Review Roundup: Zachary Quinto, Calista Flockhart, Graham Phillips & Aimee Carrero in Geffen Playhouse's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
by Alan Henry - May 04, 2022 See what the critics had to say about Geffen Playhouse's production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Gordon Greenberg (Guys and Dolls, Irving Berlin's Holiday). ...
Finalists and Semifinalists Announced for Bay Area Playwrights Festival
by Marissa Tomeo - April 13, 2022 Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast’s premier launchpad for exceptional new plays and playwrights, has announced the semifinalists and finalists for the 45th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), which will be presented as a hybrid (in-person and streamed) festival July 29-August 07, 2022. For mo...
BWW Review: Spoleto's Festival Hall Isn't Ideal for THE WOMAN IN BLACK
by Perry Tannenbaum - June 08, 2021 Perhaps we can declare that social distancing is as antithetical to telling a gripping ghost story as it is to sustaining a great vibe at a bar or a pub. After a 30-year run in London's West End, where it remains on a pandemic-induced hiatus, THE WOMAN IN BLACK certainly has a pedigree to please. Th...
AMC Sets Premiere Date for THE BEAST MUST DIE
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 12, 2021 The remaining episodes will continue to debut on AMC+ one week ahead of their AMC linear airings on Mondays at 10:00PM ET/PT....
BWW Review: VIETGONE at Geva Theatre
by Colin Fleming-Stumpf - October 11, 2021 Until recently, seeing live indoor theatre seemed like a relic of the distant past, and sitting in the audience for a play that can only be described as a rap-infused comic book comedy about Vietnamese refugees is something that definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2021, and yet here we are. There...
Sunday Morning Michael Dale: THE BAKER'S WIFE Sublimely Returns and ANYONE CAN WHISTLE's Satire Remains Uncomfortably Relevant
by Michael Dale - March 13, 2022 This week I saw productions of two decades-old musicals, each written by one of theatre's great composer/lyricists, which, in their original productions, ran a combined total of nine performances on Broadway....
VIDEO: Christopher Hampton Talks FEEDING BEATRICE at the Aurora Theatre
by Stephi Wild - January 24, 2022 June and Lurie Walker, the proud new owners of a creaky old gothic house, have a haunting new houseguest – and she’s ravenously hungry. When Beatrice arrives, she burrows deep into their existence and unearths secrets with explosive consequences. ...
Immersive Haunted House Experience TERROR Comes to Times Square This Fall
by Blair Ingenthron - September 17, 2022 TERROR, New York City’s largest haunted house will open its doors to horror on September 29, 2022 through November 6, 2022 in Times Square. Terror Haunted House, an immersive choose your level of horror experience promises all a heart-pounding journey through unmitigated fear. ...
Staples Players Radio Theatre Presents SORRY, WRONG NUMBER
by Stephi Wild - February 02, 2021 Have 23 minutes to spare in a winter of a whole lot of waiting? Turn off Netflix, forget about TikTok, cease the mindless YouTube binge, because the 23 minutes you spend with Staples Players, engrossed in the thriller Sorry, Wrong Number, could be the most memorable of the season....
VIDEO: Apple TV+ Releases PACHINKO Series Trailer
by Michael Major - February 23, 2022 Today Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for “Pachinko,” its highly anticipated, sweeping drama series told across three languages – Korean, Japanese, and English. Epic in scope and intimate in tone, the story begins with a forbidden love and crescendos into a saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and...
A TOMATO CAN'T GROW IN THE BRONX Comes to Center Players of Freehold Next Month
by Stephi Wild - March 27, 2022 The award winning Center Players of Freehold presents the world premiere of Gary Morgenstein’s A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx, a multi-generational comedy/drama set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s. Directed by Bernice Garfield-Szita, the production runs from April 1-10, 2022....
Tesla Quartet's FOR THE TREES Comes to National Sawdust in April
by Stephi Wild - March 21, 2022 For the Trees is an immersive, multimedia show centered on a new string quartet by Boulder, Colorado composer Jeffrey Nytch and performed by Tesla Quartet. Inspired by increasingly serious concerns regarding the dire realities of climate change's potential to uproot our immediate future, For the Tre...
Cast Announced for World Premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s MAN CAVE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 01, 2022 Page 73 has announced the cast of John J. Caswell, Jr.’s Man Cave, directed by Taylor Reynolds, March 1-April 2 at The Connelly Theatre, 220 E 4th Street in Manhattan. ...
