Eight Short Plays Slated for SEXCAPADES at the Duplexby BWW News Desk - January 31, 2017White Rabbit SEXCAPADES entices you with eight new works of love, lust, and dirty little secrets, passionately penned by eight funny, fear-free playwrights, the event will include original music by Christopher Palmer, lyrics by Andrew Rothkin, and choreography by Sarah Doudna. International House to Host Leontyne Price 90th Birthday Tribute Concertby BWW News Desk - January 31, 2017In the early 1950s, when she was a student at the Juilliard School, beloved soprano Leontyne Price, who turns 90 on February 10, lived and worked at International House, the Riverside Drive residential community founded by the Rockefeller and Dodge families in1924 dedicated to preparing the next generation of globally-minded leaders. Tito Puente 50-Year Retrospective Headed to Hostos Center This Springby BWW News Desk - January 31, 2017In the first ever retrospective of the life and legacy of one of the most important figures in Latin Jazz, The Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture announces "Tito Puente: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of 'El Rey,' a multi-day, in-depth examination of his career through concerts, panels, film, dance, and more. The Actors Center Appoints New Executive and Artistic Directorby BWW News Desk - January 31, 2017For more than 20 years, The Actors Center has provided opportunities for NYC's professional stage, film, and television artists to deepen and develop their craft alongside likeminded peers. Now under the direction of longtime Center associate Charles Tuthill, the Center now boasts more than 200 peer-nominated members and is positioned to continue to impact the profession for generations to come. Photo Flash: Inside Siobhan O'Loughlin's Site-Specific BROKEN BONE BATHTUBby BWW News Desk - January 31, 2017Siobhan O'Loughlin brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens through February 26. BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub - in an actual home. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the show! Artemis Theatrical Aims to Give a Voice to Women-Identifying Storytellers Through Collaboration and Cabaretby Amy Oestreicher - January 31, 2017Last year, Manda Leigh Blunt graduated from New York University with a dream many musical theatre writers share: to get their work seen and heard. All it took were inspiring words from another female artist to launch something truly ground breaking, just a few months later.
"My friends and I attended a session with Judith Light, which was incredible," Blunt recounted. "A lot of what I was hearing, especially from the other women who attended, echoed what I had felt and had been hearing in the conversations all around me at NYU. Once you graduate, there seemed to be so few opportunities as a musical theatre writer still in the development process. You can have these big 29-hour readings or productions---if you get that---but there are fewer in-between moments where you can get yourself heard in a supportive environment, where a women-identified writer can say, 'This is where we are in this draft, and we're using this opportunity to move forward.'"
So Blunt decided to do something about it. By that August, she founded Artemis Theatricals, a non-profit company with the mission to empower women storytellers in musical theatre through curated cabarets and additional styles of performance. BWW Blog: Bob Marks - Examine Song Lyricsby Guest Blogger: Bob Marks - January 31, 2017Have you ever heard the expression, 'nice house, nobody home?' Often, we use that phrase as a way to describe singers who make pretty sounds, but fail to capture our imagination on the stage. To be a singer in the theater, it's a very rare performer who can communicate to an audience and make them feel something; however, it is the most essential quality a performer can possess to work in this business. Parody Musicals, Solo Shows and More Slate for the PIT's Winter/Spring Lineupby BWW News Desk - January 30, 2017The Peoples Improv Theater is happy to announce some of the programming for our winter and spring seasons the slate includes a diverse range of comedy and theater, from 'historical hip-hoperas' to epic parody musicals to solo shows from stand ups and internationally acclaimed performance artists and even plays in addition to their regular line up of improv and sketch shows. BWW Review: Jill Kargman is the Quintessential New Yorker in her Café Carlyle Debut STAIRWAY TO CABARETby Casey Mink - January 30, 2017Jill Kargman is a pleasant singer. Her voice is lovely, in fact, but that is not why audiences joined her inside the legendary Cafe Carlyle for a string of sold-out performances which began on January 17.
No, patrons made their way to the Upper East Side venue on this damp winter evening to hear Kargman's hilarious and often cringe-inducing war stories from her New York City upbringing, through her entrance into show business and Manhattan motherhood. Kargman, whose bawdy humor and unapologetic crudeness undoubtedly had some in the room blushing into their cocktails (her euphemism for the mouth, in particular, is a tickler) saliently strung the show together with influential songs from her past which she deemed 'wildly sexist,' and which she was 're-appropriating as a 42-year-old Jewish female.' BWW Review: RIGOLETTO at Metropolitan Operaby Milette shanon - January 30, 2017Michael Mayer's revised production of Rigoletto in Las Vegas, complete with Vegas dancers, mobsters and a topless pole dancer is GREAT ENTERTAINMENT
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