Wilbury Group Announces New Streaming Program
by Stephi Wild - March 20, 2020 The Wilbury Theatre Group announces a new calendar of classes, performances, and events to be live-streamed on the company's Facebook and YouTube pages from now until April 12....
Langhorne Players Honor The Late Sam Shepard With BURIED CHILD
by BWW News Desk - September 15, 2018 Langhorne Players at the Spring Garden Mill continue their 76th season with a heartrending production of the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Buried Child. Written by Sam Shepard (Fool for Love, True West), Buried Child depicts with brutality and humor the disintegration of the American ...
Arizona Theatre Company Opens THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE
by Julie Musbach - April 19, 2019 Arizona Theatre Company will present the American premiere of Things I Know to be True by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell at the Temple of Music & Art in Tucson from April 20 through May 11, and at the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix from May 16 through June 2....
BWW Review: FLORIDA at Urban Arias
by Molly Korroch - April 11, 2018 The new opera Florida with music by Randall Eng and libretto by Donna Di Novelli, premiered last week at Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street. With its heavy handed melodrama and awkwardly balanced narrative, Sunday's matinee plodded along (well over Urban Arias' usual 90-minute-or-less promise)...
Eliot Krimsky Streams DARKNESS, Headlines National Sawdust On 2/16
by Tori Hartshorn - February 13, 2019 On February 22, composer, songwriter and keyboardist Eliot Krimsky will release his debut solo album, Wave in Time, via Pretty Purgatory. Perhaps best known for his work as the frontman and co-founder of the band Glass Ghost, Krimsky has performed extensively in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Mexico. ...
VIDEO: Ohio Community Theater Group Takes On 'Liberal Stranglehold' on the American Stage
by Alan Henry - March 28, 2019 Stage Right Theatrics is a company promoting conservative-themed plays and the artists who create them. In a new feature from Vice News, the company - based in Columbus, OH, is profiled. Check out the video below....
VIDEO: Trailer for HBO Max's NUCLEAR FAMILY Documentary
by Michael Major - September 10, 2021 The documentary takes place in the late 70s/early 80s, when the concept of a gay family was inconceivable to most, Ry and her sister Cade were born to two lesbian mothers through sperm donors. Ry’s idyllic childhood was threatened by an unexpected lawsuit which sent shockwaves through her family’s l...
Award-Winning International Trans Non-binary Fringe Performer Brings Two Bold Solo Story-telling Shows About Diversity, Belonging, And Resilience
by Stephi Wild - August 19, 2018 The award-winning international touring writer/performer, Ren Lunicke, brings two of their highly entertaining, thought-provoking autobiographical works about identity and belonging to Los Angeles for the first time as part of a West Coast 'Belonging Tour' stretching from Victoria, BC to San Diego,...
SCTC Returns to In-Person Theatre with The Regional Premiere of Quiara Alegrîa Hudes' DAPHNE'S DIVE
by A.A. Cristi - August 03, 2021 South Camden Theatre Company and the Waterfront South Theatre in Camden, NJ will once again reopening to live audiences. The production, the regional premiere of Quiara Alegrîa Hudes' “Daphne's Dive” will open to live, in-person audiences on September 10, 2021. ...
The Playwrights Realm Presents THE REVOLVING CYCLES TRULY AND STEADILY ROLL'D
by Julie Musbach - July 11, 2018 The Playwrights Realm (Katherine Kovner, Founding Artistic Director; Roberta Pereira, Producing Director) kicks off its 2018-2019 season with the world premiere of Jonathan Payne's The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll'd, directed by Awoye Timpo (Sept. 7-Oct. 6, at The Duke on 42nd Street, a ...
BWW Review: ACCIDENTALLY BRAVE at DR2 THEATRE
by Kathryn Kitt - April 04, 2019 'A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,' says Paul Rober, Stanford Economist. I doubt he had Maddie Corman in mind, but his statement certainly applies to her one woman show 'Accidentally Brave.' Written and performed by Ms. Corman, this story is something no one would ever want to experience. She d...
NUCLEAR FAMILY Three-Part HBO Documentary Series Debuts September 26
by TV News Desk - August 18, 2021 The series is directed by Ry (“Before I Fall”), an award-winning filmmaker, and produced by Academy Award and Emmy® winner Dan Cogan of Story Syndicate and Warren Fischer....
