Hirschfeld Exhibition, Rajiv Joseph, Pumpkin Carving and More Set for October Edition of CUNY TV's ARTS IN THE CITY
by TV News Desk - October 07, 2015 A line of ink becomes a well-known celebrity. Carvings in a pumpkin become a work of art. Ghosts of the city's past merge with the voices of a new generation. And the alchemy of October in New York creates an all-new edition of CUNY TV's ARTS IN THE CITY. Hosted by Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson, the sh...
UPDATE: Lin-Manuel Miranda Comments on HAMILTON's Winter Digital Lottery; #Ham4Ham to Return This Spring
by Tyler Peterson - January 04, 2016 The daily $10 lottery at the Broadway musical Hamilton will move online for the winter starting Tuesday, January 5, BroadwayWorld has learned. The live lottery and live Ham4Ham show will return in the spring....
Pentatonix, Frankie Grande & More Appear in Red Cross PSA to Save Lives
by Caryn Robbins - February 10, 2016 The American Red Crossâ today launches a home fire awareness campaign called 2Steps2Minutes that aims to save lives from a silent killer that takes more lives each year than all hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods combined....
BWW Review: Circle Players' CHILDREN OF EDEN
by Jeffrey Ellis - March 19, 2016 It would have taken a miracle to save the opening night of Circle Players' Children of Eden - one of the most eagerly anticipated productions of the season in Music City - from the wrath of God: in this case an abysmal sound design that prevented the audience from hearing Lauren Frances Jones' exqui...
THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with Your Favorite Broadway Stars- AMAZING GRACE's Laiona Michelle
by BWW Staff - October 09, 2015 Welcome to THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with your favorite Broadway stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater? Their dream roles? Their Broadway crushes? Read on! In this week's edition, we caught up with Laiona Michelle, who stars as 'Nanna' in Amazing Grace, currently playing at t...
2015 BroadwayWorld St. Louis Awards Update - Alan Knoll Leads 'Best Actor in a Comedy'!
by BWW Special Coverage - December 11, 2015 Voting is fully underway for the 2015 BroadwayWorld St. Louis Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 11. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through ...
92Y to Feature Some of Broadway's Best New Choreographers This April
by BWW News Desk - March 23, 2016 92Y shines the spotlight on the world of musical theater dance in Broadway Takes Two, featuring some of the best of a new generation of theater choreographers. Broadway Takes Two includes the work of Justin Boccitto (curator and director), Megan Doyle, Ryan Kasprzak, Jeff Shade and Richard J. Hinds,...
Courtney Antonioli Stages Stories from All-Girls Summer Camp in 18 DAYS. 48 GIRLS.
by BWW News Desk - February 14, 2017 Storyteller Courtney Antonioli presents '18 days. 48 girls.' featuring an hour of comedic, true stories from her time running an all-girls summer camp for five performances during the 2017 FRIGID Festival....
2015 BroadwayWorld St. Louis Awards - Last Week to Vote!
by BWW Special Coverage - December 24, 2015 Happy Holidays! It's the last week to vote for the 2015 BroadwayWorld St. Louis Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 18. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Vo...
BWW Review: In the Calm Before the Storm, Randy Rainbow Throws an ELECTION EVE PARTY at Birdland
by Troy Frisby - November 13, 2016 There's no easy way to talk about a performance ostensibly thrown in honor of a presidential candidate who didn't end up winning. Let's be clear: Randy Rainbow's ELECTION EVE PARTY held on Monday, night at Birdland wasn't exactly a non-partisan event. The performers dropped more 'I'm With Her' re...
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts Sets 2016-17 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2016 The Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts announced the details of its exciting 2016-2017 Season last night....
BWW Interview: Cast and Creatives of CityRep's MR. BURNS Discuss the 'Average, Everyday, Post-Apocalyptic, Mind-Bending' Oklahoma Premiere Production
by Ronn Burton - February 23, 2017 CityRep presents the Oklahoma premiere of the Off-Broadway hit MR. BURNS, A POST ELECTRIC PLAY. Members of the cast (Bob Hess, Kris Schinske, and Paul T. Taylor) and creative team (Donald Jordan and Daniel Leeman Smith) sat down with BroadwayWorld to discuss the relevance and delightful absurdity of...
BWW Review: Multidimensional STAGEright's WEIRD ROMANCE Examines Love Powerfully
by Amelia Reynolds - February 09, 2016 Take two episodes of The Twilight Zone, add psychedelic aesthetics and a musical score and BOOM, you have STAGEright's 'Weird Romance.' Directed by Brendan Mack, this 'two one-act musicals of speculative fiction' somehow made a glam-rock Rod Serling fever dream accessible and intimate....
