SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE Begins Rehearsals At MainStreet Theatre Company
by A.A. Cristi - September 13, 2018 Rancho Cucamonga, California - Do you remember how a bill becomes a law? Conjunction Junction, what's your function? Rediscover these classic tunes in MainStreet Theatre Company's production of Schoolhouse Rock Live! opening October 6th and running through October 27th. MainStreet Theatre Company's ...
BWW Review: CAREFULLY TAUGHT at Looking For Lilith
by Keith Waits - November 06, 2017 The words 'carefully taught', drawn from a song in Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, promise artistic green vegetables, an edifying moral lesson about the origins of racial prejudice in American society. Cheryl L. Davis's play contains exactly such a lesson, but it is wrapped in an equally edify...
Ailey Celebrates Black History Month Across The United States
by Molly Tracy - February 02, 2017 As Black History Month launches, Ailey continues to inspire, enlighten and educate all people with national tours by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II, classes for aspiring dancers and the general public, and the launch of a new Arts In Education residency program for elementary school...
The Huntington Announces Winners Of 2018 Boston August Wilson Monologue Competition
by A.A. Cristi - January 30, 2018 Bishop Edwards of Snowden International School at Copley took first place on Monday, January 29, 2018 with his performance as Troy from Fences at the Boston Regional Finals of the August Wilson Monologue Competition, held for the eighth year by the Education Department of the Huntington Theatre Comp...
Harris Center Benny Goodman Tribute Sold Out; School Matinee Available
by A.A. Cristi - January 11, 2018 The date was January 16, 1938 at Carnegie Hall the hallowed venue for respectable classical music. There, Benny Goodman's band played swing music for the first time, with one of the earliest racially-integrated jazz groups. It was an important day in the history of American music, one wor...
University of Michigan School Of Education Encourages Classroom Discussion On Violence Against Women
by A.A. Cristi - November 29, 2017 As the United Nations conducts a 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence Campaign Nov. 25-Dec. 10, the University of Michigan School of Education and an award-winning filmmaker hope to shed light on the global problem of violence against women....
VIDEO: Tony Winner Leslie Odom Jr. Discusses the Importance of Failure on CBS This Morning
by Macon Prickett - March 27, 2018 Leslie Odom Jr. shot to fame for his Tony and Grammy Award-winning turn as Aaron Burr in the hit Broadway musical 'Hamilton.' In his new book, 'Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning,' he shares personal stories and life lessons to help you follow your dreams. Odom joins ...
Ailey Celebrates Black History Month Across The United States
by Molly Tracy - February 02, 2017 As Black History Month launches, Ailey continues to inspire, enlighten and educate all people with national tours by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II, classes for aspiring dancers and the general public, and the launch of a new Arts In Education residency program for elementary school...
Shakespeare & Company Announces New Board Members
by Stephi Wild - January 04, 2018 Shakespeare & Company announced today the addition of six new Board members to the Company's Board of Trustees. The new members joining the Board are Sandra Bourgeois, George Camarda, Phoebe L. Giddon, Beverly Hyman, Maureen O'Hanlon, and Scott Rubinow....
Grammy Museum Announces Lois MacMillan As 2018 Jane Ortner Education Award Recipient
by Macon Prickett - May 23, 2018 The GRAMMY Museum® is pleased to announce Lois MacMillan of South Middle School in Grants Pass, Ore., as the recipient of the 2018 Jane Ortner Education Award. The award honors K-12 academic teachers who use music in the classroom as a powerful educational tool. MacMillan will receive an honorarium ...
Lea Ann W. Hall Releases THREADBARE
by Christina Mancuso - February 22, 2017 Lea Ann W. Hall debuts in the literary world with a tale crafted with the influence of the daily happenings in the world today. Packaged as a ball of mystery, readers are encouraged to look for that 'ThreadBare' (published by LifeRich Publishing) clue to unravel the truth on a web of deceit....
VIDEO: Tony Winner Leslie Odom Jr. Discusses the Importance of Failure on CBS This Morning
by Macon Prickett - March 27, 2018 Leslie Odom Jr. shot to fame for his Tony and Grammy Award-winning turn as Aaron Burr in the hit Broadway musical 'Hamilton.' In his new book, 'Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning,' he shares personal stories and life lessons to help you follow your dreams. Odom joins ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center & Harlem School of the Arts Announce Innovative Jazz Programs & Performances
by Caryn Robbins - April 26, 2017 Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, and Harlem School of the Arts President Eric Pryor, have announced two world-class, tuition free, jazz education programs and performance series at the Harlem School of the Arts in New York City....
