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The Adobe Theater Stages Neil Simon's LOST IN YONKERS, Now thru 7/21
by BWW News Desk - June 28, 2013

Yonkers, NY is city just north of the Bronx, where playwright Neil Simon was born on the 4th of July, 85 years ago. He has chronicled family life in the Great Depression and after in a series of prize-winning plays, musicals and films. His frequent theme shows 'likeable people in difficult situati...


Ariel Pink to Compose Music for BAD VIBES Film
by Movies News Desk - September 07, 2013

Avant-Garde rock musician Ariel Pink will compose original music for the upcoming SpectreVision production of Bad Vibes, a werewolf tale set in the psychedelic '60's music scene. Produced by SpectreVision partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller, the film will be directed by Dave Gebroe ...


Sir Tony Robinson to Open RE-STAGING REVOLUTIONS Exhibition at Camden Archives, Feb 11
by BWW News Desk - February 04, 2014

On Tuesday, 11 February, Blackadder and Time Team star Sir Tony Robinson opens Re-staging Revolutions at Camden Archives, an exhibition celebrating the alternative theatre movement of the sixties, seventies and eighties. The exhibition runs until 10 May. Other speakers include Ian Saville: socialist...


Folk Music Society of NY Present Next Artist in Legends Concert Series: Peggy Seeger, 3/28
by Courtnie Mele - March 11, 2014

A singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and activist songmaker, Peggy Seeger plays six instruments: piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and English concertina. She has recorded 23 solo albums and participated directly in more than a hundred others. Peggy lived in Engl...


Life is Beautiful Curates Music Showcase During SXSW Today
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2014

Life is Beautiful, the successful lifestyle experience that celebrates music, food, art and learning, continues to support home-grown talent by inviting Vegas bands to participate in a special music showcase during Austin's SXSW. Open to the public, the showcase, hosted by Caesars Entertainment and ...


STAGE TUBE: Time-Lapse Of HOBSON'S CHOICE Set Build!
by Carrie Dunn - June 13, 2014

A comedy from the cobbles of Lancashire, set to the sights and sounds of the sixties, Mark Benton plays bombastic boot-shop owner Henry Horatio Hobson. When his 'plain' daughter, Maggie (Jodie McNee) becomes intent on marrying long-suffering boot-maker Willie Mossop (Karl Davies), Hobson's future lo...


Sir Tony Robinson Opens RE-STAGING REVOLUTIONS Exhibition at Camden Archives Today
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2014

Today, 11 February, Blackadder and Time Team star Sir Tony Robinson opens Re-staging Revolutions at Camden Archives, an exhibition celebrating the alternative theatre movement of the sixties, seventies and eighties. The exhibition runs until 10 May. Other speakers include Ian Saville: socialist conj...


Memoir Shares the Life Story of a Chinese Boy During the 40s Through the 60s
by Robert Diamond - February 22, 2014

Author Paul 'Monty' Choy's father was born in Canton, China while his mother was born in Malaya. His father was very autocratic and conservative and did not share with his family, his own family history. His mother also remained silent on her own family history. The author and the rest of his siblin...


BWW Reviews: Rain Doesn't Cool off the Legends of Classic Rock with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra
by Paul Batterson - June 30, 2014

Don't tell John Elefante that violins don't belong in rock and roll. The former Kansas front man came from a rock band where the violin was essential to the band's sound. Elefante and the Legends of Classic Rock incorporated the Columbus Symphony Orchestra into a rain delayed set of rock standard...


Stage Designer Lloyd Burlingame Pens Memoir SETS, LIGHTS, AND LUNACY Released Today
by BWW News Desk - October 15, 2013

Renowned designer Lloyd Burlingame pulls back the curtain to reveal the triumphs, trials, tribulations, and travesties of a stage designer in his upcoming memoir, Sets, Lights, and Lunacy: A Stage Designer's Adventures on Broadway and in Opera. Sets, Lights, and Lunacy (Design Adventures, ISBN: 9781...


San Diego Gay Men's Chorus Presents FEELIN' GROOVY - SONGS OF THE 60s This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - July 27, 2013

It's time to step back into the psychedelic Sixties with the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus (SDGMC) as they presentFeelin' Groovy-Songs of the '60s, the greatest hits of that free-spirited yet socially charged decade. Tickets are now on sale at www.sdgmc.org for tonight and tomorrow, July 27 and 28, at ...


RIDING THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS WITH BILLY HAYES to Make Edinburgh Fringe Debut, Aug 3-21
by BWW News Desk - July 17, 2014

First he wrote the best-selling book. Then came the OSCAR-winning film MIDNIGHT EXPRESS. Now, Billy Hayes comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his one-man show RIDING THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS with BILLY HAYES. Live on stage, Hayes will bring his sensational true story of arrest and escape from a ...


