John Thorne

Chicago Area's 49th Annual Bach Week Festival To Bring Baroque Masterworks To Chicago And Evanston

The Chicago area's 49th annual Bach Week Festival will present concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, from April 24 to May 12, 2022.

Review Roundup: Did Critics Go Bananas For KING KONG On Broadway?

The new musical King Kong opens on Broadway tonight at the Broadway Theatre! 

Theater Talk: John Tiffany & Steven Hoggett on the Magic of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child director John Tiffany and movement director Steven Hoggett discuss creating the blockbuster show with playwright John Thorne and J.K. Rowling. Gordon Cox of Variety co-hosts with Susan Haskins.

Review Roundup: Did The Critics Think HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Was Magical?

A play in two parts, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child officially opens on Broadway tonight, April 22 at the Lyric Theatre (214 West 43rd Street, New York, NY). Let's see what the critics have to say!

EDINBURGH 2017: BWW Q&A- Off The Top!

BWW speaks to Jason Kravits about his 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Off The Top

Broadway's Brian D'Arcy James to Guest-Star on TNT Oriignal Pilot CIVIL

Brian D'Arcy James (Spotlight, Smash, Broadway's SOMETHING ROTTEN) will guest-star the pilot, which will also feature Enrique Murciano (Bloodline, Collateral Beauty) in a lead rol

42nd Annual Bach Week Festival to Feature 'Brandenburg' Concertos

The 42nd annual edition of the Chicago area's Bach Week Festival will feature all six of J. S. Bach's beloved 'Brandenburg' Concertos, performed in the course of concerts April 10 at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston and May 1 and 3 at Anderson Chapel at North Park University on Chicago's North Side. The festival is a collaboration between Bach Week and North Park's School of Music. This will be the first Bach Week Festival to present the complete 'Brandenburg' Concerto cycle. Two of the concertos will anchor each principal concert program, alongside other Bach compositions. An intimate, late-evening Candlelight Concert in Evanston on April 10 will offer music for recorder and theorbo, another festival first.

Susanna Phillips to Headline Bach Week Benefit Concert at Anderson Chapel, 10/13

Soprano Susanna Phillips, a star of New York's Metropolitan and Chicago's Lyric Opera stages, will headline a concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, in Anderson Chapel at North Park University, 5149 N. Spaulding Ave., Chicago, to benefit the spring 2014 Bach Week Festival in Evanston and Chicago.