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BWW Blog: 'Another Suitcase' by Jeffrey Sanzel, Executive Artistic Director, Theatre Three
by Guest Blogger: Jeffrey Sanzel - December 24, 2013

'God bless us-everyone.' So what happens now? Or-rather-next? Since we've been at Christmas Carol for so long, there is almost always a discussion at some point about what happens after the story. So-Scrooge 'became as a good a man ...' Does he stay that way? What happens to Tiny Tim? We know he d...


BWW Reviews: Fully Immersed with Co-Lab Kaka'ako, Part 2
by Gail Lloyd - August 29, 2012

I move ahead now to the final performance, the culmination of two weeks of heroic collaboration in the name of art. Having reviewed performances from the most mainstream to the most avant-garde,I am well aware of the broad spectrum of activity that can be called "performance art". The process I obs...


Review Roundup: THE HEIRESS Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
by Review Roundups - November 01, 2012

The new Broadway production of the Tony Award winning play The Heiress began previews on October 6th and will open tonight, November 1st at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th St.). The show will play a limited run through February 10, 2013. Let's see what the critics had to say......


Photo Flash: Saturday Intermission Pics, 3/22- ROCKY and THE FANTASTICKS Welcome ALADDIN, March Madness, and More!
by Courtnie Mele - March 22, 2014

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup! Today's photos come from the casts of THE BOOK OF MORMON, KINKY BOOTS, WICKED, ROCKY, 50 SHADES, GYPSY, and more!...


Magnet Theater Presents CITIZEN MODELS, 3/23
by BWW News Desk - March 23, 2012

Magnet Theater presents CITIZEN MODELS, Friday, March 23 at 8:30pm; Tickets $10. Three cowboys settle their scores the old fashioned way. An old Broadway star finally attempts her long-anticipated comeback. And, in a blatantly self-referential sketch, a young comedian tries to convince his friend t...


National Gallery of Victoria Presents WADE MARYNOWSKY: NOSTALGIA FOR OBSOLETE FUTURES, Now thru 10/19
by BWW News Desk - August 22, 2014

A masquerade ball for robots will be part of an exhibition that brings together robotics, performance art, sound and video at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia....


Kesselring's Classic Comedy ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Next Up at Arts Center of Cannon County
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 29, 2012

Arts Center of Cannon County presents the classic comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace-directed by Matt Smith-at the theater in Woodbury, running June 1-16 and featuring Faye Northcutt-Knox and Becky Coutras as the felonious senior citizens who murder lonely old men by offering them elderberry wine laced wi...


BroadwayGirlNYC: Outside the Theatre
by BroadwayGirl NYC - October 20, 2011

Broadway is more than just the theatres. Broadway is an industry, yes -- but also an energy; a culture; a way of life. Here are the spots to which I turn on the days I can't afford a ticket; or when I'm on my way uptown but want an infusion of theatrical energy; or on a night after a show when I'm j...


Hauser & Wirth Presents Monika Sosnowska's TOWER, Now thru 10/25
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2014

Hauser & Wirth is proud to present Monika Sosnowska's Tower, a mammoth new work that conjoins architecture and sculpture in order to explore the politics and poetics of space. Known for large-scale, site-specific installations, Sosnowska creates psychologically charged art rooted in existing structu...


InDepth InterView: Rita Moreno Talks New Memoir, Broadway, Hollywood, Upcoming Projects & More
by Pat Cerasaro - May 05, 2013

Today we are talking to a legendary triple-threat performer who over the course of her unique career has become one of a select few in show business to have attained the entertainment quadruple crown - Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, that is; commonly referred to as the EGOT - the exceptionally gifted...


Baby Gumm Productions Presents A CHAT WITH SHEILA MCCARTHY Tonight
by BWW News Desk - February 08, 2014

Baby Gumm Productions has announced 'A Chat With Sheila McCarthy' at the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton tonight, February 8th at 1pm....


BWW Review: Simple Machine's THE TURN OF THE SCREW Conjures Up Ghosts
by Nancy Grossman - November 12, 2013

Simple Machine Theatre stages Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Henry James' Gothic thriller at two historic Boston houses, providing an extra dose of authenticity. Under the direction of M. Bevin O'Gara, Stephen Libby and Anna Waldron give spellbinding performances that will scare the bejeezers out o...


