Natalia Zukerman's New Album COME THIEF, COME FIRE Out Today
by BWW News Desk - September 16, 2014 Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Natalia Zukerman returns with her sixth studio album Come Thief, Come Fire, out today, September 16th on Talisman Records....
BWW Reviews: MADE IN DAGENHAM, Adelphi Theatre, November 5 2014
by Gary Naylor - November 06, 2014 Gary Naylor sees a spectacular musical that has its heart, if not always its sense of humour, in the right place as the Essex Girls of 1968 come out on top....
|the claque| to Present 4th Annual Play Series THE QUICK AND DIRTIES, 5/28-6/7
by BWW News Desk - April 25, 2014 |the claque|, New York's favorite arts and performance conglomerate, is proud to announce its fourth annual production of The Quick and Dirties (The QuaDs): Q4, playing at The Sheen Center in late May and early June of 2014....
NSCB Awards Scholarship to Dancer
by Tyler Peterson - July 02, 2015 The North Shore Civic Ballet (NSCB), a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, announces that Michaiah Fernandes has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Marblehead School of Ballet's (MSB) 2015 Summer Intensive in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Eleven-year-old Michaiah attends KIPP Academy Charter Scho...
Doc Brown to Host British Academy Children's Awards
by Caryn Robbins - October 17, 2014 The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has today announced that Ben 'Doc Brown' Smith will host this year's British Academy Children's Awards at the Roundhouse, London, on Sunday 23 November....
BWW Reviews: Unbearably Bland DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Can Use a Show Doctor
by Michael Dale - April 22, 2015 If it weren't for the book, music and lyrics, this would be a pretty terrific show....
|the claque| Announces Casting for THE QUICK AND DIRTIES Series, May-June 2014
by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2014 |the claque|, New York's favorite arts and performance conglomerate, is proud to announce its fourth annual production of The Quick and Dirties (The QuaDs): Q4, playing at The Sheen Center in late May and early June of 2014....
2014 Tony Nominees React - Beowulf Boritt 'Delighted, Thrilled and Excited'
by Robert Diamond - April 29, 2014 Beowulf Boritt, Act One, Best Scenic Design of a Play...
Meet the Stars of NYMF: Patrick Richwood of FOOLERIE
by Nora Dominick - July 14, 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival is in full swing and BroadwayWorld has taken the time to sit down with some of the stars of this years NYMF musicals. Like any great art form, musical theatre is shaped by the events and philosophies of the day. The strength and vitality of musical theatre lie in...
Deadline Investigates HAMILTON Budgets and Public Theater Profits
by Nicole Rosky - September 18, 2015 HAMILTON is the biggest hit that Broadway has seen in a while, and in a recent Deadline article, Jeremy Gerard investigates the money that got the show on its feet at the Public Theater, and the money that the production has brought in since Broadway performances began. Gerard writes:...
BWW Reviews: EVITA Brings a New Argentina to DC's Kennedy Center
by Jamie McGonnigal - October 03, 2014 There are few shows I know every word to, and even fewer I've known for 30 years. When I was 10, I was in the chorus of a community theatre production of EVITA in Hingham, MA. I became obsessed. In 5th grade, we had to do a biographical report on anyone we chose. All the other boys chose Babe Ruth, ...
The Longwood Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors Names Nick Adams Executive Director
by BWW News Desk - July 16, 2014 The Longwood Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Nick Adams has been named Executive Director, effective July 1, 2014. The Longwood Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Search Committee interviewed several highly qualified candidates, and they unanimously and enthusias...
Photo Flash: Sing For Your Seniors & BC/EFA Partner to Donate Piano to Encore Community Services Center
by Tyler Peterson - July 08, 2015 On Tuesday, June 30, Sing For Your Seniors (SFYS) dedicated at a special performance the new piano it donated to the Encore Community Services Center in the heart of the theater district. The purchase, made as part of SFYS' ongoing Piano Placement Project, was made possible by a grant from Broadway ...
Controversy Pushes NAAP to Cancel All Asian-American SHOW BOAT
by BWW News Desk - February 23, 2015 After a public outcry, the National Asian Artists Project has cancelled its upcoming, all Asian-American production of SHOW BOAT. The classic musical, featuring music by Jerome Kern and book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, would have been directed by Broadway veteran and Tony Award winner Tommy Tu...
