut Today
by Pat Cerasaro - June 02, 2015 1776 arrives on Blu-ray at long last!...
Carmen Dillon and More to Be Inducted into Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame This Winter
by TV News Desk - September 09, 2015 Four legendary women -- Production Designer Carmen Dillon, Production and Costume Designer Patricia Norris, Art Director and Set Designer Dorothea Holt Redmond and Illustrator Dianne Wager -- will be inducted into the Art Directors Guild (ADG) Hall of Fame at the Guild's 20th Annual Excellence in Pr...
Photo Flash: First Look at Brandon Dahlquist, Andrew Boyer, Bernie Yvon and More in A.C.T.'s 1776
by Christina Mancuso - September 12, 2013 American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) kicks off its 2013-14 season with passionate (and patriotic) fireworks with the West Coast premiere of Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati's triumphant new staging of the musical 1776. A.C.T.'s production of 1776 runs September 11-October 6, 2013, at The G...
RUN TO GROUND by D.P. Lyle Receives Benjamin Franklin Silver Award
by Christina Mancuso - June 28, 2013 The Independent Book Publishers Association has awarded D.P. Lyle, M.D. their 2013 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award in the Mystery/Suspense category. Dr. Lyle, no stranger to awards, is author of many non-fiction books as well as numerous works of fiction including the Samantha Cody and Dub Walker thr...
54 SINGS 1776 Set for 54 Below This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - July 04, 2015 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, celebrates the July 4th weekend with '54 Sings 1776,' a celebration of the music from Broadway's Tony Award-winning Independence Day musical by Sherman Edwards. '54 Sings 1776' returns to 54 Below, for its second smash year, for four performances only: Sat. July 4 a...
Director Peter H. Hunt Talks Drama Behind Original Cuts to '1776' Film
by Movies News Desk - June 09, 2015 The restored director's cut edition of the musical 1776 was just released on Blu-ray, and Tony-winning director Peter H. Hunt revealed to the Los Angeles Times the drama behind the original 1972 release of the film -- and just how much producer Jack L. Warner left out....
SMT to Co-Produce All-Female 1776
by Tyler Peterson - May 18, 2015 Seattle Musical Theatre, Seattle's oldest musical theatre house, and West Seattle's Twelfth Night Productions are co-producing the nascent Reboot Theatre Company's maiden production of an all-female 1776 (Book by Peter Stone; Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards; Based on a concept by Sherman Edward...
ACT to Stage Open-Captioned Performance of 1776, 10/3
by Kristin Salaky - August 13, 2013 American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is pleased to offer an open captioned performance ofTony Award-winning director Frank Galati's triumphant new staging of the musical 1776 on Thursday, October 3 at 8 p.m., at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater (415 Geary Street, San Francisco). Special seats have been rese...
WILSON, IF KENNEDY LIVED & More Set for New York Historical Society in November
by Nicole Rosky - October 18, 2013 The New-York Historical Society ha just announced events for November 2013. For more information, contact the Communications Office at (212) 485-9263. All programs are presented at the New-York Historical Society unless otherwise noted. Sign up for our RSS feeds at http://www.nyhistory.org/rss-fe...
L.L.Bean and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Bring 'Outdoor Discovery Day' to Philadelphia's Pleasant Hill Park
by Robert Diamond - July 11, 2013 The 2013 L.L.Bean Bootmobile Outdoor Discovery Tour comes to Philadelphia this summer with a visit to LOVE Park and the first-ever 'Outdoor Discovery Day' at Pleasant Hill Park in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. The Bootmobile, a larger-than-life sized vehicle in the form of th...
Fulton Theatre Annouces New Emerging Writers Series in Honor of Ellen A. Groff
by Tyler Peterson - September 05, 2013 A year following the death of beloved Fulton Theatre Trustee EmeritusEllen Arnold Groff, Fulton Theatre announces the creation of a new performance series in her honor. The Ellen Groff Studio Series will be an annual collection of performances taking place in the theatre's 4th floor studio theatre. ...
THEATRICAL THROWBACK THURSDAY: 1776 - 60s, 70s & 90s Style
by Pat Cerasaro - July 03, 2014 In honor of this week's major national holiday of Independence Day, today we celebrate the most patriotic musical of them all, 1776....
THE AUSCHWITZ VOLUNTEER: BEYOND BRAVERY is Released
by Christina Mancuso - July 09, 2015 Aquila Polonica Publishing recently sold simplified Chinese rights to its award-winning book, 'The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery' by Captain Witold Pilecki, to Beijing World Publishing Corporation, Beijing, in a sale agented by Gray Tan and Zoe Hsu, The Grayhawk Agency, Taiwan. 'The Auschwi...
Comedian Marlon Wayans to Host VH1's PHILLY 4TH OF JULY JAM
by BWW News Desk - July 04, 2014 Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans has been named the host of the fourth annual Philly 4th of July Jam as part of the WaWa Welcome to America Festival.... |