BWW Reviews: A.C.T.'s UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL Delights Through November 23
by Linda Hodges - November 02, 2013 San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater's Production of 'Underneath the Lintel' has extended its run due to advance ticket sales. Catch this solo performance by Academy Award nominee David Strathairn now through Nov. 23....
GET AWAY FROM ME I LOVE YOU Set for 2013 Hot! Festival at Dixon Place Tonight
by BWW News Desk - July 31, 2013 Dixon Place presents Leigh Hendrix's Get Away From Me I Love You as part of the 2013 Hot! Festival in the Dixon Place Lounge. A queer goodbye story developed and performed in actual apartments in Providence, RI, tonight, July 31st at 7:30 pm performance is its world premiere production. The performa...
Selena Gomez Denied Russian Visa Due to Her Support of Gay Rights
by Caryn Robbins - September 20, 2013 According to Billboard Russian authorities have denied a visa request from pop singer Selena Gomez. The singer was to perform in Minsk, Belarus and Kiev, Ukraine and next week in St. Petersburg, but all of the performances have been removed from her intinerary....
JetBlue To Launch Composting Program At JFK's Terminal 5
by Robert Diamond - May 29, 2013 JetBlue Airways (JBLU), New York's Hometown Airline, today announced a partnership with Air Ventures and Royal Waste Services to compost leftovers from select restaurants in Terminal 5 (T5) at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Air Ventures, the franchisee that owns and operates the Jamba Juice ...
BWW Exclusive: ANNE HATHAWAY's 1st Drama Teacher Shares Memories (& Video) of Paper Mill Years
by Caryn Robbins - March 02, 2013 Paper Mill theater teacher Mickey McNany first remembers Anne Hathaway as a bright, ambitious 10-year-old who was eager to make her mark on the stage. The 30-year teaching veteran spoke exclusively to BWW about the student she calls 'larger than life,' and even shared some rare footage of the actres...
Sundance Channel Announces 'The Rectify Project' Awards Campaign
by Caryn Robbins - November 20, 2013 Sundance Channel will give the awards community a thought provoking 'For Your Consideration' campaign that explores some of the risk-taking questions raised by the network's first original scripted series, 'Rectify.'...
SOUND OFF: GLEE Returns With FUNNY GIRL, Fights & 'Frenemies'
by Pat Cerasaro - February 26, 2014 Light the lights! FOX's hit musical dramedy series returned after a long midseason hiatus last night - and how! To cite an especially adored and incredibly iconic Jule Styne score, GYPSY, the fights, fits, feuds and some gigantic egos were on display - and it was an episode fit for Madame Rose - but...
T5 Turns Five! JetBlue, New York's Hometown Airline, Celebrates Fifth Anniversary of T5 at New York's JFK
by Robert Diamond - October 22, 2013 JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq:JBLU) today celebrates the fifth anniversary of its hometown terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Terminal 5. The award-winning terminal, designed by Gensler and created in collaboration with Turner Construction Company, Arup, AECOM (as DMJM Harris) and Rockwell...
BWW Reviews: THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT Calls Out at Oyster Mill
by Marakay Rogers - June 03, 2013 Some shows are iconic, known by everyone - that would be LES MISERABLES. Others are iconic and not known, best identified by individual songs that everyone knows by heart, while many people know the songs and have no clue that they are show tunes. That would be THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, THE SMELL...
Guy Bala Releases MEMORIES, THOUGHTS AND DREAMS
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2013 With a heroic honesty of masculine romanticism, Memories, Thoughts, and Dreams reflects one man's journey through the viscerally chaotic landscape of the heart. . . . From the fear of love, to the bloom of new love, to the mourning of lost love, this small and sweet poetic work reflects the epic jou...
THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE Runs 5/23-6/16 in Mill Valley
by Kelsey Denette - April 26, 2013 Marin Theatre Company closes its 2012-13 Season with a revival of Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane in Mill Valley from May 23 to June 16. Named San Francisco Chronicle's MVP of 2012 Bay Area theater, Mark Jackson (Shotgun Players, Aurora Theater Company) directs this "gloriously funny; ...
THE WIZARD OF OZ Comes to Detroit, 6/17-29; Tickets on Sale 3/23
by BWW News Desk - June 17, 2014 Broadway In Detroit is delighted to announce that the first North American tour of the new stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ will play the Detroit Opera House, June 17 - 29, 2014....
