BWW Review: MRS. PACKARD: Nevertheless, She Persisted
by Nancy Grossman - March 21, 2017 Before Senator Elizabeth Warren, another Elizabeth spoke out, despite being warned and threatened with commitment to an insane asylum. Bridge Repertory Theater, in a co-production with Playhouse Creatures, presents Emily Mann's MRS. PACKARD, a drama inspired by true events, chronicling one woman's f...
New Memoir by Valery Dunaevsky is Released
by Christina Mancuso - May 11, 2016 Since 2005, the United Nations has designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day pays tribute to the six million Jews and five million non-Jews who were killed in the genocidal actions during World War II....
Alan Dershowitz to Speak After TNC's PEDRO CASTILLO IS INNOCENT, 2/7
by Tyler Peterson - February 01, 2016 Alan Dershowitz, one of the nation's best known attorneys, will speak to the audience of Pedro Castillo is Innocent at Theater for the New City after the Feb. 7 show....
Tommy Castro, Griffin House, Louis Prima Jr. and More Coming to City Winery Chicago
by A.A. Cristi - April 25, 2017 City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces multi-Blues Music Award winner Tommy Castro and his band The Painkillers, two shows from alternative rock band The Church, genre-mashing Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses and more. The following shows go on sale to the public on Thursday, April 2...
A CRIME TO REMEMBER Returns to Investigation Discovery Tonight
by TV News Desk - November 11, 2014 Investigation Discovery (ID) returns to profile the bad old days of the '50s and '60s with season two of A CRIME TO REMEMBER....
Tommy Castro, Griffin House, Louis Prima Jr. and More Coming to City Winery Chicago
by A.A. Cristi - April 25, 2017 City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces multi-Blues Music Award winner Tommy Castro and his band The Painkillers, two shows from alternative rock band The Church, genre-mashing Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses and more. The following shows go on sale to the public on Thursday, April 2...
FOX Announces Winter Premiere Dates
by A.A. Cristi - November 03, 2016 FOX is announcing premiere dates for new series THE MICK (special premiere Jan. 1; time period premiere Jan. 3), STAR (special premiere Dec. 14; time period premiere Jan. 4), MY KITCHEN RULES (Jan. 12), 24: LEGACY (two-night event beginning Feb. 5, following SUPER BOWL LI, and continuing on Feb. 6) ...
A CRIME TO REMEMBER to Return to Investigation Discovery 11/11
by Caryn Robbins - October 01, 2014 Investigation Discovery (ID) returns to profile the bad old days of the '50s and '60s with season two of A CRIME TO REMEMBER....
The Reverend Horton Heat, Ana Popovic and More Now On-Sale at City Winery Chicago
by A.A. Cristi - May 02, 2017 City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces a five-night residency with psychobilly rock 'n rollers Reverend Horton Heat, the return of award-winning Serbian blues guitarist Ana Popovic, blues and swing revival band Roomful of Blues present their 50th anniversary tour plus a performance ...
Sneak Peek - TOWER Premieres on INDEPENDENT LENS on PBS, 2/14
by Caryn Robbins - January 30, 2017 Directed by Keith Maitland, the film premieres on INDEPENDENT LENS Tuesday, February 14, 2017, 10:00-11:30 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS....
Miki Howard, Boy Named Banjo and More on Sale at City Winery Chicago
by BWW News Desk - June 13, 2017 City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces Grammy nominated R&B artist Miki Howard, Nashville based roots band Boy Named Banjo, Grammy nominated rock band Fastball and more....
Tickets for Randy Newman, Maysa and More on Sale at City Winery Chicago
by BWW News Desk - June 27, 2017 City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces an evening with popular Grammy Award-winning vocalist and film composer Randy Newman, Grammy-nominated R&B singer Maysa, indie-folk band The Accidentals with Jake Allen and more....
Cast Set for Amiri Baraka's Last Play at Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre
by Tyler Peterson - April 27, 2015 Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre will continue its 46th season dedicated to Amira Baraka with the world premiere of his final play, The Most Dangerous Man In America (W. E. B. Du Bois). Performances will begin May 28th, with opening night set for June 11th at the Castillo Theater (543 West 42nd...
