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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...


BWW Reviews: A Frighteningly Funny ARSENIC AND OLD LACE At The Fulton Theatre
by Marakay Rogers - February 04, 2014

The Walnut Street Theatre's Charles Abbott gives the Fulton the classic play of all going wrong, all going absolutely right. Visually stunning killer comedy....


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!...


FLASHDANCE THE MUSICAL Comes to the Majestic Tonight
by BWW News Desk - June 18, 2013

FLASHDANCE-THE MUSICAL, the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit film that defined a generation, will perform at the Majestic Theatre for eight performances tonight, June 18-23. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m., Friday, March 1....


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......


Hauser & Wirth Presents Monika Sosnowska's TOWER, Now thru 9/25
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...


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...


Birmingham Hippodrome Presents RINGSIDE Film Series to Accompany THE RING CYCLE, Beginning Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 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....


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....


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...


Next Weekend to Salute Speight Jenkins with Wagner Competition, Seattle Opera Day and Special Dinner
by BWW News Desk - August 04, 2014

After three decades, 92 productions, and more than 1,200 individual performances, Speight Jenkins is retiring from Seattle Opera in style! The company will celebrate the end of the Jenkins era, as well as its 50th anniversary, with three special events: the International Wagner Competition on Thursd...


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...


GYPSY OF THE MONTH: Daniel J. Watts
by Adrienne Onofri - July 30, 2014

In his seventh Bway show in his eight years in NY, Daniel wowed audiences with his 'After Midnight' tap dancing....


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...


BroadwayGirlNYC: #MyThreeShowtunes Contest
by BroadwayGirl NYC - March 16, 2012

Writers and creative thinkers, this contest is for you. I give you three showtunes; you connect the songs with an original story that incorporates all three into your very own mini-musical. One author will win the biggest Broadway prize pack I've ever given away!...


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: THE ROYAL FAMILY is a Valentine to Theatre and All Those Who Make it Happen
by Shari Barrett - July 01, 2013

Actors who dedicate their life to the theatre are a passionate, unique and rare breed. Art imitates life imitates art when Theatricum Botanicum artistic director Ellen Geer stars alongside her sister Melora Marshall, daughter Willow Geer and daughter-in-law Abby Craden in THE ROYAL FAMILY, an uproa...


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....


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by BWW News Desk - November 05, 2010

MSG Entertainment (MSGE)announces that, for the first time ever, tastemaker extraordinaire Martha Stewart and her talented design team will transform Radio City Music Hall's Grand Foyer and Grand Lounge public spaces into a festive, winter wonderland for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular's 2010 s...


Magnet Theater Presents Their Improv Comedy Shows
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 31, 2012

Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York's improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each nig...


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: 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....






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