BWW Review: Milwaukee Ballet's SWAN LAKE is Streamlined & Sublime
by Kelsey Lawler - June 01, 2018 Typically performed in four acts, Milwaukee Ballet Artistic Director, Michael Pink, has trimmed the classic into two acts, maintaining Swan Lake's integrity and grandeur while making it a more comfortable experience for modern audiences. And whatever traditions are eschewed, they are answered with i...
Michael Peterson Releases BARELY BREATHING
by Christina Mancuso - December 28, 2016 'Barely Breathing:' a captivating and powerful memoir about a son's love sacrifice, and devotion to his father. 'Barely Breathing' is the creation of published author, Michael Peterson, a father of two sons residing in Boulder, Colorado....
ID Explores Suspicious Death of Hollywood Icon in NATALIE WOOD: AN AMERICAN MURDER MYSTERY
by Macon Prickett - April 02, 2018 In the early morning hours of November 29, 1981, Hollywood star, Natalie Wood vanishes from the yacht of her actor husband, Robert Wagner, into the open waters off Catalina Island. Hours later, a search party finds Wood's body floating outside of a cavern with the cause of death then declared to be,...
BWW Review: World Premier of Michael Pink's BEAUTY & THE BEAST Enchants at the Milwaukee Ballet
by Kelsey Lawler - April 13, 2018 Roses wave hello, storybook pages spring to life, the townsfolk are actually nice, and the troupe of orphan children are a little creepy. This isn't Disney's Beauty & the Beast. Instead, Michael Pink gives us a world premier Milwaukee ballet where 'Belle is the hero of her own story; a voracious rea...
Broadway's Chester Gregory Releases 'Remembering Jackie' Tribute Album
by A.A. Cristi - April 04, 2018 Chester Gregory first made his mark in theatre portraying Jackie Wilson in The Jackie Wilson Story (Black Ensemble Theatre). His performance earned critical acclaim throughout the nation, including the New York Times saying, "Gregory puts on a show of such physical and vocal dexterity that it's almo...
BWW Review: Good Theater's THE MAY QUEEN Journeys from the Mundane to the Poetic
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - February 04, 2017 Good Theater's Executive/Artistic Director Brian P. Allen has a remarkable sixth sense about choosing plays whose situations and characters resonate with originality and empathy. The latest production, Molly Smith Metzler's The May Queen, is an engaging portrait of five small town characters who al...
Barbara Robertson and Alex Weisman Lead an All-Star Cast Tonight!
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2017 When we know tomorrow will just bring more tragedy, why do we get out of bed? Emerging playwright K.M.C. explores that question with humor, a fistful of feathers, and a plethora of plums in Jocasta, or The Three Plums by exploring Jocasta's last day behind the scenes of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. ...
BWW Review: iTheatre Collaborative Presents Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE
by Herbert Paine - April 10, 2017 In iTheatre Collaborative's current revival of Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE, Greg Lutz delivers a masterly performance as a down and out hustler, Erie Smith, who is forlorn over the death of a night clerk. It is to Hughie's replacement, played stoically by Christopher Haines, that Erie shares his lament ...
BWW Feature: ABRAHAM BRODY at National Sawdust - An Epic Journey
by Cole Grissom - April 16, 2018 Abraham Brody is a violinist and vocalist who has recently discovered a wealth of compositional talent. His journey down this path began with an exploration of alternative forms of expression, whose origins were firmly planted in improvisation. From this early manifestation, his compositional langua...
Film Mode Entertainment's THE HARROWING Makes 2018 World Premiere in Berlin
by Macon Prickett - February 20, 2018 Clay Epstein's Film Mode Entertainment presents the World Market Premiere screening and EFM debut of their newest thriller THE HARROWING in Berlin. The world premiere screening took place on Friday, February 18th at 11:05 AM at dffb-Kino, to a standing-room-only crowd....
BWW Review: Milwaukee Ballet's SWAN LAKE is Streamlined & Sublime
by Kelsey Lawler - June 01, 2018 Typically performed in four acts, Milwaukee Ballet Artistic Director, Michael Pink, has trimmed the classic into two acts, maintaining Swan Lake's integrity and grandeur while making it a more comfortable experience for modern audiences. And whatever traditions are eschewed, they are answered with i...
Lone Female Survivor of 1959 Plane Crash Shares Story from the Air
by Robert Diamond - January 08, 2018 ...
New Company Fearless Imp Premieres With Daring MACBETH
by Stephi Wild - April 06, 2018 For their company's debut, Fearless Imp Entertainment founders Cyanne McClairian and Matthew Martin wanted a powerful production, a classic that could also reflect the issues of today. When they started examining the works of Shakespeare, they quickly realized there was one play that deserved to be ...