World Premiere of SPECIAL Comes to Theatre of NOTE
by BWW News Desk - December 14, 2018 Special is the World Premiere comedy that commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the worst variety show in television history with a behind-the-scenes imagined look of how The Star Wars Holiday Special came to be....
Daniel Fish's WHITE NOISE Among NYU Skirball's Season
by Julie Musbach - July 24, 2019 NYU Skirball's season opens on September 6, 2019 with the N.Y. premiere of JoAnne Akalaitis's BAD NEWS! i was therea??, a site-specific processional work performed throughout NYU Skirball's lobbies and backstage...
BWW Review: NEXT TO NORMAL Breaks Stigmas at Cultural Arts Playhouse
by Jaime Zahl - December 03, 2018 Mental illness continues to have a stigma in this country and I applaud the Cultural Arts Playhouse for taking on a musical with such difficult and timely subject material. The passion this cast has for their production is evident through their dedication to diving head first into the emotional narr...
Daniel Fish's WHITE NOISE Gets U.S. Premiere At NYU Skirball
by A.A. Cristi - August 06, 2019 NYU Skirball will present the U.S. premiere of Tony Award winner Daniel Fish's White Noise, freely inspired by the novel by Don DeLillo....
Theater for the New City Stages OR CURRENT RESIDENT
by Julie Musbach - December 21, 2017 Part of our shared experience as Americans today is how we strain under the weight of the tech sector. Millionaires are made overnight and we endure the distortions of social media while gentrification pushes us out of our homes. When that happens, it rips us away from our history as if we never mat...
Arizona Theatre Company Presents THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE
by Stephi Wild - April 03, 2019 Arizona Theatre Company (Sean Daniels, Artistic Director; Billy Russo, Managing Director) will present the American premiere of Things I Know to be True by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell at the Temple of Music & Art in Tucson from April 20 through May 11, and at the Herberger Theater Center in ...
Lookingglass Theatre Announces Casting For Mary Zimmerman's THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER: A CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME
by BWW News Desk - November 07, 2018 Lookingglass Theatre Company announces casting for the world premiere of The Steadfast Tin Soldier: A Christmas Pantomime, from the story by Hans Christian Andersen, conceived and directed by Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman. This family-friendly, holiday show runs November 7, 2018 - January 13, 2019 ...
BWW Review: Hale Centre Theatre Presents DEAR RUTH
by Herbert Paine - October 03, 2018 The joyful noise emanating from downtown Gilbert is the unrestrained laughter of audiences during Hale Centre Theatre's uproarious production of Norman Krasna's timeless screwball comedy, DEAR RUTH, directed by Cambrian James and featuring a superb cast. The show runs through November 13th....
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for Upcoming Film WILDLIFE Starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal
by Macon Prickett - May 23, 2018 IFC Films presents WILDLIFE, the directorial debut of Paul Dano (THERE WILL BE BLOOD, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE), co-written along with Zoe Kazan (THE BIG SICK). Elegantly adapted from Richard Ford's novel of the same name, Carey Mulligan (MUDBOUND, AN EDUCATION) delivers one of her finest performances t...
Lookingglass Theatre Company Presents ACT(S) OF GOD By Ensemble Member Kareem Bandealy
by BWW News Desk - February 13, 2019 Lookingglass Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Act(s) of God, by Ensemble Member Kareem Bandealy, directed by Ensemble Member Heidi Stillman. Act(s) of God runs February 13 April 7, 2019 at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. M...
Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre Presents WASP and AMERICAN ROULETTE
by A.A. Cristi - September 12, 2018 Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) announces WASP by Steve Martin and American Roulette by Tom McCormack, September 27 - October 7, 2018. Two one-act plays with an absurdist take on the American Dream, WASP and American Roulette are presented under the auspices of ND Thea...
Punk Power Trio Sharp/Shock Announces New Album YOUTH CLUB Out May 25
by Macon Prickett - April 12, 2018 Sharp/Shock's name could not be a more accurate indicator of their relentlessly melodic, delightfully explosive sound. The punk power trio—comprised of Davey Warsop (Beat Union, Suedehead), Dan Smith (The Dear & Departed; world-renowned tattoo artist) and Jared Shavelson (The Hope Conspiracy, Paint ... |