The Washington National Opera Announces Productions in the 2014-2015 Season of the American Opera Initiative
by BWW News Desk - August 07, 2014 Washington National Opera (WNO) today announced details for the third season of the American Opera Initiative, its comprehensive commissioning program that brings contemporary American stories to the stage while fostering the talents of rising American composers and librettists. Three teams of new o... 
CAP UCLA Presents Viet Nguyen And Luis Alberto Urrea In Conversation
by A.A. Cristi - December 11, 2018 UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents a conversation with prize-winning novelists Viet Thanh Nguyen and Luis Alberto Urrea on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall. Tickets for $29-$59 are available now at cap.ucla.edu, via Ticketmaster, by phone 310-825-2101, and at the ...
Jonathan Tolins Developing Patty Hearst Limited Series for CBS
by Tyler Peterson - June 10, 2016 According to Deadline, GREASE LIVE!'s writer Jonathan Tolins is currently at work on a limited series, centered around the abduction of Patty Hearst....
Mark Jackson's SALOMANIA Closes Season at The Aurora Theatre, Now thru 7/22
by BWW News Desk - June 15, 2012 Closing Aurora's 20th season is the World Premiere of SALOMANIA, Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross's first new play commission for the company, written and directed by award-winning Bay Area auteur Mark Jackson (Metamorphosis, Salome, Miss Julie). Workshopped and developed at Aurora ... 
The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts To Celebrate Uta Hagen Centennial
by A.A. Cristi - March 25, 2019 The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center will join Uta Hagen at 100, HB Studio's season-long celebration of the centennial of the legendary actress, activist, and HB Studio master teacher, with a look into her life and legacy. The Library's Billy Rose Theatre Division ...
Mark Jackson's SALOMANIA Set for 6/15-7/22 at The Aurora Theatre, Berkeley
by James T Harding - May 02, 2012 Closing Aurora's 20th season is the World Premiere of SALOMANIA, Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross's first new play commission for the company, written and directed by award-winning Bay Area auteur Mark Jackson (Metamorphosis, Salome, Miss Julie). Workshopped and developed at Aurora ...
MARAT/SADE Set for Players' Ring, Now thru 4/12
by BWW News Desk - March 27, 2015 Seacoast theatergoers will be treated to a glimpse inside the mind of the infamous Marquis de Sade when Peter Weiss's 'Marat/Sade' is staged at the Players' Ring....
Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2016 Edgar Award Nominations
by Caryn Robbins - January 19, 2016 Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce, as we celebrate the 207 th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the Nominees for the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2015.... 
BWW Review: Marvelous HAMLET at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
by Chris Gibson - October 18, 2017 The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presents a uniquely engaging and compelling presentation of one of Shakespeare's finest plays with their current production of HAMLET. So many great lines that have become a part of our language are present here, and it's really amazing to think that the Rep hasn't...
BWW Review: THE PRODUCERS at Paper Mill Playhouse is Fabulous Entertainment
by Marina Kennedy - October 03, 2016 The Producers, now being performed at Paper Mill Playhouse through October 23rd, is a fabulous production of the hilarious hit musical. Directed by Don Stephenson, choreographed by Bill Burns with musical direction by James P. Moore, the show shines bright on the Millburn stage....
Ex-Soviet Era Spy Chief Writes Landmark Book on 'Disinformation'
by Robert Diamond - July 03, 2013 The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller Red Horizons, Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, ...
Tickets to Beautiful Soup's May Festival Now on Sale
by Tyler Peterson - February 06, 2015 Tickets are now on sale for Beautiful Soup's festival of plays by Steven Carl McCasland. Priced $18 each, audiences also have the option to see all 5 plays at a reduced price....
ALA Announces Shortlist for 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
by Christina Mancuso - October 19, 2015 CHICAGO, Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the six books shortlisted for the esteemed Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year's best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult reader... 
Berkeley Rep Presents Hellman's WATCH ON THE RHINE
by Julie Musbach - October 19, 2017 Berkeley Repertory Theatre presents Watch on the Rhine, Lillian Hellman's 1940s political thriller about loyalty, family, and sacrifice. The play, directed by Berkeley Rep's associate director Lisa Peterson, begins previews on Thursday, November 30, 2017 and runs through Sunday, January 14, 2018. In...
