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Opened: December 26, 1936

The Women - 1936 - Broadway History , Info & More

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When this gleefully malicious comedy about New York society matrons premiered on Broadway, audiences were shocked, outraged and delighted. Featuring an all-female cast and some of the funniest dialogue ever written for the American stage, The Women offers a fascinating inside look at the catty world of Park Avenue society. This deliciously nasty tale of a woman whose happy marriage is destroyed by the gossip of her friends has been called one of the great American plays of the 20th century.

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New Theatre to Present THE WOMEN
by Tyler Peterson - Jul 14, 2015


Written in 1936, this comedy about marital infidelity and revenge is still funny and relevant today.

Apollinaire Theatre Company Presents BLOOD WEDDING at PORT Park, Now thru 7/26
by BWW News Desk - Jul 8, 2015


Apollinaire Theatre Company presents Blood Wedding • Bodas de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca, free as part of Apollinaire in the Park 2015, tonight, July 8, through July 26, 2015.

New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015 Launches Today; Full Lineup!
by BWW News Desk - Jul 7, 2015


The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) recently announced its full lineup of productions, readings, and concerts for NYMF 2015. From today, July 7, to July 27, NYMF 2015 will present almost two dozen productions of new musicals, including the newly announced Passing By and Summer Valley Fair. In addition, NYMF 2015 will also feature staged readings and the debut of brand new concerts.

THE GOLD Set for NYMF
by Tyler Peterson - Jun 23, 2015


THE GOLD, a new musical featuring a book by Andrea Lepcio & Philip Yosowitz and music and lyrics by Philip Yosowitz, will be presented in the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival Developmental Reading Series.

Apollinaire Theatre Company to Present BLOOD WEDDING at PORT Park, 7/8-26
by BWW News Desk - Jun 16, 2015


Apollinaire Theatre Company presents Blood Wedding • Bodas de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca, free as part of Apollinaire in the Park 2015, July 8-26, 2015.

PASSING BY and SUMMER VALLEY FAIR Complete New York Musical Theatre Festival's 2015 Lineup
by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2015


The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) announced today the full lineup of productions, readings, and concerts for NYMF 2015.

Waa-Mu Show to Offer New Perks This Year
by Tyler Peterson - Apr 29, 2015


"GOLD," Northwestern University's 84th Annual Waa-Mu Show -- an original full-length musical that tells the story of ambitious athletes on their quest for Olympic glory -- offers several bonuses this year. The production opens Friday, May 1.

BWW Reviews: Cruella in a Mantilla?: BERNARDA ALBA at FPCT Needs Some Rethinking
by Jack L. B. Gohn - Apr 21, 2015


Only a brave community theater would take on The House of Bernarda Alba, Federico Garcia Lorca's last play. Written by a closeted gay playwright at the very outset of the Francisco Franco's conservative fascist rule and savagely attacking that era's repression of female freedom, both social and sexual (and by implication other freedoms), it inevitably betrays an air of extreme avant-gardeism. Ibsen and Strindberg and Wedekind may have gone into the same territory, but as of 1936 not too many others. And Lorca drives home his message as if no one had ever conveyed it before - which was more or less true in his time and place.

Odyssey Opera Announces THE BRITISH INVASION: A Festival of English Musical Dramas
by Christina Mancuso - Mar 30, 2015


Odyssey Opera, a Boston-­??based opera company dedicated to exploring the full spectrum of adventurous repertoire, today announced THE BRITISH INVASION, a month-­??long opera festival of fully-­??staged productions of works by English composers. From May 17-­??June 20, Boston opera lovers will have the unique opportunity to choose from four evening-­??length programs encompassing nine diverse operatic works, including the Boston premiere of Vaughan Williams's Sir John in Love, a double bill of Walton's The Bear and Sullivan's The Zoo, five compelling monodramas, and Ade?s's masterpiece of modern cultural commentary, Powder Her Face. (See below for complete program details.)