Breaking News: Vittorio Missoni's Plane Found
by Robert Diamond - June 27, 2013

Missoni has revealed today that the plan that carried Vittorio Missoni, his wife and friends, that went missing on January 4th, has been found. According to WWD, 'The plane was identified on the fifth day of the search thanks to the American ship's technology and is located in the waters North of th...


Stage Designer Lloyd Burlingame Pens Memoir SETS, LIGHTS, AND LUNACY, Set for 10/15 Release
by BWW News Desk - October 01, 2013

Renowned designer Lloyd Burlingame pulls back the curtain to reveal the triumphs, trials, tribulations, and travesties of a stage designer in his upcoming memoir, Sets, Lights, and Lunacy: A Stage Designer's Adventures on Broadway and in Opera. Sets, Lights, and Lunacy (Design Adventures, ISBN: 978...


Bill Lewers Examines American Politics in A VOTER'S JOURNEY
by Christina Mancuso - October 01, 2013

There are lots of books about great political figures. This is not one of them. Rather, this is a volume about politics as seen through the eyes of an ordinary citizen. Bill Lewers has been voting for decades. He believes that the individual voter is just as much a part of the tapestry of politics a...


Boca Raton Theatre Guild to Present THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG, 11/8-24
by Carol Kassie - October 02, 2013

Carbonell Award winners Margo Moreland and Oscar Cheda will star in the Boca Raton Theatre Guild's production of They're Playing Our Song at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park. The show will run fromNovember 8th through November 24th. The two will portray Vernon Gersch and Sonia Walsk, the fict...


Lindsay Harris Friel's TRAVELING LIGHT Set for Philly Fringe, Now thru 9/14
by BWW News Desk - September 06, 2013

London's 'Summer of Love' comes to Center City in the Philly Fringe with the Philadelphia premiere of 'Traveling Light' by Philadelphia playwright Lindsay Harris Friel. The play is directed by Liam Castellan and produced by Liam's Sofa Cushion Fortress in The Skybox at The Adrienne Theater, tonight,...


Long Wharf Theatre Presents THE BIKINIS, 7/9 - 7/27
by Jillian Gaier - May 28, 2014

Long Wharf Theatre presents, in association with Miracle or 2 Productions, The Bikinis, a celebration of great songs from the 1960s through today. The show will take place in the Claire Tow Stage in the C. Newton Schenck III Theatre from July 9 through July 27, 2014. Tickets are $55. The show was ...


VIDEO: 'CHRISTY TURLINGTON' For MISSONI Campaign Spring 2014
by Jennifer Diamond - December 20, 2013

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BWW Reviews: AVA's COSI FAN TUTTE Shows How To Do An Update That Works
by Marakay Rogers - December 03, 2013

The Academy of Vocal Arts performed an updated version of Mozart's comic opera that makes sense in its handling and boasts some fine performances...


BWW Reviews: CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia
by Mary Alderson - May 26, 2014

The laughter echoed throughout the sold-out house as Victoria Playhouse Petrolia marked its 2014 season opener with Church Basement Ladies. And it is laughter of recognition, whether the audience has memories of cooking in a church basement in the sixties, or feels the discomfort of hot flashes tod...


'Breathless' by C. Everette Hagler is Released
by Christina Mancuso - October 21, 2013

The thought of spending one's life with a single person has been considered by many jaded individuals to be a futile gesture and that the concept of true love is nothing more than a cheap commercial gimmick concocted by Valentine's Day card companies. And yet true love does exist in author C. Everet...


Folk Music Society of NY Present Next Artist in Legends Concert Series: Peggy Seeger
by BWW News Desk - March 28, 2014

A singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and activist songmaker, Peggy Seeger plays six instruments: piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and English concertina. She has recorded 23 solo albums and participated directly in more than a hundred others. Peggy lived in Engl...


Brooklyn Museum to Welcome Sonia Sanchez and Bernice Johnson Reagon for CIVIL RIGHTS IN CONVERSATION AND SONG, 3/13
by Tyler Peterson - February 27, 2014

On Thursday, March 13 at 7 p.m., the Brooklyn Museum presents In Conversation and Song featuring poet Sonia Sanchez and musician Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon as they talk about their experience as activists and share words and music from the Civil Rights Movement. The special evening is presented in c...


Criterion Releases THE ESSENTIAL JACQUES DEMY, Including Four Movie Musicals
by Pat Cerasaro - July 22, 2014

Internationally celebrated auteur Jacques Demy is set to be feted with a retrospective box set from hallowed film preservation and home video label Criterion Collection later this year titled THE ESSENTIAL JACQUES DEMY, according to the official website....






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