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Face Value is a groundbreaking new game show that will finally answer the age-old question, "Can you judge a book by its cover?" The veteran actress, comedienne and LGBT advocate knows what it's like to be prejudged, so this series is flipping the script to award cash and prizes for correctly guessing facts about strangers from all walks of life

SILENCE!, 'VANYA AND SONIA', TIME STANDS STILL and More Set for Jobsite's 2015-16 Season
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2015

Jobsite Theater, the independent resident theater company at the Straz Center, is thrilled to announce their 2015-16 mainstage season!...


Aurora Theatre Company to Stage THE LETTERS, 4/17-5/25
by Tyler Peterson - February 03, 2014

As a special addition to the 22nd season, Aurora Theatre Company presents its first fully-staged production in the company's new second stage performance space, Harry's UpStage, located in the Nell and Jules Dashow Wing. Award-winning Bay Area auteur Mark Jackson returns to the company to direct thi...


2012-2013 Texas Performing Arts Tickets Go On Sale 6/15
by Kelsey Denette - June 12, 2012

Individual performance tickets to the 2012-2013 Texas Performing Arts season go on sale Friday, June 15th. In celebration, tickets to all season performances will be discounted for one day only. From midnight - 11:59 p.m. on Friday, June 15th, single tickets to all 2012-2013 season performances wil...


National Portrait Gallery Presents FACE VALUE: PORTRAITURE IN THE AGE OF ABSTRACTION, Now thru 1/11
by BWW News Desk - April 18, 2014

'Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction' will feature mid-20th century artists who were reinventing portraiture at a moment when almost everyone agreed that figuration was dead as a progressive art form. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has gathered more than 50 paintings, draw...


Two Atlanta Actors Are Creating a Magical New Musical, THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE
by Matt Tamanini - October 08, 2014

Over the last month of this past summer, a new musical was exciting everyone involved with the Atlanta theatre community. However, it wasn't playing at the Alliance, or Actor's Express, or Serenbe, or at any other theatre really; instead THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE played two nights at a Java Monkey ...


Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA Presents the West Coast Premiere of THE UGLY ONE, Now thru 3/24
by BWW News Desk - February 14, 2014

Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA has announced the West Coast premiere of The Ugly One, a comedy by Marius von Mayenburg (English translation by Maja Zade), directed by Gates McFadden. Starring Robert Joy, Tony Pasqualini, Eve Gordon, and Peter Larney, The Ugly One will play one preview performance tonigh...


Micah Stock, Emma Myles & More Set for White Heron Theatre's Reading of THE HARVEST
by Tyler Peterson - June 25, 2015

The White Heron Theatre Company today announced the cast for the reading of Samuel Hunter's new play, The Harvest, July 1 and 2 at 8 pm, at the Dreamland Theatre in Nantucket. The cast includes actors from Orange is the New Black, Ironwood, Mildred Pierce, Boardwalk Empire and the Sopranos not to me...


BWW Reviews: The Polish National Ballet
by Barnett Serchuk - June 22, 2015

Having visited Poland at least 50 times in my life, you'd think I would have sampled some opera, dance or music recital in the country. I suppose I had to be back on American soil to finally catch up with the Polish National Ballet, now playing at the Joyce Theater, offering two works by Pastor and ...


BWW Interviews: Grimm Stars Sasha Roiz and Silas Weir Mitchell Talk About THREE DAYS OF RAIN, Opening May 22 at Portland Center Stage
by Krista Garver - May 12, 2015

The stars of PCS's THREE DAYS OF RAIN sat down with the media to talk about the play, how the collaboration came about, and the difference between acting on TV and on stage....


BWW Review: Idioms On the Loose in CHINGLISH
by Nancy Grossman - December 08, 2012

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston veers away from traditional Christmas fare and presents Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's CHINGLISH, his 2011 play about an American businessman trying to cash in on the growth potential in China. Miscommunication and mistranslation are the ...


BWW REVIEWS: THE EXONERATED at Delaware Theatre Company
by Kevin Smith - February 24, 2014

The Exonerated is a powerful and moving drama, delivered as a combination of narrative and depiction, evoking an often visceral reaction. A tale (or tales) well told....


THE UGLY ONE, B SKETCHY Improv and More Set for B Street Theatre's Early Summer Line-Up 2012
by BWW News Desk - July 07, 2012

The B Street Theatre, Sacramento's Resident Professional, New Works Theatre, has announced the opening show for the 2012/2013 Mainstage Season and offer a special summer engagement of Improv and Sketch Comedy....


