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...
Abanar Dance Company Presents SALT WATER
by Julie Musbach - October 12, 2017 Abanar Dance Company presents the World Premiere of Salt Water on Monday, November 6, 2017 at 8pm at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC....
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...
TV Exclusive: Watch Scene from RSC's TITUS ANDRONICUS- In Cinemas Tomorrow!
by Nicole Rosky - September 22, 2017 The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Titus Andronicus is coming to a cinema near you on Saturday, September 23. Click here for a full list of showtimes!...
EDINBURGH 2017: BWW Review: TUTU: DANCE IN ALL ITS GLORY, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 27, 2017 The show is performed by six dancers: The TUTU men, polymorphous artists who struggle with many different interpretations, faces and styles. They want to entirely feel the freedom and universality of dance. With them, laughter becomes poetic, theatre emerges on stage and things come to life. Success...
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...
Famous NYC Tattoo Artists to Cover 9/11 Survivors' Scars
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2017 A select group of eleven of New York's most famous tattoo artists are covering the scars of 9/11 victims and First Responders with beautiful artwork, bringing attention to the lingering suffering from that day and making a statement about our modern views of terrorism....
BWW Blog: Why Ballet Essential Ballet Training for a Musical Theatre Student
by Student Blogger: Jenna Napolitano - February 14, 2018 It is a widely known fact that ballet is the hardest style of dance to train in, and requires the use of muscles that the average person would not even know existed. The isolation of different body parts to properly execute ballet combinations is extremely difficult to mentally understand, let alone...
BWW Review: HIR at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
by Rachel Weinberg - July 10, 2017 Taylor Mac's HIR, now in its Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf under the direction of Hallie Gordon, proves itself to be a complete whirlwind from the beginning. Collette Pollard's strikingly realistic living room/kitchen set is in a tornado-like state when the curtain comes up at the top of the play,...
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!...
Performance Artist Tori Wranes Protests CDC Language Restrictions In Live Performances This Month
by A.A. Cristi - January 17, 2018 Norwegian composer-performance artist Tori Wr nes leads The Future Is Open in Washington Square Park tomorrow, January 18, and Friday, January 19, at 5:30pm, as part of the women-led Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival (featured today by the Associated Press)....
Joshua Leonard To Star in Steven Soderbergh's UNSANE
by Tori Hartshorn - February 07, 2018 Joshua Leonard To Star in Steven Soderbergh's UNSANE...
Emily Mae Smith's 'The Sphinx or The Caress' Opens Tomorrow
by Julie Musbach - September 09, 2017 Simone Subal Gallery is very excited to announce the opening of Emily Mae Smith's The Sphinx or The Caress on Sunday, September 10, 2017. This is Smith's first solo show at the gallery. The exhibition runs until October 29, 2017. Please join us for an opening reception on September 10 from 6 – 8 ...
BWW Review: Liza Minnelli and Michael Feinstein Perform Together at OC's Segerstrom Center
by Michael Quintos - July 06, 2018 A beloved entertainment icon borne from showbiz royalty, it was certainly no surprise that living legend Liza Minnelli-a past recipient of four Tony Awards, an Oscar, a special Grammy, two Golden Globe Awards, and an Emmy Award-was greeted with thunderous cheers and ovations during her recent return...
Visiting Public School Teacher Cries Over State of Students Who Couldn't Speak Any English Though in Class for Many Months
by Robert Diamond - September 04, 2018 ...
Berlin-Based Psychedelic Pop Craftswoman and Experimental Vocalist Mary Ocher Announces North American Tour
by Macon Prickett - February 15, 2018 The Klangbad collective is very pleased to announce that Mary Ocher will be performing across the U.S. and Canada this year. Touring in support of her new release The West Against The People (Klangbad) and its follow up 10' Faust Studio Sessions and Other Recordings(Klangbad/Sing A Song Fighter - a ...
Review Roundup: Mark Morris Dance Group's THE TROUT
by Alan Henry - August 14, 2018 What did the critics have to say about Mark Morris Dance Group's THE TROUT?...
BWW Review: Riotous GROUNDLINGS OF THE CORN - Well-Oiled For a Dee-lish Weekend Laugh Attack
by Gil Kaan - October 07, 2017 The Groundlings never cease to rock your funny bones. Their current laugh-packed Friday & Saturday night show GROUNDLINGS OF THE CORN keeps the hilarity charging right at you. Groundlings' ever stalwart director Deanna Oliver's takes tight, confident directorial reins over her comically gifted ensem...
Abanar Dance Company Presents the World Premiere of Dance Film SALT WATER
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2017 Abanar Dance Company presents the World Premiere of Salt Water on Monday, November 6, 2017 at 8pm at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC....
Smithsonian Earth's STRANGE CREATURES Explores Oddest Entities Around the World
by Caryn Robbins - October 02, 2017 Just in time for the Halloween season, uncover some of the weirdest, wildest and most peculiar organisms known to man with Smithsonian Earth's STRANGE CREATURES....
BWW Review: FROM SHOCK TO AWE - Healing the Spiritual Injuries of War
by Herbert Paine - May 24, 2018 FROM SHOCK TO AWE, directed by Luc Cote, is a searing and gut-wrenching documentary that begs for as broad an audience as possible ~ because we need to understand far better and address with a greater sense of urgency the compounding of tragedies inflicted on the men and women who have served our na...
EDINBURGH 2017: BWW Review: TUTU: DANCE IN ALL ITS GLORY, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 27, 2017 The show is performed by six dancers: The TUTU men, polymorphous artists who struggle with many different interpretations, faces and styles. They want to entirely feel the freedom and universality of dance. With them, laughter becomes poetic, theatre emerges on stage and things come to life. Success...
THE TORSO By Paige Esterly Comes to TNC's Dream Up Fest, 9/6-16
by BWW News Desk - September 06, 2018 In 'The Torso' by Paige Esterly, directed by Laura Holland, an unemployed young woman begins finding mannequin body parts around her apartment. The parts symbolize her malaise as she awkwardly transitions into adulthood. Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival will present the play's world prem...
Adelaide Repertory Theatre Presents FRANKENSTEIN
by Stephi Wild - March 09, 2018 2018 marks the 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein's publication. Mary Shelley was just 18 years old when she started writing it, and all of 20 by the time the first edition came out. Never out of print since, this enthralling tale of a mad scientist, who creates a grotesque but intelligent creature f... |