Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox Comes To The Ridgefield Playhouse This Month
by Stephi Wild - December 02, 2022 Get ready for “A Very Postmodern Christmas”! The famed time-twisting musical collective, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, is heading back to The Ridgefield Playhouse for a vintage-style Christmas celebration! They'll take the stage on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 7:30pm.... 
The Palm Beach Institute for the Entertainment Arts Presents Avery Sommers in Concert Next Month
by Stephi Wild - September 15, 2022 The Palm Beach Institute for the Entertainment Arts invites you to get up close and personal with south Florida born and raised Avery Sommers. For two nights only – October 28th and October 29th at 7:00 pm – the star of some of Broadway's most popular shows will entertain lucky audiences with some o... 
Video/Photos: BRIDGERTON Season 3 Drops Trailer and New Photos
by Josh Sharpe - April 11, 2024 Netflix has just released a new trailer and first look photos for the highly anticipated third season of Bridgerton. The trailer teases the longing friends-to-lovers romantic beginnings of Nicola Coughlan’s Penelope Featherington and Luke Newton’s Colin Bridgerton. See the trailer and photos below!... 
Barkha Patel to Embark On Juried Bessie Award Tour In Rochester
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 29, 2024 Barkha Patel's Dance Company will perform at the Rochester Fringe Festival, blending live music and kathak dance. Learn how to purchase tickets!... 
Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
by Melissa Hall - May 29, 2024 A trip on the yellow brick road is not a rare occurrence in local theater, but some productions just hit it out of the park. The current one at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre managed to find the perfect cast, include a wonderfully fresh and diverse group, including Bessie D. Smith as the delightfully ... 
Nominees For The 2021 Bessie Awards Announced
by Stephi Wild - August 12, 2021 Award categories include Outstanding Production, Outstanding Performer, Outstanding Revival, Outstanding Music Composition or Sound Design, Outstanding Visual Design, and Outstanding Breakout Choreographer/... 
Scenic City Shakespeare In The Park Begins With LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST In May
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2022 Scenic City Shakespeare has announced Greenway Farms in Hixson, TN as the inaugural location for their early summer outdoor Shakespeare series. ... 
VIDEO: Bridgerton Season 2 Gets Premiere Date; Plot Tease
by Robert Diamond - December 25, 2021 Bridgerton premiered one year ago today – Happy Anniversary, dear readers. To commemorate the occasion, Lady Whistledown has gotten her readers a very special gift: Bridgerton Season 2 shall premiere on March 25th, 2022, only on Netflix. ... 
Stage and Screen Actor Michael K. Williams Dies at 54
by Stephi Wild - September 07, 2021 Williams is best known for playing Omar Little on the HBO drama series The Wire and Albert 'Chalky' White on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. He is also known for his role as Jack Gee, husband of Bessie Smith, in the HBO telefilm biopic Bessie....
Martha Hill Dance Fund Reveals 2024 Award Recipients
by Stephi Wild - January 11, 2024 The Martha Hill Dance Fund has announced the honorees of the 2024 Martha Hill Awards to be presented at 6:00 P.M. on Monday, February 26 at Manhattan Penthouse. Learn more about the recipients here!... 
Photos: See Rosalie Craig, Indira Varma, Robert Bathurst & More at THE JOY OF TEXT West End Gala
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 26, 2022 Inspired by an hilarious exchange between her mum and brother that she has kept on her phone for years, film and theatre director Josie Rourke put together a fast, raucous and breathtaking “I can’t believe you typed that” evening in support of the Platform Presents Playwrights Prize.... 
Heather Robles Steps Down As Executive Director Of The Bessies Awards After 15 Years
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 20, 2024 Heather Robles, who has been an integral part of The Bessie Awards for the past 15 years and has served as its Executive Director for the last four, is stepping down from her role. Learn more about Robles and the organization. ... 
The Bessies Reveal Inaugural Board Of Directors, Organizational Restructuring, and a 2024 Ceremony Pause
by Stephi Wild - August 13, 2024 The New York Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies has announced restructuring the organization in 2024 with sustainability at the forefront. Learn more about what the awards have in store here!... 
