Instytut Festival Announces First Wave of Artists
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 15, 2019 After the warm reception of the first festival in the history of the Polish Instytut brand, the promoters announced the second edition of the Instytut Festival Music & Art. On 21 and 22 June 2019 in the Modlin Garrison we will meet again, this time on five stages in a completely new, unique scenery....
Utah Symphony Performs Spanish Influenced BOLERO and CARMEN Program
by Rebecca Russo - December 06, 2018 From Bizet's "Carmen" to Ravel's hypnotic one-movement orchestral showpiece, "Bolero," on December 14 and 15, the Utah Symphony performs music inspired by the infectious flamenco rhythms and passionate spirit of Spain. Guest conductor Jun Markl returns to the Abravanel Hall stage leading the orchest...
BWW Interview: Tim Lucas Talks Behind-the-Scenes With THE LION KING Puppets
by Janine Angela Martinez - April 17, 2018 Director Julie Taymor made the importance of having the animals, which play a big part in the story, represented through costumes, masks, and puppets when it was first being put to the stage in 1997. Taymor also devised a concept to theatrically represent the story and heart of show on stage with wh...
BWW Blog: The Show Must Go On, Except When A Pandemic Comes to Town
by Student Blogger: Breanna Ebisch - July 02, 2020 Schools of all education levels, local theaters, national tours across the country and even Broadway itself had to make the tough decision about whether performances would continue when COVID-19 began majorly impacting America....
Smithsonian's PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR Series Reveals Rare & Never-Before-Seen Color Film of WWII Conflict June 24
by Macon Prickett - June 11, 2018 A groundbreaking new eight-part series traces the epic struggle of the Pacific War using rare and never-before-seen color visuals from every corner of the conflict. Smithsonian Channel takes viewers on a vivid journey from the home front to the battlefront, examining the pivotal moments, wartime inn...
BWW Review: THE AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET at Paul Recital Hall At The Juilliard School
by Joanna Barouch - February 19, 2018 In most music schools, faculty recitals are a standard part of student life. Attendance, while not mandatory, is expected because it is assumed the student will learn something from the performance. Sometimes it isn't exactly what the professor may have intended...A faculty recital at The Juilliard ...
BWW Interview: Tim Lucas Talks Behind-the-Scenes With THE LION KING Puppets
by Janine Angela Martinez - April 17, 2018 Director Julie Taymor made the importance of having the animals, which play a big part in the story, represented through costumes, masks, and puppets when it was first being put to the stage in 1997. Taymor also devised a concept to theatrically represent the story and heart of show on stage with wh...
Australian-American New York Rock Band THE WALK-A-BOUT to Release Sophomore Album THINGS ARE LOOKING UP
by Macon Prickett - May 17, 2018 Aussie-American acoustically driven rock 'n' roll quintet THE WALK-A-BOUT hail from the artistic East End of Long Island, New York. THE WALK-A-BOUT are releasing their sophomore album THINGS ARE LOOKING UP, produced by Andrew Michael Bertrand and mastered by Roger Lian, in stores and online worldwid...
BWW Review: THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE at Oyster Mill Playhouse
by Andrea Stephenson - September 22, 2018 ...
BWW Review: Two Dreams in a Roll - BOSCH DREAMS & DREAM AND DERANGEMENT at Hong Kong Cultural Centre (Hong Kong Arts Festival)
by Clement Lee - March 15, 2018 Two theatre shows in the Festival, both ran at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, have their titles branded with the word 'Dream': BOSCH DREAMS and DREAM AND DERANGEMENT. Not much is similar to these two pieces, but I find it fascinating that both pieces approach theatre and the performing space not in ...
BWW Review: From Farcical to Sombre in PERFECT ARRANGEMENT at Fells Point Corner Theatre
by Jack L. B. Gohn - September 03, 2019 The title Perfect Arrangement refers to the compact of a male gay couple and a lesbian couple to hide in plain view from the disapproval of the world in 1950 by posing as two straight couples living in adjoining halves of a Georgetown duplex. The two halves are secretly connected through the residen...
PBS American Experience Special THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT to Have National PBS Broadcast Debut May 29
by Macon Prickett - May 08, 2018 In the context of ongoing national debates over immigration, the timely new two-hour documentary The Chinese Exclusion Act, from Emmy® Award winning documentary filmmakers Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu, will debut as a special presentation of the award-winning PBS television series American Experience o...