BWW Reviews: SummerStock Austin Presents Tuneful, Joyous BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS
by Jeff Davis - July 27, 2013 Theatrical shows for children are a dime a dozen, but children's theater productions that can also please adults are as rare and unique as the musically inclined animals in The Bremen Town Musicians. The exuberant musical-one of SummerStock Austin's three offerings currently playing in repertory at...
SOUND OFF: GLEE Returns With FUNNY GIRL, Fights & 'Frenemies'
by Pat Cerasaro - February 26, 2014 Light the lights! FOX's hit musical dramedy series returned after a long midseason hiatus last night - and how! To cite an especially adored and incredibly iconic Jule Styne score, GYPSY, the fights, fits, feuds and some gigantic egos were on display - and it was an episode fit for Madame Rose - but...
BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, INTO THE WOODS and More Set for SF Playhouse's 2013-14 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 06, 2013 San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill Englishand Producing Director Susi Damilano announced selections today for the 2013-14 Season....
White Castle Celebrates Earth Day By Becoming 'Greener'
by Robert Diamond - April 22, 2014 White Castle is best known for serving its famous Sliders at more than 400 restaurants, but what many don't know is that this 94-year-old national icon also is passionate about sustainability. The efforts of the family-owned business to become "greener" started in the 1960s with founde...
Helen O. Bigelow Announces New Book on Hardships of WWII Victims
by Robert Diamond - September 28, 2013 Helen O. Bigelow was inspired to write 'Coffee Grounds and Potato Peeling Pancakes: The Garbage We Ate to Live' (published by AuthorHouse) after hearing stories from foreign war survivors, reviewing the scrapbook she had maintained during World War II and reading the war letters she received from he...
BWW Interviews: Fred Whitehead of 'Dog Ears Book Store & Cafe'
by Mark C. Lloyd - January 27, 2014 In the South towns of Buffalo, New York, rests a small independent non-profit book store ironically named 'Dog Ears Book Store & Cafe'. Down stairs the glossy wooden floors enhanced an already organized environment. A newly added cafe and a space upstairs for artistic events and classes makes for a ...
Jim Osman's STACK to Open at Lesley Heller Workspace, 3/10
by BWW News Desk - February 25, 2013 Jim Osman's 'Stack' will hold its opening reception at the Lesley Heller Workspace on Sunday, March 10 from 6-8pm....
Tickets to ELF THE MUSICAL at Detroit Opera House on Sale Today
by BWW News Desk - September 29, 2013 Broadway In Detroit in association with NETworks Presentations, LLC, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures and Unique Features, bring the Broadway musical ELF to the Detroit Opera House, December 3 - 15, 2013. Tickets will go on sale today, September 29 at noon at all Ticketmaster locations, by phone at 1-8...
Bookworks Presents Today's Shelf Awareness for Readers
by BWW News Desk - June 24, 2014 With school dismissed, it's time for pure pleasure reading. Emily's Blue Period by Cathleen Day, illustrated by Lisa Brown (reviewed below), will send youngsters scurrying for scraps of wrapping paper, crayons and paintbrushes to make their creations. For additional inspiration, dip into Lois Ehlert...
The Dirty Blondes to Make FringeNYC Debut with THE TUNNEL PLAY, 8/9-21
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2014 The Dirty Blondes, a feminist theater company with a taste for provocation, present this brand new play -- THE TUNNEL PLAY -- by playwright and Artistic Director Ashley Jacobson, directed by Courtney Laine Self, in their first ever production in the New York International Fringe Festival....
BWW Reviews: An Energetic WEST SIDE STORY Returns to the National Theatre
by Benjamin Tomchik - June 04, 2014 West Side Story returned to the storied National Theatre on Tuesday night with an energetic revival that contains all the elements of what made this show a beloved classic....
BWW Blog: James Beaman of Cape Playhouse's 1776 - Becoming John Adams
by Guest Blogger: James Beaman - June 06, 2014 I am a research fanatic; I admit it. With each role I play I become my own dramaturge, digging around to learn everything I can about the source material of the play, the period it is set in… anything that will enable me to get inside the skin of the character. Years ago, I created a series of sol...
Babes With Blades Theatre Company to Present L'IMBECILE, Begin. 4/5
by Tyler Peterson - February 14, 2014 In a world premiere production, Babes With Blades Theatre Company is proud to present L'Imbecile, by Aaron Adair, at Rivendell Theatre, 5779 N. Ridge Ave. in Chicago. Previews will be Saturday, April 5, Thursday April 10, and Friday April 11 at 8PM. The opening is Saturday, April 12 at 8PM, and the ... |