FIREPOWER Records To Release THE FRIM’s ‘Bassline Skanka’ EP November 20
by Tyler Peterson - November 16, 2012 20 year-old DJ/producer THE FRIM has been extremely busy both on the road and in the studio lately. Currently deep in the midst of the colossal Firepower Tour across the U.S. with Datsik, he is set to release Bassline Skanka, his debut EP on the label of the same name, on November 20. ...
Irrational Streak
by Daniel Collins - November 28, 2010 Absurdly, sublimely ridiculous playwright Charles Ludlam's salute to acting, the relationship between fathers and sons--especially when the father and son are both actors with an affinity for 'Hamlet'--is the stuff and nonsense of 'Stage Blood' now at the Spotlighters Theater in downtown Baltimore...
SOUND OFF: THE X FACTOR 2.0, Now With Britney & GLEE's New NYC State Of Mind
by Pat Cerasaro - September 15, 2012 This week saw the premieres of not one, but two of the biggest entertainment extravaganzas currently on show in the vast TV landscape, both on Fox - the season two debut of the reinvented reboot of the reality singing competition show THE X FACTOR (with Britney Spears and Demi Lovato as new judges)...
Photo Flash: Bay Street Theater Presents ROMANCE
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 25, 2010 Bay Street Theatre announces that last week to see David Mamet's play, ROMANCE, running now - September 5....
Randy Gener Represents USA in the German and American Media Dialogue
by Gabrielle Sierra - November 03, 2011 Randy Gener, the Nathan Award-winning editor, writer, critic and artist, will represent the U.S. media in Washington, D.C.'s first-ever 'German and American Media Dialogue: Symposium on Contemporary Theater in Germany and the U.S.,' organized by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany....
BWW Reviews: Houston Ballet's LA BAYADERE - Underwhelming but Worth Seeing
by David Clarke - February 26, 2013 There is no denying that the artistry of ballet revolves around creating mesmerizing visuals, whether it is lush lovely picturesque scenes or exhilarating 'stunt' work that appears to defy all the natural laws of gravity, human flexibility, and motion. In these regards, Houston Ballet's production o...
Pam Ann's YOU F'COFFEE' Appears at the Castro Theater, 10/8
by Caryn Robbins - September 30, 2011 Pam Ann aka Australian comedienne Caroline Reid, is the fashion-flying, hard-drinking, A-list hostess to the stars touching down at the Castro Theater 429 Castro St. 94114 for a SF port call to take you for a high-attitude ride in the glamorous skies on Sat. October 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm. Doors open at...
Review - Middletown: Our Postmodern Town
by Ben Peltz - November 10, 2010 Our Postmodern Town might be a more descriptive title for Will Eno's Middletown, a play that coats the Thornton Wilder standard of normal American life as it pertains to the cycle of life and death with a whitewash of Samuel Beckett absurdity. And if even half of the play's two hours contained the ...
Rooftops: The Plot Chickens
by Duncan Pflaster - March 13, 2009 Wreckio Ensemble presents 'Rooftops', a fascinating new play by Karly Maurer, set in a dystopic future where debtors are forced into sexual slavery....
Rooftops: The Plot Chickens
by Duncan Pflaster - March 13, 2009 Wreckio Ensemble presents 'Rooftops', a fascinating new play by Karly Maurer, set in a dystopic future where debtors are forced into sexual slavery....
Alan Ayckbourn's 'Table Manners' at Gloucester Stage
by Nancy Grossman - June 24, 2010 Emily Post would be horrified at the goings-on at this dining table, but you'll find it hilarious and ask for a second helping...
BWW Reviews: Fresh Ink Theatre Debuts with PRISCILLA DREAMS THE ANSWER
by Nancy Grossman - December 13, 2011 Fringe theatre company debuts with new, award-winning play by Walt McGough at Factory Theatre. While she struggles to overcome a trauma in her life, two aliens approach Priscilla to save their world. She looks for answers from a game show savant and learns that some things are unknowable, but that w...
