Cynthia Weil Passes Away; 'On Broadway' Songwriter Featured in BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Was 82
by Michael Major - June 02, 2023 Weil was prominently featured as a character in Beautiful: the Carole King Musical, alongside her husband and songwriting partner Barry Mann. The pair wrote several iconic songs, including “On Broadway,” “Make Your Own Kind of Music,” 'You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” “Walking in the Rain,” “You’re...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Opens This Weekend at Long Beach Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - November 29, 2021 The Long Beach Playhouse is pleased to celebrate this holiday season with its traditional offering of A Christmas Carol in its Mainstage Theatre. It's a beloved story of a man transformed by ghostly visions of his past, present, and future. It reminds us joy and gratitude are the most important gift...
The Barricade Boys' A NIGHT AT THE MUSICALS Comes to Trentham This Month
by Stephi Wild - July 20, 2021 The Barricade Boys are performing at Trentham, Staffordshire, as part of their critically acclaimed national tour. The musical theatre group will perform show tunes from some of the most iconic musicals in history, including songs from the West End's longest-running musical, Les Misérables....
World Premiere Of Krista Knight's LIPSTICK LOBOTOMY Opens At Trap Door Theatre Next Month
by A.A. Cristi - January 21, 2020 In the world premiere of a?oeLipstick Lobotomy,a?? John F. Kennedy's little sister, Rosemary Kennedy, and the playwright's Great Aunt Ginny develop a friendship at an exclusive high-end sanitarium for women in the fall of 1941. The women undergo the peculiar cutting-edge treatments on offer by a soc...
THE HATMAKER'S WIFE Opens Soon At The Long Beach Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - May 29, 2019 In Lauren Yee's comic fairy tale we are introduced to a young woman who moves in with her boyfriend expecting domestic bliss. Instead, she finds a talking wall dispensing sheets of paper with the story of previous inhabitants that only she can hear and see. In place of the happiness she expected, sh...
WHITE GUY ON THE BUS Comes to CST
by Stephi Wild - May 08, 2019 Carpenter Square Theatre presents "White Guy on the Bus" May 17-June 1. Bruce Graham's drama takes the audience for a ride that starts easily enough, but then makes an unexpected turn into rough territory. All performances will be held at the theater, located at 800 W. Main in downtown Oklahoma City...
Ken Ludwig's LEND ME A TENOR Comes to The Long Beach Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - February 04, 2019 Ken Ludwig's Lend me a Tenor is one of the best modern American farces to hit the stage. A madcap mix of mistaken identity, drugged-induced confusion, lustful shenanigans, and operatic impersonation, it's received several nominations including best new comedy, best play and best revival. It's a show...
Long Beach Playhouse Studio Presents THE MOTHERF**CKER WITH THE HAT Opening Soon
by A.A. Cristi - June 01, 2022 A foul-mouthed farce about love, fidelity, addiction, recovery, and a misplaced hat, The Motherf**ker with the Hat comes to the Long Beach Playhouse June 11 - July 9, 2022. ...
Ken Ludwig's LEND ME A TENOR Comes to The Long Beach Playhouse
by BWW News Desk - February 23, 2019 Ken Ludwig's Lend me a Tenor is one of the best modern American farces to hit the stage. A madcap mix of mistaken identity, drugged-induced confusion, lustful shenanigans, and operatic impersonation, it's received several nominations including best new comedy, best play and best revival. It's a show...
The National Gallery Reveals Special Programming Set For ENLIGHTEN 2024 Festival
by Stephi Wild - February 13, 2024 The National Gallery has announced extended opening hours and live music during the Enlighten 2024 Festival. ...
London's Best Pre-Theatre Outdoor Places To Eat and Drink
by Marianka Swain - May 06, 2019 We kicked off our new London Theatre Guides series with transport advice: how to travel to and navigate the West End. Check it out here! Another key part of a great theatre experience is knowing the best bars and restaurants where you can meet up for a pre-show cocktail or snack. In honour of our re...
EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR Opens at the Long Beach Playhouse
by Julie Musbach - April 23, 2019 The Long Beach Playhouse opens its 2019 season with Lauren Gunderson's play entitled Exit, Pursued by a Bear. In the play Nan is trapped in an unhappy marriage with a man named Kyle. A fan of Shakespeare, she and her best friend, Simon, along with a stripper named Sweetheart, decide recreating drama...
