BWW Review: George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM Speaks Directly to the World's Current Political Turmoil
by Shari Barrett - August 02, 2017 ANIMAL FARM, Orwell's brilliant political satire about the corrupting influence of power, charts the fall of idealism and the rise of tyranny after the animals of Manor Farm rise up against their oppressive human owner in a struggle for rights, equality, gaining the right to make their own choices o...
Gidon Kremer, Julia Wolfe, ICE and More Set for BAC's Fall 2017 Music Lineup
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2017 Baryshnikov Arts Center's (BAC) Fall 2017 music presentations include BAC Salon: Telemann, Farrin, Wolfe + Prokofiev featuring the New York premiere of a work by Julia Wolfe (October 5 and 6); violin virtuoso Gidon Kremer performing Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 24 Preludes, Op. 100 (October 31 and November...
MITF 2017: The Oldest Continuing Theatre Festival in NYC Returns This Summer
by Julie Musbach - June 03, 2017 This is an auspicious year for John Chatterton and the Midtown International Theatre Festival. MITF is now the OLDEST CONTINUING THEATRE FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK! John Chatterton has set the gold standard for presenting new and exciting independent theatrical works in NYC. This year's special festival b...
The Public's Free MOBILE UNIT Production of HAMLET Launches Today
by BWW News Desk - August 26, 2016 Continuing its commitment to bringing free Shakespeare to the community and strengthening audience engagement with the arts, The Public Theater will mount its MOBILE UNIT again this fall with a free three-week tour to the five boroughs of Shakespeare's HAMLET, directed by Patricia McGregor....
TAKEN AT MIDNIGHT Has World Premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre
by Matt Tamanini - September 05, 2014 A season of new plays exploring little-known true stories continues at Chichester with a drama featuring acclaimed actress Penelope Wilton. She plays Irmgard, the mother of celebrated lawyer Hans Litten who puts Hitler on the witness stand in 1930s Germany with devastating consequences....
Weisz, Law, Prenger, Atkinson, Miller Win At WHATSONSTAGE Awards
by Carrie Dunn - February 14, 2010 The Donmar take the prizes for individual performances in plays, while Oliver!, Wicked, Priscilla and Sister Act mop up for musicals...
'Music in Exile-Émigré Composers' Opens in the Fall
by BWW News Desk - July 23, 2008 On Sunday, November 9, the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and 75 years since Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in association with Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music, will launch 'Music in Exile-Emigre Composers of the 1930s,' a fiv...
MOBILE UNIT'S HAMLET, Starring Chukwudi Iwuji, Begins Next Week at The Public Theater
by BWW News Desk - September 12, 2016 The Public Theater will begin previews for the MOBILE UNIT'S Hamlet on Monday, September 19....
Review Roundup: STEPHEN WARD Opens in the West End- UPDATED!
by Review Roundups - December 20, 2013 Stephen Ward, which has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and book and lyrics by playwright Christopher Hamptonand lyricist Don Black, opens tonight, 19 December 2013 at the Aldwych Theatre. Let's see what the critics had to say......
Bard SummerScape 2010 Presents Judgment Day
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 27, 2010 The eighth annual Bard SummerScape presents Judgment Day ('Der jüngste Tag'), a gripping 1937 drama by Austro-Hungarian Ödön von Horváth, one of the most talented playwrights of his generation. A runaway hit of last fall's theater season in London, Judgment Day implicitly investigates the roots of N...
Parker, Cerveris, Sparks & Stormare to Star in HEDDA GABLER; Begins Jan. 09
by BWW News Desk - January 06, 2009 Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced that Tony® award winner Mary-Louise Parker (Hedda Gabler), Tony® award winner Michael Cerveris (Jorgen Tesman), Paul Sparks (Ejlert Lovborg) and Peter Stormare (Judge Brack) in a new Broadway production of Hedda Gabler by Henr...
