ART's Final RESISTANCE MIC! of the 2017/18 Season to Be Held on May 16
by Stephi Wild - May 03, 2018 American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and Carr Center for Human Rights Policy will present the final Resistance Mic! of the 2017/18 season on Wednesday, May 16 at 8PM at OBERON, the A.R.T.'s club space for cutting-edge performance. The Resistance Mic! series of five intimate performances co-hosted by ...
Dramatists Guild to Host 'The Future of New Play Production in Los Angeles' Town Hall
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2017 The Dramatists Guild of America and the Dramatists Guild Institute will gather some of the community's most influential theatre makers, artistic directors, literary managers, television writers, educators, lawyers and advocates for a weekend of events in Los Angeles, featuring a Town Hall event titl...
BWW Interview: David Rambo - A Master At Juggling WAR & Hit TV Shows
by Gil Kaan - May 08, 2017 L.A. Theatre Works' latest world premiere THE TUG OF WAR will begin May 25, 2017 at UCLA's James Bridges Theater. LATW commissioned prolific writer/producer David Rambo to create this piece on President John F. Kennedy's tough, thankless position dealing with Russian and Cuban relations in 1992. Dav...
Comedians Paul Scheer and Michael Ian Black launch New Podcasts with Midroll Media
by Macon Prickett - April 25, 2018 Comedians Paul Scheer and Michael Ian Black are launching new podcasts this spring with podcast industry leader Midroll Media....
Stage Left Theatre to Present World Premiere of Beth Kander's THE BOTTLE TREE
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2016 Stage Left Theatre announces the upcoming world premiere of The Bottle Tree, written by Beth Kander and directed by ensemble member Amy Szerlong. The Bottle Tree is the first production of Stage Left' s 35th season. ...
CBS Announces The 20 Performers Participating In The 2020 Showcase
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 06, 2020 CBS today announced the 20 performers participating in the 2020 SHOWCASE, which will begin its run of six shows on Jan. 14 at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles....
BWW Recap: Arya Stark Becomes 'No One' on GAME OF THRONES
by Jessica Naftaly - June 13, 2016 As this season of Game of Thrones draws to a close, Episode 8 gave us the required death count, male nudity (was that far away shot of Sandor pissing what you wanted when you called for equal nudity Emilia Clarke?) and debunked a lot of fan theories and book plot lines that have been building up sin...
Geffen Playhouse Selects Playwrights For The Writers' Room
by Stephi Wild - August 28, 2019 Geffen Playhouse today announced its selection of six local writers to participate in the second cycle of The Writers' Room, a forum for engagement and collaboration between Los Angeles playwrights. The participants for 2019/2020 are Boni B. Alvarez, Chloé Hung, Inda Craig-Galván, Juan José Alfonso,...
BWW Interview: Playwright Jen Silverman Spells Out Conjuring Up Her WITCH
by Gil Kaan - August 24, 2019 The west coast premiere of Jen Silverman's WITCH will launch the Geffen Playhouse's 2019/2020 season, having begun previews August 20, 2019. Originally commissioned by and premiering at Writers Theatre, WITCH centers on a charming outsider arriving to the quiet village of Edmonton bargaining for sou...
The New Colony Announces 2017 Season
by BWW News Desk - January 11, 2017 The New Colony is pleased to announce its full 2017 Season, featuring four world premiere productions by four Chicago playwrights. The season kicks off this winter with ensemble member Sean Kelly's fantasy adventure PSYCHONAUT LIBRARIANS, directed by Krissy Vanderwarker....
Playwright Applications Are Now Open for THE WRITERS' ROOM at the Geffen
by Julie Musbach - March 21, 2019 Geffen Playhouse is now accepting applications for the 2019/2020 cycle of The Writers' Room playwrights group, it was announced today. Now entering its second year, the next group of playwrights chosen will begin their residency in September 2019. The Writers' Room initiative was first developed and...
Casting Announced For The New Colony's FUN HARMLESS WARMACHINE
by A.A. Cristi - August 17, 2018 The New Colony, under the new artistic leadership of Fin Coe* and Stephanie Shum*, is pleased to announce casting for its world premiere of FUN HARMLESS WARMACHINE, a journey down the rabbit hole of online masculinity cults written by Co-Artistic Director Fin Coe* and directed by James Fleming. ...