'The Exceptionals' World Premiere at Merrimack Rep
by Nancy Grossman - February 16, 2011 Bob Clyman's smart, funny new play raises difficult issues in the debate about raising exceptional children. Should parents or scientists determine the course of a child's education? And what is society's interest in the outcome? In between the laughs,it will make you think....
Review - Knickerbocker: And None Of That Jazz
by Ben Peltz - May 20, 2011 Those who miss the patter of little urbanites that made Thursday night sitcoms so popular in the 1990s should welcome the arrival of Jonathan Marc Sherman's angsty new comedy, Knickerbocker; a play generously populated by an assortment of smart, funny and hip New Yorkers whose charm lies in their ab...
First Annual Playwrighting Fest Held 4/1, 2 Benefits YMCA
by BWW News Desk - April 01, 2009 The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the West Side YMCA will host its First Annual Playwrighting Festival on April 1 and 2 at 8pm. Playwrights from throughout the tri-state region submitted their work for consideration. Nine 10-15 minute plays were selected and will be presented on stage, with pr...
First Annual Playwrighting Fest Held 4/1, 2 Benefits YMCA
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 19, 2009 The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the West Side YMCA will host its First Annual Playwrighting Festival on April 1 and 2 at 8pm. Playwrights from throughout the tri-state region submitted their work for consideration. Nine 10-15 minute plays were selected and will be presented on stage, with pr...
Review: 'Altar Boyz' at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
by Mark Andrew Lawrence - October 08, 2009 Altar Boyz has been extended one more week at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Show now closes October 18. (Ruthless will open there the following week.) ...
SOUND OFF: THE X FACTOR 2.0, Now With Britney & GLEE's New NYC State Of Mind
by Pat Cerasaro - September 15, 2012 This week saw the premieres of not one, but two of the biggest entertainment extravaganzas currently on show in the vast TV landscape, both on Fox - the season two debut of the reinvented reboot of the reality singing competition show THE X FACTOR (with Britney Spears and Demi Lovato as new judges)...
THE '80s Returns On BBC America With ASHES TO ASHES, New Season Begins 5/11
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2010 BBC AMERICA's Ashes to Ashes, the critically acclaimed sequel to UK hit Life on Mars, continues by fast forwarding a year to 1982, where leg warmers are cool and fluorescent is the color of choice. While Thatcher is in her element at No. 10 Downing St, bullish Detective Chief Inspector Gene Hunt (Ph...
Review: 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'
by Mark Andrew Lawrence - January 24, 2011 A thoroughly enjoyable production of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS from Hart House Theatre. Show has a clever book and a delightful score, and the cast makes the most of both. * * * * 1/2 (out of 5)...
Review: The Gamm's Radio Free Emerson
by Randy Rice - May 23, 2007 It seems that The Gamm got their money's worth when they made their first-ever commission of a play...
Stage Left Theatre Announces Contest for Worst 10-Minute Play
by Caryn Robbins - April 24, 2012 Stage Left Theatre announces ?DrekFest 2012 Stage Left's Annual National Contest for the Worst Ten-Minute Play ABOUT THE CONTEST: DrekFest 2012 is Stage Left's annual, national search for America's worst ten-minute play. Now in its sixth year, DrekFest is on a mission to expose bad writing for what ...
Mamet Fest to Open with OLEANNA and SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO at Fifth Third Bank Theater, 3/22-4/6
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2013 Mamet Fest, a play festival celebrating the work of iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, opens this week, featuring OLEANNA and SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO in repertory at the Fifth Third Bank Theater, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, on Friday and Saturday, March 22nd through Apri...
Plagiarists Tell CBS SUNDAY MORNING They Considered Suicide
by Claire Hannum - October 19, 2012 Getting caught plagiarizing the work of others led writers Quentin Rowan and Jayson Blair to thoughts of suicide, they tell Lee Cowan on this weekend's CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD....
Review - The Anarchist
by Ben Peltz - December 11, 2012 It feels like familiar territory as soon as the lights go up on two people, mid-conversation, speaking in that jaunty rhythm of clipped communication; those overlapping thoughts and unfinished sentences where you can sense every dot of each ellipsis.... |