Pacific Symphony and Chapman University to Explore 'Shakespeare Reimagined', Thru 4/19
by Matt Smith - Mar 7, 2015


Orange County, Calif.—March 6, 2015—The world's most brilliant playwright—William Shakespeare—is reimagined in unexpected ways when Pacific Symphony partners with Chapman University to present “Shakespeare Reimagined,” a festival that explores how The Bard's plays have inspired not only other playwrights and directors, but also composers, choreographers and filmmakers. The festival, which runs through April 19, began last month with “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” at Chapman University, and continues on March 13 with a semi-staged version of Mendelssohn's “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” performed by The Chapman Orchestra, Women's Choir and Department of Theatre students. The festival culminates April 16-19 with four Pacific Symphony concerts featuring Prokofiev's “Romeo and Juliet.” The ballet is presented with actors and dancers who help reinstate the composer's original happy ending, which was banned by Joseph Stalin. For a complete listing of events, which include classical concerts, discussions, film screenings, dance, lectures, theater, master classes and a symposium on interpreting Shakespeare, please see the calendar below, or visit http://www.chapman.edu/events/shakespeare-reimagined/event-calendar.aspx.

Photo Flash: First Look at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's LITTLE WOMEN
by BWW News Desk - Feb 19, 2015


Cincinnati Shakespeare Company continues its season with the much anticipated regional premiere of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' adapted for the stage by Emma Reeves. This production is directed by Cincinnati Shakespeare's Artistic Associate, Sara Clark and features Cincinnati Shakespeare's Resident Ensemble members Maggie Lou Rader, Annie Fitzpatrick, Kelly Mengelkoch, Caitlin McWethy and Courtney Lucien. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!

THE GLASS MENAGERIE, 110 IN THE SHADE & More Set for Ford's Theatre's 2015-16 Season
by Tyler Peterson - Feb 18, 2015


Ford's Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault today announced the Ford's Theatre 2015-2016 season. Productions include the world-premiere play The Guard by Jessica Dickey and directed by Sharon Ott-part of the fall 2015 Women's Voices Theater Festival; The Glass Menagerie featuring Nancy Robinette; and the musical 110 In the Shade directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge and featuring Tracy Lynn Olivera. The season also includes the holiday favorite A Christmas Carol.

Acclaimed Filmmaker to Chronicle Untold Story of African American Olympic Athletes
by Caryn Robbins - Feb 9, 2015


Atlanta-based Coffee Bluff Pictures is completing production of the highly anticipated documentary Olympic Pride, American Prejudice. History remembers one African American hero, Jesse Owens

MoMA to Open Grete Stern & Horacio Coppola Exhibition, 5/17
by BWW News Desk - Feb 3, 2015


The Museum of Modern Art has organized the first major exhibition to examine the individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two of the foremost practitioners of avant-garde photography, film, advertising, and graphic design in the first half of the 20th century: Grete Stern (German, 1904-1999) and Horacio Coppola (Argentine, 1906-2012). From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola will be on view May 17 through October 4, 2015, and features more than 300 works gathered from museums and private collection across Europe and the Americas-many of which have never before been exhibited in the United States.

Julie Andrews Hosts GREAT PERFORMANCES 'Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2015' Today
by TV News Desk - Jan 1, 2015


Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vienna's Musikverein.

Julie Andrews to Host of GREAT PERFORMANCES 'Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2015'
by Caryn Robbins - Dec 3, 2014


Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vienna's Musikverein.

New Theatre: Season 2015 Launch
by Jade Kops - Nov 25, 2014


From attending the New Theatre 2015 season launch, it is clear from Artistic Director Louise Fischer's introduction that New Theatre is a "family" with a passion for what they create. The 2015 line up continues the company's legacy of staging productions that will challenge ideas and discuss issues, and even the plays that were written in other eras remain relevant to the current society.