BWW Reviews: Entertaining New Work WHITE TO GRAY at Mustard Seed Theatre
by Chris Gibson - February 12, 2015 Rob Maesaka, a St. Louis playwright, receives the opportunity to have one of his works premiered with Mustard Seed Theatre's presentation of his play, WHITE TO GRAY. It's an engaging piece of theatre that tells an interesting story that's dramatic and even occasionally funny at times. Judging a new ...
BWW Reviews: GLOBAL TAX DRIVER Could Use Clearer Directions
by Gil Kaan - March 23, 2015 A talented ensemble energizes the Los Angeles premiere of playwright Leilani Chan's Global Taxi Driver, a collection of taxi drivers' stories from all over the world....
New E! Series GOOD WORK to Debut 4/14
by Tyler Peterson - March 03, 2015 E! announced today the new one-hour, six episode pop culture roundtable series, “Good Work,” where hosts RuPaul, Dr. Terry Dubrow and Sandra Vergara celebrate the 'good work' and the 'not so good work' of Hollywood celebs....
Craig Zadan Offers Update On Next NBC Live Musical: 'One Will Be Coming For The Holidays'; Announcement Monday?
by Pat Cerasaro - March 29, 2015 Will it be THE WIZ or THE MUSIC MAN or maybe something else entirely?!...
BWW Interview: Delving into the Mind of Actor Delvyn Brown
by Caroline Sposto - October 12, 2015 Last spring I sat with a rapt audience seeing Levi Frazier, Junior's new play For Our Freedom and Yours, a one-man show is based on the life of Ira Frederick Aldridge, a 19th Century African American actor who, against all odds, achieved a distinguished stage career during the era of slavery. The d...
BWW Reviews: GRAND HOTEL, Southwark Playhouse, August 5 2015
by Gary Naylor - August 07, 2015 Gary Naylor sees an ambitious, timely revival of a musical that crackles with life, full of great singing and splendid dancing, if a touch demanding at 100 minutes all-through!...
BWW Interview: Andy Mattick, Alexandra Lastort, Mary Zastrow, Sara Marie Calvey of NINE at Camarillo Skyway Playhouse
by Cary Ginell - September 23, 2015 On October 2, Camarillo Skyway Playhouse debuts its production of Nine. Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film, 8 1/2, the musical version, which features a score by Maury Yeston, tells the story of Guido Contini, a film director approaching his 40th birthday who undergoes a midlife ...
Soho Rep. Meets Fundraising Goal Following Cancelled Gala
by Tyler Peterson - July 16, 2014 On March 31, 300 friends, artists and supporters gathered to celebrate and honor Soho Rep.'s Board Chair Jon Dembrow at their annual spring gala. Forty-five minutes into the evening, the beam supporting a second-story balcony at the event venue, Angel Orensanz Center, cracked. The building was deeme...
BWW Reviews: THE GREAT GOD PAN is a Moving and Compassionate Examination of a Sensitive Topic
by Frank Benge - April 06, 2015 We have all experienced our parents relating something from our childhood of which we have no memory. In fact, if we examine it, the things we don't remember probably are greater than the things we do. In THE GREAT GOD PAN, a new play by Amy Herzog, produced by Street Corner Arts, now in its regiona...
BWW Reviews: WAIT UNTIL DARK Is Worth Seeing - and Hearing - at Northwest Classical
by Patrick Brassell - September 07, 2014 Their production of Wait Until Dark is based on a revised script by Jeffrey Hatcher that premiered in 2013. The original, by Frederick Knott, opened in 1966 and was set at that time; this version is backdated to the 1940s. The loot is slightly different, and there are a few four-letter words added t...
SUBMISSIONS ONLY's Kate Wetherhead to Teach Musical Theater Audition Workshop, 3/22
by Caryn Robbins - March 06, 2015 ?Co-creator and star of "Submissions Only" Kate Wetherhead (Legally Blonde, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Ordinary Days) will be teaching a 4-session workshop "Auditioning for Musicals" at The Freeman Studio... |