BWW Review: Collaborating UO and Oakfields Students Deliver Promising SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at #NAF16 by David Fick - July 5, 2016 SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD delivered an engaging 85 minutes of musical theatre, managing to explore a clear thesis while doing so. Like some of the musicals presented at the Student Arts Festival over the past few years, it raised the bar of what can be accomplished on this platform in this genre. Photo Flash: First Look at Santa Clara University's CHICAGO by BWW News Desk - May 31, 2016 Santa Clara University's Department of Theatre and Dance announced today the full casting and creative creative team for the upcoming production of CHICAGO. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below! BWW Seeks International Student Bloggers - All Levels! All Regions! by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2016 BroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to blog on their school productions on a college, high school, middle school, and even elementary school level! BWW Review: Back to School with TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING and STONE SOUP at Playhouse Jr. by Greg Kerestan - May 25, 2016 The acclaimed university's children's theatre double feature explores the wide variety of possibilities for family entertainment. Photo Coverage: Sneak Peek at Otterbein Students Performing with Kristin Chenoweth by Jerri Shafer - May 21, 2016 Television and theater star Kristin Chenoweth was joined onstage by eight ?Otterbein University students to sing back-up on a few songs, during Chenoweth's performance at the Palace Theatre in Columbus. Claude-Michel Schönberg Named Visiting Professor at Oxford by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2016 Claude-Michel Schonberg has been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre, based at St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford. He will succeed Simon Russell Beale in October 2016. BWW Review: DOGFIGHT Delights Audiences at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point by Meredith Kreisa - May 7, 2016 The University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Department of Theatre and Dance is staging DOGFIGHT. With an intimate setting, exceptional acting, and a well-designed production, anyone (who is old enough, comfortable with stage violence, has lungs that readily accept fog, and appreciates a good curse word) will enjoy the show. NINE, MAJOR BARBARA, Kurt Weill Show and More Set for SU Drama's 2016-17 Season by BWW News Desk - May 3, 2016 The Syracuse University Department of Drama packs three musicals, a wild comedy, a classic Shaw, and a never-before-produced contemporary comedy into a season full of surprises and infrequently performed theatrical gems. Beginning with the musical Nine, the 2016/2017 season includes Laura and the Sea, Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins (co-produced with Syracuse Stage), The King Stag, Major Barbara, and From Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill: A Musical Voyage. BWW Review: DEAD MAN WALKING Shines Light into the Darkness in Georgetown, TX by Amy Bradley - April 27, 2016 The Sarofim School of Fine Arts Department of Theatre presents DEAD MAN WALKING at the creative theatre in the round stage known as Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater. Located in the heart of Georgetown, Texas and more specifically, Southwestern University, director Kathleen Juhl gathers students to tell a tale of a very unlikable young man watching the clock of his life run out. Set in 1970's Louisiana, the audience is transported through the stories of intolerance rather than scenery. Opening with a bare stage, some chairs, and a simple platform, the play begins with Sister Helen Prejean (played my Ally Oliphint) curious and nonjudgemental about her questionable surroundings in "the projects". Soon, she is asked by a local priest to visit a man on death row, and with some hesitation, she goes against the advice of her peers and ventures to the prison. With the bars and jail represented through creative cross lighting and distance, Matthew Poncelet (played by Dillon Betros) awaits, like a lion waiting for prey. The young man facing the last week of his life comes alive in his berating and tempting of Sister Prejean to abandon him through his brutish and ignorant dialogue. This stands in contrast with Sister Prejean's attempts to humanize a convicted murderer and rapist, as she is on a mission of religious guidance and tolerance, and not wanting to pass judgement. BWW Review: Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT Takes Risk by Marietta Lunceford - April 22, 2016 AMERICAN IDIOT at Birmingham-Southern College is edgy, gritty and all that you want it to be. BSC took a risk doing a current and potentially controversial show and for students of art, a risk like that is almost always worth it. BWW Review: CHICAGO Sensualizes Murder by Katherine Waddell - April 22, 2016 When I first heard that a Catholic college, Saint Mary's College to be exact, was putting on the musical Chicago, I was skeptical. Knowing that Chicago is quite the risque musical with all types of salacious subject matter, I wasn't quite sure how they were going to pull it off. Well, let me be blunt, Saint Mary's did not look very