BWW Review: THE ICE CREAM BOYS, Jermyn Street Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - October 12, 2019 Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa, checks into a hospital only to find out that an old enemy, Ronnie Kasrils, who used to be in charge of the intelligence services, is staying in the opposite room. Gail Louw writes The Ice Cream Boys, detailing this chance meeting between the two. Directe...
BWW Review: Michael Friedman/Daniel Goldstein's Captivating UNKNOWN SOLDIER Explores The Unreliability Of Memory And The Romance Of Imagination
by Michael Dale - March 10, 2020 For BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, Michael Friedman whipped up an emo rock score that comically skewered white male privilege. For LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST his music and lyrics embraced the open-hearted awkwardness of lovers testing the waters of adulthood, and in THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, they nostalgic...
Student Blog: No Rest for the Drowsy
by Student Blogger: Madalyn Macko - March 11, 2021 It is entertaining to reflect on the madness of a tech week, and rewarding to be reminded of the success brought by hard work. I will never be able to articulate fully just how grateful I am to be able to keep studying and performing in productions right now. The Drowsy Chaperone has been just a bea...
BWW Review: MY FAIR LADY, London Coliseum
by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 19, 2022 Expectations have been high for My Fair Lady. It is easy to see why it was such a hit on Broadway; brimming with English period tropes of top hats, Ascot races, lovable cockneys and snobbish toffs. Bartlett Sher's revival now comes to the West End. It looks stunning, but does not always hit the high...
Mandy Patinkin Returns to Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center for DIARIES Concert January 29
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 28, 2020 Whether he is best known to audiences from his work in film (Ragtime, Yentl, The Princess Bride), on television (Chicago Hope, Criminal Minds, Homeland) or on Broadway (Evita, Sunday in the Park With George, The Secret Garden, The Wild Party), Mandy Patinkin has embodied countless unforgettable char...
Album Review: How many Revivals of CABARET Do We Need? One More, Apparently …
by Bobby Patrick - January 23, 2023 This album was INDEED recorded in performance! This is a RADICAL departure from almost all cast albums and lent such an air of excitement and immediacy to the listening of it that we found ourselves leaning forward toward the speakers in anticipation....
THE SAD SONG Co. Announces New Album 'Saudade'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 26, 2020 Nigel Powell AKA The Sad Song Company has announced a new solo album: ‘Saudade’ for release on 22 January 2021. ...
Review: HOLIDAY at Arena Stage
by Alexander C. Kafka - October 14, 2022 Philip Barry's 1928 classic is a romantic comedy, as advertised, but its layers of bittersweet emotional valence come through in this handsome production, directed by Anita Maynard-Losh....
Los Angeles' Calling Cadence Release Their All Analog Self-Titled Debut Album
by Michael Major - May 03, 2022 The 15 songs shine a light on Calling Cadence's strength as a live act, blending Oscar and Rae's voices with vintage keyboards. Musicians on the album include: Josh Adams on drums (Jon Batiste, Norah Jones, Beck), Mitchell Yoshida on keyboards (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros), and Elijah Thomson...
Damon Daunno, Amber Gray, Grace McLean and Margo Seibert Join LOVE THE STRUGGLE Joe's Pub Concert
by A.A. Cristi - November 23, 2022 Rehearsals began last week for a concert on Monday, December 5 at Joe's Pub being presented in collaboration with Maestra Music featuring song highlights from Love The Struggle, a new musical co-written by Stacy Krayand Yair Evnine about the French existential philosophers and social activists Simon...
Greek National Opera Presents CHEAP CIGARETTES, Now Playing
by Stephi Wild - December 07, 2022 After a series of sold-out performances, the great success of the Alternative Stage of the National Opera Theater Cheap Cigarettes , a 'romantic operetta' in 34 scenes and 19 songs, comes to captivate the audience from December 4, 2022 and for 24 new performances until and January 5, 2023....