BWW Review: In the Calm Before the Storm, Randy Rainbow Throws an ELECTION EVE PARTY at Birdland
by Troy Frisby - November 13, 2016 There's no easy way to talk about a performance ostensibly thrown in honor of a presidential candidate who didn't end up winning. Let's be clear: Randy Rainbow's ELECTION EVE PARTY held on Monday, night at Birdland wasn't exactly a non-partisan event. The performers dropped more 'I'm With Her' re...
Deafinitely Theatre Awarded Arts Council Strategic Touring Grant For 2017 to 2019
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2017 Deafinitely Theatre today announces it has been awarded an Arts Council Strategic Touring Grant of £81,008 for the period 2017-2019 allowing it to take two bilingual family productions around the UK, as well as a programme of workshops and deaf awareness training in each of the touring venues. ...
VIDEO: First Look - Meryl Streep Pays Tribute to Mike Nichols in Upcoming PBS Documentary
by Caryn Robbins - January 28, 2016 In PBS's upcoming AMERICAN MASTERS:MIKE NICHOLS documentary, airing Friday, January 29th, Oscar winner Meryl Streep recalls working with the acclaimed director....
VIDEO: First Look - Matthew Broderick & More in AMERICAN MASTERS Mike Nichols Documentary
by Caryn Robbins - January 26, 2016 Below, watch clips from the documentary including Alec Baldwin, Neil Simon, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Frank Langella remembering Mike Nichols' famous laugh and Dustin Hoffman and Paul Simon sharing stories about The Graduate....
Flix Premiere Online Cinema Launches in the United States
by Caryn Robbins - June 17, 2016 Movie audiences in the U.S. can now experience film premieres on their mobile screen with the Online Cinema Flix Premiere. A closely curated and changing selection of new films will be available to U.S. audiences for the first time via the Flix Premiere site...
Hit Storytelling Show (MOSTLY) TRUE THINGS Returns to The Pit Loft
by A.A. Cristi - February 02, 2017 Jude Treder-Wolff, the host and creator of (MOSTLY) TRUE THINGS, returns to The PIT LOFT with her Long Island based storytelling show on Saturday, February 4 at 9:30 pm. The line-up includes Mary Theresa Archbold (This American Life), Jack Canfora (winner of the 2016 Webby Award), Pat Shay (UCB/Seco...
BWW Interview: Cavalia's Normand Latourelle on Captivating Audiences With ODYSSEO
by Gil Kaan - October 31, 2016 With a wide and varied background in the performing arts (including a five-year stint with Cirque du Soleil), Normand Latourelle founded and created Cavalia Inc. in 2003, to showcase the beautiful athleticism of the horse. Just before Cavalia's second production ODYSSEO makes its return engagement i...
WE tv to Premiere Season 5 of KENDRA ON TOP, 4/1; Watch Promo
by Caryn Robbins - March 18, 2016 The fifth season of 'KENDRA ON TOP' premieres with back-to-back episodes Friday, April 1 at 9 PM ET/PT on WE tv....
BWW Review: SUTTON FOSTER Sparkles in Performance with the Baltimore Symphony
by Charles Shubow - February 23, 2016 Principal Baltimore Symphony Pops Conductor Jack Everly presents top notch entertainment....
FJK Dance's Fadi Khoury to Return 11/8 with WORKS IN PROGRESS at Manhattan Movement Center
by BWW News Desk - October 19, 2015 Iraqi-born FJK DANCE Artistic Director Fadi Khoury will return on Sunday, November 8 with his company of ten dancers to present WORKS IN PROGRESS at the Manhattan Movement Center, 248 W 60th St at 7pm....
Hedgerow Theatre Presents THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS
by Marianka Swain - June 07, 2016 Director Aaron Cromie had two major goals when he set out to adapt Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, now playing at Hedgerow Theatre through June 26. First, he wanted to make the cast laugh out loud at the first read-through, knowing that their enjoyment would be incorporated into their pe...
FJK Dance to Perform in China, 2/28-4/30
by BWW News Desk - February 28, 2017 Fadi Khoury's FJK DANCE will bring 10 company dancers to China, kicking off the company's first extended international tour to the Far East, February 28 to April 30. The eight-week multi-city tour will present three FJK DANCE repertory works, Take Two, Echoes and Dum Tak, in 31 Chinese cities includ... |