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.'...
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.'...
Palm Beach Photographic Centre to Present PULITZER BACK STORIES This Summer
by BWW News Desk - April 15, 2016 Fatima NeJame, president and chief executive officer of the world-renowned Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC), today announced that the next exhibition at the nonprofit organization would be Pulitzer Back Stories In Honor of the Pulitzer Centennial. ...
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 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...
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....
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 ...
British & Scottish National Museums Present CELTS: ART AND IDENTITY Today
by BWW News Desk - September 24, 2015 This autumn the British Museum, in partnership with National Museums Scotland, will stage the first British exhibition in 40 years on the Celts. Celts: art and identity opens at the British Museum today 24 September and will draw on the latest research from Britain, Ireland and Western Europe....
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...
First Exhibition Devoted to Valentin de Boulogne to Open This Fall at The Met
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2016 The greatest French follower of Caravaggio (1571-1610), Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) was also one of the outstanding artists in 17th-century Europe. In the years following Caravaggio's death, he emerged as one of the most original protagonists of the new, naturalistic painting....
Salzburg Festival Closes Nearly Sold-Out Season
by BWW News Desk - August 31, 2016 41 days ago Haydn's Die Schöpfung was performed at the Großes Festspielhaus, opening the Ouverture spirituelle and thus the 2016 Salzburg Festival....
Orto-Da Theatre Group Presents Sculpture Drama STONES Plus THE MANSERVANTS
by Julie Musbach - January 22, 2017 The show 'Stones' is inspired by 'The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument' by Nathan Rapoport (1911-1987). It is performed, without talking, by six actors who sculpture the monument with their bodies and bring life to it in order to face humanity in its eye in its current time....
Met Museum to Display THE WORLD IN PLAY Exhibit at The Cloisters, 1/20/16
by Matt Smith - December 17, 2015 Only three decks of European hand-painted playing cards are known to have survived from the late Middle Ages—two made in Germany and one in the Burgundian Netherlands, all dating from the early to late 15th century. The only complete set of these luxury cards—The Cloisters Playing Cards, from the so...
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...
Classical Theatre Company Receives American Theatre Wing Grant
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2016 Classical Theatre Company has announced that the American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards, is awarding the Classical Theatre Company with one of the 2016 National Theatre Company grants....
COC Music Director Johannes Debus Renews Contract Through 2020-21 Season
by Tyler Peterson - January 14, 2016 Canadian Opera Company audiences can look forward to five more years with Johannes Debus as the company's Music Director. The news of Debus' contract renewal through to the company's 2020/2021 season was announced today by COC General Director Alexander Neef at the public launch of the COC's 2016/20...
Dominique Lévy Opens GERHARD RICHTER: COLOUR CHARTS Today
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2015 Dominique Le?vy is pleased to announce Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts, an exhibition of paintings selected from the artist's original nineteen Colour Charts produced in 1966. Presented with the support of the Gerhard Richter Archive, the exhibition is the first exhibition to feature a small but vita...
BWW Review: Louisville's SPRING COLLABORATION - Artists Are Breaking Out
by Keith Waits - March 08, 2016 The Louisville Orchestra and Louisville Ballet Spring Collaboration may be one of those nights we will talk about in the future. We will say -- Remember the night that the private conversation the artists shared went public?...
Masterworks of American Modernism Opens at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 9/25
by Christina Mancuso - September 16, 2015 The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum reveals its latest exhibition, From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection, an exhibition organized by Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Oklahoma in cooperation with The Vilcek Foundation New York, opening Friday, Sept...
Bosch, Monet, Michelangelo, And Other American Impressionists Presented In EXHIBITION ON SCREEN
by Molly Tracy - December 19, 2016 Four new feature-length films in the EXHIBITION ON SCREEN series examine the lives, times, passions, practices, and creations of some of the best-knownand most influential artists in the Western canon. The current season offerings examine the Renaissance masters Hieronymus Bosch and Michelangelo and...
Center of the West Reopens Smithsonian Firearms Exhibit
by Christina Mancuso - December 02, 2015 The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, reopens its popular 'Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian,' just in time for the Center's annual Holiday Open House, Saturday, December 5. On view since May 4, 2013, in the lower gallery of the Ce...
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...
National Gallery to Present DUTCH FLOWERS Exhibit, 4/6
by Matt Smith - March 09, 2016 The National Gallery will welcome spring with an exhibition exploring the evolution of Dutch flower painting over the course of two centuries. This is the first display of its kind in the UK for more than twenty years....
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 ...
BWW Review: Pacific Opera And Sydney Youth Orchestra Present THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN At Sydney Grammar School
by Jade Kops - October 03, 2015 Leoš Jana?ek's THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN is reinterpreted by Michael Campbell (Director) in this new collaboration between Pacific Opera, Sydney Youth Orchestra and Sydney Grammar School.... |