Chisa Hutchinson, Michael Urie, and a Special Valentine's Day Celebration Up Next for KEEN AFTER HOURS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 14, 2021 Today Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced additional guests for the highly popular FREE event, Keen After Hours. Coming up next: Chisa Hutchinson (January 25th), followed by Michael Urie (February 1st), among others, in coming weeks....
Review: MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT at Arizona Broadway Theatre
by Herbert Paine - October 09, 2022 The joyful frolics of MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT are on stage in full armor at Arizona Broadway Theatre through November 5th....
Review Roundup: Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL Returns To Broadway - What Did The Critics Think?
by A.A. Cristi - September 05, 2019 Jamie Lloyd's smash-hit production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal will open officially tonight, September 5, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre....
BWW Review: Dance Fail at Fall For Dance
by Juan Michael Porter II - October 03, 2019 The continued proliferation of rhythmless music plunges Fall For Dance 2019's Program 1 into a miasma of middling potpourri. From Kyle Abraham rendering Misty Copeland into a sterile robot to Crystal Pite's droning narration, this was an evening sorely in need of inventive rhythm and grooves. Thank ...
BWW Interview: Hannah Jane of TAKE ME BACK TO BROADWAY
by Stephen Mosher - March 19, 2021 Up and comer Hannah Jane hasn't been waiting around for the audiences and she to be reunited... that's what the internet is for! So the Broadway devotee will be presenting her concert about her love of musical theater on Facebook Live on March 24th at 7 pm....
BWW Review: NEW DANCE PARTNERS at Carlsen Center
by Kelly Luck - September 28, 2019 Four works comissioned by JCCC's Carlsen Center present very different ideas of dance....
BWW Interview: Julie-Anne McDowell Hegarty & Daniel Galloway Talk Brand New Production Company
by Lindsay Kruger - November 06, 2020 Combining the best of both theatrical worlds, actress, writer and publicist Julie-Anne McDowell Hegarty joins forces with former Managing Director of The Fugard Theatre Daniel Galloway to launch new theatre production company How Now Brown Cow. The co-founders chat to BroadwayWorld South Africa abou...
BWW Review: SOUTH PACIFIC at Fred Kavli Theatre
by Cary Ginell - March 25, 2022 American Theatre Guild's current national tour of the venerable Pulitzer-Prize winning 'South Pacific' cleans up some potentially objectionable language and characterizations to retain its essential love story and message of racial tolerance....
Review: IKARIA, Old Red Lion Theatre
by Gary Naylor - November 11, 2022 Devastating production showcases outstanding writing, directing and acting to create a production that will live long in the memory...
BWW Review: THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY, Jermyn Street Theatre
by Paige Cochrane - January 19, 2022 In Chicago, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb each receive life, plus 99 years, for the despicable murder and kidnapping of 14-year-old Bobby Franks....
Review: HANDBAGGED, Kiln Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - September 16, 2022 Indhu Rubasingham's revival of Buffini’s play is playful and fiercely funny, whilst deftly tackling serious issues. It explores the battle of wills between two powerful women: The Queen and Margaret Thatcher, through the eleven years Thatcher served as Prime Minister....
Rec Room Arts Announces The Writers Group Sound Scripts Project
by A.A. Cristi - August 20, 2020 Rec Room Arts announced today the Sound Scripts Project, a 9-part series of audio-plays written by the inaugural class of the Rec Room Writers Group. In an innovative approach to embracing the challenges presented to live theatre, Rec Room continues to provide work for artists while nurturing new pl...
VIDEO: Ashley Tisdale Dances to 5 Seconds of Summer's 'She Looks So Perfect' While Pregnant
by Stephi Wild - November 19, 2020 Ashley Tisdale took to Instagram to show off her moves, dancing to a viral TikTok song while pregnant!...
Review: DOUBT, A PARABLE at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - September 25, 2022 Storytelling for the sake of enlightenment and teaching is what many think of when they hear of parables. Allegories intimate there is something deeper to be found under the surface. And many a Sunday preacher has used the pulpit to convey an everyday lesson to live by. John Patrick Shanley’s DOUBT... |