Deleted Dialogue from Joe Orton's LOOT to Be Reinstated for 50th Anniversary Production
by BWW News Desk - August 07, 2017 Dialogue Joe Orton wrote 50 years ago for his darkly comic masterpiece Loot is to be heard for the very first time on stage in the UK....
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
by Robert Diamond - May 04, 2018 ...
Yoga and Ayurveda Teacher Training Course in Kerala in January
by BWW News Desk - July 20, 2017 This beginning of the New Year, there would be much more to see in Yoga as Akshi Yogashala is coming up with its Yoga and Ayurvedic Teacher Training Program in January 2018....
Heroic Spirit of White Helmets Featured in PBS Documentary LAST MEN IN ALEPPO
by Caryn Robbins - July 06, 2017 The White Helmets are the subject of Last Men in Aleppo, the searing documentary directed by Feras Fayyad that won the World Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The film has its national broadcast premiere on July 10 at 10 p.m. (check local listings) on the PBS documenta...
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....
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: WIND BIT BITTER, BIT BIT BIT HER, Vault Festival
by Charlie Wilks - January 25, 2018 Mary stands alone on stage and tells a story of loss, betrayal and conspiracy. With her ex-wife she had a child, and then lost it, causing a state of harrowing posttraumatic stress disorder to ensnare her. But when random body parts start appearing on the beach, she considers that perhaps Miriam isn...
Ruth Childs to Perform Works by Lucinda Childs at The Yard
by BWW News Desk - June 29, 2017 Ruth Childs will perform three solos by Lucinda Childs (Pastime, 1963; Carnation, 1964; Museum Piece, 1965) today, June 29 at 8p.m. and Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at The Yard's Patricia Nanon Theater, 1 The Yard, Middle Road, Chilmark, MA 02535....
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?...
Oxygen to Present Special 4-Night Event THE JURY SPEAKS, Beg. 7/22
by Caryn Robbins - June 20, 2017 Oxygen Media, the new network for crime fans, launches a special four-night television event about the verdicts that stunned the nation with THE JURY SPEAKS beginning Saturday, July 22 at 9 PM ET/PT....
Ruth Childs to Perform Works by Lucinda Childs at The Yard
by BWW News Desk - June 29, 2017 Ruth Childs will perform three solos by Lucinda Childs (Pastime, 1963; Carnation, 1964; Museum Piece, 1965) today, June 29 at 8p.m. and Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at The Yard's Patricia Nanon Theater, 1 The Yard, Middle Road, Chilmark, MA 02535....
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...
Ruth Childs to Perform Works by Lucinda Childs at The Yard
by BWW News Desk - June 14, 2017 Ruth Childs will perform three solos by Lucinda Childs (Pastime, 1963; Carnation, 1964; Museum Piece, 1965) on Thursday, June 29 at 8p.m. and Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at The Yard's Patricia Nanon Theater, 1 The Yard, Middle Road, Chilmark, MA 02535....
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....
John Gorka Premieres New Studio Album, TRUE IN TIME on NPR's Folk Alley
by A.A. Cristi - January 17, 2018 Iconic singer-songwriter John Gorka's new studio album, TRUE IN TIME, is premiering now at NPR's Folk Alley. They cite the album's 'deep and meaningful songs' and write that 'Gorka's soulful voice, songwriting, and guitar work are what we're here for, and they are given center stage.' TRUE IN...
Oxygen to Present Special 4-Night Event THE JURY SPEAKS, Beg. Today
by BWW News Desk - July 22, 2017 Oxygen Media, the new network for crime fans, launches a special four-night television event about the verdicts that stunned the nation with THE JURY SPEAKS beginning Today, July 22 at 9 PM ET/PT....
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...
Bric Presents REENACTMENT
by Julie Musbach - January 17, 2018 BRIC presents Reenactment, a group exhibition examining and agitating the aesthetics and politics of historical reenactment in contemporary art (January 18-February 25). In traditional reenactments, events like the American Revolution and Civil War are embodied by amateur performers using storytelli...
CRACKS OF LIGHT: Performances Created On the Journey from Struggle to Survival
by A.A. Cristi - October 04, 2017 Cracks of Light, part of Gibney Dance's observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, bears witness to survivors of intimate partner and gender-based violence in a series of performance works created during the journey from struggle to survival. Bringing forward stories once held in silence, the ...
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!... |