BWW Review: Live in Living Color: Vibrant CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Closes Lyric Season
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - June 05, 2017 It's hard to imagine why this gem of a show had such a short Broadway run, but it is finding new life in regional productions, not the least of which opened here at South Portland's Lyric Music Theater this past weekend. Directed by Mary Meserve with sparkling choreography by Raymond Marc Dumont and...
John Boshard Pens 'Shaving Sasquatch'
by Christina Mancuso - March 28, 2017 John Boshard, a zealous story teller and author, has completed his new book 'Shaving Sasquatch': a gripping and potent story about a young boy scout that discovers the magnificence of North California somewhat by accident....
Jay Armstrong Johnson's Live 54 Below Album Out This Fall
by BWW News Desk - August 05, 2016 Broadway Records today announced that Jay Armstrong Johnson - Live at Feinstein's/54 Below will be released digitally and in stores on Friday, September 16, 2016....
Broadwaysted Podcast Welcomes Barricade Boy Chris McCarrell
by Broadwaysted - January 17, 2017 This week we're so excited there's no empty chairs at our table as we sit down with Broadway's Chris McCarrell! We pour out margaritas of sorts (margaritas with tequila and the vegetable juice Kevin brought) and discuss Chris's experience in LES MISERABLES on Broadway....
TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT to World Premiere at
Dances With Films Festival
by A.A. Cristi - May 10, 2017 TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT to World Premiere at Dances With Films Festival Acclaimed actor Joe Cortese delivers a tour de force performance as Yianni, the host of a talk show that plays in his own beautiful but fractured mind Los Angeles, May 10th...Inspired by a daughter's love and true-to-life events...
BWW Review: ALTAR BOYZ: Music With a Mission
by Nancy Grossman - March 27, 2017 Boy bands were big in the '90s. Marked by close harmonies, synchronized choreography, and saccharine sex appeal, each had its own image and they were particularly successful with young female audiences. ALTAR BOYZ at the Stoneham Theatre spins the concept, combining it with the popular wave of Chris...
Smash Hit THE KITE RUNNER to Fly Again in the West End
by BWW News Desk - March 22, 2017 After 93 standing ovations and wowing 60,000 people at Wyndhams Theatre, "The Kite Runner" will transfer to the Playhouse Theatre for a strictly limited 8-week season....
London's Immersive SWEENEY TODD Opens Tonight Off-Broadway
by BWW News Desk - March 01, 2017 The Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street welcomes the stars of the original London incarnation of the production, Jeremy Secomb (as Sweeney Todd), Siobhan McCarthy (as Mrs. Lovett), Duncan Smith (as Judge Turpin) and Joseph Taylor (as Tobias), reprising thei...
Photo Flash: Bristol Old Vic's Inventive PETER PAN Comes to the National Theatre Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 17, 2016 Director Sally Cookson brings her wondrously inventive Peter Pan to the National Theatre after a sell-out, critically acclaimed run at Bristol Old Vic Theatre. Peter Pan will open in the Olivier Theatre tonight 17 November, with press night on Friday 2 December. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the...
Regional Roundup: Top 10 Stories This Week Around the Broadway World - 5/13; DRACULA in Rhode Island, AMERICAN IDIOT in Nashville and More!
by BWW Special Coverage - May 13, 2016 This week, we go around our Broadway World to feature stories in Rhode Island, Nashville, Sacramento and more. Check out our top 10 stories around our Broadway World below, which include DRACULA in Rhode Island, AMERICAN IDIOT in Nashville, and BIG FISH in Sacramento, just to name a few....
BWW Interview: Dancer Ryan Steele on His Dual Roles in the Tour of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
by Bob Rizzo - September 20, 2016 You may know him as Broadway's bespectacled 'Newsie' who whipped off multiple ballet turns atop a sheet of newspaper. Maybe you spotted him as a lost boy in NBC's Peter Pan Live!, or caught his sensitive portrayal of Baby John in the revival of West Side Story. But Ryan Steele has graduated from ado...
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal for Bristol Old Vic's Inventive PETER PAN, Coming to the National Theatre
by BWW News Desk - November 08, 2016 Director Sally Cookson brings her wondrously inventive Peter Pan to the National Theatre after a sell-out, critically acclaimed run at Bristol Old Vic Theatre. Peter Pan will open in the Olivier Theatre on Thursday 17 November, with press night on Friday 2 December. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at...
