BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL, Bristol Hippodrome
by Tim Wright - April 05, 2018 The song-writing partnership of Carole King and Gerry Goffin was such a formidable force in the sixties that even Lennon and McCartney often spoke about wanting to emulate them. It's with this partnership then, that Beautiful: The Carol King Musical spends most of it's time....
Arlo Guthrie Brings His RE:GENERATION Tour to MPAC
by A.A. Cristi - April 10, 2018 Folk singer Arlo Guthrie and his children Abe and Sarah Lee perform the music of three generations of Guthries at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 11 at 8 pm. Tickets for the Re-Generation Tour are $39-$69....
The Sixties Show Returns To Bay Street Theater This October
by A.A. Cristi - September 17, 2018 Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the return of The Sixties Show. Choose from either Friday, October 12 or Saturday, October 13; both start at 8 pm. Tickets are $35 in advance and $45 on the day of the event. Tickets are on sale now at baystreet.org or by cal...
Arizona Broadway Theatre Mounts HAIR
by Julie Musbach - February 19, 2018 Experience the sixties counter-culture in all its psychedelic and bell-bottomed glory! As relevant today as when it opened on Broadway in the tumultuous spring of 1968, Hair is the original rock musical that defined a generation's struggles with community, war, peace and resistance. Sit back and be ...
DOWN TO EARTHA Begins Run at the Gene Frankel Theater in August
by Sarah Hookey - July 24, 2019 Actress, singer, author, and activist Eartha Kitt might be best known as the singer behind a?oeSanta Babya?? and a?oeC'est si bon,a?? or as the third Catwoman on the sixties Batman TV series. However, a government-led blacklisting in the late sixties halted her career for an entire decade. The infam...
Columbus State University To Honor Mercedes Ellington With Lifetime Achievement Award In Dance
by Stephi Wild - February 28, 2018 Columbus State University 's College of the Arts will present renowned dancer/choreographer/actress Mercedes Ellington with its 2017 "Lifetime Achievement Award in Dance" at CSU's annual BROADWAY BALL on Friday, December 1 in Columbus, GA. The announcement was made by Karyn Tomsczak, the Viki Jiles...
SEQUINS Celebrates the Sixties at the Adelaide Cabaret Fringe
by Stephi Wild - June 04, 2018 Sequins, a Brazilian and the Power of the Sixties offers two stories, both set to a soundtrack of the1960s....
Relive The Sounds Of The 60s in Warrington
by Julie Musbach - February 25, 2019 The evocative sounds of the 60s are returning to Warrington with stunning stage show Bringing on Back the 60s....
THE SIXTIES SHOW Returns to Bay Street Theater November 1
by Julie Musbach - September 13, 2019 Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts announces the return of The Sixties Show back by popular demand on Friday, November 1 at 8 pm....
Casting Announced For Seattle Rep's LAST OF THE BOYS
by A.A. Cristi - January 03, 2019 Seattle Repertory Theatre today announced complete ensemble casting for its production of renowned Seattle playwright Steven Dietz's Last of the Boys, an emotional story of the Vietnam War's complex legacy. We meet Ben - he lives off-the-grid in his trailer in the California Central Valley, haunted ...
Jane Seymour, Jacqueline Bisset & Paul Reiser Join THE KOMINSKY METHOD
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 07, 2019 Jane Seymour, Jacqueline Bisset and Paul Reiser will be joining Douglas and Arkin in the second season as recurring guest stars in multiple episodes....
Bethel Woods Center For The Arts To Commemorate Woodstock's Golden Anniversary
by A.A. Cristi - January 18, 2019 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the nonprofit cultural center located at the National Register Historic Site of the Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY, will celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the greatest festival of all time with exhibits, events and programs throughout 2019....
Bethel Woods Center For The Arts Announces VIBRATIONS
by Stephi Wild - February 12, 2019 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a nonprofit cultural center located on the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival, today announces Vibrations, a series of eight events celebrating the iconic festival's Golden Anniversary from many angles. From May to October 2019, Vibrations will explore mus...
Xulon Author Releases Book on Father Who Left Behind a Great Legacy
by Robert Diamond - December 28, 2018 ...
Guest Blog: Dean Elliott On THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY
by Guest Blog: Dean Elliott - November 12, 2018 I never thought that The Simon & Garfunkel Story would become the worldwide success story that it has become. When I first wrote the show back in 2014, I thought it would last a few months. We have become a global phenomenon, with 50 countries visited, three casts touring simultaneously, five-star r...
Make It A Marvellous May At The Epstein Theatre
by Stephi Wild - May 01, 2018 May is promising to be a busy month at the Epstein Theatre where there is a packed programme of theatre, music, comedy and family entertainment....
Bell Shakespeare Announces 2020 Season
by Stephi Wild - September 06, 2019 Bell Shakespeare has announced their 2020 season with a program of popular favourites to celebrate their 30th anniversary year....
Connecticut Cabaret Theatre Welcomes The QUEEN BEES Author Rob Urbinati
by Julie Musbach - July 24, 2018 The Connecticut Cabaret Theatre is pleased to welcome author of The Queen Bees, Rob Urbinati Saturday July 28, 2018 for a special Meet and Greet on stage talk back following the evening's performance....
Book Passage At The Curran Welcomes Eric Idle As Part Of CURRAN: SHOW & TELL Series
by A.A. Cristi - July 25, 2018 Carole Shorenstein Hays announced today that Book Passage at the Curran will welcome Eric Idle-best known for his unforgettable roles in Monty Python-on Tuesday, October 9 at 7 p.m. The event is part of Curran's popular SHOW & TELL series, featuring provocative, topical and entertaining one-night-on...
Mummenschanz Comes to The Sangamon Auditorium, 3/4
by A.A. Cristi - February 08, 2018 Sangamon Auditorium at the University of Illinois Springfield presents Mummenschanz 'you & me' on Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 3:00 pm in the UIS Sangamon Auditorium as a part of the Visiting Artist Series. Tickets to the show are on sale now for $27, $31, $43; youth prices are also available. Contact ...
BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL THING, Tobacco Factory Theatres
by Kerrie Nicholson - October 21, 2018 Premiering at London's Bush Theatre in 1993, and inspiring a film adaptation three years later that became a cult classic, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing is currently playing at Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatres. Set on a council estate during the 1990s, it explores the relationship between Jam...
Get Swinging To Music Of The Sixties At Bristol Riverside Theatre
by Stephi Wild - April 30, 2018 Get nostalgic for the music of the Sixties with The Music of Bobby Darin starring Vegas entertainer Ron Gartner and his swingin' band at Bristol Riverside Theatre for one week only. In this special show, Vegas entertainer Ron Gartner and his swingin' band honor the legendary Bobby Darin performing ...
BWW Reviews: A Square Finds A Round Space In Short North Theatre's Production Of HAIR
by Paul Batterson - April 09, 2018 In the movie, 'FIELD OF DREAMS,' Annie Kinsella attacks a conservative member of the school board who wants to ban the writings of Terrance Mann with the line, 'I think if you had just experienced the Sixties ...'...
BRINGING ON BACK THE 60s Comes to Warrington
by Stephi Wild - May 07, 2019 The evocative sounds of the 60s are returning to Warrington this month with stunning stage show Bringing on Back the 60s....
BWW Review: TWO TRAINS RUNNING, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
by Jo Fisher - September 19, 2019 It's Pittsburg, 1969, and the city's Hill District is far from the vibrant, bustling, jazz-soaked African-American neighbourhood it was in its prime. August Wilson's Two Trains Running brings a shabby diner in this threatened community to life, offering a window onto the lives of seven irregular reg... |