BLUES IS A WOMAN is in Concert at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage
by Stephi Wild - September 29, 2022 BLUES IS A WOMAN's inception was first workshopped at the Freight & Salvage in 2016. It made its theatrical debut in San Francisco in 2017, with a month long, sold out run and fantastic reviews. Now following a two year post-pandemic hiatus, show creator Pamela Rose is Re-launching BLUES IS A WOMAN... 
The Bessies Reveal Recipients of Lifetime Achievement and Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance
by Stephi Wild - July 18, 2023 The New York Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, have announced that Virginia Johnson, founding member and former artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, will receive the 2023 Bessie Award for Lifetime... 
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center Announces Fall and Holiday Jazz Series Featuring Musicians, Vocalists, Dancers & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 25, 2022 Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is offering a stellar series of jazz performances with more than two dozen musicians, vocalists, and dancers appearing in West Chester this September through December, hosted by local jazz and blues artist, Sara Michaels.... 
Female Musicians Pay Tribute To Iconic Jazz Singers In Malibu
by Stephi Wild - March 18, 2022 Three dynamic vocalists and an all-female jazz band pay tribute to three of history's greatest jazz singers in the musical performance Bessie, Billie, & Nina—Pioneering Women in Jazz at Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 8 p.m. ... 
Virginia Johnson, Michele Byrd-McPhee, and More Recieve 2023 Bessie Awards - Full List of Awards Announced!
by Blair Ingenthron - August 05, 2023 The New York Dance and Performance Awards, the Bessies, has announced the 2023 award recipients at the 39th Bessie Awards Ceremony. The Illustrious Blacks hosted this year's celebratory event, which was held at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park as part of Lincoln Center's Summer for the City. Check out... 
WBTT Presents First 2023 Young Artist Program Showcase, Featuring Brentney J
by Stephi Wild - April 11, 2023 Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will present the tenth year of its annual Young Artist Program, through which Troupe members can showcase their talents with self-produced, one-person shows. ... 
Porchlight Music Theatre Announces Cast And Creatives For BLUES IN THE NIGHT
by A.A. Cristi - November 23, 2021 Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre announces the cast for the “Best Musical” Tony Award-nominated Blues in the Night, conceived by Sheldon Epps+, with the music of Bessie Smith, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Gordon Jenkins, Alberta Hunter and others, January 15, 2022 - February 27, 2... 
Photos: First Look at HAVING OUR SAY At The Ivoryton Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - August 17, 2021 Now open at the Ivoryton Playhouse is the extraordinary and life-affirming play HAVING OUR SAY: THE DELANY SISTERS’ FIRST 100 YEARS by Emily Mann (adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth).... 
Interview: Elizabeth Bougerol Learns to Savor Life in APPETITES at Joe's Pub
by Rebecca Kaplan - September 03, 2024 Singer Elizabeth Bougerol will be gracing the stage at Joe’s Pub on September 18 and 19 with an all-new solo project, APPETITES. In it, she “examines the hunger that drove her to ditch her midtown cubicle and chase the dream of re-imagining classics by the likes of Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and ...
The Bessies Reveal Inaugural Board Of Directors, Organizational Restructuring, and a 2024 Ceremony Pause
by Stephi Wild - August 13, 2024 The New York Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies has announced restructuring the organization in 2024 with sustainability at the forefront. Learn more about what the awards have in store here!... 
Full Cast Set For the National Theatre's DEAR OCTOPUS Starring Lindsay Duncan
by Stephi Wild - December 21, 2023 The National Theatre has announced the full cast for Dear Octopus. Dear Octopus will run at the Lyttleton Theatre from 7 February–27 March 2024. Learn more about the cast here!... 
Asian Burlesque Calamity Chang & Thirsty Girl Present the 9th Annual NEW YORK ASIAN BURLESQUE FESTIVAL
by A.A. Cristi - September 08, 2021 Following the success of their previous sold out shows, Calamity Chang & Thirsty Girl bring the 9th installment of the annual Asian Burlesque Festival to Crystal Lake in Williamsburg on Thursday September 16th and to Chelseas's new City Winery on Friday September 17th, 2021. ... |
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