Helios Opera to Debut with Pandemic-Driven Performance Initiative
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 04, 2020 In its debut performance, Helios Opera, a newly formed opera company driven by its mission to use sustainable, business-minded practices to bring opera into the future, will premiere a new virtual opera through its Modular Opera Project (MOP) initiative....
Touché Amoré Share New Track 'Reminders'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 30, 2020 Today, Los Angeles post hardcore band Touché Amoré share their new song and video for “Reminders” off their forthcoming Ross Robinson (Slipknot, Korn, At the Drive-In) produced album, Lament due out next Friday, October 9. ...
SISTERHOOD Will Tour
by Stephi Wild - September 01, 2019 New multimedia play follows the footsteps of self-proclaimed Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins....
Costume Industry Coalition Launches Emergency Relief Campaign to Raise $4.5 M
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 02, 2020 The Costume Industry Coalition has announced the launch of its emergency relief campaign with a matching challenge up to $100,000 for the coalition, beginning today. All donations received between now and September 25th will be matched dollar for dollar. The fundraising goal for the campaign is set ...
BWW Review: WARHEADS, Park Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - August 17, 2019 Miles and Mory, two naïve young men who think they have nothing to lose, join the British Army. They come back home tour after tour feeling less than themselves. Miles is especially suffering as his crippling bouts of PTSD start corroding his relationship with his girlfriend Tena and his approach to...
Horace Mungin Celebrates 50 Year Career Anniversary With Re-Release Of 10 Literary Works
by Julie Musbach - July 08, 2019 It was 1968 when literary giant Horace Mungin penned his first published work, 'Dope Hustler's Jazz,' part one of a two volume set of anti-drug poetry. 'Dope Hustler's Jazz' was the beginning of a writing career that started in the Black Arts Movement and would extend over five decades of literary c...
BWW Review: DRAG TRIVIA AT HOME with Carmen And Vera
by Adrienne Proctor - April 29, 2020 The Boom's Wednesday night trivia goes digital with DRAG TRIVIA AT HOME. Hostess Queens Vera Ball and Carmen Deveraux are making the most of the Quarantine with their Facebook Live trivia every Wednesday night. Bring a shot and cover your kids' ears, it's about to get real weird!...
Jason Alexander, Tony Danza, Kelli O'Hara, and More Star in New Podcast Drama CLOSING THE DISTANCE
by Stephi Wild - May 05, 2020 Jason Alexander, Tony Danza, William Hurt, Kelli O'Hara, and Kathleen Turner will star in the new dramatic podcast series a?oeClosing the Distancea?? - a series of ten short pieces that explore the sudden and seemingly uncrossable distance between people caused by the societal issues of our current ...
Helios Opera Debuts With Pandemic-Driven Performance Initiative
by A.A. Cristi - July 27, 2020 In its debut performance, Helios Opera, a newly formed opera company driven by its mission to use sustainable, business-minded practices to bring opera into the future, premieres a new virtual opera through its Modular Opera Project (MOP) initiative. ...
BWW Blog: Our Duty to Confront Racism in the Theatre Industry
by Student Blogger: Nora Rhein - June 18, 2020 In light of the current Black Lives Matter protests, many Americans are becoming more aware of their white privilege, and beginning to see aspects of their life they may not have known was affected by/made easier by this privilege....
SOUND BITES 7.0 is on Sale Now
by Stephi Wild - March 10, 2020 Theatre Now has announced that tickets are now on sale for SOUND BITES 7.0, the Seventh Annual Festival of 10-Minute Musicals. This one-night only event, now in its seventh year, showcases 8 new musicals by up-and-coming musical theatre writing teams. SOUND BITES 7.0 will be held on Wednesday, April...
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal With WARHEADS Coming To Park Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - July 29, 2019 True Maverick Media are delighted to bring their thought-provoking production, Warheads to Park Theatre. The piece, which is based on the story of writer and lead actor Taz Skylar's best friend, shines a light on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in young soldiers. The production runs from 15th ...
