Photo Flash: Inside the 2020 Chinese New Year Spectacular VI at Carnegie Hall
by Stephi Wild - February 27, 2020 On Friday, February 7th, 2020, for its sixth running, Carnegie Hall opened its doors to the annual Chinese New Year Spectacular, to ring in the Lunar New Year....
Troy Foundry Theatre Announces The World Premiere Of 100 YEARS By Richard Dresser
by Julie Musbach - May 15, 2019 Troy Foundry Theatre is proud to present the world premiere of 100 Years by Richard Dresser directed by Elizabeth Carlson-Guerin (Curio Theatre Company). Set in the not-too-distant future, this new dark comedy confronts today's direst global crises with incisive humor and sly wisdom....
Eliza Clark Joins the FX Drama Series Y As Showrunner
by Tori Hartshorn - June 18, 2019 Eliza Clark has joined the creative team on the upcoming FX drama series Y as Writer, Showrunner and Executive Producer, it was announced today by Nick Grad and Gina Balian, Presidents, Original Programming, FX Entertainment....
BWW Review: THE AGITATORS: Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass at The Forum Theatre
by Paula Makar - May 26, 2021 This is the first time I’ve sat in a theatre since COVID19 took that privilege away in March 2020. It felt weird and wonderful all at the same time. Masks are optional at the Forum Theatre. Patrons I chatted with in the lobby were thrilled to finally get out and are feeling confident enough to spend...
Sheldon Epps Shares His Journey In The Theatre In New Book MY OWN DIRECTIONS
by A.A. Cristi - December 02, 2022 Epps recounts his rollercoaster ride of a life in the theatre, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows. The author’s journey in the American theatre has been amplified by his experience as a Black man who has frequently been “one of the few,” “the first” or e...
Pianist Ursula Oppens To Be Featured At Music Teachers' National Association's Virtual Conference
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 23, 2022 The internationally acclaimed American pianist Ursula Oppens is participating in the Music Teachers' National Association's 2022 Virtual Conference Tuesday, March 29, 2022, for an online advanced piano masterclass at 9:15 a.m., and an online solo piano recital at 8:00 p.m....
FIVE YEARS WITH THE WHITE MAN Comes to VAULT Festival
by Stephi Wild - January 19, 2023 Unleash The Llama highlights a forgotten figure of Black British History with the first theatrical adaptation of the life of A.B.C Merriman-Labor, an African satirist who dreamed of becoming the greatest writer in the British Empire....
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE LIBERTY: THE MARX BROTHERS AND AMERICA to Stream in October
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 17, 2021 Freedonia Marxonia, the annual Marx Brothers festival held on the SUNY Fredonia campus, will once again be held virtually this year. The featured event, live streaming on Friday, October 1, is There's Nothing Like Liberty: The Marx Brothers and America, an 'illustrated lecture' by Noah Diamond....
All-Women Artist Roster Announced For 10th Anniversary Of MIDNIGHT MOMENT
by A.A. Cristi - March 25, 2022 This April, Times Square Arts celebrates the 10 year anniversary of its iconic program Midnight Moment, the world's largest and longest-running digital public art exhibition synchronized on electronic billboards in Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. The program, which began on just six s...
OGCMA Announces Free Organ Recitals On The Great Auditorium Pipe Organ All Summer
by Julie Musbach - June 26, 2019 There's nothing like the sound of a thundering or lilting organ to shake you to your emotional, musical core - and there's nothing like the massive pipe organ in the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association (OGCMA)'s Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove....
OGCMA Presents Free Pipe Organ Concerts All Summer At The Jersey Shore
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 26, 2020 Live from the Great Auditorium! The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association (OGCMA) will kick off its annual summer-long series of FREE ORGAN RECITALS at the historic Great Auditorium starting on Wednesday, July 1, 2020....
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For the UK Tour of SUPER POWER PANTO
by Stephi Wild - January 27, 2023 Extant, the UK’s leading theatre company of visually impaired performers has joined forces with all year-round touring panto company, Simply Smiley, to present Super Power Panto! Check out rehearsal photos here!...
Higher Ground Productions Announces New Slate of Netflix Projects
by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 05, 2021 Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix, today announced a new slate of upcoming projects....