Tori Scott, Lexie Dorsett Sharp And @the.broadway.hotdog Star In 'The Beltress Power Hour' at The Green Room 42
by Stephi Wild - March 19, 2019 Back by popular demand! Christopher Timson returns to The Green Room 42 with his hit show that combines two of your favorite things: Belting and Beer. The classic college drinking game comes to life in "The Beltress Power Hour" as NYC's fiercest divas get one minute to belt into the rafters! When th...
Cumbernauld Theatre Trust Launches Lanternhouse Cinema
by Stephi Wild - April 25, 2022 Cumbernauld Theatre Trust has announced the opening of the state-of-the-art Lanternhouse cinema on Saturday, 30 April 2022, bringing the best cinema experiences and the latest new releases to the community of Cumbernauld and North Lanarkshire. ...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Opening At The Long Beach Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - December 02, 2019 A Christmas Carol is a time honored staple of the holiday season; as haunting as it is festive. The Long Beach Playhouse is pleased to end the year with its annual production of this beloved classic. Written by Charles Dickens in 1843, his memorable characters and story still touch us 175 years late...
LBP Studio Opens THE REVOLUTIONISTS This Weekend
by Stephi Wild - August 31, 2022 Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, Caribbean rebel Marianne Angelle, assassin Charlotte Corday, and former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette hang out, murder ...
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Approaches Opening at the Long Beach Playhouse
by Julie Musbach - June 17, 2019 The Long Beach Playhouse closes its Mainstage season with the award-winning musical, La Cage Aux Folles....
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAY Comes to Long Beach Playhouse Studio
by Julie Musbach - July 09, 2018 In 1914, Long Beach leaders hired two bounty hunters to entrapgay men so the city could essentially blackmail and remove them with fines and public humiliation. Most men paid the fine and quietly slipped out of town. One man - a banker - committed suicide and two others sued the city. Playwright Tom...
MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLY Will Be Coming to the Long Beach Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 28, 2019 'Welcome to the Pemberley Estate where the family is gathered for the Christmas holiday. There is joy, jealousy, love notes and juxtaposition of the Bennet sister's agendas. Mary Bennet yearns for her place in this world. Is it to be found in music, books or maps? Is it a solitary and invisible life...
THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is Opening at the Long Beach Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 06, 2020 Lost in the fog, a stranger - the unexpected guest - seeks refuge in a nearby house, only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. A tangled web of lies reveals family secrets and chilling motives. And the real murderer turns out to be the greatest mystery of all. A...
Christopher Timson Returns to The Green Room 42 with Special Guests
by Julie Musbach - March 19, 2019 Back by popular demand! Christopher Timson returns to The Green Room 42 with his hit show that combines two of your favorite things: Belting and Beer. The classic college drinking game comes to life in "The Beltress Power Hour" as NYC's fiercest divas get one minute to belt into the rafters! When th...
EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR Coming Soon To The Long Beach Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - April 08, 2019 The Long Beach Playhouse opens its 2019 Studio Season with Lauren Gunderson's play entitled Exit, Pursued by a Bear. The play's subtitle is 'A Revenge Comedy.' It's a play that feels like a mashup between Shakespeare and the Coen Brothers. The protagonist, Nan, is trapped in an unhappy marriage with...
Trap Door Theatre Presents QUEEN C
by Stephi Wild - September 29, 2021 Laura Ruohonen creates her own special world in her plays, whether depicting a seventeenth-century court or a modern apartment block. Ruohonen's texts are both poetic and down-to-earth, combining humour and tragedy into an organic whole....
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Comes to the Long Beach Playhouse
by Julie Musbach - March 21, 2018 Peter and the Starcatcher is a play based on the 2004 novel Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. The book was adapted for the stage in 2011 by Rick Elice and provides a backstory for the characters of Peter Pan, Mrs. Darling, Tinker Bell and Captain Hook. The story centers ar...
'Two Cool' for School Slurpee' Drink Offer
by Marina Kennedy - August 12, 2018 7-Eleven stores are bringing back a popular promotion at the perfect time for friends to share a back-to-school beverage. The world's largest convenience retailer kicks off Share-a-Slurpee drink fun with a five-dayBuy One-Get One Free (BOGO) Slurpee drink event beginning 12:01 a.m. local time Mo... |