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VIDEO: Iggy Azalea, Rita Ora Spin a Web with 'Black Widow' at VMAs
by Matt Tamanini - August 25, 2014 Like her partners on the opening 'Bang...Bang,' Iggy Azalea also had a return performance at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Later in the evening, she was joined by Rita Ora for the first live performance of their hit 'Black Widow.'...
BWW Reviews: LOOPED is Fast, Complex and Utterly Satisfying
by Maggie Yates - July 20, 2014 Bravo to Ensemble Theatre, director Glen Jordan, and the talented cast of Matthew Lombardo's Looped for creating a truly fantastic experience in theatre. Looped may be a dark comedy, but it certainly delivered consistent laughs......
SPOILER ALERT! Recap and Review: GALAVANT Debuts with Singing Knights, Damsels in Distress, and John Stamos
by Matt Tamanini - January 04, 2015 After what seems like three years of commercials, ABC finally debuted its new musical series GALAVANT tonight. As I'm sure you know, this eight-episode, four-week 'event' features lyrics by Tony-nominee and Grammy-winner Glenn Slater and music by Grammy, Oscar, and Tony-winner Alan Menken; who seems...
Last Chance to See FAIR GAME at Yellow Tree Theatre, Now Through 5/4
by Courtnie Mele - April 29, 2014 There's only four chances left to catch the all-original comedy FAIR GAME so don't be left on the fairway! (See what we did there?) It's not every day you get to see the world premiere of a brand spanking new play! Also--it's not every day you get to see a biffy right on stage. Click here to get you...
BWW Reviews: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Should Delight Beck Audiences, But...
by Roy Berko - July 14, 2014 On a November Saturday afternoon in 2007, I anxiously entered the Hilton Theatre in New York. I love exaggerated, well-conceived and performed farce. I was going to see 'Young Frankenstein' by the king of farce and parody, Mel Brooks. Yes, 'Young Frankenstein,' officially known as 'The New Mel Brook...
BWW Reviews: NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY Brings Twisted Macabre Fun to Village
by Jay Irwin - March 23, 2015 A serial killer being hunted by the police sounds like ripe fodder for a musical comedy, right? No? Well then you need to expand your perception and get out to Village Theatre to catch their current production of "No Way to Treat a Lady" which not only manages to amuse while it horrifies but also ...
Pig Iron Theatre Company Presents I PROMISED MYSELF TO LIVE FASTER, Now thru 5/31
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2015 Coming off a celebrated run at the 39th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky, Pig Iron Theatre Company brings the rolling World Premiere of I Promised Myself To Live Faster, home for a run at FringeArts. The show is set to run tonight, May 22, through May 31. Opening ...
BWW Reviews: URINETOWN, Apollo Theatre, October 8 2014
by Carrie Dunn - October 09, 2014 Not well known in the UK, the "secret show" finally revealed itself at the St James Theatre, and now it's opened for a run at the Apollo Theatre in the West End....
BWW Reviews: THE NORWEGIANS - An Extremely Odd Comedy at Dobama
by Roy Berko - October 27, 2014 C. Denby Swanson's 'The Norwegians,' now on stage at Dobama Theatre, centers on Tor and Gus, two Minnesota Norwegians, who are hit men who offer to 'whack' individuals who have 'done others wrong.' Olive, a former Texan, has been mistreated by her boyfriend. She meets Betty, who has hired Tor and Gu...
BWW Reviews: More Paean Than Parody in BRITNEY SPEARS: THE CABARET in Australia
by Jacqueline Bublitz - July 27, 2014 Under the musical direction of Mathew Frank, Whelan-Browne lets Britney's songs reveal telling stories often lost within their pop/heavily auto-tuned original versions. Familiar songs, from Out from Under, to Toxic to Lucky are suddenly interesting, and often achingly autobiographical in content....
Chicago Opera Theater Opens THE CLEVER ONE & EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS Tonight
by BWW News Desk - May 31, 2014 Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents a unique double-bill of one-act German language operas including Carl Orff's 'The Clever One' and Viktor Ullmann's 'The Emperor of Atlantis,' in four performances today, May 31- June 8, 2014 at the Merle Reskin Theatre of DePaul University (60 E. Balbo). 'The Emp...
