Park Bench is a new kind of "talking show" straight from the mind of born and bred New Yorker and host, Steve Buscemi. Featuring a mix of surprise celebrity appearances and spontaneous interviews with people on the street, Park Bench will convey Steve
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Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents FUTUR PROCHE By Jan Martens
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2022
Seated in the middle of a meters long bench in Avignon's Cour d'Honneur, Goska Isphording whirls through compositions on the harpsichord in front of her. Through deep concentration she executes rhythmic repetition with tongue twister like variations. It is understandable that Jan Martens has given h...
Season 41 Announced at North Coast Repertory Theatre
by Stephi Wild - June 17, 2022
North Coast Repertory Theatre launches Season 41 with a slate of two World Premieres, one West Coast Premiere, and one San Diego Premiere highlighting an engaging, eclectic 2022-2023 seven-play series....
Durango PlayFest Announces Plays For 2022 Festival
by A.A. Cristi - May 19, 2022
Durango PlayFest today announced the three plays that will headline its play development festival, August 4-7, 2022, as well as a community event that rounds out this year's schedule. PlayFest's mission is to bring well-known and emerging playwrights, directors and actors to Durango to incubate new ...
A VICIOUS CIRCLE Will Have an Industry Reading Next Week
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2022
A new play about the decades-long, tempestuous friendship between Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley will receive an industry reading on Wednesday, May 18, 2022....
NIGHT FROM THE 4TH TO 5TH Comes to Talisman Theatre in May
by Stephi Wild - April 20, 2022
Talisman Theatre's contemporary drama created specifically for video, Night from the 4th to 5th, poetically recounts a sexual assault and the young woman who fought back. But her mind is playing tricks on her—she's plagued with memory lapses and fleeting images. ...
BWW Review: RUNNING WITH LIONS, Lyric Hammersmith
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 16, 2022
First recorded in March 2021 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, (still available on BBC Sounds) Sian Carter’s new play Running With Lions is a raw and honest look at attitudes towards grief, faith and the stigma of mental health problems in a multi-generational British-Caribbean family....
Stephen Sondheim Reveals Nixed Plans for Gay-Version of COMPANY in a Final Interview
by Nicole Rosky - February 14, 2022
Broadway lost an icon in November when composer Stephen Sondheim passed away at the age of 91. We're still learning more about his genius months later, as a series of in-depth interviews has just been released by the New Yorker, in which, Sondheim candidly discusses varied topics, from abandoned mus...
Cold Weather Company To Host Virtual Concert
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 08, 2022
The 3 man New Jersey alternative folk band, Cold Weather Company, will host a virtual concert and Q&A this Saturday, February 12, 2022, at 3 PM EST/12 PM PST....
Birmingham Rep's THE PARK BENCH PLAYS Will Be Broadcast On Sky Arts
by Stephi Wild - February 04, 2022
Birmingham Rep have announced that five of their new commissions filmed as part of The Park Bench Plays will be broadcast on Sky Arts (Freeview Channel 11) on Monday 7 February 2022 at 11pm....
Casting Update Announced For STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY at The Bridge
by Stephi Wild - January 27, 2022
Joining Ralph Fiennes (Robert Moses) in the world premiere of David Hare's Straight Line Crazy are Alisha Bailey (Mariah Heller), Samuel Barnett (Ariel Porter), David Bromley (Stamford Fergus), Al Coppola (Walter McQuade), Siobhán Cullen (Finnuala Connell), Ian Kirkby (Lewis Mumford), Alana Maria (...
Theatre 40 Presents New Season Of Virtual Seminars, Beginning January 24
by A.A. Cristi - January 17, 2022
The first 2022 session of Theatre 40's popular series of Monday Night Seminars will be conducted on Zoom. Each date of the series will feature the reading of a play by Theatre 40's actors, followed by a Q&A period. The theme of this session is Strange Plays for Strange Days.. The series is moderated...
Birmingham Rep Announces Additional 50th Anniversary Programming
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 30, 2021
Following the celebratory reopening of Birmingham Rep this autumn with critically acclaimed productions of East is East, the brand new musical What’s New Pussycat? and the presentation of Grenfell: Value Engineering, Artistic Director Sean Foley announces a new collection of work to follow his...
