Sundance Institute: Over Half a Million Dollarsto Groundbreaking Documentary Projects
by Tori Hartshorn - May 18, 2018 More than $585,000 in targeted grants will support a global crop of independent nonfiction storytellers, Sundance Institute announced today. 57% of the supported projects are helmed by women, and 48% are from outside the U.S.; 34% of grantees are first-time feature filmmakers. This cohort is one of ...
London Jamaican Writer Leone Ross Shortlisted for Saboteur Award
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BWW Review: DISASTER! Slays at Cockpit In Court
by Jack L. B. Gohn - June 15, 2019 Disaster! lovingly pokes fun at two staples of 1970s popular culture: disaster movies like Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure and the disco-heavy pop music of the era. Whether to go is not going to present any great dilemmas. This is a perfect summer evening's smart-alecky entertainment....
BWW Review: FRANKENSTEIN, Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre
by Brogen Campbell - March 14, 2018 April De Angelis's adaptation of Frankenstein, directed by Matthew Xia, stays true to its source's literary narrative....
Martin P. Robinson's ALL HALLOW'S EVE Announces Showcase Presentation For Fall 2019
by Julie Musbach - October 26, 2018 Martin P. Robinson Productions and Little Shadow Productions announced today that Robinson's original theatrical event, All Hallows Eve will mount a showcase presentation, with original musical compositions by Paul Rudolph (Emmy Award-winning composer, 'Sesame Street' and 'GLANK'), at the Connelly T...
BWW Review: Gender SWITCH from The Welders at Fringe Logan Arts Space
by Roger Catlin - June 11, 2018 Talk about 'Freaky Friday.' Brett Abelman's new play 'Switch,' at Fringe Logan Arts Space, is more like 'Freaky Pride Weekend.' A straight D.C. couple matched up by their mutual genderqueer friend find themselves in the afterglow of intimacy having switched bodies and hence gender. The bala...
BWW Review: Paul Taylor American Modern Dance's All American Gala
by Juan Michael Porter II - October 31, 2019 Under Michael Novak's artistic direction Paul Taylor American Modern Dance's dancers look smashing and ready to begin a new era while continuing to honour their forefather who passed away just over a year ago....
Universal Studios Hollywood Sends Guests on a Tour of the Underworld In All Original Halloween Horror Nights Maze
by Tori Hartshorn - April 15, 2019 From New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day, from Easter to the Fourth of July and from Thanksgiving to Christmas, Universal Studios Hollywood adds a demented twist to life's biggest moments in the all-original Halloween Horror Nights maze, “Holidayz in Hell.”...
VIDEO: Watch THE ILLUSIONISTS Star Chris Cox Read Minds on TODAY SHOW
by Sarah Leiber - December 26, 2019 A holiday-themed edition of a?oeThe Illusionists,a?? a cavalcade of magic and stunts, is running on Broadway for a limited time. Chris Cox, who calls himself a mind-reader who doesn't read minds, share a preview of the show live on TODAY a?" and amazes Craig Melvin!...
HOME & Unlimited Theatre Present The World Premiere of Future Bodies
by Stephi Wild - September 05, 2018 What does it mean to have and to be a body? As we increasingly fuse our biological brains with technology, at what point do we stop being human? Does it even matter?...
The Art Mob Presents Annual Fall Concert Series
by Julie Musbach - November 20, 2018 Longtime a cappella vocal group The Art Mob presents their Fall Concert series with a highly relevant program of old-time tunes-everything from Tin Pan Alley, jazz, and radio gospel to Appalachian folk tunes and shape-note hymns. If it's obscure or forgotten, the Art Mob will find it and sing it....
SAG-AFTRA Backs Legislation To End Nonconsensual Digital Sex Scenes And Nudity
by A.A. Cristi - March 28, 2019 SAG-AFTRA today announces its support for California Senate Bill 564, which bans the creation and dissemination of nonconsensual, digitally created sex scenes and nude performances....
