Hulu Announces New Movies & Shows Coming this June
by Macon Prickett - May 18, 2018 Hulu releases June Highlights: The Bold Type: Season 2 Pre-Premiere (Freeform) (6/5) (Watch The Bold Type season 2 premiere episode early exclusively on Hulu!):...
BWW Review: PATIENCE, Hackney Empire
by Alexandra Coghlan - March 09, 2017 'What a very singularly deep young man that deep young man must be!' You don't have to look very far in selfie-taking 2017 for an equivalent to the narcissism and aestheticism that are so thoroughly sent up in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1881 Patience. So perhaps it's best that director Liam Steel has le...
Comedienne Roseanne Barr, Motown Supergroup The Temptations And Soft Rock Duo Air Supply Perform At The Orleans In May
by A.A. Cristi - April 10, 2018 The Orleans will bring top comedy and musical acts to The Orleans Showroom and Bourbon Street Lounge in May, featuring performances by Emmy Award-winning comedy star Roseanne Barr, legendary Motown group The Temptations, Australian soft rock duo Air Supply and more....
Review Roundup: GALA Hispanic Theatre's IN THE HEIGHTS
by Molly Tracy - April 28, 2017 The U.S. premiere in Spanish of the ground-breaking musical In The Heights. Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, with book by Quiara Alegria Hudes, music and lyrics by Mr. Miranda will conclude the 41rd main stage season of Teatro Gala. In The Heights is being directed and choreographed by original Broa...
Playwrights' Center Welcomes New Managing Director
by BWW News Desk - April 05, 2017 The Playwrights' Center today announced that Robert Chelimsky will join the organization as managing director, effective May 1, 2017. Chelimsky most recently served as managing director of Epic Theatre Ensemble in New York....
Anna Deavere Smith Receives George Polk Award for Journalistic Work in NOTES FROM THE FIELD and More
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2017 Long Island University (LIU) has announced the winners of the 68th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism, continuing the University's longstanding tradition of honoring and celebrating the impact of courageous and authentic journalism on our national and global discourse....
La Cantata Dei Pastori's Italian Holiday Show Opens, Today
by BWW News Desk - December 22, 2017 Go back in time to Southern Italy with ALESSANDRA BELLONI and I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA, the renowned Italian music/theater/dance company, when they present their traditional Southern Italian 'La Cantata dei Pastori,' (The Shepherd's Cantata) a musical family holiday delight. One performance to celebrat...
Discovery Channel Announces OPERATION THAI CAVE RESCUE Documentary In the Works
by Macon Prickett - July 11, 2018 From the moment the heartbreaking news broke that 12 young Thai soccer players and their 25-year-old coach were stuck in a cave complex near the Myanmar border, the world has been glued to the rescue and recovery details. For over two weeks, the facts of how the group ended up in the cave and the s...
New National Tour Dates Announced for Jen Kirkman
by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2017 Comedian Jen Kirkman is poised for another round of tour dates around North America for her 'All New Material Girl' tour of 2017, fresh off the heels of her latest Netflix special Just Keep Livin'? After appearances on CONAN, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HARRY, and her Netflix special, Jen Ki...
Comedian & Author Jen Kirkman Returns with All-New Material, Girl Tour
by Caryn Robbins - November 13, 2017 FSheehan@avalon-entertainment.com Following three sell-out London runs, US comedian, author, and podcaster Jen Kirkman is returning to UK soil for a 6 night Soho Theatre run with her latest stand-up show 'The All New Material, Girl Tour' from 29th January to 3rd February....
BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
by Alan Portner - March 31, 2018 An outstanding cast opened Kansas City Repertory Theatre's new production of Steven Sondheim's 1979 'Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' at the Spencer Theater on the UMKC campus. KC Rep Artistic Director Eric Rosen does more than justice to Sondheim's incredible operatic score and the...
New National Tour Dates Announced for Jen Kirkman
by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2017 Comedian Jen Kirkman is poised for another round of tour dates around North America for her 'All New Material Girl' tour of 2017, fresh off the heels of her latest Netflix special Just Keep Livin'? After appearances on CONAN, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HARRY, and her Netflix special, Jen Ki...
