Yusuf Cat Stevens Launches New Album Ahead of SA Tour
by Caryn Robbins - October 02, 2017 Just five weeks ahead of his first ever concert tour to South Africa, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, one of the most influential singer-songwriters of all time, is releasing his highly anticipated new album, The Laughing Apple...
Country Hitmaker Billy Dean Set for Induction into Florida Artists Hall of Fame
by BWW News Desk - February 23, 2017 Country music hitmaker Billy Dean will be inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame on Today, February 23. Dean, a Florida native, will enter this year's class along with former Eagles member Don Felder, comedy songwriter and performer Jim Stafford, and poet-anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins....
All-Female Cast Set for U.S. English Language Debut of VILLA, Beginning Tonight at PlayCo
by BWW News Desk - March 01, 2017 Led by Founding Producer Kate Loewald, The Play Company (PlayCo) has announced the casting and creative team for the U.S. English language premiere of Guillermo Calderon's Villa (tonight, March 1, through April 1), which is set to open on March 12....
UNITED FLIGHT 232, ELLEN BOND, UNION SPY and More Set for The House Theatre's 16th Season
by BWW News Desk - April 05, 2017 The House Theatre of Chicago announces its 16th season of creating 'Amazing Feats of Storytelling' held at The Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St....
Mark 'Porkchop' Holder's New LP 'Death And The Blues' Out 11/3
by Caryn Robbins - October 23, 2017 Mark Porkchop Holder originally turned the blues on its head more than a decade ago as a founding member of punk/blues band Black Diamond Heavies...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet to Bring Innovative Style to NOCCA This Fall
by BWW News Desk - October 30, 2017 The New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA) and The NOCCA Institute present Aspen Santa Fe Ballet for three performances at NOCCA's Freda Lupin Memorial Hall on Friday, November 10 at 8PM and Saturday, November 11 at 2PM and 8PM....
BWW Review: AZ Opera's RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE Is Epic
by Herbert Paine - March 06, 2017 How momentous it is that an opera as monumental and well-crafted as Craig Bohmler's RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE can now lay claim to a rightful place in the canon of works about the American West. In its World Premiere, as part of Arizona Opera's Arizona Bold Initiative, RIDERS is literally and figura...
Works by Torben Betts, Scott Organ and Lee Blessing Headline The Barrow Group's 2017-18 Season
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2017 The Barrow Group Theatre Company, recipient of the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards, has announced its lineup for the 2017-2018 season with the New York premiere of Muswell Hill, a play by Torben Betts, followed by the world premiere of The Thing With Feathers, a new play by Scott Organ, the rev...
Chicago Opera Theater Presents Philip Glass's THE PERFECT AMERICAN, 4/22, 4/30
by Molly Tracy - March 03, 2017 Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents 'The Perfect American,' a Chicago premiere opera by American composer Philip Glass. Based on American novelist Peter Stephan Jungk's 2001 novel, 'Der Konig von Amerika,' Glass' opera imagines the last three months of Walt Disney's life....
Bruce Willis Producing New Billy the Kid Play MUST Off-Broadway
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2017 Bruce Willis (Moonlighting, Die Hard, Misery on Broadway) and The Burgess Group have announced the limited engagement Off-Broadway run of MUST, a compelling new play about Billy the Kid and Pat Garret written by Charles Cissel and directed by Gabriel Vega Weissman, October 30th - November 19th at Th...
Country Hitmaker Billy Dean Set for Induction into Florida Artists Hall of Fame
by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2017 Country music hitmaker Billy Dean will be inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame on Thursday, February 23. Dean, a Florida native, will enter this year's class along with former Eagles member Don Felder, comedy songwriter and performer Jim Stafford, and poet-anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins....
Grammy Winner Kris Kristofferson to Make Segerstrom Center Debut This Fall
by BWW News Desk - November 05, 2016 Country music legend, a Highwayman, screen star and Academy Award-nominated songwriter, Kris Kristofferson makes his Segerstrom Center for the Arts debut today, November 5, 2016 in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall....
Pushing the Envelope: A Decade of Documentary at the Cinema Eye Honors
by Caryn Robbins - October 26, 2016 Museum of the Moving Image will present Pushing the Envelope: A Decade of Documentary at the Cinema Eye Honors, from November 4 through December 23, 2016....
Quantum Theatre and En Garde Arts to Present World Premiere of RED HILLS
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2017 Quantum Theatre and En Garde Arts are presenting the World Premiere of Red Hills by Sean Christopher Lewis in Pittsburgh's Strip District from August 18th - September 10th....
San Francisco Symphony to Celebrate Steve Reich's 80th Birthday with Week of Concerts
by BWW News Desk - September 07, 2016 The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) celebrate the 80th birthday of Steve Reich with a diverse week of concerts highlighting the seminal composer's works September 7-11, 2016 at Davies Symphony Hall....
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Presents the Los Angeles Premiere of 946: THE AMAZING STORY OF ADOLPHUS TIPS
by A.A. Cristi - January 19, 2017 The brilliant theatricality of Kneehigh, the innovative United Kingdom-based theater company, will be on display at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts once again when 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips has its Los Angeles premiere. Based on the beloved book by War Horse author...
Emma Rice and Michael Morpurgo's '946' to Make American Premiere at Berkeley Rep
by BWW News Desk - December 07, 2016 Berkeley Rep today announced the American premiere of 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips adapted by Michael Morpurgo (War Horse) and Emma Rice, with Rice also directing....
Two Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Students Selected for NYO2
by Molly Tracy - April 26, 2017 Two Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization musicians have been selected for the three-week summer program known as NYO2, an extension of Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra (NYO) of the USA....
What's Streaming on Prime Video in March
by Tori Hartshorn - February 23, 2018 What's Streaming on Prime Video in March...
Mark 'Porkchop' Holder Premieres New Single; Sophomore Album Releases 11/3
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2017 Mark Porkchop Holder originally turned the blues on its head more than a decade ago as a founding member of punk/blues band Black Diamond Heavies....
Utah Symphony Announces 2018-19 Season
by Julie Musbach - February 08, 2018 Music Director Thierry Fischer and President & CEO Paul Meecham today announced the Utah Symphony's 2018-19 season, with highlights including the live recording of a Berlioz album for Hyperion Records, semi-staged performances of Bernstein's "Candide" in celebration of the composer's centennial, and...
Curve Adapting Roald Dahl's GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE for the Stage
by BWW News Desk - March 20, 2017 Following the success of Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits and The Witches, Curve is delighted to announce a new Made At Curve co-production of Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine for Christmas 2017. ...
Matt Bogart, Christiane Noll, and More Lead Cast of SNOW CHILD
by Julie Musbach - March 07, 2018 Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the full cast and creative team for the world-premiere musical Snow Child, based on Eowyn Ivey's Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel. Infused with a score that combines Alaskan string band-traditions with contemporary musical theater, Snow Chi... |