TNT to Air SUPERNATURAL Marathon on Halloween
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 02, 2018 This Halloween, TNT is bringing fans spooks, chills and thrills with an all-day Supernatural marathon, starting at 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., spanning four seasons of the most terrifying episodes from the fan-favorite series. From hauntings to ghosts, zombies and even Bloody Mary, TNT is your destinati...
American Dance Festival Celebrates 85 Years With 10 World Premieres
by A.A. Cristi - March 05, 2018 The American Dance Festival (ADF) today announced the schedule for its 85th season, running June 14-July 21, 2018. The summer includes 53 performances by 26 companies and choreographers in 7 different venues....
HIR Begins Performances At Stage West, 5/17
by A.A. Cristi - May 04, 2018 Picture if you will, the classic American family. A son in the military, a tomboyish daughter, a typical housewife mom, a Joe-the-Plumber father. But in Taylor Mac's subversive and outrageous comedy, HIR, this archetypal group gets completely turned inside-out in a 5-week regional premiere run at S...
BWW Interview: New York Times Best-Selling Author Robert Beatty's new book WILLA OF THE WOOD is out today!
by Bonnie Lynn Wagner - July 10, 2018 WILLA OF THE WOOD is amazing. Stunning. Beautiful. It is one of the best books I've read in 2018. I wasn't expecting it. I am so, so enamored....
Phoenix Artists Featured At Sedona's Acclaimed Goldenstein Gallery
by Julie Musbach - November 01, 2018 Phoenix artists LauRha Frankfort and Betty Hum will be featured in Sedona's iconic Goldenstein Gallery's November exhibition The 15th Annual Women's Show. This dynamic show features the work of the Gallery's female artists focusing on the feminine perspective of the visual arts, which historically h...
BWW Review: Paul Taylor American Modern Dance's All American Gala
by Juan Michael Porter II - October 31, 2019 Under Michael Novak's artistic direction Paul Taylor American Modern Dance's dancers look smashing and ready to begin a new era while continuing to honour their forefather who passed away just over a year ago....
HIR Begins Performances At Stage West, 5/17
by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2018 Picture if you will, the classic American family. A son in the military, a tomboyish daughter, a typical housewife mom, a Joe-the-Plumber father. But in Taylor Mac's subversive and outrageous comedy, HIR, this archetypal group gets completely turned inside-out in a 5-week regional premiere run at S...
Storytelling Arts of Indiana Presents DELIGHTFULLY PERVERSE STORIES With Jennifer Munro
by A.A. Cristi - November 19, 2019 Storytelling Arts of Indiana presents national author, recording artist and award-winning storyteller Jennifer Munro telling a?oeAunt Lily: and other delightfully perverse storiesa?? on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. Munro's wicked sense of humor perme...
BWW Review: FRANKENSTEIN, Southwark Playhouse
by Cindy Marcolina - October 31, 2019 The National Youth Theatre revamp Mary Shelley's masterpiece and update it for a modern audience in what should be a cutting-edge production at Southwark Playhouse. Carl Miller's rewriting of the first ever science fiction novel looks more like a translation for the 21st century rather than a faithf...
BWW Review: The Late Michael Friedman's GONE MISSING Evokes an Emotional Response From Encores! Off-Center Audience
by Michael Dale - July 16, 2018 The person seated in the back of the orchestra section on opening night of the Encores! Off-Center concert mounting of GONE MISSING, who was loudly sobbing during the closing song, was by no means causing a disturbance. In fact, the choked-up moans of heartbreak being emitted throughout New York Cit...
JAWS: LIVE Sails Onto Stage with the All Puppet Players
by Julie Musbach - September 10, 2018 Amity Island and all of its residents head to the All Puppet Players stage to wreak havoc on Steven Spielberg's 1975 masterpiece!...
BWW Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago comes to New York City
by Rose Marija - March 08, 2019 The opening night of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's two-week Return Engagement at the Joyce Theater, NYC was Wednesday 3619; and I was happy to attend. The first-week features works by Ohad Naharin (Director of Batsheva Dance Company, Israel) with DecaDanceChicago which included segments of Naharin'... |