Rick Skye's BAZAZZ! A SEQUINED VARIETY to Return to Don't Tell Mama This Month
by BWW News Desk - November 25, 2017 Rick Skye, who won the 2017 MAC Award for Best Impersonation, opened Don't Tell Mama's new monthly variety show Bazaaz! A Sequined Variety last month to a sold-out audience and the media is buzzing....
BWW Album Review: Michael Ball's COMING HOME TO YOU Has Mixed Results
by Amanda Prahl - March 29, 2019 With his new album Coming Home to You, Michael Ball expands his reach with a sound that's part country, part easy listening pop. It's an admirable effort, but one that sometimes falls flat....
Rick Skye's BAZAZZ! A SEQUINED VARIETY to Return to Don't Tell Mama This Month
by BWW News Desk - November 03, 2017 Rick Skye, who won the 2017 MAC Award for Best Impersonation, opened Don't Tell Mama's new monthly variety show Bazaaz! A Sequined Variety last month to a sold-out audience and the media is buzzing....
Photo Flash: Opening Night of FUSIFORM GYRUS - A SEPTET FOR TWO SCIENTISTS AND FIVE HORNS
by A.A. Cristi - February 20, 2018 Talking Band are currently presenting the world premiere of Fusiform Gyrus - A Septet for Two Scientists and Five Horns, written and composed by OBIE Award winner Ellen Maddow, and directed by Ellie Heyman, running through February 25 at HERE, located at 145 6th Avenue (Enter on Dominick, 1 block so...
UofSC Play TOP GIRLS Explores Triumphs, Trials of Feminism
by Julie Musbach - October 11, 2017 The University of SC Department of Theatre and Dance will present the Obie award-winning drama Top Girls at the Center for Performance Experiment, October 26 - November 4, 2017....
Kevin McKay Releases 'The Love Forever' on Glasgow Underground
by Caryn Robbins - September 06, 2017 Glasgow Underground head honcho Kevin McKay has released a two-track EP entitled 'The Love Forever'....
BWW Review: iTheatre Collaborative Presents WHITE GUY ON THE BUS ~ Searing, Riveting, Essential
by Herbert Paine - September 16, 2018 Bruce Graham pulls no punches in WHITE GUY ON THE BUS, his stinging broadside at the underbelly (the hypocrisies and contradictions) of racism that contaminates the American soul. The power of his punch is sustained in iTheatre Collaborative's riveting production of WHITE GUY ON THE BUS, superbly di...
Billy Lykken Returns to Metropolitan Room for Special Gay Pride Performance
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2017 Billy Lykken, who Cabaret Scenes called a "thrilling discovery," will return to the Metropolitan Room on for a special Gay Pride weekend performance on Saturday, June 24 at 4:00PM in his critically-acclaimed show Lykken "The Sacred Monster" Live!...
BWW Interviews: BENDELACREME On DRAG BECOMES HER, Future Shows, and THAT Elimination
by Trevor Durham - March 13, 2018 Between the San Francisco premiere and her return to Seattle, BenDeLa answered questions about her shows, camp queens, and what's next for the so-called martyr of All Stars 3....
BWW Review: THE LADY FROM THE SEA, Donmar Warehouse
by Emma Watkins - October 20, 2017 Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea surfaces onto the Donmar stage, directed by soon-to-be Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah and with a magnetic central performance from Nikki Amuka-Bird....
BWW Album Review: THE CHER SHOW Takes a Triple Dose of an Icon
by Amanda Prahl - April 26, 2019 The onslaught of jukebox musicals doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon, which, in turn, means that there are an awful lot of cast albums that also double as very well-sung cover albums. That's definitely the case with the original cast recording of The Cher Show, which functions okay as a cast alb...
A New Dark Comedy About Johannes Brahms By Neil Salvage Has Australian Premiere
by Stephi Wild - January 19, 2019 Award-winning UK actors, Neil Salvage and Nicholas Collett ('The Six-Sided Man', 'Spitfire Solo' and 'Your Bard') team up with Adelaide's Stefanie Rossi for Australian premiere....
They're Back! THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK CITY Premieres 4/4 on Bravo
by Tori Hartshorn - March 01, 2018 Bravo Media's 'The Real Housewives of New York City' returns for an epic 10th season of humor, healing, and heartbreaks on Wednesday, April 4 at 9pm ET/PT, with BETHENNY Frankel, Carole Radziwill, Dorinda Medley, Luann de Lesseps, Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan, and Tinsley Mortimer. The ladies are red...