Sneak Peek - Rapper/Actor T.I. Visits THE REAL Today
by Caryn Robbins - October 21, 2014 Star of VH1's 'The Family Hustle,' and superstar rapper/actor, T.I., drops by 'The Real' to talk about his new album, 'Paperwork.'...
BWW Reviews: 'FORTRESS' a Strong Showing at Derby Dinner
by Todd Zeigler - August 28, 2014 There is an oh-so-subtle dramatic bed upon which rides one of the funniest evenings of theater I've had the joy to partake of in quite a while....
CCPA to Present AN EVENING OF FARCES, 2/13-15
by Tyler Peterson - February 04, 2015 City Circle Acting Company of will present a double-bill of British comedies February 13-15 at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. The program consists of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Performances of An Evening of Farces are Friday, February ...
VIDEO: Iggy Azalea, Rita Ora Spin a Web with 'Black Widow' at VMAs
by Matt Tamanini - August 25, 2014 Like her partners on the opening 'Bang...Bang,' Iggy Azalea also had a return performance at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Later in the evening, she was joined by Rita Ora for the first live performance of their hit 'Black Widow.'...
BWW Reviews: Rabbit Run Introduces Audience to Unbridled Comic Hysteria in NOISES OFF
by Roy Berko - June 20, 2014 The Rabbit Run production of the farce, 'Noises Off,' was well directed, well acted, well technically presented and turned out to be a laugh riot! I saw this show in London was convulsed with laughter. The PP show had much the same effect on me. For anyone wanting a fun summer experience, the trip t...
BWW Reviews: Red Bull's THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP Could Use More Ridiculousness
by Michael Dale - April 20, 2014 The charm of the revival is no match for the original's subversiveness....
Rob Dyrdek's RIDICULOUSNESS Season 5 to Premiere 7/10
by Caryn Robbins - July 08, 2014 Rob Dyrdek is back on MTV starting this Thursday, July 10th at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT with the premiere of 'Ridiculousness,'...
BWW Review: A Clevelander's View of the Stratford Theater Festival - A Season of Being Pushed to the Edge
by Roy Berko - July 30, 2014 The Stratford Festival of Canada, whose present artistic director is Atoni Cimolino, started on July 13, 1953, when Sir Alec Guiness walked onto a stage located in a large tent and spoke the first lines of what has become the internationally-recognized celebration of theatre. Now housed in five thea...
MTV to Premiere JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA .5, 6/15
by Tyler Peterson - June 13, 2014 MTV is celebrating Father's Day the only way it knows how – with “Mancation Sunday,” highlighted by the worldwide television premiere of “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5” at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, following a marathon of the network's male-centric programming. Beginning Sunday, June 15 at 7:30 a.m. ET/P...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek - John Legend Guests on MTV's ROB DYRDEK'S FANTASY FACTORY, 2/27
by Caryn Robbins - February 26, 2014 MTV's "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory" airing Thursday, February 27 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT has the first look inside the network's newest cooking competition series "Snack-Off."...
BWW Reviews: Farcical HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLES at Actors' Summit
by Roy Berko - December 02, 2014 There's a moor, a diabolical hound, a maiden, a man who dies of a heart attack (well, maybe), a butler who carries around a tray of plastic food and wears an obvious fake beard, an attempt to perform CPR on an obvious stuffed dummy, men in a sauna wearing towels over their suits, men dressed as wome...
New Adaptation of THE GUARDSMAN Runs Now thru 6/22 at NoHo Arts Center
by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2014 Can a jealous actor fool his cheating wife? Lillian Groag (artistic associate at the Old Globe) directs a new adaptation of The Guardsman, the comic tour de force about love, fidelity and illusion by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar, opening tonight, May 17 at the NoHo Arts Center....
Nik Rabinowitz at the Fugard Theatre with WHAT THE EFF? Over the Festive Season
by David Fick - October 09, 2014 Top South African comedian Nik Rabinowitz returns to the Fugard Theatre with WHAT THE EFF?, his brand new show that runs over the festive season....
BWW Reviews: Paper Chairs' THE SUICIDE a Lively, Hysterical Satire
by Jeff Davis - May 30, 2014 There's no shortage of incredible pieces of art and theater that were lost, at least temporarily, during the Stalinist era of Communist Russia. Thank God, though, that Nikolai Erdman's absurdist masterpiece The Suicide somehow survived. Had it not, the world would be without one of the best commenta... |
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