Mad Cow Theatre Company Brings THE LAST FIVE YEARS (IN SPANISH) to Orlando 5/2 - 5/4
by Alan Henry - April 30, 2019 THE LAST FIVE YEARS, in spanish, will be playing at Mad Cow Theatre in Orlando from May 2 to 4, 2019....
Costume Industry Coalition Launches Emergency Relief Campaign to Raise $4.5 M
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 02, 2020 The Costume Industry Coalition has announced the launch of its emergency relief campaign with a matching challenge up to $100,000 for the coalition, beginning today. All donations received between now and September 25th will be matched dollar for dollar. The fundraising goal for the campaign is set ...
Virtual Production of THE LAST FIVE YEARS Will Stream Starring Danny Becker and Lauren Samuels
by Stephi Wild - May 29, 2020 A a?oevirtual lockdown productiona?? of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years will be presented starring Danny Becker (Jamie) and Lauren Samuels (Cathy), with Samuels also making her directorial debut. The actors will record their parts entirely in isolation, using only what is available to them,...
BWW Previews: HOLIDAY MUSICAL MAGIC At The Laurie Beechman Theatre
by Stephen Mosher - November 25, 2019 Eugene Ebner and friends like Natalie Douglas, Tim Cahill, Renee Katz, Hannah Jane Peterson, Sean Patrick Murtagh, and Bryon Sommers bring some holiday cheer to The Laurie Beechman with an all cabaret all Christmas concert....
Drew and Jonathan Scott Help Hollywood Superstars Show Renovation Appreciation in New HGTV Series
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 10, 2020 Celebrity IOU is a new blockbuster HGTV series where Hollywood A-listers express their deep gratitude to the individuals who have had a major impact on their lives by surprising them with big, heartwarming home renovations that bring everyone to tears. The star-studded, uplifting series, premiering ...
IF/THEN Announced at The Barn Players
by A.A. Cristi - March 10, 2020 Come see how circumstance and chance collide when The Barn Players present the contemporary hit IF/THEN, the romantic, melodic musical story of a woman standing at a crossroads in her life....
BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS, The Other Palace Digital
by Kerrie Nicholson - June 25, 2020 Recorded entirely in isolation with the actors using only what's available to them for props and staging and cleverly edited together, Brown's intimate, touching show about love, life, career and independence feels revitalised and re-energised...
BWW Review: FIJI, Omnibus Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - November 21, 2019 Sam (Pedro Leandro) arrives at Nick's (Edward Stone) for their date after they met online. Their rendez-vous is unlike many others: if all goes well, Nick is going to eat Sam. Stone and Leandro write a dark, twisted, and delicious play inspired by the Rotenburg Cannibal. Fiji accompanies their two c...
San Francisco Performing Artists Demand City Give Higher Priority to Safely Managed Outdoor Events
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 18, 2020 A number of San Francisco performing artists and arts organizations will go on the public record at the San Francisco Entertainment Commission's scheduled meeting this evening, Tuesday August 18. The goal is to solicit the Commission's help in moving outdoor performing arts from Phase 4 of the City'...
Jobsite Cancels Plays By Bertolt Brecht, Rajiv Joseph
by Stephi Wild - March 30, 2020 Jobsite Theater, already amid suspension of their production of DOUBT, A Parable, is cancelling both Bertolt Brecht's THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTUO UI (May 15 - Jun. 7) and Rajiv Joseph's ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER (Jul. 17 - Aug. 9). DOUBT is still planned to proceed as soon as it is deemed safe and prude...
BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS, Southwark Playhouse
by Cindy Marcolina - March 05, 2020 Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years has come back to London after a stint in the West End in 2016 as an intimate and exceptionally touching production directed by Jonathan O'Boyle. The iconic musical follows Cathy and Jamie's five-year relationship through all the highs and lows of a natural, d...
Virtual Production of THE LAST FIVE YEARS Will Stream Starring Danny Becker and Lauren Samuels
by Stephi Wild - May 29, 2020 A a?oevirtual lockdown productiona?? of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years will be presented starring Danny Becker (Jamie) and Lauren Samuels (Cathy), with Samuels also making her directorial debut. The actors will record their parts entirely in isolation, using only what is available to them,... |