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BWW Reviews: Versatile Peter Mac Shines Once More @ the Gardenia
by Don Grigware - November 29, 2011

Tribute artist Peter Mac, nominated for 4 BWW Awards 2011, left his dresses in the closet November 25 and 26 to present an intimate evening of song at the Gardenia in honor of his favorite composers.Potpourri was almost the title of the show, Mac explained, because the composers as diverse as Harold...


Silvano Monasterios Appears at the Beehive
by BWW News Desk - September 27, 2011

Silvano Monasterios celebrates his new Savant CD 'Unconditional' with appearances in Boston & New York City beginning with an appearance tonight at The Beehive in Boston....


Silvano Monasterios Celebrates Savant CD With Appearances In Boston & NYC
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 22, 2011

Silvano Monasterios celebrates his new Savant CD 'Unconditional' with appearances in Boston & New York City...


Arsht Center Presents City Theatre's SUMMER SHORTS FESTIVAL
by Beau Higgins - April 19, 2012

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County presents City Theatre's 17th annual SUMMER SHORTS FESTIVAL, South Florida's fast and furiously fun program of the nation's hottest short plays, staged in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House) from June 1-...


BWW Reviews: MEGAN MULLALLY & Supreme Music Program at OCPAC
by Michael L. Quintos - October 09, 2010

'As you can tell, we're not really a cabaret. Surprise!' So begins Megan Mullally during the start of her series of concerts at the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Samueli Theater with her band Supreme Music Program. The mostly older crowd expecting jazz standards and showtunes on her return ...


ESPN Inc. Announces Over 30 Hours of Weekly NFL Programming
by Caryn Robbins - September 07, 2012

ESPN kicks off the 43rd season of Monday Night Football on Sept. 10 with a doubleheader: Cincinnati Bengals vs. Baltimore Ravens (7 p.m. ET), and San Diego Chargers vs. Oakland Raiders (10:15 p.m.) MNF's new two-person booth of Mike Tirico (play-by-play) and Jon Gruden (analyst) will call the opener...


Raven Theatre Extends Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1/1-15
by BWW News Desk - January 01, 2011

Raven Theatre announces a three-week extension of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the opener of Raven's 28th season, directed by Michael Menendian....


Alice Cooper Returns with a New Album, 9/13
by Kelsey Denette - August 01, 2011

Alice Cooper's widely anticipated new album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, will be released September 13, 2011, by Universal Music Enterprises. Recorded with longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, who produced the original multi-platinum Welcome To My Nightmare album in 1975, the album picks up right where they...


Winners of LA's Next Great Stage Star 2013 Announced
by Don Grigware - February 12, 2013

On Sunday, February 10 LA's Next Great Stage Star 2013 came to a thrilling conclusion atSterling's Upstairs at the Federal. Sadly, one contestant, Matthew Bohrer, was stranded at Logan Airport, Boston due to the East coast blizzard of the past several days. Host Michael Sterling contacted Bohrer by ...


TV: Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents OFF CENTER FESTIVAL
by Michael L. Quintos - January 13, 2012

Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, CA introduces a bold new project with its first OFF CENTER FESTIVAL, a dizzying mix of contemporary theater, music, dance and performance art taking place throughout the campus over nine days January 13 - 21. Every company and performer will be appear...


Luba Mason Returns to Birdland 3/7
by Gabrielle Sierra - February 15, 2011

Jim Caruso is proud to present the return of singer Luba Mason to the Broadway at Birdland concert series on Monday, March 7 at 7pm. ...


Silvano Monasterios Celebrates Savant CD With Appearances In Boston & NYC
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 22, 2011

Silvano Monasterios celebrates his new Savant CD 'Unconditional' with appearances in Boston & New York City...


Joe's Pub Presents Joanne Shenandoah, Gonzalo Grau & More
by Gabrielle Sierra - September 23, 2010

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied an...


Houston Ballet to Close Production of AMERICAN AT HEART, 3/21
by BWW News Desk - March 21, 2010

Houston Ballet will close its current production, American at Heart, featuring two ballets that are significant to the history American dance (George Balanchine's Apollo and Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free) and one work inspired by American popular culture and created specifically for an American compan...


TV: Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents OFF CENTER FESTIVAL
by Michael L. Quintos - January 13, 2012

Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, CA introduces a bold new project with its first OFF CENTER FESTIVAL, a dizzying mix of contemporary theater, music, dance and performance art taking place throughout the campus over nine days January 13 - 21. Every company and performer will be appear...


InDepth InterView: Kerry Ellis
by Robert Diamond - April 14, 2011

Supremely gifted. Stupendously stunning. Stupefying in her ability to hold magnetic sway over an audience. Kerry Ellis simply has it all and, now, following the worldwide success of her truly awesome collaboration with Queen's Brian May on their epic rock album ANTHEMS, May and Ellis are hitting the...


BWW Reviews: LUCKY DUCK at the New Victory Theater - Average Simple Mega Superstar
by Amanda Mashack - March 26, 2012

Once upon a time, there were disgruntled parents who were bored with their children's mindless entertainment. Whatever were they to do? How could they enrich their children's lives with the wonders of live theater without becoming grumpy, sleepy, or dopey? The answer: the toe-tapping, fluffy Lucky D...


Luba Mason Returns to Birdland 3/7
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 01, 2011

Jim Caruso is proud to present the return of singer Luba Mason to the Broadway at Birdland concert series on Monday, March 7 at 7pm. ...


BWW Reviews: THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER: A Holiday Tradition That Is About--Well, Tradition!
by Paul W. Thompson - December 02, 2012

"The Christmas Schooner" has been performed in the Chicago area every year, except for one, since 1995. And yet, I know for a fact that new theatergoers are discovering it all the time. Hence, it's a good thing that the Mercury Theater on Southport Avenue has mounted this story--based on a real slic...


The Porters of Hellsgate Present TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, 1/13-2/19
by Jennie Mamary - December 19, 2011

The Porters of Hellsgate present William Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida Directed by Charles Pasternak and Produced by The Porters of Hellsgate....


SOUND OFF: Barbra Streisand & WHAT MATTERS MOST
by Pat Cerasaro - August 10, 2011

Only once in a lifetime does a talent like hers arise and only one in a billion of us ascends to this level of legendary as far as history is concerned - yet, here with an anomalous, unique new album to go with the seventy that have come before it is the voice of a generation, Barbra Streisand....


SOUND OFF: SMASH Casts Its Marilyn
by Pat Cerasaro - February 14, 2012

Last night, SMASH cast Marilyn Monroe in the big Broadway musical based on her life at the show's center. Or, did they? While Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) may have done whatever it took to make an impression on the show's lothario director, Derek (Jack Davenport), it was Ivy's long-standing friendship wit...


Guitarist Lou Volpe Plays John Birks Gillespie Theater
by BWW News Desk - June 21, 2011

Lou Volpe appearing at The John Birks Gillespie Tuesday June 21st 8 PM Tickets are $15.00 WBGO Members $10...


Luba Mason Returns to Birdland, 3/7
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 03, 2011

Jim Caruso is proud to present the return of singer Luba Mason to the Broadway at Birdland concert series on Monday, March 7 at 7pm. ...


Joe's Pub Presents Joanne Shenandoah, Gonzalo Grau & More
by Gabrielle Sierra - September 23, 2010

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied an...






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