Encore Performance Of POSTCARDS FROM A BENCH Will Take Place Virtually This Month
by Stephi Wild - September 05, 2021
he show is a program of short comedies, written by John Doble, produced and directed by JC Gafford, and presented by 11 West Productions. Estimated running time is 70 minutes. Postcards from a Bench is suggested for audiences age 16 to Adult....
#ACHEKHOVBURLESK: SCENES FROM A THEATRICAL LIFE Announces Free Pop-Up Performances
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 26, 2021
#AChekhovBurlesk: Scenes from Theatrical Life, written and performed by John Robert Tillotson announced today a free Pop-Up reading of selections on Saturday August 28, 2021 at 4 PM at M Social Times Square, located at 226 West 52nd Street, just off Broadway on the Perch Terrace. Seating is limit...
Matt Goss Announces New Album 'The Beautiful Unknown'
by TV News Desk - August 12, 2021
‘Somewhere To Fall’ is the first taste of new music from the pop icon and acts as the curtain-raiser to his forthcoming studio album ‘The Beautiful Unknown’, which is slated for release towards the end of the year....
BWW Interview: Michael Urie and Ryan Spahn Discuss AT HOME AT THE ZOO in East Hampton
by Joseph F. Panarello - August 09, 2021
There’s no doubt that the COVID pandemic has resulted in the loss of countless lives, caused numerous businesses to collapse and brought enormous tension to those who were forced to live in tight quarters for many months. It also presented enormous problems for those in the performing arts....
BWW Review: CONTEMPORARY THEATER COMPANY BRINGS 'BETHEL PARK FALLS' TO LIFE IN DELIGHTFUL OUTDOOR SETTING
by John McDaid - August 09, 2021
The CTC delivers a perfect union of story and space in this finely polished 90-minutes of intersecting vignettes about an ill-fated park and the people who meet there....
11 West Productions' POSTCARDS FROM A BENCH Will Be Livestreamed This Month
by Stephi Wild - August 08, 2021
The production is written by John Doble, and produced and directed by JC Gafford. Meet four couples who will change your ideas about love, in this show comprised of four short comedies....
Photos: Inside Rehearsals For PARK BENCH At The Park Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 02, 2021
All new rehearsal images have been released for Tori Allen-Martin's new play Park Bench which kicks off Park Theatre's reopening on the 4th August....
BWW Review: ELEANOR at Barrington Stage Company
by Marc Savitt - July 22, 2021
Every aspect of this production works together seamlessly and synergistically. What's more, the team deploys seemingly simple techniques and tactics with very positive results. The scenery consists of a park bench and a few sheets of fabric. There is one actor in only one costume with no cha...
Photos: Hometown Theater Honors Marion Ross With Bronze Statue
by Stephi Wild - July 08, 2021
The bronze statue is dressed as Mrs. Cunningham from the 'Happy Days' series, which ran for 10 years from 1974-1984 and was sculptured using a screen accurate replica of a costume that Marion wore on the show and is seated on a park bench reaching out to invite any passerby to join her....
THE PARK KEEPER by Mike Kenny to be Presented by Park Bench Theatre in July
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 30, 2021
Park Bench Theatre will return to York's Rowntree Park in July with a new play by Olivier award-winning writer Mike Kenny to celebrate the park's centenary this year. The Park Keeper will be performed in The Friends' Garden - where Park Bench Theatre staged three monologues last summer - from 7 to ...
Park Theatre Announces Reopening Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 22, 2021
Park Theatre has announced its reopening, starting today with a two-act drama commissioned by the venue that starts online & ends live in Park200, reopening the building on 4th August. The season will include a Bruntwood Prize- and Alfred Fagon Award-shortlisted co-production with Talawa, the prem...
At-Home Theatre DARKFIELD RADIO Returns With Season 2
by Stephi Wild - June 02, 2021
Highly acclaimed at-home audio experience, DARKFIELD RADIO, is back in Australia for its second season, KNOT, this June. Part of the Tribeca Film Festival Immersive Lineup, KNOT is a three-part immersive audio experience designed for one person which unfolds in three different locations in one eveni...
Sky Studios Partners With Birmingham Repertory Theatre For New Writing Scheme 'Sky Comedy REP'
by Stephi Wild - May 27, 2021
Sky Studios and Birmingham Repertory Theatre today announce the launch of 'Sky Comedy REP', a new partnership that aims to discover and develop new regional comedy writing talent from across the UK, particularly from communities that have traditionally been under-represented in the Arts. ...
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