BWW Reviews: SNS' TOXIC AVENGER Earns a Glowing Review
by Paul Batterson - August 27, 2018 Lisa Glover, Johnathon L. Jackson, Steven Michael Mooney, Sheri Sanders and Jesse Daniel Trieger could probably fit in a Honda Civic and need only one large pizza for the cast party. Yet their performances, with many of the actors taking on an exhausting list of roles, make TOXIC AVENGER seem like a...
Theatre Royal Stratford East Announces London Dates for Mark Thomas' SHOWTIME FROM THE FRONTLINE
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2017 Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces the only London dates for Mark Thomas: Showtime from the Frontline, a new play from award-winning comedian Mark Thomas. The production will be touring the UK before arriving at Theatre Royal Stratford East, opening on Tuesday 10 April and runs until 21 Ap...
FSLC Announces Spotlight on Documentary Lineup for NYFF55
by Caryn Robbins - August 23, 2017 The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the complete lineup for the Spotlight on Documentary section of the 55th New York Film Festival (September 28-October 15). This year's series of dispatches from the front lines of nonfiction cinema features intimate portraits of artists, depictions of soc...
BWW Review: THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE: Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown
by Nancy Grossman - February 17, 2017 ArtsEmerson presents the Druid Theatre Company production of Martin McDonagh's THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes and featuring Tony Award-winner Marie Mullen. Rounding out the stellar cast are Aisling O' Sullivan, Marty Rea, and Aaron Monaghan. This is a powerful...
New National Tour Dates Announced for Jen Kirkman
by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2017 Comedian Jen Kirkman is poised for another round of tour dates around North America for her 'All New Material Girl' tour of 2017, fresh off the heels of her latest Netflix special Just Keep Livin'? After appearances on CONAN, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HARRY, and her Netflix special, Jen Ki...
La Cantata Dei Pastori's Italian Holiday Show Opens, 12/22
by A.A. Cristi - December 18, 2017 Go back in time to Southern Italy with ALESSANDRA BELLONI and I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA, the renowned Italian music/theater/dance company, when they present their traditional Southern Italian 'La Cantata dei Pastori,' (The Shepherd's Cantata) a musical family holiday delight. One performance to celebrat...
UNG Press Releases Military Titles
by Christina Mancuso - April 10, 2017 TheUniversity of North Georgia (UNG) Pressis releasing two war and military titles this month....
BWW Review: DAMN YANKEES Scores at Palm Canyon Theatre
by Audrey Liebross - April 08, 2018 DAMN YANKEES is one of those fun, classic musical comedies with no message and familiar tunes. The show is a bit too long, and many of the lyrics are dated. Still, in the hands of a company such as Palm Canyon Theatre, a community theatre with the expertise to present large-cast musicals, the feel-g...
BRIC TV to Present 'MUSLIM IN NEW YORK' #BHeard Town Hall This Week
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2017 BRIC has announced that, as part of its BRIC TV initiative, and in partnership with CUNY CLEAR, The Intercept and The Secret Life of Muslims, it will present Muslim in New York: A Community Comes Together, a live-broadcast #BHeardtown hall discussion, Today, October 11, 7-9pm, at BRIC House in Downt...
New Wave of Classics to Be Released from Fox Cinema Archives
by Caryn Robbins - February 14, 2017 Bring home the newest wave of classics from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's Cinema Archives vault, available for purchase on DVD now!...
Neighborhood Theatre Group to Premiere New Musical DISPATCHES FROM THE DUMB DECADE
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2017 Neighborhood Theatre Group (NTG) is workshopping their newest musical Dispatches from the Decade by local playwright A.M. Dean, with music arranged by the NTG House Band, June 2-4 at Bona Sera Underground (200 W. Michigan Ave) in downtown Ypsilanti....
AMC Green Lights First Multi-Platform Series DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE by Jason Segel
by Tori Hartshorn - July 30, 2018 AMC announced today that it has green-lit a new original anthology series, 'Dispatches From Elsewhere,' created by and starring Jason Segel. Segel will executive produce with Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Garrett Basch. The hour-long anthology series will include viewer engagement elements across multip...
Jack Bass, M.D., Amazon Bestselling Series of Medical Thriller Novels, Set To Become a Television Series
by Macon Prickett - May 30, 2018 Genius Media, Inc. a Utah based firm and Janick Entertainment of Los Angeles announced today that they have created a new television series based on the main character in the Jack Bass series of novels written by Dr. Ed Dasso.... |