Natalia Zukerman's New Album COME THIEF, COME FIRE Out Today
by BWW News Desk - September 16, 2014 Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Natalia Zukerman returns with her sixth studio album Come Thief, Come Fire, out today, September 16th on Talisman Records....
BWW Reviews: MADE IN DAGENHAM, Adelphi Theatre, November 5 2014
by Gary Naylor - November 06, 2014 Gary Naylor sees a spectacular musical that has its heart, if not always its sense of humour, in the right place as the Essex Girls of 1968 come out on top....
NSCB Awards Scholarship to Dancer
by Tyler Peterson - July 02, 2015 The North Shore Civic Ballet (NSCB), a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, announces that Michaiah Fernandes has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Marblehead School of Ballet's (MSB) 2015 Summer Intensive in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Eleven-year-old Michaiah attends KIPP Academy Charter Scho...
BWW Reviews: Unbearably Bland DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Can Use a Show Doctor
by Michael Dale - April 22, 2015 If it weren't for the book, music and lyrics, this would be a pretty terrific show....
Deadline Investigates HAMILTON Budgets and Public Theater Profits
by Nicole Rosky - September 18, 2015 HAMILTON is the biggest hit that Broadway has seen in a while, and in a recent Deadline article, Jeremy Gerard investigates the money that got the show on its feet at the Public Theater, and the money that the production has brought in since Broadway performances began. Gerard writes:...
The Longwood Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors Names Nick Adams Executive Director
by BWW News Desk - July 16, 2014 The Longwood Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Nick Adams has been named Executive Director, effective July 1, 2014. The Longwood Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Search Committee interviewed several highly qualified candidates, and they unanimously and enthusias...
PetSmart Unleashes Its One-of-a-Kind Pop-Up Park (P.U.P.) in Sacramento
by Robert Diamond - August 25, 2014 PetSmart, Inc. has partnered with the City of Sacramento to bring a portable, pop-up dog park to Sacramento. This dog park, which provides more than 9,000 square feet of space for pet parents to bring their pets to play, is now open. The new park, officially called the PetSmart P.U.P. Small Dog Park...
Photo Flash: Sing For Your Seniors & BC/EFA Partner to Donate Piano to Encore Community Services Center
by Tyler Peterson - July 08, 2015 On Tuesday, June 30, Sing For Your Seniors (SFYS) dedicated at a special performance the new piano it donated to the Encore Community Services Center in the heart of the theater district. The purchase, made as part of SFYS' ongoing Piano Placement Project, was made possible by a grant from Broadway ...
|the claque| Announces Casting for THE QUICK AND DIRTIES Series, May-June 2014
by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2014 |the claque|, New York's favorite arts and performance conglomerate, is proud to announce its fourth annual production of The Quick and Dirties (The QuaDs): Q4, playing at The Sheen Center in late May and early June of 2014....
New E! Series GOOD WORK to Debut 4/14
by Tyler Peterson - March 03, 2015 E! announced today the new one-hour, six episode pop culture roundtable series, “Good Work,” where hosts RuPaul, Dr. Terry Dubrow and Sandra Vergara celebrate the 'good work' and the 'not so good work' of Hollywood celebs....
Doc Brown to Host British Academy Children's Awards
by Caryn Robbins - October 17, 2014 The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has today announced that Ben 'Doc Brown' Smith will host this year's British Academy Children's Awards at the Roundhouse, London, on Sunday 23 November....
BWW Reviews: Entertaining New Work WHITE TO GRAY at Mustard Seed Theatre
by Chris Gibson - February 12, 2015 Rob Maesaka, a St. Louis playwright, receives the opportunity to have one of his works premiered with Mustard Seed Theatre's presentation of his play, WHITE TO GRAY. It's an engaging piece of theatre that tells an interesting story that's dramatic and even occasionally funny at times. Judging a new ...
Meet the Stars of NYMF: Patrick Richwood of FOOLERIE
by Nora Dominick - July 14, 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival is in full swing and BroadwayWorld has taken the time to sit down with some of the stars of this years NYMF musicals. Like any great art form, musical theatre is shaped by the events and philosophies of the day. The strength and vitality of musical theatre lie in...