BWW Review: Open Fist Theatre Company Gets DELEARIOUS on Stage
by Ellen Dostal - November 13, 2017 Open Fist Theatre Company's revival of Ron West and Phil Swann's musical comedy DELEARIOUS has a lot going on. The production contains three storylines in three different time periods twisted together in a fast-paced, boisterous style that was an award-winning hit for the company in 2008. Nine years...
America's Longest Running Annual Broadway Musical Opens At The Round Barn Theatre
by Julie Musbach - May 18, 2018 As unlikely as it might seem, it is possible that despite the fact that "Plain and Fancy" has been performed over three thousand times during the past thirty years with an attendance of over three hundred thousand patrons there might still be some folks who haven't seen "Plain and Fancy" at the Roun...
BWW Interview: Five on Friday with Gideon Lombard of DIE REUK VAN APPELS at The Fugard Theatre
by David Fick - October 13, 2017 This week's Five on Friday focuses on Gideon Lombard, who performs in DIE REUK VAN APPELS at The Fugard Theatre from next week. Based Mark Behr's 1993 novel, the solo play tells the coming-of-age story of Marnus Erasmus, the eleven-year-old son of a South African Defence Force general during the apa...
BWW Review: JUMP Challenges Us to Seek Deeper Connections, at Milagro Theatre
by Krista Garver - April 09, 2019 Charly Evon Simpson's JUMP, which is having its National New Play Network rolling world premiere courtesy of Milagro Theatre and Confrontation Theatre, explores the obstacles that we too frequently put between ourselves and real human connection....
BWW Review: Portland Playhouse's A CHRISTMAS CAROL Continues to Surprise and Delight
by Krista Garver - December 13, 2018 This production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL is absolutely delightful. And somehow, it manages to still be surprising. If you're the type who's skeptical about holiday shows in general, do yourself a favor and give this one a chance....
BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at The Santa Fe Playhouse
by Zoe Burke - November 30, 2018 Oscar Wilde's 1895 satire, The Importance of Being Earnest, is arguably his most popular, and almost definitely his most widely performed, work. Director Barbara Hatch's director's note references the daunting nature of taking on the challenge of producing such a beloved and well known work; it is m...
Newport Festivals Foundation Announces Donation to LA's The Harmony Project on Behalf of Lucius
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 28, 2018 On behalf of 2018 Newport Folk Festival performer Lucius, Newport Festivals Foundation has donated $5,000 to the Harmony Project - a nonprofit that provides free music instruction and instruments to youth in underserved areas of LA. The funds will be used to underwrite expenses for Harmony Project's...
BWW Previews: Ensemble Theater presents HUSBANDS AND WIVES at The New Vic
by Maggie Yates - October 03, 2017 Ensemble Theater Company's season opener is a brand new adaptation of Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives, rendered for the stage by ETC's artistic Director, Jonathan Fox....
Lykken's THE SACRED MONSTER LIVE! to Return to Don't Tell Mama This Fall
by BWW News Desk - November 01, 2017 Rising alt-cabaret star Lykken, who Cabaret Scenes called a 'thrilling discovery,' returns to Don't Tell Mama Sunday November 19th at 9:00pm in his critically-acclaimed show Lykken 'The Sacred Monster' Live!...
BWW Interview: Director Jennifer Chambers Shares Her Winning Recipe For THE CAKE
by Gil Kaan - September 14, 2018 Bekah Brunstetter's THE CAKE will once again be served on a Los Angeles stage. Helmed by its original world premiere director Jennifer Chambers, THE CAKE has already begun previews, with opening night September 20, 2018 at the Geffen Theatre. A topic still making headlines, a baker's refusal to bake...
Review Roundup: Critics Weigh In On AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
by Tori Hartshorn - April 27, 2018 An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios' 'Avengers: Infinity War' brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an at...
Photo Flash: Amas Musical Theatre Celebrates Aherns and Flaherty at 2017 Gala
by Julie Musbach - April 08, 2017 Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Artistic Producer), New York City's award-winning pioneer in diversity and multi-ethnic casting in the performing arts since 1968, recently held the company's 48th Anniversary Gala Benefit honoring the Tony Award-winning composing team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen... |