Andrew McIntyre Releases Dark Sci-fi Fantasy Thriller MAGON
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 26, 2022 Drawn from the superhero genre, MAGON will introduce you to a collection of new Celtic characters. MAGON explores the consequences of mixing ancient DNA into the modern world. It is the crossroads of a genius mind and a scientific experiment gone wrong....
Page 73 to Present World Premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s MAN CAVE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 10, 2021 Page 73 will present the world premiere production of John J. Caswell, Jr.’s Man Cave, directed by Taylor Reynolds, March 1-April 2, 2022, at The Connelly Theatre, 220 E 4th Street in Manhattan....
Kiln Theatre Announces Full Cast For Marina Carr's GIRL ON AN ALTAR
by Stephi Wild - April 12, 2022 With Chinonyerem Odimba and Ben and Max Ringham's Black Love currently running at the theatre, Kiln Theatre, in a brand-new partnership with the Abbey Theatre, today announces the full cast for Marina Carr's Girl on an Altar. Annabelle Comyn directs Nina Bowers (Cassandra), Daon Broni (Aegisthus), J...
VIDEO: Emily Blunt & Chaske Spencer Star in Prime Video's THE ENGLISH Series Trailer
by Michael Major - September 01, 2022 Prime Video debuted the video teaser trailer for the upcoming Western drama series The English, starring Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place franchise, Sicario, Oppenheimer) and Chaske Spencer (Wild Indian, Echo), along with its premiere date. The English is an epic chase Western, from award-winning writer a...
Theater for the New City's 2021 Street Theater Tour to Play to Live Audiences in All Five NYC Boroughs
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 01, 2021 Theater for the New City's Street Theater Company will return to playing for live audiences, opening its 2021 annual tour July 31 with 'Critical Care, or Rehearsals for a Nurse,' a rip-roaring original musical which tells the story of a young person studying to be a nurse who, in order to pay for tu...
DANCE NATION to Open at Temple Theater in September
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 30, 2022 Eat. Sleep. Dance. Win. For one Liverpool, Ohio dance team, all the terror, confidence, paradox, uncertainty and awkwardness of pre-adolescence is channeled into a powerful desire: Dance. DANCE NATION will be performed live and in person from September 22 to October 2, 2022, at Tomlinson Theater....
Read Excerpts from Stage Manager Richard Hester's HOLD, PLEASE: STAGE MANAGING A PANDEMIC
by Team BWW - April 16, 2022 Veteran Broadway Stage Manager Richard Hester (Jersey Boys) has just release 'Hold, Please: Stage Managing A Pandemic,' a memoir of the year Broadway went dark....
BWW Interview: Catching Up With REACHING HIGHER'S Meg Flather
by Stephen Mosher - March 19, 2022 Heading into a weekend performance of her acclaimed RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN show, Meg Flather shares some thoughts about artistic process and the importance of community in a Broadway World interview....
ID and discovery+ Offer New Specials, Podcasts & More With New Content Slate
by Michael Major - May 18, 2022 Signature returning series this upfront season include: AMERICAN DETECTIVE WITH LT. JOE KENDA, IN PURSUIT WITH JOHN WASLH, UNDERCOVER UNDERAGE, EVIL LIVES HERE, REASONABLE DOUBT, MURDER UNDER THE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, PEOPLE MAGAZINE INVESTIGATES and ON THE CASE WITH PAULA ZAHN, among others....
BWW Review: THE THIN PLACE at ACT
by Jay Irwin - March 25, 2022 Do you like a good ghost story, Dear Readers? I do. I love it when a creepy tale can make my flesh crawl and jump out of my seat. But there are so few creepy tales on stage. Well, enter Lucas Hnath’s “The Thin Place” currently performing at ACT. Not only is this a truly terrifying tale but it’s...
Dave Freedland Releases Mystery Thriller THE PEPPER TREE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 26, 2021 This story is a work of fiction, but the Orange County location is real. So notorious, in fact, that those officers working the graveyard shift need only radio their activity at a site bearing two words, and they are immediately dispatched a back-up officer to the 'pepper tree.'...
Sunday Morning Michael Dale: THE BAKER'S WIFE Sublimely Returns and ANYONE CAN WHISTLE's Satire Remains Uncomfortably Relevant
by Michael Dale - March 13, 2022 This week I saw productions of two decades-old musicals, each written by one of theatre's great composer/lyricists, which, in their original productions, ran a combined total of nine performances on Broadway.... |