BWW Review: Cliff Odle's LOST TEMPO: Ode to Jazz and Rhythm of Life
by Nancy Grossman - October 09, 2017 Boston Playwrights' Theatre opens its 36th season with Cliff Odle's ode to jazz and its place in the transitional period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. Director Diego Arciniegas does a first-rate job of translating Odle's play with music into a living, breathing entity with a rhythmic ebb and flo...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek - New Season of TLC's TYLER PERRY'S 'TOO CLOSE TO HOME
by Caryn Robbins - September 01, 2016 TLC has ordered a second season of its first scripted series, Tyler Perry's TOO CLOSE TO HOME to premiere in 2017....
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Kicks Off 7/31
by Tyler Peterson - June 28, 2016 'The flutist Marya Martin's festival brings an elite roster of chamber musicians to the ever-desirable vacation spot,' said The New Yorker of last year's Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. This summer, the 33rd season of Long Island's longest-running classical music festival comprises 14 concerts...
BWW Review: MADDIE 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition London Cast Album
by Jenny Ell - October 06, 2016 Further empowering their ethos of preserving 'lost' British theatre, Stage Door Records are releasing their latest cast album, Maddie, with a 20th Anniversary Deluxe edition bumper pack of a CD. Originally developed at Oxford University in 1990 during a Stephen Sondheim masterclass, emerging and amb...
Cast Announced for REASONS TO BE HAPPY at Hampstead Theatre This Spring
by BWW News Desk - February 18, 2016 Hampstead Theatre presents the UK premiere of Neil LaBute's romantic comedy REASONS TO BE HAPPY, which previews from 17 March and opens 24 March for a run through 16 April 2016. Directed by Michael Attenborough, the full cast features Tom Burke, Warren Brown, Robyn Addison, and Lauren O'Neil....
Hollywould Productions at the Toronto Fringe Festival Presents GETTING ODD
by Louisa Brady - May 29, 2016 What would it take for you to crack? Having run away from her public shaming three years ago Poppy (Holly Wyder) receives an unexpected visitor, a woman named Amy (Allison Harris), who just might have some unfinished business of her own. With only a rat named Mr. Bohemia to keep them company the two...
Idris Elba Returns for New Installment of BBC America's LUTHER
by Caryn Robbins - June 12, 2017 Multi-award-winning LUTHER will return to BBC AMERICA with a new four-part limited-series written and created by Neil Cross, and starring Idris Elba, who has received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe(R), SAG and Critics' Choice Award for his performance as DCI John Luther. Filming will commence e...
Cameron Mackintosh Abandons Boublil & Schonberg's Revised MARTIN GUERRE
by Jessica Khan - January 04, 2017 As reported back in 2015, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg were busy reworking their musical MARTIN GUERRE for a West End return, backed by Cameron Mackintosh....
Alton Brown Returns to Great Outdoors in Food Network's CAMP CUTTHROAT 2: ALTON'S REVENGE
by BWW News Desk - August 24, 2016 Host and head counselor of mayhem Alton Brown goes back to camp with a trunkful of twisted culinary challenges in the primetime special series CAMP CUTTHROAT 2: ALTON'S REVENGE, premiering Today, August 24th at 10pm (all times ET/PT) on Food Network....
Season Four of History's Hit Drama Series VIKINGS Returns Today
by BWW News Desk - November 30, 2016 HISTORY's hit drama series VIKINGS, filled with calamity, revenge and death, continues today, November 30 at 9PM ET/PT. Led by Travis Fimmel (War Craft), the historical based drama moves to Today nights for part two of season four....
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston Announces Cast & Creative Team for WARRIOR CLASS
by A.A. Cristi - September 26, 2016 The Lyric Stage Company of Boston has announced the cast & creative team for its upcoming productionof WARRIOR CLASS by Kenneth Lin (writer, House of Cards), directed by Dawn M. Simmons. Performances are October 21 - November 13, 2016....
AT MY PACE: LESSONS FROM OUR MOTHERS is Released
by Christina Mancuso - January 09, 2017 NEWTON, Mass., Jan. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ At 81-years old, Jill Ebstein's mom signed up for a formal program in religious studies. Previously unable to attend college and now widowed, her mom set out to take care of unfinished business. Since the books seemed too heavy for her to lug around, her youn...
Cortland Rep Announces 47th Annual Summer Season For 2018
by Stephi Wild - November 21, 2017 Cortland Repertory Theatre, one of New York State's longest running professional summer theatres, has announced their 47th annual season for the summer of 2018. Once again this year, all six mainstage shows are making their CRT debuts, with at least one making its regional debut....
