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Revised Schedule and Online Events Announced for DARKNESS SOUNDING Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 21, 2021


In response to the covid-19 pandemic, Wild Up has added new online events to the schedule for its winter festival, Darkness Sounding, and is delaying in-person performances originally scheduled for next month.

9 Reasons for the Theatre Community to Be Thankful in 2020
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 26, 2020


Take a quick look back on some of the highlights from lockdown and beyond that gave us all a little something to be thankful for when positivity was in short supply.

Budapest Festival Orchestra Keeps the Music Playing With Concerts in Apartment Courtyards
by Stephi Wild - Jun 25, 2020


Budapest Festival Orchestra has split into small groups and headed around the city throughout the month of June to perform in the courtyards of apartment blocks around Budapest.

The Met Launches #MetAnywhere Online Programming And Social Media Initiatives
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 1, 2020


The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today a lineup of newly developed content to complement its existing selection of online materials, offering audiences at home the opportunity to engage with the Museum while it is temporarily closed.

PRIME Productions' Dark Comedy, THE ROOMMATE To Be Staged At Park Square In May
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 3, 2020


A dark comedy of reinvention, written by one of the most popular playwrights in the country right now, is the latest production by PRIME Productions, a professional theater in the Twin Cities that seeks to explore and illuminate the powerful stories of women over 50. THE ROOMMATE by Jen Silverman will take over the Andy Boss Thrust Stage at Park Square Theatre in the Historic Hamm building in St. Paul, May 7 a?" 24, 2020. 

BWW Review: THE DOG WALKER, Jermyn Street Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 16, 2020


A world premiere of a play is always an exciting thing; a potential opportunity to witness one of the very first performances of a future classic. Unfortunately, Paul Minx's new play The Dog Walker, at the diminutive Jermyn Street Theatre, is an odd and uneven experience.

Open Window Theatre Launches 2020 Redemption Season 
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 23, 2020


After a 3-year hiatus, Open Window Theatre is launching its 2020 Season in a brand new space with U.S. and regional premieres and a monthly cultural series. It is rare for a theatre to shut down and then return with a larger space, an expanded staff, and more ambitious artistic programming, but Open Window Theatre's loyal audience raised $250,000 to re-launch, leasing a 9,600-square-foot space (30% larger than its previous home) and building a brand-new 170-seat black box theatre in the Salem Square Center. Open Window also hired its first full-time managing director, Cole Matson, Ph.D., and brought its box office manager back on board. a?oeThe journey has been painful but purifying,a?? says founder and Executive-Artistic Director, Jeremy Stanbary. 

BWW Review: FINDING NEVERLAND at Fred Kavli Theatre
by Cary Ginell - Jan 18, 2020


American Theatre Guild's national tour of 'Finding Neverland' is a marvel of imaginative production values, excellent acting, and quirky-jerky choreography, making this 'making of Peter Pan' fantasy a joy from start to finish.

Open Window Theatre Launches 2020 Redemption Season
by Stephi Wild - Jan 17, 2020


After a 3-year hiatus, Open Window Theatre is launching its 2020 Season in a brand-new space with U.S. and regional premieres and a monthly cultural series. It is rare for a theatre to shut down and then return with a larger space, an expanded staff, and more ambitious artistic programming, but Open Window Theatre's loyal audience raised $250,000 to re-launch, leasing a 9,600-square-foot space (30% larger than its previous home) and building a brand-new 170-seat black box theatre in the Salem Square Center. Open Window also hired its first full-time managing director, Cole Matson, Ph.D., and brought its box office manager back on board. 'The journey has been painful but purifying,' says founder and Executive-Artistic Director, Jeremy Stanbary.

BWW Review: MEG FLATHER SONGS A CABARET SISTERHOOD Brings Powerful Women to Don't Tell Mama
by Stephen Mosher - Sep 17, 2019


Venerated songwriter and singer Meg Flather brings immaculate marriages of her music and her singing sisters of cabaret to Don't Tell Mama in this show celebrating her work, her friends and sisterhood.