Rapeteta Theatre Announces HURLYBURLY Cast And Design Team
by A.A. Cristi - March 10, 2020 Rapeteta Theatre Company has announced its inaugural production Hurlyburly by David Rabe, coming in April 2020....
Visually Impaired Performers Stage Contemporary Shakespeare At Bloomsbury Festival
by Stephi Wild - September 24, 2021 Gillian Dean (Crystal Clear, Old Red Lion; Home Fires, ITV) and Robin Paley Yorke (My Darling Christopher, Hot Coals) have been cast in the premiere of States of Mind, which penetrates the dark heart of Shakespeare's sensationally successful poem, Venus and Adonis. ...
DaDaFest Returns With a Fantastic Festival Programme For 2022
by Stephi Wild - October 10, 2022 DaDaFest International Festival returns this autumn with a fantastic and fascinating programme showcasing the talents of disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent artists and performers....
October At The Sheen Center To Include Theater, Film, Author's Nights And Talk Events
by A.A. Cristi - September 23, 2019 This October, The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street at the corner of Elizabeth Street in NYC), the arts center of the Archdiocese of New York, offers a dynamic line-up of theater, talk, author's night and gallery exhibition events. Featured artists and thought leaders include Ka...
Feature: The Phoenix Theatre Scene Is In Ascendance
by Herbert Paine - September 30, 2022 After two decades of investment and evolution, Phoenix regional theatre is in ascendance. Herb Paine, BroadwayWorld's Senior Contributing Editor for the area, explains why....
KOO KOO THE BIRD GIRL to Play Coney Island
by Julie Musbach - July 29, 2019 Sarah Houbolt celebrates the beauty of difference in her Green Room Award winning one woman show, Koo Koo the Bird Girl at Coney Island USA's Sideshows by the Seashore for one night only on Wednesday August 14th....
Free Mini-Festival A BIT OF A DO Comes To Stanley Halls
by Stephi Wild - June 10, 2019 Now in its third year, the pioneering free mini-festival A Bit Of A Do from Drunken Chorus returns championing the work of artists with and without disabilities. Working with some amazing partners including BSL consultants, a visually impaired theatre company, local apprentices with learning disabil...
Organist Gordon Turk Will Perform Rarely-Heard Work, 'The Storm' in Ocean Grove
by Stephi Wild - August 08, 2021 'The Storm' was written in the mid-1920s by Clarence Kohlmann, who served as the organist in the Great Auditorium from 1924-1944. This rarely-heard piece follows a Civil War army unit as it marches and encamps with snippets of music from that era: 'Dawn' from the Peer Gynt Suite,' a bugle's reveille...
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and Los Angeles Conservancy Partner For The Worldwide Initiative
by A.A. Cristi - October 05, 2020 Organizations from two cities rich in LGBT history, New York City and Los Angeles, are teaming up for the annual social media event #MuseumInstaSwap. ...
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project To Receive Prestigious Trustees' Award From the National Trust for Historic Preservation
by A.A. Cristi - November 04, 2022 The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project's work to identify and document NYC's place-based LGBT history is being honored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation today, Friday, November 4th, at 4PM EST with their Trustees' Award for Organizational Excellence, one of our field's highest honors. The...
WATCH: Livestream No Exit Theatre Collective's Abridged IPHIGENIA IN AULIS Tonight at 7 p.m. ET on BroadwayWorld
by Stage Tube - July 17, 2020 Tonight, at 7 p.m. ET, the No Exit Theatre Collective (NETC) presents Euripides' 'Iphigenia in Aulis' as part of their live-streamed Fortnightly Reading Series: Pride Edition! All shows in NETC's Fortnightly Reading Series are abridged to run under 90 minutes. All shows in our Fortnightly Reading Se...
South Street Seaport Museum Announces Expanded Digital Galleries In Collections Online Portal
by Stephi Wild - October 01, 2021 South Street Seaport Museum announces the release of the next set of collections artifacts for digital visitors to browse, research, and enjoy. In March 2021, the Museum launched a Collections Online Portal, which today features over 2,000 pieces on virtual display, allowing audiences to explore New... |