BWW Blog: SCANDALOUS' Elizabeth Ward Land - Broadway's Many Steps
by Guest Blogger: Elizabeth Ward Land - November 29, 2012

My last blog for Broadwayworld.com! What an interesting experience this has been for me to write about opening SCANDALOUS this past month. I usually try to stay slightly anonymous, and have never really written anything publicly, but I have enjoyed this challenge. I thank Christina Mancuso for invit...


BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL At Center Stage is Electrifying
by Charles Shubow - October 20, 2014

Director David Schweizer returns to Center Stage and directs a sublime musical....


New European Paintings Galleries to Open Tomorrow at Met Museum
by Kelsey Denette - May 23, 2013

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century will reopen on May 23 after an extensive renovation and reinstallation. This is the first major renovation of the galleries since 1951 and the fi...


Stageworks Media Presents SPEAKEASY DOLLHOUSE: THE BROTHERS BOOTH
by Courtnie Mele - February 20, 2014

Stageworks Media presents Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Brothers Booth -- an immersive, time-traveling theatrical experience created by Cynthia von Buhler and directed by Wes Grantom (Eager to Lose at Ars Nova). Ms. von Buhler's Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Bloody Beginning, has over the past two years beco...


Baby Gumm Productions to Present A CHAT WITH SHEILA MCCARTHY, 2/8
by BWW News Desk - January 17, 2014

Baby Gumm Productions has announced 'A Chat With Sheila McCarthy' at the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton on Saturday, February 8th at 1pm....


BWW Reviews: HELLO, DOLLY! at Ford's Theatre is Musical Heaven
by Jeffrey Walker - April 03, 2013

Ford's Theatre and Signature Theatre have come together for a roof-raising revival of what might be the feel good musical of the year: their joint production of HELLO, DOLLY! Washington audiences should not miss this gorgeous looking show fabulously lead by Broadway veteran Nancy Opel as Dolly Levi....


RAVENSCROFT Opens 4/12 at Long Beach Playhouse
by Tyler Peterson - March 24, 2014

Long Beach Playhouse is about to plunge into the mysterious and funny world of Don Nigro's Ravenscroft....


Photo Flash: Go Backstage at CATS with Martin Samuel
by Alan Henry - July 20, 2013

BroadwayWorld Editor Alan Aronshtam went behind the scenes at Cats Toronto for an exclusive look at how one of the actors, Martin Samuel (Rum Tum Tugger) prepares for the show....


Mikhailovsky Ballet to Make West Coast Debut with THE FLAMES OF PARIS at Segerstrom, 11/28-30
by BWW News Desk - September 24, 2014

Joining the illustrious list of renowned ballet companies presented by Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the Mikhailovsky Ballet from St. Petersburg, Russia will make its West Coast debut opening the Center's 2014 - 2015 International Dance Series performing The Flames of Paris, a work rarely seen in ...


DCLO Does Funny Girl After 17 Years
by Don Grigware - June 07, 2011

In a rare revival, the first in 17 years, DCLO (Downey Civic Light Opera) is now presenting the 60s' mega Broadway smash Funny Girl. What made Barbra Streisand a household name due largely to her overwhelming vocal range and to the huge success of 'People' is now in the capable hands of talented Kar...


Birmingham Hippodrome to Present RINGSIDE Film Series to Accompany THE RING CYCLE This Autumn
by BWW News Desk - September 18, 2014

This coming November, Birmingham Hippodrome will present Wagner's epic The Ring Cycle in its entirety. Conducted by Maestro Valery Gergiev with his world-famous Mariinsky Opera, it is the only UK date in 2014....


BWW Reviews: National Tour of LES MISERABLES at DC's National Theatre - Still Impressive in Revised Version
by Jeffrey Walker - December 16, 2012

Making its tenth visit to Washington, DC, LES MISERABLES is still impressive, boasting a revised look and sound and a dynamic duo Jean Valjean and Javert, Peter Lockyer and Andrew Varela. The national tour makes a holiday season stop at the National Theatre through December 30....


Mildred's Umbrella Theatre to Present RAVENSCROFT, 5/2-18
by BWW News Desk - February 24, 2013

Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company presents Ravenscroft, by Don Nigro, May 3-18, 2013 with a preview on Thursday, May 2. Directed by Rob Kimbro and starring Sean Patrick Judge, Michelle Edwards, Claire Anderson, Karen Schlag, Zoquera Milburn and Kara Ray....






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