Sydney Festival 2017 Parramatta & Western Sydney Program Announced
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2016 Sydney Festival returns in 2017 with a fantastic line-up of artists and events across Parramatta and Western Sydney from Australia and around the world. Featuring a dedicated circus program in Parramatta, a major visual arts exhibition, five world premieres and two exclusive performances, Festival D...
The Ringwald Starts 10th Season With World Premiere
by A.A. Cristi - September 19, 2016 Dubbed "Essential Ringwald", the 10th season will highlight the kind of shows The Ringwald has come to be known for in its 10 year history. And kicking off the season will be a bloody good world premiere! ...
Gravitas Set with ALMOST FRIENDS For Theater and VOD Today
by BWW News Desk - November 17, 2017 Gravitas Ventures has partnered to acquire U.S. and Canadian rights to ALMOST FRIENDS, a romantic comedy from writer-director Jake Goldberger (LIFE OF A KING). ABC's THE GOOD DOCTOR star Freddie Highmore toplines an all-star cast and the film will have a day-and-date release on November 17....
SWEENEY TODD at The Encore Musical Theatre Company
by Rebecca Russo - September 01, 2017 The Encore Musical Theatre Company proudly presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, running September 28 - October 22, 2017, directed by Matthew Brennan and music directed by Tyler Driskill. ...
Andy Karl to Lead Benefit Reading of CHASING THE RIVER
by Julie Musbach - January 24, 2018 Olivier Award winner Andy Karl will star in a benefit reading of CHASING THE RIVER by Jean Giebel. Karen Carpenter (Delia & Nora Ephron's Love Loss and What I Wore) will direct the presentation at The Pershing Square Signature Center's Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre on Monday January 29th(7pm)....
Tipping Point Theatre Seeks 10 Minute Play Submissions For Sandbox Play Festival
by Julie Musbach - February 02, 2018 Tipping Point Theatre is calling for short play submissions to their 8th annual play writing competition, the Sandbox Play Festival. Submissions will be evaluated by Producing Artistic Director James R. Kuhl to select which scripts move on to the finals....
Silk Road Rising Announces 2017-2018 15th Anniversary Season
by A.A. Cristi - June 15, 2017 Silk Road Rising has announced its 15th Anniversary Season, which includes two world premieres, one U.S. premiere, and three staged reading series. Announcing the season, Founding Artistic Director Jamil Khoury said, "When a new theatre company launches its first season, all hopes are pinned on reac...
Mad Cat Live! to Perform Black Sabbath Vol. 4 at The Gleason Room
by A.A. Cristi - September 14, 2017 Mad Cat kicks off their 18th season with their popular concert series Mad Cat Live performing Black Sabbath's Vol. 4. Mad Cat Live is a series dedicated to presenting transitional albums by major artists and deconstructing them in order to place them into a current context. Sabbath's Vol.4 is a perf...
Curve Adapting Roald Dahl's GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE for the Stage
by BWW News Desk - March 20, 2017 Following the success of Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits and The Witches, Curve is delighted to announce a new Made At Curve co-production of Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine for Christmas 2017. ...
BWW Recap: GREY'S ANATOMY and Kepner's No-Good-Terrible-Very-Bad-Day
by Lauren Gienow - February 17, 2017 On last night's episode of GREY'S ANATOMY, what was looking to be Dr. Kepner's no-good-terrible-very-bad-day turned out to be Dr. Minnick's no-good-terrible-very-bad-day. Fittingly, the episode was titled “It Only Gets Much Worse”....
ARE YOU SERIOUS? Solo Show Extends at Cornelia Street Cafe
by BWW News Desk - November 18, 2016 Cornelia Street Cafe has extended the run of award-winning writer/performer, Tulis McCall, for two additional performances of Are You Serious? - A Woman of a Certain Age Inquires....
Photo Flash: First Look at Flint Youth Theatre's A WRINKLE IN TIME
by Julie Musbach - October 07, 2017 Flint Youth Theatre - Michigan's Professional Theatre for Young Audiences presents A Wrinkle In Time adapted for stage by Tracy Young, based on the book by Madeleine L'Engle. Performances for this thrilling new adaptation begin Saturday October 7 and run through Sunday October 22. Tickets are now ...