New Federal Theatre Kicks Off 46th Season with DUTCHMAN Tonight
by BWW News Desk - February 05, 2015 Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre kicks off its 46th season with 'The Amira Baraka Project' - featuring a revival of his early acclaimed play Dutchman from 1964 and the world premiere of his final play, Most Dangerous Man In America (W. E. B. Du Bois), written fifty years later. Dutchman, directe...
NJPAC Announces Return of Horizon Foundation Sounds of the City Concert Series
by BWW News Desk - July 17, 2017 It's been hailed by The New York Times as "Newark's town social" and it's the hottest music scene in New Jersey's largest city on Thursday nights in July and August. In celebration of its 20th anniversary season, New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), in collaboration with the Horizon Foundation...
The Reverend Horton Heat, Ana Popovic and More Now On-Sale at City Winery Chicago
by A.A. Cristi - May 02, 2017 City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces a five-night residency with psychobilly rock 'n rollers Reverend Horton Heat, the return of award-winning Serbian blues guitarist Ana Popovic, blues and swing revival band Roomful of Blues present their 50th anniversary tour plus a performance ...
NAKED LUNCH: THE MUSICAL Comes to St. Sebastian Players Theatre
by Julie Musbach - April 20, 2017 Like many undergraduates at Yale University in the mid-1960s, Bill Hannay was fond of avant garde literature, especially if it tested people's commitment to the constitutional principle of freedom of expression. He followed, for example, the obscenity trials over the publication of the novel Naked L...
Exoneree Fernando Bermudez Attends Play Based on His Life, PEDRO CASTILLO IS INNOCENT, at TNC
by BWW News Desk - February 10, 2016 Back in 1992, Fernando Bermudez, a Washington Heights resident, was convicted of a homicide that occurred in Greenwich Village. Eyewitnesses recanted soon after, but he remained in prison. Bermudez was exonerated in 2009, after serving nearly 18 years, going on to win the biggest settlement for an e...
Horizon Foundation presents SOUNDS OF THE CITY
by A.A. Cristi - July 11, 2017 It's been hailed by The New York Times as "Newark's town social" and it's the hottest music scene in New Jersey's largest city on Thursday nights in July and August. In celebration of its 20th anniversary season, New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), in collaboration with the Horizon Foundatio...
DJ Felix Hernandez to Open NJPAC's 2017 Sounds of the City Series
by BWW News Desk - July 06, 2017 It's been hailed by The New York Times as 'Newark's town social' and it's the hottest music scene in New Jersey's largest city today nights in July and August....
Acclaimed Artist Chor Boogie Returns to Miami with Latest Political Multimedia Works
by Ashlee Latimer - October 18, 2016 We are the witnesses and actors within a crucial time in American history, at a crossroads of the concluding chapter of the first black presidency and the audacity of dreaming of social justice and equality versus the counter-reactionary of a demagogue candidate for president that openly promotes bi...
The Verdict Is In! TRIAL BY JURY is Guilty of Providing a Great Night's Entertainment
by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2017 After the massive success of its initial launch earlier in the year, Lovehistory are excited to announce the return of Trial By Jury which comes to Liverpool's St George's Hall with a brand new case to solve from Wed 16 - Fri 18 August....
Kurt Elling, Herb Alpert & Lani Hall and More Now On Sale at City Winery Chicago
by A.A. Cristi - July 11, 2017 City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces an array of top jazz concerts including four shows with Grammy Award-Winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, two nights with Herb Alpert of Tijuana Brass with his wife, Grammy-winning singer Lani Hall, legendary British Jazz-Funk band Incognito and ...
Kurt Elling, Herb Alpert & Lani Hall and More Now On Sale at City Winery Chicago
by A.A. Cristi - July 11, 2017 City Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, announces an array of top jazz concerts including four shows with Grammy Award-Winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, two nights with Herb Alpert of Tijuana Brass with his wife, Grammy-winning singer Lani Hall, legendary British Jazz-Funk band Incognito and ...
Peninsula Players' Winter Play Reading Series Begins 2/2 with GO BACK FOR MURDER
by Tyler Peterson - January 23, 2015 Peninsula Players Theatre will present a reading of 'Go Back for Murder' by Agatha Christie, a thrilling whodunit from the Queen of Crime, at Bjorklunden, 7p.m., Monday, Feb. 2. This play reading is produced with support from and in coordination with Door County Reads and its exploration of 'Ordinar... |