BWW Photo Exclusive: Broadway Vets Star in THE LOST BOY Reading, Helmed by Hunter Foster
by BWW News Desk - November 15, 2016 Broadway's Matt Doyle, Joyce Van Patten, Patrick Breen, Jennifer Cody, Elizabeth Morton, James Lecesne and Sheffield Chastain appeared in a industry reading of Ron Palillo's play, The Lost Boy, at Martian Entertainment yesterday, November 14th. Tony Award Nominee Hunter Foster (Urinetown, Little Sho...
CBS Announces Participants in Its 2016-17 Directors Initiative
by Caryn Robbins - December 08, 2016 CBS today announced the participants in its 2016-2017 Directors Initiative. The Initiative provides a platform of opportunity for talented television directors to be introduced to the CBS family....
BWW Review: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER at Theatre Tallahassee Ropes Audience In
by Paula Kiger - April 03, 2017 After seeing Peter and the Starcatcher at Theatre Tallahassee, I have a deeper appreciation for how Peter got his name. Superb physical comedy, seasoned actors, and a sense of whimsy combined for a delightful show....
Regional Roundup: Top 10 Stories This Week Around the Broadway World - 5/13; DRACULA in Rhode Island, AMERICAN IDIOT in Nashville and More!
by BWW Special Coverage - May 13, 2016 This week, we go around our Broadway World to feature stories in Rhode Island, Nashville, Sacramento and more. Check out our top 10 stories around our Broadway World below, which include DRACULA in Rhode Island, AMERICAN IDIOT in Nashville, and BIG FISH in Sacramento, just to name a few....
Reuben Hollebon Debuts Acoustic Video for 'Haystacks'; Confirms Fall Tour with Joseph Arthur
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2016 The acoustic video for 'Haystacks,' off emerging English musician, producer and engineer Reuben Hollebon's debut album Terminal Nostalgia (out now on Bright Antenna), is premiering via Impose Magazine....
Photo Flash: Robyn Mellor, Lauren Cocoracchio and More Lead BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
by Julie Musbach - January 27, 2017 Full casting is announced today for the London premiere of Breaking Up is Hard to Do, the musical featuring the songs of pop icon Neil Sedaka....
Teens Invited to A NIGHT IN NEVERLAND at DreamWrights
by BWW News Desk - December 07, 2016 Seventeen-year-old Paige Gross has attended all of the teen dances at DreamWrights. She and her friends have enjoyed them so much that she decided to take matters into her own hands....
Regional Roundup: Top 10 Stories This Week Around the Broadway World - 5/13; DRACULA in Rhode Island, AMERICAN IDIOT in Nashville and More!
by BWW Special Coverage - May 13, 2016 This week, we go around our Broadway World to feature stories in Rhode Island, Nashville, Sacramento and more. Check out our top 10 stories around our Broadway World below, which include DRACULA in Rhode Island, AMERICAN IDIOT in Nashville, and BIG FISH in Sacramento, just to name a few....
Teens Invited to A NIGHT IN NEVERLAND at DreamWrights
by BWW News Desk - December 28, 2016 Seventeen-year-old Paige Gross has attended all of the teen dances at DreamWrights. She and her friends have enjoyed them so much that she decided to take matters into her own hands....
Perseverance Theatre Opens 16-17 Season with PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
by BWW News Desk - September 29, 2016 Before Captain Hook, before Wendy, before Tinkerbell - there was simply a lost boy who never grew up. Be carried away to the Neverland you never knew in Peter and the Starcatcher, Perseverance Theatre's first production of the season....
Jason Odell Williams' CHURCH & STATE Begins Tomorrow Off-Broadway
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2017 Charlotte Cohn, co-producers SCS Innovations, LLC, Forty-Eight Theatrical Group, Brierpatch Productions, Neil Gooding Productions, Karen Cohen/Jack Hayflick, Ralph Meranto/JCC Centerstage, in association with NewYorkRep & The Telling Company, present the New York Premiere of Jason Odell Williams' cr...
Photo Flash: First Look at Rehearsals for Neil Sedaka Musical BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
by BWW News Desk - March 23, 2017 The eagerly awaited UK premiere of Breaking Up is Hard to Do, a new musical featuring the songs of Neil Sedaka opens at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate Village, from March 29th....
Jay Armstrong Johnson's Live 54 Below Album Out Today
by BWW News Desk - September 16, 2016 Broadway Records celebrates the release of Jay Armstrong Johnson - Live at Feinstein's/54 Below digitally and in stores today, September 16, 2016.... |