Tickets for Fox Cities Performing Arts Center's BOLDT ARTS ALIVE! Series on Sale Now
by BWW News Desk - September 18, 2013

Single tickets for the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center's 2013-14 Boldt Arts Alive! Series performances and the one-night engagement of Green and Gold Legends with Dave Robinson are now on sale to the public....


BWW Reviews: Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome to FITZWALKERSTAN
by Amanda Finn - February 20, 2015

?There's always some sort of debate regarding Scott Walker brewing in Madison. Despite what anyone thinks of him as a politician, there is a fairly large disdain for the man in the artistic community. This could not be clearer than in Broom Street's newest production written by former Wisconsinite B...


BWW Reviews: Theater J's YELLOW FACE is Entertaining and Thought-Provoking
by Audrey Liebross - February 09, 2014

YELLOW FACE, appearing at Theater J, is a serio-comedy by David Henry Hwang, based on his involvement in the casting controversy in 1990 regarding Cameron Mackintosh's insistence on having a white actor play a non-white role. The excellent production is well worth seeing....


July at the National Portrait Gallery Includes Portrait Discovery Kits, A Living Self-Portrait: Rita Moreno and More
by BWW News Desk - June 06, 2014

Below is a full list of July events and programs at the National Portrait Gallery. All events are held at the National Portrait Gallery, located at Eighth and F streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., and are free unless otherwise noted. For information, call (202) 633-1000 or visit npg.si.edu. The Nationa...


BWW Reviews: DISTRACTED at the University of Montana
by Joshua Kelly - October 23, 2013

David Ives is noted to have said the following: 'Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?' This quote has haunted me in vari...


Dr. Moriah D. Hagans Releases First Book, THE GREAT CONSPIRACY AGE OF DECEPTION
by Christina Mancuso - June 08, 2015

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Arts Centre Melbourne's 2013 Winter Season Announced
by Kelsey Denette - March 27, 2013

Arts Centre Melbourne's new Winter season offers an electrifying range of experiences to charge the senses in the middle of the year. From 26 July to 18 August, art, science and technology are celebrated in a spectacular fashion with several Art Centre Melbourne Australian exclusives....


BWW Reviews: GREASE - Cheese is the Word
by Tim Carney - January 07, 2014

It's hard to know where to start with this production of Grease. So much is right, even more is wrong. It is a combination of product and treatment of the product that impacts on the overall aesthetic of this show. The audience participation section at the beginning of the show is particularly labou...


POP International Galleries Debuts ANDY WARHOL: At Face Value Exhibit Today
by BWW News Desk - November 11, 2014

Warhol fans and collectors alike will also have the opportunity to view and purchase over 50 of the classic pieces, including famed pieces 'Muhammad Ali' and 'Marilyn'. POP SoHo will house the works, which are some of the most influential figures in contemporary art and culture, for a limited time o...


BWW Reviews: Don't Wait, Just Go See Seattle Shakes' GODOT
by Jay Irwin - September 08, 2014

Two tramps waiting by a tree in the middle of nowhere does not sound like the most engaging evening of theater. But when it comes from the absurdist mind of Samuel Beckett, you have one of the most thought provoking plays of the 20th century with his brilliant, "Waiting for Godot". But it's still ...


8fold Theatre Opens THE DOOR at Park Theatre, London, Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 12, 2013

Innovative new theatre company 8fold theatre present The Door at London's newest theatre - the Park Theatre at Finsbury Park - from tonight, 12th November to 1st December, following their Best New Play Award shortlisting at this year's Brighton Fringe....


BWW Reviews: 'Look on the Bright Side' with Shadowbox Live's SPAMALOT
by Lisa Norris - September 09, 2013

The hardest working theater troupe in Central Ohio is currently delivering its Stev Guyer-ized version of "Monty Python's Spamalot." The 2005 musical by Eric Idle and John Du Prez was "lovingly ripped off" from the motion picture 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and while audience members will app...


Kean's Department of Theatre to Present Harold Pinter's THE LOVER, 4/4-12
by Tyler Peterson - April 03, 2014

Kean University's Department of Theatre will present The Lover, a little-known gem by British heavyweight Harold Pinter, in Kean's Zella Fry Theatre April 4 - 12. In this sly and masterful one-act, a husband and wife play games, making up the rules as they go along, and taking on lovers while exploi...






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