Award-Winning Designer Takes Centre Stage in LOLA'S GRAVE MISTAKE
by Stephi Wild - January 21, 2018 Two-time Wellington Theatre Awards' Designer of the Year Ian Harman is keeping himself on his toes with his latest artistic vision. As well as showcasing his exceptional talents in costume, set and production design, Lola's Grave Mistake (BATS Theatre, 7-10 February) stars Harman's glamorous alter-e...
SCREWTAPE LETTERS Launches Fellowship for Performing Arts' NYC Return Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 15, 2016 Fellowship for Performing Arts returns to New York with their 2016/2017 season at the Pearl Theatre (555 West 42nd Street)....
USC's Center for Performance Experiment Stages Existentialist Classic NO EXIT November 2-5
by A.A. Cristi - October 18, 2016 The University of SC Department of Theatre and Dance will present Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist classic, No Exit, November 2-5 at the Center for Performance Experiment. ...
Fort Worth Oprea Announces Line Up Of Unpublished Operas, 5/3-5/4
by Molly Tracy - February 07, 2017 Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) announced today the names of the eight composer and librettist teams whose unpublished works have been selected for the company's fifth annual, critically acclaimed new works series, Frontiers - funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation....
BWW Interview: Gravity Players' Courtney Lomelo Talks Charlottesville, Harvey, and 'THE LAST DAYS of JUDAS ISCARIOT'
by Katricia Lang - September 08, 2017 The Gravity Players present an encore performance of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, where the courtroom is in purgatory, the special witnesses include Mother Teresa and the Devil, and the defendant is Judas Iscariot....
Susan Graham to Appear in BSO's 'DAMNATION', Met's 'WIDOW', Lyric's TAHITI and More in 2017-18
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017 Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham opens her 2017-18 season with a return to the Boston Symphony to star in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under Charles Dutoit....
Susan Graham to Appear in BSO's 'DAMNATION', Met's 'WIDOW', Lyric's TAHITI and More in 2017-18
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017 Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham opens her 2017-18 season with a return to the Boston Symphony to star in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under Charles Dutoit....
BWW Review: Amy Herzog's MARY JANE Subtly Criticizes The Complexity of Obtaining Health Care
by Michael Dale - October 02, 2017 To say that there are no dramatic highs and lows in Amy Herzog's touching new drama, Mary Jane, is by no means a criticism. It's more of a recognition of the beautifully understated naturalism in both the playwright's text and in director Anne Kauffman's production....
USA Network and Universal Cable Productions Renew SUITS For Season 8
by Tori Hartshorn - January 30, 2018 USA Network and Universal Cable Productions announced today that SUITShas been renewed for an 8th season. Show creator and executive producer Aaron Korsh is set to return, as are stars Gabriel Macht (Harvey Specter), Sarah Rafferty (Donna Paulsen), Rick Hoffman (Louis Litt) and newly-minted series r...
BWW Review: THE ICEMAN COMETH, a Symphony of Sadness (and Kindness), at The Vortex
by Devon Hoffman - March 23, 2017 Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh--the portrayal of a dysfunctional bunch of rock-bottom alcoholic barflies and the salesman who tries to 'save' them from their futile pipe dreams: This show is an extraordinary symphony--nineteen excellent actors all piping in and out, rising and falling collective...
BWW Review: WAIT Over-simplifies the Complex Dilemma of Access to Education for Girls and Young Women
by David Fick - September 27, 2016 The discrimination against girls and young women when it comes to their education remains a pervasive issue in contemporary society. WAIT, currently playing at the Cape Town Fringe, focuses on just two of these: the priority of educating boys over girls and the marrying off of girls and young women ...
The Collective NY to Take on Gay Conversion Therapy in THE RETREAT Benefit Reading
by BWW News Desk - November 30, 2016 The Collective NY under their Collective: Next Stage (C:NXT) banner presents a staged reading of THE RETREAT, a new play written by Brandon T. Snider, on Sunday, December 3rd. Richard Masur (TRANSPARENT) is set to direct....
