Telemundo Announces Sponsors for 2016 BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC AWARDS
by Caryn Robbins - April 27, 2016 TELEMUNDO today announced sponsors of the 2016 BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC AWARDS including DishLATINO, Domino's, Ford, Garnier Fructis, TWIX®, Pepsi, Samsung Electronics America, Sprint, State Farm, Target, Toyota and Victoria....
BWW Review: Vive L'ENFANT! From Juilliard's Troops with Conductor Villaume at Alice Tully Hall
by Richard Sasanow - December 07, 2017 The Juilliard Orchestra and Opera beat the Met to the punch this week, featuring French conductor Emmanuel Villaume in a superb concert of Ravel and Debussy, including a lovely performance of Ravel's short opera, L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES, with its clever libretto by the French novelist, Colette. I...
BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS Leaves Lasting Impression
by Paul Batterson - May 07, 2016 In the third song, 'See I'm Smiling,' of the musical THE LAST FIVE YEARS, Catherine Hiatt (played by Melissa Hall) sings to her husband, 'I think you're really gonna like this show. I'm pretty sure it doesn't suck.'...
Canadian Opera Company Posts $32,000 Surplus In 2015/2016 Year
by Molly Tracy - October 18, 2016 The Canadian Opera Company's 2015/2016 season was one of continued artistic excellence paired with financial stability, as reported today at the COC's Annual General Meeting by COC Board Chair Colleen Sexsmith and COC General Director Alexander Neef. The COC's operating expenses for the 15/16 season...
Tom Jones Restages Darker Version of 'Round and Round' in THE FANTASTICKS
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2017 Playwright Tom Jones is making some changes to his 57-year-old musical THE FANTASTICKS. Mr. Jones has done a little bit of rewriting of the musical number "Round and Round" which he has always felt never quite conveyed the darker elements he intended....
NCAC Calls for Burnsville, MN City Officials to Apologize for Cancelling Play with 'Mulatto' in Title
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2017 The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund, two organizations committed to defending creative freedom, are calling on City officials of Burnsville, Minnesota, to make amends for refusing to allow the performance of a play with the word 'mulatto' in the tit...
Mayor Bill de Blasio Visits South Street Seaport Museum
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017 South Street Seaport Museum was paid a visit by Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio....
BWW Review, Part I: Part's MISERERE and Mozart's REQUIEM a Pair to Remember with Dudamel and LA Philharmonic
by Richard Sasanow - June 03, 2016 Early in May, Gustavo Dudamel—the brilliant music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic—was booed at the opening of TURANDOT at the Vienna State Opera purportedly for playing too loud. There were no such complaints when he returned to Disney Hall in Los Angeles on May 20, with a grand, finely nua...
Richard Nelson's 'THE GABRIELS' to Stream Live from The Public Theater on BroadwayHD
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2017 Online theater streaming service BroadwayHD will live stream The Public Theater's 'THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family,' written and directed by Richard Nelson. The critically acclaimed three-play cycle is currently touring internationally and will return to The Public Theater on M...
GOODNIGHT MOON, PRANCER, THUMBELINA and More Set for Rose Theater's 2016-17 Season
by BWW News Desk - September 02, 2016 The Rose Theater will launch its 2016-17 season on Sept. 2, 2016, with the opening of Goodnight Moon, a musical featuring the classic children's book by the same name....
BWW Review: BILLY ELLIOT The Musical Sings and Dances Its Way on the Beck Center Stage
by Roy Berko - July 13, 2016 The year is 1984. Margaret Thatcher, the first woman British Prime Minister, declared war on the coal labor unions, closed 20 mines and laid off 20,000 workers in what she called 'the process of bringing the British coal industry up to competitive levels.'...
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....
EDINBURGH 2017: BWW Q&A- Majuli
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 17, 2017 BWW speaks to Shilpika Bordoloi about 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Majuli....
Lovehistory's TRIAL BY JURY to Return with New Case Next Week
by BWW News Desk - August 09, 2017 After the massive success of its initial launch earlier in the year, Lovehistory return with Trial By Jury with a brand new court-case next week....
Maltz Jupiter Theatre Announces Plans for a Major Expansion
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2016 Want to see the next Hamilton or Wicked before it hits it big?...
THE FLICK, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, FUN HOME and More Set for 2017-18 at Playhouse on the Square
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2017 The 2017 - 2018 season at Playhouse on the Square season will begin with 9 to 5: the Musical, based on the hit film of the same name. Featuring familiar favorite songs like '9 to 5', as well as additional music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, 9 to 5: The Musical is the story of three unlikely friends wh...
The British Museum Acquires Rare Picasso Prints
by Christina Mancuso - September 26, 2016 The British Museum has acquired sixteen important lithograph prints and three aquatint prints by Pablo Picasso covering the post-war period from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. This acquisition closes the last major gap in the British Museum's representation of Picasso's achievements as a printmak...
Met Museum Exhibition Celebrates Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2016 Opening April 27 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the landmark international loan exhibition Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs features spectacular works of art created in the 11th through 13th century from Turkmenistan to the Mediterranean....
WNYC FM To Air Electronic Opera HERESY, 11/15
by Molly Tracy - November 10, 2016 Where do you start to describe Heresy, "Ireland's first electronic opera" by composer Roger Doyle? You can't, and I won't. Besides, there is no point. It's not about the story. It's not about the singing. To some extent, it's not even about the music. Heresy is, from start to finish, an exquisitely ...
ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND to Open in China November 2017
by A.A. Cristi - June 20, 2017 Alice's Adventures Underground, an Immersive Theatre experience which is popular in the U.K., will start its first show in Shanghai as part of its Chinese version tour at the end of this year....
BWW Review: TCC's Uncut THE CRUCIBLE Is a Powerful Classic
by Trevor Durham - November 17, 2016 Director Matthew Watson presents an unabridged production of Miller's classic, with strong performers and supporting tech....
Phoenix Theatre Partners with JCC for One-Night-Only AN ACT OF GOD
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2017 The Phoenix Theatre and the Indianapolis JCC will present a special partnership performance of An Act of God, by David Javerbaum. This divine comedy travels from the Phoenix Theatre to the JCC for one night only, March 7, 2017 at 7 p.m....
Connie J. Brewer Releases 'The Torah in Living Color: The Book of Deuteronomy'
by Christina Mancuso - February 01, 2017 'The Torah in Living Color: The Book of Deuteronomy': a stunning and brilliant tool that can be used to promote weekly Torah readings and the love of the Lord. 'The Torah in Living Color: The Book of Deuteronomy' is the creation of published author, Connie J. Brewer, gifted artist and devoted grandm...
Jewish Museum Presents Contemporary Art By Walter Benjamin's Magnum Opus
by Christina Mancuso - March 23, 2017 The writings of Walter Benjamin, the influential German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic, are the basis for a contemporary art exhibition at the Jewish Museum on view through August 6, 2017. The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin examines themes in the author's magnum opus The Arcad...
Copyright Case Against HAND TO GOD Appealed to the Supreme Court
by Julie Musbach - April 29, 2017 According to Forbes, the descendants of Abbott and Costello have appealed their copyright claim against the play HAND TO GOD all the way to the Supreme Court. The case originated when the heirs discovered that the play used over a minute of the famous 'Who's on First' routine without permission. The... |