Catholic this past Saturday night when I saw the second showing of the musical. BWW Review: RAGTIME at McCain by Alison Bridget Chambers - April 18, 2016 Thursday April 14th, McCain Auditorium of Kansas State University hosted the National tour of Ragtime directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge and produced by Phoenix Entertainment. BWW Review: Ohio State's THE COAST OF ILLYRIA Creatively Addresses the Issues of Mental Illness, Addiction by Amanda Etchison - April 18, 2016 The Ohio State Department of Theatre's final main-stage production of the 2015-16 season invites audiences into a world of literary creativity. BWW Interviews: Registration Now Open for THE LITTLE MERMAID at Broadway Academy of Performing by Alison Bridget Chambers - April 16, 2016 Broadway Academy of Performing, a kid's theatre camp hosted by Newman University Theatre Department, is now accepting registrations. The camp dates will be June 11th through 18th at Newman University in Wichita, KS BWW Seeks Student Bloggers - All Levels! All Regions! by BWW News Desk - April 15, 2016 BroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to blog on their school productions on a college, high school, middle school, and even elementary school level! Moreau Center for the Arts/Saint Mary's College Presents CHICAGO, 4/15-17 by BWW News Desk - April 13, 2016 Moreau Center for the Arts presents CHICAGO, April 15-17 at the O'Laughlin Auditorium. Tickets are $13 for adults, $12 for senior citizens, $10 for SMC/ND/HCC Faculty and Staff, and $8 for SMC/ND/HCC Students. Torrey Theatre of Biola University Presents ANTIGONE, 4/28 by BWW News Desk - April 13, 2016 This Spring, Torrey Theatre of Biola Univeristy is proud to present its production of Sophocles' Antigone! Modernised to be set in an underground safe house in the late 20th century during a brutal civil war, Antigone raises timeless questions about political and religious power, duty, and civil disobedience. Join us as we seek to interpret this great work of literature for our campus and community. Photo Flash: First Look at Theatre UAB's SPRING AWAKENING by BWW News Desk - April 13, 2016 Musical theater students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring a story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumults of sexuality in the controversial Tony Award-winning play "Spring Awakening." Check out a first look at the cast in action below! Photo Coverage: First look at Otterbein's FIDDLER ON THE ROOF by Jerri Shafer - April 13, 2016 Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives. He must cope both with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters, who wish to marry for love - each one's choice of a husband moves further away from the customs of his faith - and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village. BWW Review: Rhythms, Silence, Underscore Ohio State Department of Dance SPRING CONCERT by Amanda Etchison - April 13, 2016 In a variety of pieces ranging from intimate dances performed to a still, silent room to contemporary choreography paired with unconventional soundtracks and grooving rhythms, the Ohio State Department of Dance's "Spring Dance Concert" explored the connection that binds movement and sound. BWW Review: Ohio State's SWEENEY TODD a Demonic Dive into Thrilling Theater by Amanda Etchison - April 11, 2016 A chill in the air in Ohio State's Mershon Auditorium Friday evening was not entirely due to the unseasonable snowflakes that fell from the sky outside. Rather, a hair-raising performance of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" by the Ohio State University Opera and Lyric Theatre greatly contributed to the spooky atmosphere, sending shivers up the spines of those who dared to delve into the world of this dark musical thriller. BWW Interview: Rollins Sudent Director Kathleen Capdesuñer Breaks Down DETROIT by Kimberly Moy - April 7, 2016 The Rollins College theater season comes to a close with DETROIT. This play's plot and theme seems all too real for many Americans as it highlights life as an adult and the challenges we face. Playwright Lisa D'Amour came to Rollins College to speak about the play and see the first performances. Show director Kathleen Capdesuñer chatted with BroadwayWorld Orlando about her experience directing and learning from the show's playwright. Terryl Hallquist Directs MISANTHROPE for VU Theatre by Jeffrey Ellis - April 6, 2016 Terryl Hallquist directs Moliere's The Misanthrope, with a setting in modern-day Nashville, as Vanderbilt University Theatre takes a creative leap with its April 7-10 production. BWW Preview: Choreographer Mary Barton and Beethoven Triumph in ARB's MASTERS OF DANCE AND MUSIC! by Sarah Vander Schaaff - April 5, 2016 ARB presents world premier of Mary Barton's work in MASTERS OF DANCE AND MUSIC! Collegiate Theatrics: Lipscomb University's SCOTT PATRICK WILSON by Jeffrey Ellis - April 4, 2016 Tech week is under way for Lipscomb University's theatre students as they find themselves coming down to the wire for Friday night's opening of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown and there is perhaps no cast member more anxious to perform the popular musical in front of a living, breathing audience than Scott Patrick Wilson, one of the most notable LDoT students on campus. |
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