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Review: OF LOSS: HANDLE WITH CARE at Baxter Theatre Centre Is Experimental, Jarring, Photo Review: OF LOSS: HANDLE WITH CARE at Baxter Theatre Centre Is Experimental, Jarring, and Powerful
by Jaime Uranovsky - October 21, 2023

OF LOSS: HANDLE WITH CARE interrogates the ramifications of the continued exhibition of stolen African artefacts in museums around the globe. What consequences does this have on the collective and individual psyches of African people and communities? What would restitution look like? Is it even poss...


Review: THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA, Royal Opera House Photo Review: THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA, Royal Opera House
by Alexander Cohen - November 14, 2022

There is a growing trend of operas drawing inspiration from and working alongside the contemporary theatre world. Whether it is collaborations or borrowing ideas, in these tempestuous times for the performing arts our artistic ecosystem inevitably grows richer as a result....


BWW Interview: Debbie Kurup Talks SWEET CHARITY at Donmar Warehouse Photo BWW Interview: Debbie Kurup Talks SWEET CHARITY at Donmar Warehouse
by Marianka Swain - March 28, 2019

Debbie Kurup's extensive musical theatre experience ranges from Chicago, West Side Story and Sister Act to originating roles in Girl from the North Country and The Bodyguard. She's currently playing taxi dancer Helene in Cy Coleman, Neil Simon and Dorothy Fields' Sweet Charity - the farewell prod...


Factory Announces 2018 – 2019 Season, 'Canada At Your Doorstep' Photo Factory Announces 2018 – 2019 Season, 'Canada At Your Doorstep'
by Stephi Wild - May 29, 2018

Artistic Director Nina Lee Aquino presents "Canada at Your Doorstep" the 2018 - 2019 Factory Season; six provocative works that challenge and interrogate popular narratives of Canadian identity....


Review: ACCOLADE, Theatre Royal Windsor Photo Review: ACCOLADE, Theatre Royal Windsor
by Kat Mokrynski - June 10, 2024

Written by Emlyn Williams in 1950, Accolade tells the fictional story of an accomplished writer named Will Trenting (Ayden Callaghan) who finds the world he has built falling apart in front of him as a secret from the past comes to haunt him. The production, directed by Sean Mathias, is part of Math...


Atlanta Opera to Premiere New SALOME Starring Jennifer Holloway Photo Atlanta Opera to Premiere New SALOME Starring Jennifer Holloway
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 10, 2020

The Atlanta Opera will launch the new year with a new mainstage production of Salome, Richard Strauss's still unsettling 1905 take on Oscar Wilde's twisted biblical tale of incest, seduction and power (Jan 25, 28, 31; Feb 2)....


BWW Dance Review: Sean Dorsey's THE MISSING GENERATION, June 20, 2018.   Photo BWW Dance Review: Sean Dorsey's THE MISSING GENERATION, June 20, 2018.  
by Barnett Serchuk - June 24, 2018

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FRANKIE GOES TO BOLLYWOOD Will Embark on UK Tour Photo FRANKIE GOES TO BOLLYWOOD Will Embark on UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - June 26, 2023

A British Bollywood musical following the story of a young British South Asian woman who is thrust into the dazzling bright lights of the biggest film industry in the world. As Frankie embarks on her colourful journey to stardom, she begins to discover all that glitters is not gold. But how much of ...


EgoPo To Present World Premiere Performances of Harlem Renaissance Novel PLUM BUN Thi Photo EgoPo To Present World Premiere Performances of Harlem Renaissance Novel PLUM BUN This April
by A.A. Cristi - March 24, 2023

EgoPo's 2022-2023 Harlem Renaissance Season, co-presented with Theatre in the X, will close with the world premiere theatrical staging of Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun in the month of her 141st birthday. ...


BWW Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Bucks County Playhouse Photo BWW Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Bucks County Playhouse
by Anne Marie Scalies - October 15, 2018

Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show has become a staple at The Bucks County Playhouse.  Year after year, director Hunter Foster restages this cult classic that brings audiences in by the car load.  A night mixed with theatre lovers as well as committed fans of both the movie, 'The Rocky Horror P...


Frankie and the Witch Fingers share new single 'i-Candy' Photo Frankie and the Witch Fingers share new single 'i-Candy'
by Josh Sharpe - October 09, 2024

After the release of the brutally raw “Bonehead,” Frankie and the Witch Fingers continue to preview their new music by sharing the double AA side single, “i-Candy.' Listen to it now!...


BWW Review: ACQUANETTA at Fisher Center At Bard. Director Daniel Fish (OKLAHOMA!) Sta Photo BWW Review: ACQUANETTA at Fisher Center At Bard. Director Daniel Fish (OKLAHOMA!) Startles Again
by Dan Dwyer - July 18, 2019

'I know you want everything to be clear and simple' is the last chorus of the fabulous chamber opera, 'Acquanetta', about the voluptuous, B-movie actress who had a sunstorm of celebrity in the 1940s. Indeed, the narrative structure 'Acquanetta' is rather uncomplicated based on a single scene in the ...


Brooklyn Rock Duo Power Pose Announce Debut LP Photo Brooklyn Rock Duo Power Pose Announce Debut LP
by Michael Major - May 26, 2022

Brooklyn-based rock duo Power Pose share anthemic, drum-backed first single 'Honey,' accompanied by a DIY, carefree video–an at-home dance party complete with playful colors and wigs as the duo jam together. In addition to the fiery single, Power Pose announce their defiant debut full-length album I...