Cabaret: Read, Watch, Listen
by Roundabout Theatre Company - July 11, 2014 Immerse yourself in the world of Cabaret with our recommended reading, watching and listening lists! WHAT TO READ... 
BWW Review: RHINOCEROS Challenges the Audience to Place a Spotlight on the Absurdity of Life Today at Con-Con
by Roy Berko - August 27, 2017 Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee are Theatre of the Absurd playwrights. Unlike modern-movement writers like Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William Inge, who wrote realistic plays which included solutions to problems or resolved situations, the Absurdists based th...
NOW PLAYING: 73rd Avenue Theatre Company's BENT
by Michael Mulhern - June 30, 2011 An ignored German law making homosexuality a criminal offense is reactivated during Hitler's rise to power....
Weisz, Law, Prenger, Atkinson, Miller Win At WHATSONSTAGE Awards
by Carrie Dunn - February 14, 2010 The Donmar take the prizes for individual performances in plays, while Oliver!, Wicked, Priscilla and Sister Act mop up for musicals... 
Falcon's Eye Theatre Announces MARAT/SADE as its Fall Production
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2017 Known for its technical wizardry, The Falcon's Eye is creating a truly immersive multimedia experience....
Ruthie Henshall Joins Bathurst, Steadman & Norris in London-Bound BLITHE SPIRIT
by Lauren Wolman - August 31, 2010 According to reports from Whatsonstage, Ruthie Henshall will star alongside Alison Steadman, Robert Bathurst, and Hermione Norris in BLITHE SPIRIT which is set to play at Bath's Theatre Royal from November 3-13, the Brighton Theatre Royal from November 16-21, Cambridge's Arts Theatre from November 2... 
Post-Apocalyptic MACBETH Takes the Stage at Bussey Building
by Julie Musbach - September 11, 2017 Devil You Know Theatre Company presents a thrilling new version of one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, charting the bloody rise and downfall of the legendary warrior Macbeth....
Nicholas Rodriguez and More to Join Kathleen Turner in Arena Stage's MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN; Full Cast Announced!
by BWW News Desk - December 18, 2013 Artistic Director Molly Smith tackles a unique, in-the-round staging of Bertolt Brecht's powerhouse anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Iconic stage and screen actress and Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner returns to Arena Stage f...
Review Roundup: Bette Midler in I'LL EAT YOU LAST- All the Reviews!
by Nicole Rosky - April 24, 2013 Bette Midler stars in Tony Award winner John Logan's new play, I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, which opens tonight at the Booth Theatre. Appearing on Broadway for the first time in 30 years, Tony and Grammy Award-winning superstar Bett...
University of Cincinnati CCM Kicks Off Yearlong Kurt Weill Festival, Oct 19
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2012 Beginning this month, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) will celebrate the iconic work and enduring legacy of composer Kurt Weill with an unprecedented series of events. Opening on Friday, Oct. 19, and running through Tuesday, March 12, CCM's Kurt Weill Festival will i...
RosettaBooks Releases THE RISE AND FALL OF ADOLF HITLER
by Christina Mancuso - June 25, 2013 William Shirer, a CBS correspondent who covered Nazi Germany directly from Berlin, reveals Hitler's theatrical public speeches, horrific practices, and paranoid downfall in riveting detail through the digital publication of The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler....
Review Roundup: STEPHEN WARD Opens in the West End- UPDATED!
by Review Roundups - December 20, 2013 Stephen Ward, which has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and book and lyrics by playwright Christopher Hamptonand lyricist Don Black, opens tonight, 19 December 2013 at the Aldwych Theatre. Let's see what the critics had to say......
Pangea Extends LAVENDER SONGS Through Gay Pride
by BWW News Desk - April 04, 2017 Jeremy Lawrence's poignant and chilling evocation of Weimar Berlin's queer underground as it faced the imminent danger of Hitler on the rise has been extended at Pangea....
Almedia Theater Announces Fall Casting
by BWW News Desk - June 27, 2008 Almedia Theater announces fall casting. ... |
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