EDINBURGH 2023: Review: PLEASURE LITTLE TREASURE, Underbelly Cowgate
by Cindy Marcolina - August 09, 2023 At this stage, it might be a bit wobbly, but promises great potential. It’s a portrait of toxic masculinity and female empowerment, a personal reflection of the horrors experienced during the regime. Mostly, it’s genuinely amusing. Alminas spins a yarn full of peculiar characters and relentless soci...
Video: HBO Releases THE REGIME Teaser Starring Kate Winslet
by Michael Major - April 12, 2023 HBO has released the official teaser video for the limited series THE REGIME, Kate Winslet. Joining the previously announced cast of Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant, the newly announced cast members include Danny Webb, David Bamb...
Heartbeat Opera Announces Radically Staged Adaptations Of Two Classics: TOSCA And LADY M, April 11-23
by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2023 Heartbeat Opera returns to Baruch Performing Arts Center with its beloved Spring Festival for the first time since its acclaimed DER FREISCHÜTZ in 2019. Heartbeat has become synonymous with visceral hit productions such as a FIDELIO that recruited real prison choirs as the chorus, and a CARMEN that ...
EMPAC to Present World Premiere Of Mary Kouyoumdjian And Nigel Maister's 'Paper Pianos' Performed by Alarm Will Sound
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 15, 2022 On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 3:00pm, EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY will present the world premiere of Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian and South African-American director and writer Nigel Maister's Paper Pianos, commissioned by Alarm Will So...
THE REGIME Sets March Premiere Date on HBO
by Michael Major - December 20, 2023 THE REGIME tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel. The cast includes Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant. Watch the video trailer now!...
Yannis Markopoulos, Greece's Greatest Contemporary Composer, Has Died
by Stephi Wild - June 13, 2023 The internationally renowned Greek composer Yannis Markopoulos - best known to UK audiences for composing the chart-topping music for BBC television series Who Pays the Ferryman? - has died in Athens at the age of 84....
Original Theatre Online Presents Park Theatre and Original Theatre's Production THE END OF THE NIGHT
by Stephi Wild - June 01, 2022 Original Theatre Online presents Park Theatre and Original Theatre's acclaimed recent world premiere production of Ben Brown's The End of the Night, online on demand from 4 July 2022. ...
New Musical THE FABULIST Will Make its World Premiere at Charing Cross Theatre in August
by Stephi Wild - June 04, 2024 The hazards of love, the wonder of magic, and the mysteries of the universe collide in The Fabulist, a joyous and fast-paced feast of musical comedy....
Greek National Opera's Tribute Concerts Honoring Mikis Theodorakis Continue Throughout 2022–23 Season
by A.A. Cristi - September 21, 2022 The Greek National Opera (GNO) continues its three-year cycle celebrating and commemorating Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021) throughout the 2022-23 season with concerts presented on its main stage, Stavros Niarchos Hall, and its Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultur...
Cast Set For THE FABULIST at Charing Cross
by Stephi Wild - July 16, 2024 The world premiere of The Fabulist, with Music by Giovanni Paisiello, Book and Lyrics by James P. Farwell, and Directed by John Walton, comes to Charing Cross Theatre next month. Performances run 12 August - 21 September....
Iranian Musician Sepp Osley Releases Revolutionary Pop Single 'Sing'
by Michael Major - March 22, 2024 Iranian musician Sepp Osley releases his new pop single 'Sing', a powerful anthem celebrating the woman-led revolution in Iran. The song is a testament to his commitment to social change and empowerment through music. 'Sing' emerges as a celebratory anthem that encapsulates the spirit of the woman-l...
Photos: First Look at THE HANDMAID'S TALE at English National Opera
by A.A. Cristi - April 08, 2022 The English National Opera’s Artistic Director Annilese Miskimmon will makes her company directorial debut with a powerful new production of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale. Based on Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel, this outstandingly relevant work was last staged at the London Coliseum in 2003 whe...
