Photo Flash: Flowers and Fanfare! Inside MY FAIR LADY's Big Announcement in Sydney
by BWW News Desk
- May 11, 2016
As BroadwayWorld reported earlier this evening, Australia's MY FAIR LADY, directed by Julie Andrews, just announced its leading players, featuring acclaimed British performer Alex Jennings, as Professor Higgins and the young Australian star, Anna O'Byrne, as Eliza Doolittle. Scroll down for photos from the big casting announcement in Sydney!
Above & Beyond Releases ANJUNABEATS VOLUME 12 Compilation
by BWW News Desk
- Dec 18, 2015
As DJs, 2015 has seen ABOVE & BEYOND play headline shows at London's Wembley Arena, Los Angeles' The Forum and Sydney's All Phone's Arena, as well as headline festival slots at Creamfields, EDC Vegas and Electric Zoo: Transformed. As label owners, they continue to nurture artists who are defining the future of electronic music. Now, the trio--who received their first GRAMMY nomination for 'Best Dance Recording' for 'We're All We Need'--cap off their most prolific year yet with ANJUNABEATS VOLUME 12.
Robert Joffrey's THE NUTCRACKER Begins Final Season with Joffrey Ballet Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Dec 4, 2015
The Joffrey Ballet celebrates the 28th annual, and final, presentation of Robert Joffrey's THE NUTCRACKER, Chicago's most popular holiday tradition, in a 24-performance engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, tonight, December 4 - 27, 2015. Tony winner Christopher Wheeldon, who directed Broadway's AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, is working on a new version for next year.
The Kennedy Center Welcomes The Joffrey Ballet's THE NUTCRACKER This Weekend
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 25, 2015
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts welcomes The Joffrey Ballet (#JoffreyKenCen) for seven performances of Robert Joffrey's THE NUTCRACKER in the Kennedy Center Opera House, this weekend, November 25-29, 2015. The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra will accompany all performances.
Tickets Go on Sale Today for MY FAIR LADY in Sydney
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 21, 2015
Tickets for the 60th Anniversary production of Lerner and Loewe's masterpiece MY FAIR LADY go on sale today 21 November. MY FAIR LADY will play at the Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, from 30 August, 2016 for a strictly limited season. This new production, which recreates the original 1956 Broadway production, will be directed by the actress who created the role of Eliza Doolittle in the original production, the world-renowned actor and director Dame Julie Andrews.
Dame Julie Andrews To Direct Recreation Of The Original 1956 Broadway Production of MY FAIR LADY For Opera Australia and The Gordon Frost Organisation
by Jade Kops
- Nov 12, 2015
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's MY FAIR LADY and the 60th Anniversary of Opera Australia, Opera Australia and The Gordon Frost Organisation are collaborating to recreate the original production Broadway production. Multiple Award Winning star of stage and screen, Dame Julie Andrews, the first Eliza Doolittle, will share her knowledge with a new generation of performers as she directs this production. Andrews was joined by Opera Australia's CEO Craig Hassell, Artistic Director Lyndon Terrancini AM, The Gordon Frost Organisation Managing Director John Frost AM and NSW Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres to give the media an insight into what audiences can when the show opens at the Sydney Opera House on 30 August 2016.
Robert Joffrey's THE NUTCRACKER Plays Final Season in Chicago; New Version by Christopher Wheeldon Set for 2016
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 9, 2015
The Joffrey Ballet celebrates the 28th annual, and final, presentation of Robert Joffrey's THE NUTCRACKER, Chicago's most popular holiday tradition, in a 24-performance engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, December 4 - 27, 2015. Tony winner Christopher Wheeldon, who directed Broadway's AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, is working on a new version for next year.
The Kennedy Center to Welcome The Joffrey Ballet's THE NUTCRACKER This Month
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 6, 2015
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts welcomes The Joffrey Ballet (#JoffreyKenCen) for seven performances of Robert Joffrey's THE NUTCRACKER in the Kennedy Center Opera House, November 25-29, 2015. The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra will accompany all performances.
The Joffrey Ballet Presents Final Season of THE NUTCRACKER
by Sally Henry Fuller
- Nov 5, 2015
The Joffrey Ballet celebrates the 28th annual, and final, presentation of Robert Joffrey's The Nutcracker, Chicago's most popular holiday tradition, in a 24-performance engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, December 4 – 27.
Audra McDonald and ABT to Join the LA Phil at The Hollywood Bowl Next Month
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 20, 2015
Los Angeles is in for a treat next month! Tony and Grammy-winner Audra McDonald comes to the Hollywood Bowl to sing classics from Broadway and the American Songbook with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Bramwell Tovey, Tuesday and Thursday, September 1 and 3, at 8 pm. Audiences on both nights will be entertained by McDonald singing famous tunes by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mancini and Mercer, and others. The evenings also feature gifted American Ballet Theatre dancers on stage to bring Bernstein's Fancy Free to life performing Jerome Robbins' 1944 choreography.
BWW Preview: WEST SIDE STORY Comes to the Arts Asylum in Kansas City
by Steve Wilson
- Aug 6, 2015
West Side Story opens the fifth season of productions for Spinning Tree Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, running August 20 through September 5. The musical production will be staged at The Arts Asylum located at 1000 E. 9th Street in Kansas City. The Arts Asylum was established to provide assistance, studio, and gallery space for a variety of artists.
Pacific Northwest Ballet Announces Full Schedule for Upcoming Season
by Matt Smith
- Jul 22, 2015
43rd season to feature the return of audience favorites Emergence, Roméo et Juliette, and Coppélia. Other highlights include works by Christopher Wheeldon, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp, and PNB premieres by Alejandro Cerrudo, Jessica Lang and Justin Peck. The line-up also includes the PNB premiere of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, featuring new scenic and costume designs by Ian Falconer.
September 2015 – June 2016
Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center
Seattle, Washington
BWW Reviews: ABT's 75th ANNIVERSARY GALA Served up a Retrospective Feast of Excerpts from the Company's Incomparable Repertoire
by Sondra Forsyth
- May 21, 2015
ABT's 75th Anniversary Gala, a balletomane's dream of a performance on May 18th 2015 at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, treated the nearly sold-out audience to a joyous celebration in dance and archival images of the American Ballet Theatre's seven-and-a-half decade reign as 'America's National Ballet Company'. That designation became official with an act of Congress on April 27th 2006, but the troupe founded by Richard Pleasant with Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith as Co-Directors in 1940 had embraced the ethos of this country right from the start.
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