Open Window Theatre Welcomes First Managing Director, Cole Matson
by Stephi Wild - Jul 30, 2019


Open Window Theatre has hired its first Managing Director, Dr. Cole Matson, as the next step in its 'Redemption 2019' theatre re-launch after a three-year producing hiatus. Dr. Matson will work with Open Window's founding Executive-Artistic Director Jeremy Stanbary on the business management of the theatre and development of a new season of cultural events - including talks, concerts, film screenings, and new play readings - complementi

West Theatre Company Presents BAKERSFIELD MIST
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 5, 2019


Off Broadway West Theatre Company ("OBW"), a San Francisco non-profit 501(c)(3) theatre company, is celebrating its 12th Theatre Season by producing Stephen Sachs' play, Bakersfield Mist.  Based on actual events, this play questions appraisals of authenticity in art, and by extension, our relationship to one another.  The play premiered in 2011 at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles and enjoyed a three-month run (2014) on London's West End, starring Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid.  

On The Spot Theatre Company Presents the World Premiere of BRIT TWIST
by Stephi Wild - Mar 16, 2019


On The Spot Theatre Company presents a feast of farces with this double bill. For the first course, enjoy Pete Blatchford's new adaptation of the short story, The Open Window, by Saki. Follow the unexpected exploits of the mild-mannered mushroom collector, Framton, as he heads by train into the idyllic countryside of England for a cure for his nerves only to find that others have a different idea of what might be best for him.

World Premiere Of CALLED HOME BY THE SEA Comes to Chicago
by Stephi Wild - Mar 16, 2019


On The Spot Theatre Company presents Called Home By the Sea, a full-length dramatic romance in one act performed at the charming lakefront Berger Park Coach House Theater.

MPLS Theatre Company Makes Long-Awaited Comeback
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 14, 2019


"How transitory we be all day." As these final lines of the 16th century play, Everyman, were uttered, director Jeremy Stanbary had no idea how prescient the words would be. 

BWW Review: Studio Tenn's Holiday Season Offering of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
by Jeffrey Ellis - Dec 14, 2018


Before Broadway comes calling for Hatty Ryan King, the young Nashville actress with an enviable resume (the Lipscomb University sophomore is a Spotlight Award winner, was a finalist for The Jimmy Award, has worked with theater companies both community-oriented and professional and has proven herself a capable leading player along the way), you might want to get your tickets to see her onstage in Studio Tenn's ambitious, if woefully uneven, holiday season offering of Beauty and The Beast. In a role that could have been written for her, King shines as Belle, the ambitious and eager to learn and to embrace change young woman who is the heroine of the musical which features a score by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton.

Photo Flash: Norbert Leo Butz and Friends Support The Angel Band Project
by Julie Musbach - Nov 14, 2018


The Angel Band Project hosted back-to-back sold-out concerts, dubbed 'An Evening with Norbert Leo Butz & Friends - A Benefit to Support Survivors of Sexual Violence", on November 12th at 54 Below.

Norbert Leo Butz, Jessie Mueller, Aaron Tveit, Mariska Hargitay, and More Support Survivors of Sexual Violence at 54 Below
by Julie Musbach - Oct 12, 2018


The Angel Band Project presents, 'An Evening with Norbert Leo Butz & Friends - A Benefit to Support Survivors of Sexual Violence', Monday, November 12, 2018 at 54 Below, 254 West 54th Street, New York City, NY, two-sets, 7:00pm and 10pm. This one-night only event will be hosted by Mariska Hargitay

Theatre Raymond Kabbaz Launches Season with Robben Ford Concert
by BWW News Desk - Sep 21, 2018


Theatre Raymond Kabbaz (TRK), the innovative performance space at Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles, kicks off its' 18th season in grand style today, September 21, 2018 with Robben Ford Quartet in concert at 7:00pm and 9:30pm.

BWW Review: Attend a Hilariously Funny Funeral, Southern-style, at Desert Theatreworks, in SOUTHERN FRIED FUNERAL.
by Audrey Liebross - Sep 16, 2018


Desert Theatreworks has opened its 2018-19 season with a hilariously funny production of SOUTHERN FRIED FUNERAL. A clever script, great acting by the ensemble cast, great direction, and great set and costume designs ensure that audiences will have a great deal of fun at the dysfunctional Frye family's send-off for their husband and father.

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