Review: FIDELIO at Kennedy Center
by David Friscic - October 28, 2024 The Washington National Opera’s production of Beethoven’s Fidelio is a triumph of elegant, efficient style and directorial finesse. Director Francesca Zambello re-invigorates the somewhat uninspired libretto by Joesph Von Sonnleithner with a vigor and intelligence that envelops this tale of valor, c...
1984 Comes to Theatre Royal Brighton Next Month
by Stephi Wild - September 24, 2024 Seventy-five years on from the publication of George Orwell’s groundbreaking novel 1984, Theatre Royal Bath Productions’ new stage version by Ryan Craig and directed by Lindsay Posner, which will play Theatre Royal Brighton from Tue 29 October – Sat 2 November 2024, as part of a U.K tour. ...
Review: BABEL At Contemporary American Theater Festival Probes the Dilemmas That Could Be Presented By Eugenics
by Jack L. B. Gohn - July 18, 2022 Babel, which invites us to contemplate a world, apparently in the near future, in which the human genome is so well understood that every person’s – and fetus’s – potential, including the potential for antisocial behavior – is determinable, and if a child cannot be “certified” while in utero as meet...
Philharmonia Orchestra Announces Second Half of First Year's Residency at Cromwell Place
by Stephi Wild - January 06, 2023 Following a successful collaboration during London Art Week and the first four concerts of the residency from September to November 2022, the Philharmonia and Cromwell Place have announced the programme for the second half of the residency from January - June 2023. Members of the Philharmonia hav...
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by Michael Major - November 20, 2023 Max viewers have access to the best unscripted and highest-quality scripted programming, including some of the year's most-watched content from brands like HBO, TLC, Food Network, HGTV, Cartoon Network, and OWN, plus Warner Bros. Pictures’ like “Blue Beetle” and coming soon, “Barbie.”...
EDINBURGH 2023: Chelsea Hart Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 20, 2023 BWW caught up with Chelsea Hart to chat about bringing Damet Garm- How I Joined A Revolution to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....
EMPAC to Present World Premiere Of Mary Kouyoumdjian And Nigel Maister's 'Paper Pianos' Performed by Alarm Will Sound
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 15, 2022 On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 3:00pm, EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY will present the world premiere of Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian and South African-American director and writer Nigel Maister's Paper Pianos, commissioned by Alarm Will So...
Review: ROCK 'N' ROLL, Hampstead Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - December 13, 2023 During its original run, real life happenings threatened to overshadow the fictional: Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett - whose presence and music is felt throughout Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll - sadly died in Cambridge where he was born and where this epochal play of cultural and political revolution is se...
Greek National Opera Announces 2022-23 Season Featuring World Premiere of New GNO Production of Verdi's FALSTAFF
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 28, 2022 The Greek National Opera’s 2022-23 season curated by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis will feature ten new opera and ballet productions, one newly commissioned opera, five revivals of past productions, music concerts, major co-productions with some of the world’s foremost opera houses, coll...
Keith Allen To Star In 1984 At Theatre Royal Bath And On Tour
by A.A. Cristi - August 15, 2024 Seventy-five years on from the publication of George Orwell’s groundbreaking novel 1984, casting has been announced for Theatre Royal Bath Productions’ new stage version by Ryan Craig and directed by Lindsay Posner, which will play Theatre Royal Bath from 20 – 28 September 2024, followed by dates in...
THINGS HIDDEN SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD Makes Scottish Premiere
by Stephi Wild - June 07, 2023 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World makes its Scotland premiere in August. By Javaad Alipoor with Chris Thorpe, directed by Javaad Alipoor, and presented by The Javaad Alipoor Company with HOME and The National Theatre of Parramatta, the production comes to Traverse 1 Tue 15 – Sun 27...
Martha Graham Dance Company Returns To The Soraya With World Premiere, March 19
by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2022 A lost 1952 dance creation by Martha Graham herself—a primal artistic force of the 20th century—is reborn with the Martha Graham Dance Company's World Premiere of The New Canticle for Innocent Comedians at The Soraya on Saturday, March 19 at 8pm. ...
Review: STRIKE!, Southwark Playhouse Borough
by Gary Naylor - April 18, 2023 Striking Irish shopworkers become unlikely (and problematic) heroes in a crowd-pleasing dramedy... |