Joseph Kennedy

Julien's Auctions Nets $4 Million & New World Record With Marilyn Monroe Pucci Dress, Burial Crypt
by Blair Ingenthron - Mar 31, 2024

Julien's Auctions sets a new world record with the sale of Marilyn Monroe's Pucci dress and burial crypt, netting over $4 million in their Playboy Hefner x Marilyn Monroe event.

Photos: First Look at Big Noise Theatre's GREY GARDENS, Now Playing Through Late January
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 18, 2024

Check out photos of Big Noise Theatre's Grey Gardens! Learn how to purchase tickets!

GREY GARDENS to Open at Big Noise Theatre Next Week
by Blair Ingenthron - Jan 6, 2024

Big Noise Theatre is opening their 2024 season with GREY GARDENS: THE MUSICAL (book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie) next week in Des Plaines, IL., right outside of Chicago. Get all the production information here!

ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence Names Six Winning Plays to Premiere at The Kennedy Center and Nationwide
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 13, 2023

Discover the powerful plays by emerging teen writers that tackle the issue of gun violence. ENOUGH! announces the premiere of six winning works at The Kennedy Center and nationwide, showcasing young voices advocating for change. Don't miss this impactful event.

Review: THE PRICE OF POWER at Abbey Theater Of Dublin
by Paul Batterson - Jan 17, 2023

What did our critic think of THE PRICE OF POWER at Abbey Theater Of Dublin? As the director of THE PRICE OF POWER, Abbey Theater of Dublin director Joe Bishara is up against an interesting challenge. How does one present a show about John F. Kennedy, one of the most famous faces in the history of American politics?

The Friday 5(+1) on Saturday: THAT WOMAN - THE DANCE SHOW
by Jeffrey Ellis - Jun 18, 2022

That Woman - The Dance Show is produced by Tennessee Playwrights Studio and directed by Molly Breen. This production has been co-created with the following Nashville choreographers: Molly Breen, Caitlin Del Casino, Brandon Johnson, Thea Jones, Cornell Kennedy, Jodie Mowrey (Director of Choreography), Schuyler Phoenix, Rachel Simons, Brittany Stewart, and Emma Williams. 

THAT WOMAN- THE MONOLOGUE SHOW and THAT WOMAN- THE DANCE SHOW to Be Presented in Tandem at the Darkhorse Theatre
by Marissa Tomeo - May 14, 2022

The Darkhorse Theatre is set to stage tandem productions of That Woman- The Monologue Show and That Woman- The Dance Show. Ticket for all shows are now on sale at tnplaywrights.org. The Monologue Show will take place for one night only, while the Dance Show will perform on multiple days. Find more information about the shows and performance schedules below. 

Performances, An Indigenous Foodways Cooking Demonstration & More Announced for WE THE PEOPLES BEFORE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 3, 2022

First Peoples Fund and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the full line-up for We The Peoples Before, a festival of events designed to explore and expand deep truths and reflections about the history and experience of this country’s Native peoples.

Kennedy Center and First Peoples Fund Announce WE THE PEOPLES BEFORE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 9, 2021

First Peoples Fund and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts have announced We The Peoples Before, a  festival of events designed to explore and expand deep truths and reflections about the history and experience of this country’s Native peoples.

The Old Opera House Theatre Company to Present 2021 New Voice Play Festival Finalists
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 27, 2021

The Old Opera House Theatre Company will present the winning entries in the 2021 New Voice Play Festival. 

REELZ Releases November 2020 Lineup
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Oct 20, 2020

REELZ today announced its November 2020 lineup packed with new original specials.

Cast and Crew Have Been Announced for Theo Ubique's GREY GARDENS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 23, 2020

Cast and crew were announced today for Theo Ubique's production of the hilarious and heartbreaking musical GREY GARDENS, to be performed at the Howard Street Theatre at 721 Howard St., Evanston, from March 6 to April 26, 2020.

Meet the Cast of A CHRISTMAS CAROL- Now in Previews on Broadway!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 7, 2019

A Christmas Carol is now in previews on Broadway! The holiday masterpiece, A Christmas Carol, comes to Broadway this holiday season for eight weeks only following critically acclaimed runs at London's Old Vic. Two visionary talents, playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and director Matthew Warchus (Matilda), offer a magical new interpretation of Charles Dickens' classic story, starring Campbell Scott ('House of Cards,' Dying Young) as Ebenezer Scrooge. Beginning previews on Thursday, November 7 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street), with the opening night set for Wednesday, November 20, A Christmas Carol will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, January 5, 2020 only.

GREY GARDENS Extends Run at RTP
by Julie Musbach - Jun 24, 2019

Richmond Triangle Players announces a two-week extension to the run of the musical Grey Gardens, which opened Friday June 14, 2019. The production will now run through Saturday, July 27, instead of the original closing date of July 13.

Theo Ubique Returns to a Four-Production Season for Second Year in New Home
by Sarah Hookey - Jun 13, 2019

Founding Artistic Director Fred Anzevino today announced a partial lineup of musicals for the company's second year in residence at the Howard Street Theatre, the venue developed by the City of Evanston specifically for the company.

Richmond Triangle Players Closes 2019-20 Season with Central Virginia Premiere of GREY GARDENS
by Sarah Hookey - May 16, 2019

Richmond Triangle Players brings its 2019-20 season to a close with the Central Virginia premiere of the musical Grey Gardens, opening Friday June 14, 2019, at 8 pm, following two low-priced previews on Wednesday and Thursday, June 12 and 13 at 8 pm. The production will run through Saturday, July 13.

BWW Exclusive: New York's Palace Theatre- The Valhalla of Vaudeville
by Trav S. D. - Aug 10, 2018

Built in 1913 as the flagship for the big time vaudeville circuit run by E.F. Albee and Martin Beck, manager of the Western Vaudeville Managers Association, the Palace was the perfect showplace for the biggest of big time vaudeville during the last two decades of its existence.

Review: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARY JO KOPECHNE Gives Voice to the Woman Who Inadvertently Changed American Political History
by Shari Barrett - Jul 17, 2018

Perhaps, as suggested by playwright Peter Lefcourt in his world premiere play THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARY JO KOPECHNE, she had also been drinking and could not say no to a man of considerable power and influence, a man who could help advance her career, a man she also may have admired after the death of his brother Robert the previous year. Certainly, this dilemma has become particularly prominent in the #MeToo era in which we are now living where men of power are being taken to task for making unwanted sexual advances on those working for them who go along with it for career gain. What we do know is that Kennedy survived and she did not. But who was Mary Jo Kopechne?

Czech Marionettes to Bring THE LIFE & TIMES OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD to La MaMa
by BWW News Desk - Oct 4, 2017

In the era of alternative truth, it is timely to revisit three 1960s national traumas which are shrouded in dense cobwebs of multiple conspiracy theories: the assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King. To elucidate them with puppet theater wisdom, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre revisits these tragedies in 'The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald,' conceived, written and directed by Vit Horejs.

Real Life Tragicomedy Takes the Stage in GREY GARDENS
by BWW News Desk - Sep 15, 2017

The Barn Players are pleased to present the Tony Award winning musical 'Grey Gardens,' Today, September 15th through Sunday, October 1st. Based on a 1975 documentary, the musical tells the true life story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Set in 1941 and 1973 at the Bouvier mansion in East Hampton, this bold musical follows this mother and daughter on their hilarious and heartbreaking journey from glamorous aristocrats to recluses in a crumbling house filled with memory and cats.