Toby Stephens and Lydia Leonard Cast in Tony Award-Winning OSLO
by A.A. Cristi - July 13, 2017 OSLO, which last night won Best Play at the Tony Awards, has its UK premiere later this year at the National Theatre and then transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End from 30 September to 30 December. Book tickets here from £24 ...
BWW Review: Restoration Stage Inc's THE VERY LAST DAYS OF THE FIRST COLORED CIRCUS a Fine, If Lengthy, Effort
by Andrew White - October 30, 2017 Steven A. Butler, Jr., a Maryland native, has a truly compelling story about his La Plata great-great grandparents, whose love blossomed when the Jim Crow, Blackface era was at its height. With talent and drive, they struggled against the odds and against an exploitative white manager to operate ...
MTV to Premiere New Season of REAL WORLD SEATTLE: BAD BLOOD, 10/12
by Caryn Robbins - September 07, 2016 After 31 seasons, 'Real World' is revisiting the Emerald City with a fresh new twist that's sure to up the ante for the latest crop of roommates when REAL WORLD SEATTLE: BAD BLOOD premieres with back-to-back episodes on October 12 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on MTV....
Bobby Valentino Creates A New Controversy with The SRG-ILS Group
by BWW News Desk - September 22, 2017 Platinum-selling Hip-Hop and R&B Superstar Bobby Valentino has inked a multi-million dollar recording agreement with The SRG-ILS Group. New music will be released early in 2018 through SRG-ILS and The Universal Music Group....
Midwest Premiere of Conor McPherson's THE VEIL Opens 8/19
by BWW News Desk - July 25, 2017 Idle Muse Theatre Company's season eleven, which features plays exploring women achieving self-definition in a world that tries to define them in relationship to the men around them, concludes with the Midwest premiere of The Veil written by playwright Conor McPherson directed by guest artist Ann Kr...
Cameron Mackintosh Abandons Boublil & Schonberg's Revised MARTIN GUERRE
by Jessica Khan - January 04, 2017 As reported back in 2015, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg were busy reworking their musical MARTIN GUERRE for a West End return, backed by Cameron Mackintosh....
BWW Review: Lawrence Brownlee Dominates CHARLIE PARKER'S YARDBIRD at New York's Apollo
by Richard Sasanow - April 07, 2016 As Charlie “Bird” Parker, the great jazz saxophonist, who is the central character in CHARLIE PARKER'S YARDBIRD--the opera that had its New York premiere last week at the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem--Lawrence Brownlee wonderfully embraced the classical and bebop sides of the score....
Mel Giedroyc, Emeli Sande, Penelope Wilton & More to Read WINTER'S TALES at Print Room at the Coronet
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2017 Details of Print Room at the Coronet's Winter's Tales have today been revealed. A stellar line up of well-known names will read their favourite festive stories. During the first week of December, classic and contemporary tales will be brought to life for children and families in the beautiful and in...
BWW Interview: With CHARLIE PARKER'S YARDBIRD, Tenor Lawrence Brownlee Goes from Bel Canto to Bebop
by Richard Sasanow - April 04, 2016 Tenor Lawrence Brownlee, who's justly acclaimed for his high notes--forget about a high C; how about an F above that!?--just finished the New York premiere of the Daniel Schnyder opera CHARLIE PARKER'S YARDBIRD (Bridgette A. Wmberly, librettist), at the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Famed jazz sax...
Box Of Tricks To Tour Becky Prestwich's CHIP SHOP CHIPS Across UK in 2018
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2017 After the critical national success earlier this year with their UK Theatre award-winning production of Lizzie Nunnery's Narvik, Manchester theatre company Box of Tricks are set to tour in 2018 their acclaimed 2016 production of Becky Prestwich's funny and nostalgic tale of love over fish and...
Original Live Cast Recording of THESE TREES ARE MADE OF BLOOD Out Now
by BWW News Desk - March 24, 2016 THESE TREES ARE MADE OF BLOOD, a new play about Argentina's Dirty War, premiered in The Little at Southwark Playhouse in April 2015 to sold out audiences and rave reviews. A limited edition cast recording of the songs from the show was recorded live at Southwark Playhouse on a sunny bank holiday aft...
Old Sturbridge Village to Present HAUNTED BY HISTORY: A PHANTASMAGORIA This Month
by BWW News Desk - October 03, 2017 Old Sturbridge Village presents HAUNTED BY HISTORY: A PHANTASMAGORIA, October 18-29, 2017 during the Village's regular open hours.... |