10HL Partners with Elizabeth Public Schools
by BWW News Desk - October 03, 2017 10 Hairy Legs will provide the Dance to Learn program to all second grade students at the Jerome Dunn Academy #9 in Elizabeth, NJ....
Author Patricia Braxton Offers a Better Approach to Raising Children
by Robert Diamond - September 26, 2018 ...
Playwrights Foundation and Stanford to Continue 'Rough Readings' with OUR MOTHER'S MEAL
by BWW News Desk - February 16, 2017 Playwrights Foundation (PF) and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford's 2016/17 Rough Reading Series present early draft readings on February 27 & 28 of OUR MOTHER'S MEAL by Novid Parsi in partnership with Golden Thread Productions....
BWW Review: SCHOOL OF ROCK Sports Heavy-Metal Vulgarity
by Perry Tannenbaum - January 12, 2018 Somewhat muted and diluted at cavernous Ovens Auditorium, the touring company of SCHOOL OF ROCK is as talented and high-energy as their Broadway counterparts - reminding us that Andrew Lloyd Webber can truly rock....
PBS Kids Premieres New Animated Series LUNA AROUND THE WORLD This Fall
by Caryn Robbins - July 31, 2017 Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS KIDS announced the new animated series LUNA AROUND THE WORLD, produced by 9 Story Media Group and created by Emmy Award-winning animator, writer and artist Joe Murray (Rocko's Modern Life, Camp Lazlo)....
VIDEO: Zachary Levi Transforms Into SHAZAM! in the Official Trailer for the Upcoming DC Film
by Macon Prickett - July 23, 2018 David F. Sandberg (“Annabelle: Creation”) directs New Line Cinema's “Shazam!,” the origin story that stars Zachary Levi (TV's “Chuck”) as the titular DC Super Hero, along with Asher Angel (TV's “Andi Mack”) as Billy Batson, and Mark Strong (the “Kingsman” movies) in the role of Super-Villain Dr. Tha...
BWW Review: Norbert Leo Butz Stars in Hamish Linklater's Ambitious Drama THE WHIRLIGIG
by Michael Dale - May 28, 2017 "In a whirligig of grief" is how one character describes the emotional state of another in Hamish Linklater's ambitious new play, THE WHIRLIGIG, receiving a fine premiere mounting by The New Group's artistic director, Scott Elliott....
Photo Flash: Almonacid's ASSIGNMENT Opens Tonight At Luna Stage
by Julie Musbach - November 29, 2018 Antu Yacob and Rafael Poueriet headline Luna Stage's second play of its 2018-19 MainStage Season, The Assignment by Camilo Almonacid. The play came out of real conversations between perpetrators of gun violence and victims, and explores friendship, loss, and forgiveness. David Winitsky directs The A...
Pushcart Payers to Bring STONE SOUP...AND OTHER STORIES to Union County PAC
by BWW News Desk - February 08, 2017 Pushcart Players, New Jersey's Emmy nominated and award-winning touring theater for young audiences presents "Stone Soup…and other stories" at 10:30 am today, February 8 at Union County Performing Arts Center, Rahway NJ....
The League of Chicago Theatres to Sponsor the August Wilson Monologue Competition
by A.A. Cristi - January 11, 2018 Nine hundred high school students are expected to participate in the 2018 August Wilson Monologue Competition in Chicago, which includes in-school workshops and two rounds of competition (preliminaries and semi-finals), culminating locally in the Chicago finals at the Broadway Playhouse, 175 ...
The Northfield Bank Foundation Funds Two Playwriting Residencies in Rahway School District
by A.A. Cristi - March 15, 2017 Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, recently completed two playwriting residencies in the Rahway School District, graciously funded by The Northfield Bank Foundation. Over the course of seven weeks, students in Ms. Kristyn Suckow's 7th Grade English & L...
Former NFL Player Preston Brown Offers a Champion Game Plan for Life in Upcoming Book
by Macon Prickett - June 04, 2018 Preston Brown was drafted by the New England Patriots, after playing four years of football at Vanderbilt University. He went on to play for the New York Jets, as well as the Cleveland Browns. To many, it might have seemed that Brown was destined for a charmed life.... |