BWW Reviews: Young Singers Peddie, Dirksen, Block and Lowe Are No Longer Waiting to Join the Shining New Lights of Cabaret
by Billie Roe - Nov 22, 2014


Every year, despite a litany of warnings they come to the Big Apple with big dreams. Warnings like: “You have to pay your dues.” “It's a tough business, kid.” “How are you going to survive?” There's no such thing as an overnight success, yet still they come to be at “the top of the heap,” as Kander and Ebb so eloquently put it. The four young performers featured here haven't yet vaulted to the top of the cabaret heap, but they've certainly made their marks with excellent shows during 2014, while exhibiting the potential to get there. The spotlight is already shining on Chrysten Peddie, Angela Dirksen, Rembert Block, and Kristoffer Lowe.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Manfred Honeck Present MUSIC FOR THE SPIRIT This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - Nov 20, 2014


Music has the power to touch the human spirit, transcending time, place, boundaries and language and spurring understanding and connection. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Manfred Honeck are deeply committed to music's ability to promote and spread a spiritual and universal message, and to that end invite the public to two free 'Music for the Spirit' concerts tonight, November 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Westminster Presbyterian Church in Upper St. Clair and on Saturday, November 22 at 8 p.m. at Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School in Cranberry.

NY Public Library for the Performing Arts Artistic Producer Evan Leslie on the Ziegfeld Club
by NYPL for the Performing Arts - Nov 20, 2014


BroadwayWorld.com continues our exclusive content series, in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which delves into the library's unparalleled archives, and resources. Below, check out a piece by Evan Leslie (Artistic Producer for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts) on the Ziegfeld Club:

Coulthard and Donovan To Star In UK Tour Of THE KING'S SPEECH From Feb 2015
by Carrie Dunn - Nov 4, 2014


The King's Speech - the play from which the Oscar-winning movie that starred Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush was adapted - will set out on its first national tour in 2015.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Manfred Honeck Present MUSIC FOR THE SPIRIT, 11/20-22
by BWW News Desk - Oct 16, 2014


Music has the power to touch the human spirit, transcending time, place, boundaries and language and spurring understanding and connection. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Manfred Honeck are deeply committed to music's ability to promote and spread a spiritual and universal message, and to that end invite the public to two free "Music for the Spirit" concerts on Thursday, November 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Westminster Presbyterian Church in Upper St. Clair and on Saturday, November 22 at 8 p.m. at Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School in Cranberry.

Broadway's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, Louis Armstrong, Authors and More Set for CUNY TV's ARTS IN THE CITY This Month
by TV News Desk - Oct 10, 2014


CUNY TV's ARTS IN THE CITY, hosted by Carol Anne Riddell from The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, celebrates October beginning today, Oct. 10 (2014) at 10am, 3pm and 8:30pm on CUNY TV*. The show is repeated Sunday 10/12 at noon and returns Friday 10/24 at 10am, 3pm and 8:30pm and on Sunday 10/26 at noon on CUNY TV. On and after Oct. 10, the program may be viewed anytime on www.cuny.tv.

Broadway's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, Louis Armstrong, Authors and More Set for CUNY TV's ARTS IN THE CITY This Month
by TV News Desk - Oct 8, 2014


CUNY TV's ARTS IN THE CITY, hosted by Carol Anne Riddell from The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, celebrates October beginning Friday, Oct. 10 (2014) at 10am, 3pm and 8:30pm on CUNY TV*.

UNC Presents World Premiere of New JOHNNY JOHNSON Musical, 11/20-24
by Sally Henry Fuller - Oct 5, 2014


The world premiere of the new edition of Johnny Johnson by Paul Green and Kurt Weill, with text and music not heard since 1937, will be staged at the University of North Carolina. Performances will take place in the Kenan Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art on Thursday, November 20th at 8pm, Friday, November 21st at 8pm (post-show discussion), Saturday, November 22nd at 8pm (pre-show symposium), Sunday, November 23rd at 2pm, and Monday, November 24th at 5pm.

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