Stockard Channing Re-Awakens Odets' Classic
by Robert Gould - September 21, 2007 The awakening of members of a Jewish family in 1930s New York serves to represent the awakening of the American nation to a world of social change in Clifford Odets' ground-breaking drama, 'Awake and Sing'. Michael Attenborough's revival at the Almeida theatre recreates the atmosphere of this classi...
PENT UP: A REVENGE DANCE Comes To PS122 On 2/10-22
by BWW News Desk - February 10, 2009 Bessie Award-winner and beloved downtown performer Okwui Okpokwasili spins a modern folktale. A daughter attempts to construct a coherent past out of her mother's cryptic signals and signifiers. Interweaving legacy and the loss of old tongues, rituals and original songs, and a good old attempt to ge...
Dance Theatre Workshop Presents HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA, Begins 12/10
by BWW News Desk - November 20, 2009 Dance Theater Workshop in association with Doug Elkins & Friends, and David Parker and The Bang Group present HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA featuring FRÄULEIN MARIA and NUT/CRACKED. This holiday mini-festival opens with FRÄULEIN MARIA, Doug Elkins' delightful take on Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Mu...
Dance Theatre Workshop Presents HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA, Begins 12/10
by Gabrielle Sierra - November 05, 2009 Dance Theater Workshop in association with Doug Elkins & Friends, and David Parker and The Bang Group present HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA featuring FRÄULEIN MARIA and NUT/CRACKED. This holiday mini-festival opens with FRÄULEIN MARIA, Doug Elkins' delightful take on Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Mu...
Black Rep's BLUES IN THE NIGHT
by Chris Gibson - June 12, 2009 BLUES IN THE NIGHT is a delightful compilation of material that celebrates the many styles associated with the music known as the blues. As conceived by Sheldon Epps, this musical follows three women and a saloon singer as they recall memories from their past in song form. The Black Rep's current pr...
Photo Flash: MARVIN'S ROOM Opens 5/1 At The Catonsville Theatre Company
by Reynard Loki - April 15, 2009 Catonsville Theatre Company, a committee of the Catonsville Chapter of the CCBC Alumni Association, presents the drama/comedy, Marvin?s Room, by Scott McPherson, Fridays, May 1, 8, 15 at 8:00 PM, Saturdays, May 2, 9, 16 at 8:00 PM, and Sunday, May 17 at 3:00 PM. All performances will be held in the ...
Darius de Haas: Keeping Traditions Alive
by Jena Tesse Fox - May 11, 2005 Broadway and Cabaret star Darius de Haas talks about jazz, Vaudeville, and how today's stars were influenced by yesterday's....
Michael Tilson Thomas Brings The Lower East Side To The Berkshires With His Original Music, The Thomashefskys 8/19-20
by Reynard Loki - July 31, 2009 San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas will take the stage at Tanglewood on Wednesday, August 19 and Thursday, August 20, to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a production of his original musical, The Thomashefskys. Inspired by his grandparents, Boris and Bessie, The Th...
Numbers From BILLY ELLIOT & More Performed At MTC's Spring Gala 5/18 In NYC
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 15, 2009 MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its Annual Spring Gala on Monday, May 18, 2009, at Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street. The show will include numbers from this season's most celebrated Broadway shows, including Billy Elliot, Hair, Shrek The Musical, and West Side Story as well as numbers ...
Webber Declines Another UK Reality Show; Says He Will Cast 'Wizard of Oz' In 2010 After Phantom 2
by Faetra Petillo - September 08, 2008 The Guardian is reporting that Andrew Lloyd Weber has turned down an offer to cast another West End production via reality television. Lloyd Weber lent his w, wisdom and voice to the BBC1 talent search competition 'I'd Do Anything', where contestants from all over the UK competed for a chance to sta...
Michael Tilson Thomas Brings The Lower East Side To The Berkshires With His Original Music, The Thomashefskys 8/19-20
by BWW News Desk - August 20, 2009 San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas will take the stage at Tanglewood on Wednesday, August 19 and Thursday, August 20, to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a production of his original musical, The Thomashefskys. Inspired by his grandparents, Boris and Bessie, The Th...
Dance Theatre Workshop Presents HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA, Begins 12/10
by Gabrielle Sierra - November 05, 2009 Dance Theater Workshop in association with Doug Elkins & Friends, and David Parker and The Bang Group present HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA featuring FRÄULEIN MARIA and NUT/CRACKED. This holiday mini-festival opens with FRÄULEIN MARIA, Doug Elkins' delightful take on Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Mu...
Actor and Director Harold Scott Dies at the Age of 70
by BWW News Desk - July 18, 2006 Obie Award-winning actor, director and producer Harold Scott has died at the age of 70...
Photo Flash: NYMF's River's End
by BWW News Desk - September 15, 2006 The New York Musical Theater Festival will present River's End, a new musical with book and lyrics by Cheryl Coons and music by Chuck Larkin, from September 21st through October 1st....
Good and Lost
by Amanda Scarpone - September 26, 2006 River's End Offers a Standout Performance in the New York Musical Theater Festival telling a tale of honeymooners gone missing. ...
Awake And Sing!: Heaven in Three Acts
by Michael Dale - April 25, 2006 Clifford Odets' Depression-era masterpiece has returned to the theatre of its original glory in director Bartlett Sher's captivating and heart-tugging revival...
PS 122 to Present New York Premiere of Verdensteatret's 'Louder' Starting 9/25
by Faetra Petillo - September 11, 2008 Performance Space 122 will present the New York Premiere of Verdensteatret's Louder from September 25th-29th ...
PENT UP: A REVENGE DANCE Comes To PS122 On 2/10-22
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 27, 2009 Bessie Award-winner and beloved downtown performer Okwui Okpokwasili spins a modern folktale. A daughter attempts to construct a coherent past out of her mother's cryptic signals and signifiers. Interweaving legacy and the loss of old tongues, rituals and original songs, and a good old attempt to ge...
Michael Tilson Thomas Brings The Lower East Side To The Berkshires With His Original Music, The Thomashefskys 8/19-20
by BWW News Desk - August 19, 2009 San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas will take the stage at Tanglewood on Wednesday, August 19 and Thursday, August 20, to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a production of his original musical, The Thomashefskys. Inspired by his grandparents, Boris and Bessie, The Th...
PENT UP: A REVENGE DANCE Comes To PS122 On 2/10-22
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 27, 2009 Bessie Award-winner and beloved downtown performer Okwui Okpokwasili spins a modern folktale. A daughter attempts to construct a coherent past out of her mother's cryptic signals and signifiers. Interweaving legacy and the loss of old tongues, rituals and original songs, and a good old attempt to ge...
'THE DEVIL'S MUSIC' Opens at New Brunswick Playhouse 3/3
by Reynard Loki - October 23, 2008 Angelo Parra's The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith will be performed at the New Brunswick Playhouse, running March 3?29. Miche Braden, who portrayed Bessie Smith in the previous productions of the play, will recreate the title role once more....
PENT UP: A REVENGE DANCE Comes To PS122 On 2/10-22
by BWW News Desk - February 10, 2009 Bessie Award-winner and beloved downtown performer Okwui Okpokwasili spins a modern folktale. A daughter attempts to construct a coherent past out of her mother's cryptic signals and signifiers. Interweaving legacy and the loss of old tongues, rituals and original songs, and a good old attempt to ge...
PS 122 to Present New York Premiere of Verdensteatret's 'Louder' Starting 9/25
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2008 Performance Space 122 will present the New York Premiere of Verdensteatret's Louder from September 25th-29th ... |