Lyric Opera of Chicago Announces 2017/18 Season - JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Leonard Bernstein Tribute and More!
by Christina Mancuso - February 07, 2017 A season of superb music and spectacle is now on sale to Lyric subscribers - including three new mainstage opera productions, three new-to-Chicago opera productions, one new musical production, and one new-to-Chicago chamber opera production....
Genesis Theatrical Productions Unveils its Best Season Ever for 2017
by A.A. Cristi - December 01, 2016 Chicago's own Genesis Theatrical Productions, a leader in new and unique theatre celebrates women with three outstanding plays by and about women. ...
BWW Review: BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE: Needs Less Hate and More Empathy
by Gil Kaan - August 01, 2016 In the program notes, playwright Laurel M. Wetzork states one of her primary reasons for writing BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE as, 'It's important that we don't make the same mistakes we've made in the past.' As well-intentioned of Ms. Wetzork to fictionalize the 1941 construction of a Nazi compound in the...
U.S. Edition of Jaipur Literature Festival Heads to Boulder
by BWW News Desk - July 22, 2016 Rich with words and ideas, JLF@Boulder invites participants to join together in examining the depth and breadth of the human experience through the reflections and imaginations of more than 80 distinguished contemporary authors and speakers from around the world. In these critical times, the penetra...
BWW Review: Living in CORKTOWN '57 Rips an Irish-American Family Apart
by Shari Barrett - March 30, 2015 Thanks to Wilson Milam's fast paced direction and the highly gifted cast, CORKTOWN '57 truly becomes not only a serious look at a family in distress for both religious and political reasons but also a great history lesson on how intolerance can lead you down the wrong path to salvation. And how many...
Zimmerli Art Museum Opens Radical Soviet Retrospective Display Today
by BWW News Desk - October 17, 2015 Today, October 17, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers will present the first US retrospective on the groundbreaking work of Soviet conceptual artist Vagrich Bakhchanyan (1938-2009), whose incisive critiques of Soviet propaganda led to unlikely success and an embrace in Soviet popular culture that re...
BWW Review: Damrau and Camarena Radiate Star-Power in the Met's PURITANI
by Richard Sasanow - February 27, 2017 The last time soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Javier Camarena appeared together at the Met, they reinvented the deadly Mary Zimmerman production of Bellini's LA SONNAMBULA and made it into something wonderful. This time around, while the duo tried their hardest, they still couldn't quite bring the co...
Annet Mahendru Joins Cast of Third Season of FX's TYRANT
by Caryn Robbins - April 11, 2016 Annet Mahendru has been cast in a recurring role on the third season of TYRANT. Mahendru will play 'Nafisa Al-Qadi,' the wife of 'Sheik Al-Qadi,' the spiritual and political leader of Ma'an...
Metropolitan Playhouse Presents Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow's DEEP ARE THE ROOTS, Thru 4/1
by BWW News Desk - April 01, 2012 The 'invaluable' and 'indispensable' Metropolitan Playhouse--2011 Obie Award winner--presents a revival of Deep Are the Roots, by Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow. First staged in 1945 and revived in 1960, the play now receives the first professional production in the city in over 50 years, directed...
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal for FIVE PLAYS BY STEVEN CARL MCCASLAND at The Clarion Theatre
by BWW News Desk - April 15, 2015 Five plays by Steven Carl McCasland will be presented in repertory during a month-long celebration of the young playwright. Each play focuses on a different character from history, with a cast of 25 portraying such historical figures as Laurette Taylor, Rose Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Agatha Chris...
Photo Flash: First Look- CORKTOWN '57 at the Odyssey
by Sally Henry Fuller - March 29, 2015 Emotions run high and battle lines are drawn when family and political loyalties collide in a powerful new family drama by John Fazakerley. Tony-nominated director Wilson Milam (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) helms a distinguished ensemble cast in the world premiere of Corktown '57, opening March 28 a... |
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