BWW Interview: Broadway Welcomes Washington's Own Nancy Robinette
by Ellen Burns - November 27, 2015 The bustle and chaos of the Friday evening pre-show crowds on West 47th Street on Broadway are a fitting contrast to the calm that emanates from venerable DC-based actor, Nancy Robinette, who kindly agreed to chat with me about making the move to Broadway as Mrs. Alexander, in the Tony Awards® Best ...
BWW Reviews: EVITA Brings a New Argentina to DC's Kennedy Center
by Jamie McGonnigal - October 03, 2014 There are few shows I know every word to, and even fewer I've known for 30 years. When I was 10, I was in the chorus of a community theatre production of EVITA in Hingham, MA. I became obsessed. In 5th grade, we had to do a biographical report on anyone we chose. All the other boys chose Babe Ruth, ...
BWW Interview: Delving into the Mind of Actor Delvyn Brown
by Caroline Sposto - October 12, 2015 Last spring I sat with a rapt audience seeing Levi Frazier, Junior's new play For Our Freedom and Yours, a one-man show is based on the life of Ira Frederick Aldridge, a 19th Century African American actor who, against all odds, achieved a distinguished stage career during the era of slavery. The d...
Controversy Pushes NAAP to Cancel All Asian-American SHOW BOAT
by BWW News Desk - February 23, 2015 After a public outcry, the National Asian Artists Project has cancelled its upcoming, all Asian-American production of SHOW BOAT. The classic musical, featuring music by Jerome Kern and book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, would have been directed by Broadway veteran and Tony Award winner Tommy Tu...
BWW Interview: Andy Mattick, Alexandra Lastort, Mary Zastrow, Sara Marie Calvey of NINE at Camarillo Skyway Playhouse
by Cary Ginell - September 23, 2015 On October 2, Camarillo Skyway Playhouse debuts its production of Nine. Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film, 8 1/2, the musical version, which features a score by Maury Yeston, tells the story of Guido Contini, a film director approaching his 40th birthday who undergoes a midlife ...
BWW News: Dance Theater Of Harlem Dancer Teaches Ballet at Northwest School of the Arts
by Vickie Evans - December 07, 2015 Chyrstyn Fentroy, of Dance Theatre of Harlem presents master class to the dance students of Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, NC....
BWW Reviews: GLOBAL TAX DRIVER Could Use Clearer Directions
by Gil Kaan - March 23, 2015 A talented ensemble energizes the Los Angeles premiere of playwright Leilani Chan's Global Taxi Driver, a collection of taxi drivers' stories from all over the world....
BWW Review: A LULU of an Evening at the Met with Soprano Petersen in the New Kentridge Production
by Richard Sasanow - November 16, 2015 Who or what is Lulu, the eponymous character in Alban Berg's landmark opera? Is she saint or sinner? Femme fatale or victim? Put-upon or mistress of her own fate? Whatever else she might be, she is fabulous in the hands of German soprano Marlis Petersen, as the center of William Kentridge's vibrant,...
Craig Zadan Offers Update On Next NBC Live Musical: 'One Will Be Coming For The Holidays'; Announcement Monday?
by Pat Cerasaro - March 29, 2015 Will it be THE WIZ or THE MUSIC MAN or maybe something else entirely?!...
BWW Reviews: THE GREAT GOD PAN is a Moving and Compassionate Examination of a Sensitive Topic
by Frank Benge - April 06, 2015 We have all experienced our parents relating something from our childhood of which we have no memory. In fact, if we examine it, the things we don't remember probably are greater than the things we do. In THE GREAT GOD PAN, a new play by Amy Herzog, produced by Street Corner Arts, now in its regiona...
BWW Reviews: GRAND HOTEL, Southwark Playhouse, August 5 2015
by Gary Naylor - August 07, 2015 Gary Naylor sees an ambitious, timely revival of a musical that crackles with life, full of great singing and splendid dancing, if a touch demanding at 100 minutes all-through!...
Soho Rep. Meets Fundraising Goal Following Cancelled Gala
by Tyler Peterson - July 16, 2014 On March 31, 300 friends, artists and supporters gathered to celebrate and honor Soho Rep.'s Board Chair Jon Dembrow at their annual spring gala. Forty-five minutes into the evening, the beam supporting a second-story balcony at the event venue, Angel Orensanz Center, cracked. The building was deeme... |