Susan Graham to Reprise Title Character THE MERRY WIDOW at The Met Opera
by BWW News Desk - November 20, 2017 Fresh from a rapturously received account of Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit, Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham reprises her 'vivacious and creamy-voiced' (New York Times) star turn as the wealthy widow Hanna Glawari ...
Maddie Hasson, & More Join Cast of YouTube's Sci-Fi Thriller Pilot IMPULSE
by Caryn Robbins - December 19, 2016 Universal Cable Productions (UCP) and YouTube revealed the casting for the pilot IMPULSE (working title), a 60-minute genre-bending action-thriller directed and executive produced by Hypnotic's Doug Liman ('Bourne Identity,' 'Live. Die. Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow')....
Susan Graham to Reprise Title Character THE MERRY WIDOW at The Met Opera
by BWW News Desk - November 20, 2017 Fresh from a rapturously received account of Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit, Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham reprises her 'vivacious and creamy-voiced' (New York Times) star turn as the wealthy widow Hanna Glawari ...
Submissions Open for THE 6TH ANNUAL CAPE NEW WRITERS FELLOWSHIP
by A.A. Cristi - December 13, 2017 Submissions are now open for CAPE's (The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) sixth annual CAPE New Writers Fellowship (CNWF). Entertainment industry professionals select the Fellows through a rigorous process that includes three rounds of blind script judging and an interview. Each writer ...
SCREWTAPE LETTERS and 'MARTIN LUTHER' Set for Fellowship for Performing Arts' NYC Return
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2016 Fellowship for Performing Arts announced today their return to New York with the 2016/2017 season at the Pearl Theatre (555 West 42nd Street)....
Critically Acclaimed Musical UPSTAIRS Brings Forgotten LGBT Tragedy to LA Pride & Hollywood Fringe
by A.A. Cristi - May 31, 2017 In 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, claiming 32 victims in what was, until the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, the deadliest mass murder of LGBT people in U.S. history. The arson remains unsolved and was largely forgotten in the interveni...
Kentwood Players presents THE CRUCIBLE
by BWW News Desk - January 12, 2018 Kentwood Players proudly presents the play THE CRUCIBLE, by Arthur Miller. Performance dates are January 12 February 17, 2018 todays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm. Performances take place at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester, CA 90045. There w...
Susan Graham to Appear in BSO's 'DAMNATION', Met's 'WIDOW', Lyric's TAHITI and More in 2017-18
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017 Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham opens her 2017-18 season with a return to the Boston Symphony to star in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under Charles Dutoit....
Susan Graham Replaces Sophie Koch as 'Dido' in Lyric Opera of Chicago's LES TROYENS
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2016 Anthony Freud, Lyric's general director, president & CEO, announced today that French mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch has withdrawn from the company premiere of Berlioz's Les Troyens for personal reasons. Stepping into the role of Dido will be American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, world-renowned as an inte...
Susan Graham to Appear in BSO's 'DAMNATION', Met's 'WIDOW', Lyric's TAHITI and More in 2017-18
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017 Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham opens her 2017-18 season with a return to the Boston Symphony to star in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under Charles Dutoit....
Critically Acclaimed Musical UPSTAIRS Brings Forgotten LGBT Tragedy to LA Pride & Hollywood Fringe
by A.A. Cristi - May 31, 2017 In 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, claiming 32 victims in what was, until the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, the deadliest mass murder of LGBT people in U.S. history. The arson remains unsolved and was largely forgotten in the interveni...
NBCUniversal Lifestyle Networks Strikes Multi-Project Deal For Bravo and Oxygen Media
by Tori Hartshorn - January 30, 2018 Bravo Media has greenlit a two season, straight to series order for the scripted anthology series, 'Dirty John,' from Universal Cable Productions (UCP), it was announced today by Frances Berwick, President, Lifestyle Networks, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. From UCP, in association with Los Angel...
SYFY Renews Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt Starrer HAPPY For Season 2
by Tori Hartshorn - January 29, 2018 SYFY Renews Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt Starrer HAPPY For Season 2... |