Atarashii Gakko! Share Latest Offering 'Toryanse' Photo Atarashii Gakko! Share Latest Offering 'Toryanse'
by Michael Major - January 29, 2024

Playing on the classic nursery rhyme, ATARASHII GAKKO! is at a crossroads - literally, figuratively - and sing about powering through life's trials and tribulations one step at a time. The accompanying, colorful, high-octane music video pays homage to elements of Japanese youth culture and ends with...


Gabrielle Marlena Releases Fiery Single OLDER THAN ME Photo Gabrielle Marlena Releases Fiery Single OLDER THAN ME
by Tori Hartshorn - June 05, 2019

Gabrielle Marlena has a gift for being direct, unguarded, and vulnerable, as a songwriter - you feel as though you are reading the freshly scribbled pages of her diary. Her latest entry is 'Older Than Me,'a fiery and uncompriminsing track out Friday, June 7, and second single from upcoming album, Ma...


Experimental Bitch Hosts First Public Share Night For New Bitchin' Collabs Residency Photo Experimental Bitch Hosts First Public Share Night For New Bitchin' Collabs Residency
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 13, 2020

Experimental Bitch has announced Bitchin' Collabs' first public sharing on August 5th, featuring new works by Amara Brady, Aizzah Fatima, and Julie Piñero. Bitchin' Collabs is a new residency program supporting femme POC artists in the development of dynamic, interdisciplinary works-in-progress over...


TNT Expands Relationship With Niecy Nash, New Late Night Themed Pilot Photo TNT Expands Relationship With Niecy Nash, New Late Night Themed Pilot
by Tori Hartshorn - August 20, 2018

TNT Expands Relationship with Niecy Nash With New Late Night Themed Pilot...


BWW Review: Christmas Chaos Ensues in ELF, THE MUSICAL at Arvada Center For Arts & Hu Photo BWW Review: Christmas Chaos Ensues in ELF, THE MUSICAL at Arvada Center For Arts & Humanities
by Jon Bee - December 11, 2021

The holidays always come with baggage. Winter events, gift giving, and family gatherings can quickly devolve into mayhem among the twinkling lights that line every streetlamp and window sill. Though, Arvada Center's current holiday production of Elf provides it's own sense of pandemonium....


Grammy-Nominated Songwriter Asiah Million Releases New Book  Photo Grammy-Nominated Songwriter Asiah Million Releases New Book 
by A.A. Cristi - September 14, 2020

In Dreams, Love, and Music: Lifestyle Revised, a memoir written by Asiah Million, she shares her deepest struggles as a child which shaped her into the fearless, strong and independent woman she is today. In this book, she references music, such as hip hop and gospel, that fits different parts of he...


Amber Ikeman Releases Inspirational New EP 'Wild And Uneven' Photo Amber Ikeman Releases Inspirational New EP 'Wild And Uneven'
by A.A. Cristi - March 10, 2023

Spirited and earthy Folk songstress Amber Ikeman recently released her inspirational new EP called 'Wild and Uneven' (produced by Amber and Aaron Howard)....


EDINBURGH 2022: Pick of the Programme- Debut Edfringe shows Photo EDINBURGH 2022: Pick of the Programme- Debut Edfringe shows
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 20, 2022

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is well known as a place to discover 'the next big thing'. BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue has listed her top newcomers who are bringing their debut hour to the festival....


Grace Gaustad, Pop Music's Deep Voiced & Deep Thinking Millenial, Drops New Single: ' Photo Grace Gaustad, Pop Music's Deep Voiced & Deep Thinking Millenial, Drops New Single: 'Best Self'
by A.A. Cristi - April 19, 2019

“If I feel this way, there have to be 10 million other people who feel this way.”   With this deceptively simple reflection, young songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Grace Gaustad has tapped into that elusive organic formula of the human heart that is the recipe for timeless songwriting with the p...


Composer Hans Thomalla And Poet Joshua Clover to Release DARK SPRING Photo Composer Hans Thomalla And Poet Joshua Clover to Release DARK SPRING
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 23, 2021

On Friday, October 15, 2021, German-American composer Hans Thomalla and poet Joshua Clover will release a recording of their 90-minute song-opera Dark Spring on OehmsClassics. Dark Spring saw its live, in-person world premiere at the Mannheim Opera in fall 2020 in an unprecedented pandemic collabora...


Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Belk Theater Photo Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Belk Theater
by Perry Tannenbaum - November 29, 2024

While Marc Shaiman's score often sounds effortful in striving to make SOME LIKE IT HOT what it was in the first place—a musical with cherry-picked hits for Marilyn Monroe to sing—the book by Matthew Lopez and Amber Ruffin helps the story and its main characters diversify and evolve. Director Casey N...


Review: THE RITE OF SPRING/COMMON GROUND[S], Sadler’s Wells Photo Review: THE RITE OF SPRING/COMMON GROUND[S], Sadler’s Wells
by Matthew Paluch - November 07, 2024

Sadler’s Wells advertise The Rite of Spring / common ground[s] bill as “iconic” and I'm tempted to agree. It's rare that a programme can be so satisfying - two works so different yet complimentary, both steeped in power and intention. It's a night not to be missed that's for sure. ...






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