Amy Irving to Release Debut Album 'BORN IN A TRUNK'
by Michael Major - Feb 16, 2023
BORN IN A TRUNK features songs like 'Why Don't You Do Right' (which Amy sang as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and Pino Donaggio's 'I Never Dreamed' (from her feature film debut, Carrie) that have been expertly arranged by Jules David Bartkowski (aka Goolis) to meld into a cohesive story-telling album.
Fou Fou Ha to Present WHOA-MAN! A MUSICAL
by Tyler Peterson - Jul 27, 2015
Fou Fou Ha!, San Francisco's cartoon cabaret ensemble is returning after a sold-out run with their hit show "Whoa-Man! A musical" at the Shelton Theater every Friday and Saturday in October and November 2015.
BWW Exclusive: NTI Changed My Life - MTC's Barry Grove
by National Theater Institute - Jul 17, 2015
Today, in an excerpt from The O'Neill: Transformation of Modern American Theater, we hear from Manhattan Theatre Club Executive Producer Barry Grove who cites his semester away at NTI for 'literally changing the arc of my life - it led to Broadway, the National Playwrights Conference, my Equity card as a Stage Manager, the RSC with the infant Shakespeare & Co, a national tour launch, and a summer stock tour - all before I graduated from Dartmouth!'
BWW Exclusive: NTI - Uniting Artists & Students for 45 Years
by National Theater Institute - Mar 16, 2015
With a singular schedule and unmatched breadth of training, the National Theater Institute is the nation's leading undergraduate artistic training program. In addition to a rigorous curriculum covering the theatrical greats -- Shakespeare, Williams, Chekov, and O'Neill -- NTI students are learning from today's theater artists. Since its founding in 1970, NTI has united working artists and students in education and collaboration.
Theatre Communications Group Publishes AN IDEAL THEATER: FOUNDING VISIONS
by Molly Tracy - Sep 24, 2013
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art, a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being.
Kean Stage Announces 2012-2013 Season
by Kelsey Denette - Sep 7, 2012
Kean Stage's 2012-2013 performing arts season announces a lineup of performances in six different venues all across its campus.
Anne Cattaneo Wins 2011 Margo Jones Award
by Nicole Rosky - Jul 6, 2011
The Ohio State University Arts and Humanities and University Libraries' Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute has announced that it will present the prestigious 2011 Margo Jones Award to Lincoln Center Theater dramaturg Anne Cattaneo. The award, which will be presented to Ms. Cattaneo in a ceremony in the Vivian Beaumont Theater lobby on Monday, July 11 beginning at 5:30, is given annually to a 'citizen-of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a significant impact, understanding and affirmation of the craft of playwriting, with a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.'
Center Theatre Group's Frank Bayer Dies, 9/22
by Nicole Rosky - Sep 28, 2010
Frank Bayer, whose long career in theatre included stints as actor and stage manager on Broadway and as casting director and production supervisor at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, died on September 22, 2010. He was born June 29, 1936, in Brazil, Indiana.
Amy Irving Talks MOTHERHOOD OUT LOUD: 'There's No Avoiding Mothers, Even If You Try'
by BWW News Desk - Feb 28, 2010
Hartford Stage's production of 'Motherhood Out Loud' is a collection of 15 pieces by 16 writers on the subject of motherhood. The show is directed by Lisa Peterson and features Amy Irving, Amy Irving, James Lecesne, and April Yvette Thompson. In an interview with Frank Rizzo of the Hartford Courant, Amy Irving discusses her own experiences with motherhood and reflects on her family growing up as daughter of theatrical director and producer Jules Irving and actress Priscilla Pointer.