![]() by Gary Naylor - January 19, 2018 A fine production that grapples with the play's tricky structure to bring home Brecht's political points with a relevance for today that can hardly be missed.... ![]() by Molly Korroch - November 24, 2017 'It looks like they forgot to clean up from the last performance!' joked a man in the audience. It's true. The stage at the Dance Loft on 14 looks like the remnants of a bad garage sale. It's littered with cardboard boxes and paper scraps, an old table and chairs, and a huge heap of empty Fanta cans... ![]() by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2017 American Theater Company (ATC) announces complete casting for Season 33 productions: Janine Nabers' world premiere of Welcome to Jesus, directed by Artistic Director Will Davis, October 26-December 3, 2017; Basil Kreimendahl's Chicago premiere of We're Gonna Be Okay, January 25-March 4, 2018, direct... ![]() by Julie Musbach - October 08, 2017 America's Oldest Little Theatre, The Players at The Barker Playhouse, will open their 109th season with ECLIPSED, Patricia Burke Brogan's fact-based drama about penitents confined to one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries.... ![]() by Julie Musbach - May 31, 2018 Mad Cow Theatre, continuing its eagerness to nurture the cultural offering for the growing Hispanic community of Central Florida, features this classic of American dramaturgy through a dramatic reading. The reading, completely in Spanish, is a translation by Leon Mirlas and will be directed by Elian... ![]() by Robert Diamond - November 09, 2017 ... ![]() by Stephi Wild - November 27, 2017 Rehearsal images have been released from the Tabard Theatre's Christmas production of The Little Match Girl, based on the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The musical that launched the Christmas single Mistletoe and Wine, will be directed by the original show's composer, Keith Strachan... ![]() by Tim Wright - February 01, 2018 Tim Wright reflects on drama schools charging fees for auditions... ![]() by Perry Tannenbaum - June 29, 2018 It takes decades for tragic losses and separations to turn around to bliss in Steve Martin's BRIGHT STAR, but there's plenty of sparkling bluegrass music along that rocky mountain road.... ![]() by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2017 On Friday, October 20, 2017, composer Scott Wollschleger releases his debut portrait album, Soft Aberration, on New Focus Recordings.... ![]() by BWW News Desk - July 19, 2017 Ovalhouse's powerful Autumn Season 2017 gives a voice to those who are unheard. In true Ovalhouse fashion, the season will include a vibrant yet thought-provoking collection of full-length shows and seven new FiRST BiTES.... ![]() by Jay Irwin - January 13, 2018 If you're going to put up Shakespeare (or any play really) with a different time or locale or, as is the case with the current Seattle Shakespeare Company production of Timon of Athens , with cross gender casting then have a reason for it. Have the shakeup mean something. With cross gender stuff,... ![]() by Kaitlin Milligan - September 12, 2018 Adventure Film Festival 2018 in Boulder, Colorado announces its official selections.... ![]() by Guest Blog: Kathryn Papworth-Smith - October 23, 2018 Tormented Casserole is made up of three curious women: Francesca McCrohon, Samantha Pain and Kathryn Papworth-Smith. Through our devised work, we seek to understand the complexity of humanity a bit more. Working on our first production, Gilded Butterflies, which will soon play at The Hope Theatre in... ![]() by BWW News Desk - September 01, 2018 New American Folk Theatre is pleased to present the world premiere of SCRAPS, the story of the Patchwork Girl of Oz, many years after her celebrated adventures in L. Frank Baum's Oz book series....
Photo Flash: HOG'SBELLY: A Fable Noir Grips Gorilla Tango
by A.A. Cristi - July 17, 2017 A Dead Whale Productions continues their inaugural season with the world premiere production of Artistic Associate Tyler Garamella's Hog'sBelly: A Fable Noir, directed by Founding Artistic Director Dane Eissler. A Dead Whale is proud to continue their commitment to challenge theatrical convention by... ![]() by BWW News Desk - September 04, 2018 'Sleep F$@cking: Revision' by Margot Mejia is an exploration of the physical experience of writing and revising a work that delves into a troubled writer's mind. Wine-addled and in a mire of insomnia, a character named John begins to lose sight of what is real and what is the novel. The world of the... ![]() by Kirsty Johnson - September 20, 2017 Ain't it a fine life?! sing the rag-tag group of boys of all ages, outfitted in worn boots, overalls, and dirty faces the instantly lovable gang of Newsies captures the hearts of audiences from the first time they run onstage....
BWW Review: 1984 is Doubleplusungood at Obsidian Theater
by Brett Cullum - June 03, 2017 It's certainly a relevant piece for our time, and I applaud the intention of bringing it to life in this era of political debate and mistrust of the media. But if you're going to dig this one up then have the nerve to make it feel dangerously close to the outside world.... ![]() by Lynn Beaver - September 18, 2017 Shakespeare's HENRY IV (Part 1) is easily the most entertaining of his history plays and Hidden Room pulls out all the stops to wring every moment of excitement from the story. Director Beth Burns, using a script cut by American Shakespeare Center's Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen, presents a stellar cast at t... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - August 09, 2018 The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) announces Cycle 30 of its Artist Studios program. The selected artists, who will work in MAD's sixth-floor open studios from August 7, 2018, through February 3, 2019, are Elodie Blanchard, Damien Davis, Jesse Harrod, Victoria Manganiello, Lily Moebes, and Monika Z... ![]() by BWW News Desk - November 08, 2017 The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) is sponsoring a textile drive on Wednesday, November 15th from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. in Duffy Square (46th Street between 7th Avenue and Broadway in Times Square)....
BWW Feature: Carefree's English Rose Tea Room a Divine Sensation
by Jeanmarie Simpson - April 25, 2017 We expected something quaint and maybe even charming, but nothing prepared us for the divine sensation that is the English Rose Tea Room in Carefree.... ![]() by BWW News Desk - September 01, 2018 New American Folk Theatre is pleased to announce casting for its world premiere of SCRAPS, the story of the Patchwork Girl of Oz, many years after her celebrated adventures in L. Frank Baum's Oz book series.... ![]() by BWW News Desk - November 10, 2017 The award-winning and much-loved La Soir e is thrilled to announce multiple new acts for its residency at the Aldwych Theatre, this winter, from 24 November 2017 to 3 February 2018.... |