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Five International Singing Actors Sweep Final Round Of 2025 Lenya Competition
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 5, 2025

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has revealed the winners of the twenty-seventh annual Lenya Competition, which took place Saturday 3 May at Kilbourn Hall in Rochester, New York. Learn more!

International Cast Of Eleven Selected As Finalists In 2025 Lotte Lenya Competition
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 19, 2025

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has named the eleven exceptional singing actors who will compete for a top prize of $25,000 in the final round of the twenty-seventh annual Lotte Lenya Competition, the internationally renowned theatrical singing contest.

2025 Lenya Competition Unveils Twenty Singer-Actor Semifinalists
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 12, 2025

Kim H. Kowalke, President of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music and founder of the Lenya Competition, has revealed the twenty rising singer-actors who have advanced to the Competition's semifinal round. Learn more.

Kurt Weill Foundation Reveals Semifinalists for 2024 Lenya Competition
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 20, 2024

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has identified the twenty rising singer-actors who have advanced to the Lenya Competition's semifinal round.

IDEAS AT CROW'S THEATRE To Be Recorded At Crow's Theatre From January To June 2024, Inspired By Five Plays In The Theatre's 40th Anniversary Season
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 15, 2023

IDEAS AT CROW’S THEATRE to be recorded at Crow’s Theatre from January to June 2024, inspired by five plays in the Theatre’s 40th anniversary season.

Apples And Oranges Arts Presents SING TANK LIVE, May 12
by A.A. Cristi - May 10, 2023

Participants of Apples and Oranges Arts' future-forward THEatre ACCELERATOR new work development program pitch their musicals to a panel of entertainment, tech and finance industry judges in Sing Tank a live, “Shark Tank” style pitch show hosted by co-creators Pamela and Tim Kashani.

Singing Actors Awarded Three-Way Tie For First Place In Unprecedented Lenya Competition Result
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 3, 2023

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music announced the unprecedented awarding of three First Prizes in the 25th annual Lenya Competition.

Apples and Oranges Arts Spotlights The Heroine's Journey With Latest THEatre ACCELERATOR Development Cohort
by Stephi Wild - Apr 21, 2023

Dubbed THEatre ACCELERATOR: The Heroine's Journey in XR, Apples and Oranges Arts applies their signature use of new technology to help writers develop and distribute new musicals that forefront female identifying characters.

LitFest Celebrates 15th Anniversary With Virtual And In-person Events
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 22, 2021

A milestone LitFest returns to Edmonton October 14-24, 2021 with virtual and in-person events for nonfiction storytellers and the readers who celebrate them. 

Local Comedy Company Invites The Valley To A Stranger Things Improv Show
by Stephi Wild - Oct 10, 2018

Local comedy company, Recycled Minds, invites the valley to an all-ages, comedy show October 20th, 2018 at the Hub Student Center in Boise.

BWW Review: BLOOD WEDDING at The Williams Project
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - Aug 3, 2018

The Williams Project latest collaboration with Equinox Studios is the very ambitious production of Blood Wedding. The story by Frederico Garcia Lorca is a twist on doomed lovers who are prevented from marrying by their families. The English version is a translation by Langston Hughes and retains both the fiery passion of the original Spanish and the poetic language of forbidden love. Equinox Studios invites the audience in to witness the story as part of the crowd.

Photo Flash: Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts Present FROST/NIXON
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 3, 2018

Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a successful opening night for FROST/NIXON, a play by Peter Morgan, directed by Sarna Lapine. The show was met with a standing ovation. Notable in attendance were Mercedes Ruehl, Judy Carmichael and Jules Feiffer.  FROST/NIXON runs through July 22. Single tickets are on sale now by calling the Box Office at 631-725-9500 or can be purchased online at www.baystreet.org.

Local Comedy Company Invites The Valley To Comedy Show
by Stephi Wild - Jun 20, 2018

Local comedy company, Recycled Minds, invites the valley to an all-ages, comedy show June 30, 2018 at the Hub Student Center in Boise.

Heartbeat Opera Announces Radically Staged Versions Of Two Classics: DON GIOVANNI And FIDELIO
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 9, 2018

After last season's much-buzzed-about Butterfly and Carmen, HEARTBEAT OPERA-the daring young company whose unconventional orchestrations and stagings of classic operas have been called 'a radical endeavor' by Alex Ross in The New Yorker-returns to Baruch Performing Arts Center with its fourth annual Spring Festival May 2-13, 2018. Heartbeat will premiere adaptations of two operatic masterpieces, both radically staged, trimmed down and re-orchestrated: Mozart's DON GIOVANNI and Beethoven's FIDELIO. 

Photo Flash: Cape Town's College Of Magic Honours Its Brightest Stars At Glittering Graduation Ceremony
by Stephi Wild - Dec 4, 2017

The College of Magic, Cape Town's only magical arts organisation, held two glittering annual graduation ceremonies to honour its brightest and charming stars at St Anne's Primary on Saturday 25 November 2017. Check out photos below!

Queen's Theatre Presents THE LADYKILLERS Adapted by Father Ted writer Graham Linehan
by BWW News Desk - Oct 21, 2017

The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is excited to be co-producing a new side-splitting adaption of the much-loved Ealing classic comedy, The Ladykillers, which runs at the theatre from 3 - 21 October.

Queen's Theatre Presents THE LADYKILLERS Adapted by Father Ted writer Graham Linehan
by BWW News Desk - Oct 3, 2017

The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is excited to be co-producing a new side-splitting adaption of the much-loved Ealing classic comedy, The Ladykillers, which runs at the theatre from 3 - 21 October.

Queen's Theatre Presents THE LADYKILLERS Adapted by Father Ted writer Graham Linehan
by BWW News Desk - Sep 14, 2017

The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is excited to be co-producing a new side-splitting adaption of the much-loved Ealing classic comedy, The Ladykillers, which runs at the theatre from 3 - 21 October.

Spinning Tree opens 7th Season with Intimate FINIAN'S RAINBOW
by Julie Musbach - Aug 6, 2017

The 1947 musical fantasy FINIAN'S RAINBOW, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, gets the Spinning Tree-tment September 1-17. The score, "one of the most enduringly delicious ever concocted for an American musical" (The New York Times), includes "Old Devil Moon," "How are things in Glocca Morra" and "Look to the Rainbow."

Spinning Tree Opens 7th Season with Intimate FINIAN'S RAINBOW
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 2, 2017

The 1947 musical fantasy FINIAN'S RAINBOW, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, gets the Spinning Tree-tment September 1-17. The score, "one of the most enduringly delicious ever concocted for an American musical" (The New York Times), includes "Old Devil Moon," "How are things in Glocca Morra" and "Look to the Rainbow."