BWW Review: SPT's HAND TO GOD is a Devilish Good Time
by Jay Irwin - May 12, 2018 Dear Readers, a few years back on one of my trips to the Mothership, I managed to catch Robert Askins' hilarious play "Hand to God" on Broadway and as soon as I finished wetting myself from laughter I thought, "Someone in Seattle needs to do this so my Dear Readers can wet themselves as well." Well...
ABC's NIGHTLINE Opens Cold Case in Docuseries 'A Murder on Orchard Street,' 10/3
by Caryn Robbins - September 20, 2017 With its signature journalistic style that invites viewers to immerse themselves in the story, ABC News Nightline examines the twists and turns of one intriguing unsolved murder in the new multiplatform docuseries, A Murder on Orchard Street, premiering Tuesday, October 3...
Enfyrian Images Presents WHAT I WANT TO SAY TO YOU at Hollywood Fringe
by Julie Musbach - May 08, 2018 To the silenced, the courageous, the broken, the survivors, this is What I Want to Say to You, a world premiere stage play presented by Enfyrian Images. At a time when many survivors of sexual assault are being encouraged to speak out, Singer/Songwriter Em Hoggett and Director Umar Malik take you on...
BWW Review: Kafka's Dark, Dystopian Classic THE TRIAL Dazzles at Synetic Theater
by Jeffrey Walker - January 24, 2018 Synetic's latest work is taken from Kafka's novel THE TRIAL with elements borrowed from his other works, presented in the kinetic and bold theatrical style the 22-year old company has earned their renown. A perfect fusion of movement, stagecraft, text and performance, Synetic's THE TRIAL leaves a la...
GANGS OF VICTORIAN LIVERPOOL Catacomb Tours Return to Liverpool Next Week
by BWW News Desk - March 28, 2017 ???????The increasingly popular promenade theatre Catacombs tours of St George's Hall Liverpool return by popular demand next week with brand new stories which and once again delve in to the dark history of Liverpool's Victorian gangs scene....
BWW Review: LES MISERABLES at the Paramount Theater is All That and A Bag of Chips
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - June 07, 2018 Masterpiece, classic, epic, monumental - it's hard to find a word that encapsulates this production of Les Miserables. It is a timeless story of love, courage, and redemption that reminds us of what it means to be human. With moments of pageantry and beautiful stillness, the audience is drawn into a...
BWW Review: Bold & Beautiful I AND YOU Shines at Milwaukee's Next Act Theatre
by Kelsey Lawler - April 10, 2018 Anyone who's taken a poetry class knows that there's so much more to poetic words than meets the eye. If you look the right way, there's often something grand underneath - a hidden meaning waiting to be discovered through focused reading and an open mind. Lauren Gunderson's soul-stirring I and You i...
EDINBURGH 2017: BWW Q&A- Died Blondes
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 07, 2017 BWW speaks with the creator of Died Blondes ahead of their run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017....
Lovehistory's GANGS OF VICTORIAN LIVERPOOL Catacombs Tours Re-Scheduled To April
by BWW News Desk - February 17, 2017 ???????Organisers of next week's Catacombs of St Georges Hall Liverpool Tours have announced the tours have been re-scheduled to April due to unforeseen circumstances....
ABC Sets TGIT Return Date Following Winter Break
by Caryn Robbins - November 16, 2017 ans can rest assured now that ABC has confirmed the return of the popular series Grey's Anatomy at 8 p.m. EST, followed by Scandal at 9 p.m. EST, then How to Get Away with Murder at 10 p.m. EST on Thursday, January 18, 2018....
STAGE TUBE: Signature Theatre Gives Viewers A Virtual Fly-Through of the Set of TITANIC
by A.A. Cristi - December 19, 2016 Take a virtual flight through set designer Paul Tate DePoo III's remarkable set in this new video! Washington Post theater critic Nelson Pressley visited a rehearsal for Titanic and wrote a fascinating piece (link below) about the challenges of creating a set that encompasses the grandeur of the sho...
Science Channel to Present Live Broadcast of Final Moments of NASA Spacecraft Before It Crashes Into Saturn
by BWW News Desk - September 15, 2017 Science Channel will follow the final moments of NASA's Cassini spacecraft before it crashes into the atmosphere of Saturn. On Today, September 15th the Cassini mission will end its remarkable 13-year tour of Saturn by plunging into the gas giant and burning up.... |