Sideshow Theatre Announces 2018 'The Freshness Initiative Playwrights' and New Company Members
by Julie Musbach - January 31, 2018 Sideshow Theatre Company is pleased to announce the newest playwrights chosen for its annual "The Freshness Initiative," the company's commissioning and new play development program, now in its fourth year. The 2018 Freshness Initiative will feature PRO-AM, written by Brynne Frauenhoffer and directe...
Out Of Joint Launches Writers Room, a Free Writing Space For Playwrights
by Stephi Wild - January 24, 2018 Out of Joint, the touring theatre company best known for new writing, is offering playwrights free writing space at their base in North London....
The Center for Cultural Power and 5050by2020 Launch THE DISRUPTORS FELLOWSHIP
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 14, 2020 The Center for Cultural Power, formerly CultureStrike, in partnership with 5050by2020 announced today the launch of The Disruptors Fellowship a?" a five-month program that will be awarded to ten artists of color who identify as trans and/or non-binary, disabled, undocumented and/or formerly undocume...
VIDEO: Watch Lake Bell Talk About Her Husband & The Apocalypse on JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!
by Sarah Leiber - September 19, 2019 Lake Bell came on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' to talk about living in LA, her husband Scott Campbell's intense preparations for the apocalypse, her show 'Bless This Mess,' working with Dax Shepard, and her love of the writers' room. Watch the clip below!...
Paines Plough Announces Programme 2019
by Stephi Wild - February 01, 2019 Artistic Directors of Paines Plough James Grieve and George Perrin today announced the company's Programme 2019, marking the final season from the pair who will step down later this year after nearly a decade at the helm....
BWW Review: Open Fist Theatre Company Gets DELEARIOUS on Stage
by Ellen Dostal - November 13, 2017 Open Fist Theatre Company's revival of Ron West and Phil Swann's musical comedy DELEARIOUS has a lot going on. The production contains three storylines in three different time periods twisted together in a fast-paced, boisterous style that was an award-winning hit for the company in 2008. Nine years...
HAIR, THE GREAT SOCIETY, Two World Premieres and More Slated for Dallas Theater Center's 2017-18 Season
by BWW News Desk - March 01, 2017 Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty announced today full details for the 2017-2018 season, including the American love-rock musical Hair, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary; the terror-filled Frankenstein in a new collaboration with Southern Methodist University's Meadows S...
BWW Interview - Composers Michael Weiner & Alan Zachary Chat ONCE UPON A TIME's Musical Episode
by Caryn Robbins - May 05, 2017 Today, talented composers Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner speak exclusively to BWW and explain how they pulled off an original musical episode of this beloved series!...
Sideshow Theatre Company Announces 2019-20 Season
by Julie Musbach - July 18, 2019 Sideshow Theatre Company announce sits 2019-20 Season, launching this fall with the U.S. premiere of Alistair McDowall's mind-bending sci-fi thriller X, directed by artistic director Jonathan L. Green. The season concludes next spring with the world premiere of Brynne Frauenhoffer's brash, incisive ...
Casting Announced For The New Colony's FUN HARMLESS WARMACHINE
by BWW News Desk - October 09, 2018 The New Colony, under the new artistic leadership of Fin Coe* and Stephanie Shum*, is pleased to announce casting for its world premiere of FUN HARMLESS WARMACHINE, a journey down the rabbit hole of online masculinity cults written by Co-Artistic Director Fin Coe* and directed by James Fleming. ...
Warner Bros. Television Group's Comic-Con Class of 2018- Full Schedule Released
by Tori Hartshorn - June 25, 2018 Summer school has never been so much fun as Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) unveils its Comic-Con Class of 2018! With 15 of the Studio's fan-favorite series making their way to Comic-Con International: San Diego, WBTVG's graduating class this year will be as epic as ever....
NYC Department Of Cultural Affairs Launches “Community Organizing 101: Engagement Tactics For Cultural Organizations”
by A.A. Cristi - May 02, 2019 The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) today announced the launch of Community Organizing 101: Engagement Tactics for Cultural Organizations, a pilot course that will train staff from cultural organizations around the city in strategies for sustained community building. During public engageme...
Crackle Greenlights Third Season of Popular Series STARTUP
by Caryn Robbins - November 15, 2017 Crackle, Sony Pictures Television Networks' free, ad supported streaming network, today greenlit a 10-episode third season of the network's popular hour-long original, STARTUP.... |