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company To Receive Grant From The National Endowment For The Arts
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 10, 2020 The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has been approved for a $10,000 Challenge America grant to support Year of the Golden Rat Celebration. This project will support the presentation of the Company's production that will tour throughout the NY and NJ area. Overall, the National Endowment for the Arts has...
Old Town Theatre Company Presents THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
by Julie Musbach - October 15, 2019 Old Town Theatre Company (OTTC) presents Catherine Bush's adaptation of Washington Irving's novel, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, October 24th-26th and October 31st - November 2nd The Historic White Home....
BWW Review: MOSCOW BALLET'S GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER DOVE OF PEACE TOUR at the Crouse Hinds Theater
by Natasha Ashley - December 21, 2018 Keeping up the tradition of attending the Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker is a must for the holiday season. This year, Syracuse audiences had the opportunity to see the remarkable show again when the Dove of Peace tour played The Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater for two performances. Once agai...
BWW Review: ELECTRIC POE A HAUNTING TALE BY THE COTERIE THEATRE
by Steve Wilson - September 19, 2020 As if 2020 wasna??t scary enough, The Coterie Theater ushers in the haunting season with the opening of ELECTRIC POE on Friday, September 19. The play based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe was conceived, adapted, and directed by Jeff Church, Producing Artistic Director of The Coterie, and runs throu...
Semyon Bychkov Leads The Czech Philharmonic At Carnegie Hall In October
by Julie Musbach - October 10, 2018 This fall the Czech Philharmonic embarks on an 11-concert tour of the U.S. led by the Orchestra's Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov, who was appointed in October 2017 following the unanimous invitation of the Orchestra's musicians. The first two concerts of the tour are in Carnegie H...
Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park Finalizes Designs And 99-year Lease For New Mainstage Theatre Complex
by Stephi Wild - November 08, 2019 With final designs and a new 99-year lease approved by the Cincinnati Park Board and the City of Cincinnati, Playhouse in the Park's new mainstage theatre complex will begin preparatory site work in the spring of 2020....
Theater in Asylum to Host Watch Party of the Democratic Primary Debates to Coincide With Staging of THE DEBATES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 12, 2019 The New York-based theater company, Theater in Asylum (TIA), will host a watch party of the democratic primary debates at The Artist Co-Op in Hell's Kitchen as part of TIA's The Debates, staged adaptations of U.S. presidential election debates....
Semyon Bychkov Leads The Czech Philharmonic At Carnegie Hall In October
by Julie Musbach - October 10, 2018 This fall the Czech Philharmonic embarks on an 11-concert tour of the U.S. led by the Orchestra's Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov, who was appointed in October 2017 following the unanimous invitation of the Orchestra's musicians. The first two concerts of the tour are in Carnegie H...
BWW Review: THE AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET at Paul Recital Hall At The Juilliard School
by Joanna Barouch - February 19, 2018 In most music schools, faculty recitals are a standard part of student life. Attendance, while not mandatory, is expected because it is assumed the student will learn something from the performance. Sometimes it isn't exactly what the professor may have intended...A faculty recital at The Juilliard ...
BWW Interview: Tim Lucas Talks Behind-the-Scenes With THE LION KING Puppets
by Janine Angela Martinez - April 17, 2018 Director Julie Taymor made the importance of having the animals, which play a big part in the story, represented through costumes, masks, and puppets when it was first being put to the stage in 1997. Taymor also devised a concept to theatrically represent the story and heart of show on stage with wh...
BWW Interview: Tim Lucas Talks Behind-the-Scenes With THE LION KING Puppets
by Janine Angela Martinez - April 17, 2018 Director Julie Taymor made the importance of having the animals, which play a big part in the story, represented through costumes, masks, and puppets when it was first being put to the stage in 1997. Taymor also devised a concept to theatrically represent the story and heart of show on stage with wh...
THE KING AND I Comes to Bristol Hippodrome
by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2018 Following the critically acclaimed Broadway smash hit run of the THE KING AND I and its box office sold out record breaking season at the world famous London Palladium, comes the announcement that the multi Tony Award winning production will now embark on a major UK tour from Spring 2019....
Smithsonian Channel Launches Groundbreaking New Series THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR
by Tori Hartshorn - May 24, 2018 A groundbreaking new eight-part series traces the epic struggle of the Pacific War using rare and never-before-seen color visuals from every corner of the conflict. Smithsonian Channel takes viewers on a vivid journey from the home front to the battlefront, examining the pivotal moments, wartime inn... |