The Point Selects New-For-2018 @HOME Artists Launching Exciting Chapter For The Venue
by Stephi Wild - February 12, 2018 Today The Point, Eastleigh announces its cohort of @HOME artists, as part of a new-for- 2018 initiative launching in April....
EDINBURGH 2016: BWW Q&A - Scorched
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 08, 2016 BWW speaks to Lisle Turner, writer of Scorched ahead of its 2016 run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe....
Happily Ever After Isn't As Easy as It Looks in Open Book Theatre's ENCHANTED CABARET
by A.A. Cristi - January 31, 2018 Imagine that your favorite prince and princess are real people, and they're not living under the sea or in an enchanted castle, but rather in your own town. They're meeting at the local bar, and they're struggling to find their happily ever after, just like you. The bartender is slinging drinks, th...
Andy Karl to Lead Benefit Reading of CHASING THE RIVER
by Julie Musbach - January 24, 2018 Olivier Award winner Andy Karl will star in a benefit reading of CHASING THE RIVER by Jean Giebel. Karen Carpenter (Delia & Nora Ephron's Love Loss and What I Wore) will direct the presentation at The Pershing Square Signature Center's Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre on Monday January 29th(7pm)....
SBIFF to Honor Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, Jordan Peele, and Paul Thomas Anderson as Outstanding Directors of the Year
by Tori Hartshorn - January 30, 2018 The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced today that Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, Jordan Peele, and Paul Thomas Anderson will receive the 2018 Outstanding Directors of the Year Award. The Oscar® nominated directors will be celebrated individually for their films...
Holocaust Secrets Revealed in Powerful NOVA PBS Film Airing Today
by BWW News Desk - April 19, 2017 In the heart of Lithuania, what is now a peaceful forest called Ponar was once Ground Zero for Hitler?s Final Solution....
SONGBIRD20 Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Eva Cassidy's Ground-Breaking SONGBIRD Album
by Macon Prickett - February 26, 2018 Eva Cassidy's SONGBIRD album was initially released by independent label Blix Street Records in April, 1998. The posthumous release, an anthology of recordings by the Washington, DC-based singer who had died in November of 1996, is comprised of four tracks from her first solo album, LIVE AT BLUES A...
Aesthetics and Art Change Today: A Tipping Point in Time
by Barry Kostrinsky - November 11, 2016 Art has needed it for a long time and of all things, it comes from the political realm. The tipping point has dropped with Donald Trumpeting a New Order unlike Joy Division. The new Don's deal will play out in the arts like a match to gunpowder....
Theatre NOVA Kicks Off 2017-2018 Season with THE REVOLUTIONISTS
by A.A. Cristi - July 25, 2017 Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the Michigan premiere of "The Revolutionists" by Lauren Gunderson....
BWW Review: Gold Dust Orphans Ask the Musical Question: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JESUS?
by Nancy Grossman - December 05, 2017 As sure as Christmas rolls around every December 25th, Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans return to the stage at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts at Machine Night Club with a Christmas-themed musical mystery, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JESUS? The inventive mash-up is unlike any other holi...
Gravitas Set with ALMOST FRIENDS For Theater and VOD 11/17
by Emily Bruno - October 17, 2017 Gravitas Ventures has partnered to acquire U.S. and Canadian rights to ALMOST FRIENDS, a romantic comedy from writer-director Jake Goldberger (LIFE OF A KING). ABC's THE GOOD DOCTOR star Freddie Highmore toplines an all-star cast and the film will have a day-and-date release on November 17....
BWW Review: NAPOLI, BROOKLYN at Long Wharf
by Sherry Shameer Cohen - February 28, 2017 A taste of Italian life via Brooklyn....
BWW Review: La Posada Magica
by E.H. Reiter - December 15, 2017 LA POSADA MAGICA, presented by the Hispanic Arts Theatre in Association with the Coronado Playhouse, is a funny and sweet journey that is a nice reminder that magic, faith, and community can help anyone on whatever journey they are on.... |