Detroit Opera to Present Anthony Davis's THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE This Month
by Josh Sharpe - May 09, 2025 On May 10, 16, and 18, Detroit Opera will present The Central Park Five, directed by Nataki Garrett and featuring a new, expanded orchestration by composer Anthony Davis....
Single Carrot Theatre Invites You To World Premiere MARIE ANTOINETTE AND THE MAGICAL NEGROES
by A.A. Cristi - May 12, 2022 Single Carrot Theatre presents the closing show of REVELRY with Terry Guest's Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes, a world premiere opening as the first event in newly renovated The Peale June 3 and running through June 26. ...
Fountain Theatre to Present 'Hyper-Staged' Reading of Lisa Loomer's ROE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 02, 2022 The Fountain Theatre will once again jump into action with a “hyper-staged” reading of Roe, a powerful, poignant and often humorous play by Lisa Loomer that cuts through the headlines to reveal the real-life women behind Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that gave women the right to safe, legal ab...
BWW Review: THE FIFTH WAVE from Macha Theatre Works
by Jay Irwin - February 12, 2022 Like so many others, Macha Theater Works was in their final rehearsals back in March of 2020 when the pandemic shut everything down. Now, almost two years later they are back at West of Lenin and ready to give us this intense look into a “me too” incident with their World Premiere play “The Fifth W...
WE BELIEVE YOU Concert Held in Solidarity for Classical Music Sexual Assault Victims
by Alan Henry - September 09, 2019 A concert in support of Lara St. John, and other musicians who have suffered from sexual assault, was held this past weekend in New York City. The concert, entitled We Believe You, was on September 6 and St. John performed herself....
THE LARAMIE PROJECT Announced At Wasatch Theatre Company
by A.A. Cristi - September 19, 2022 Wasatch Theatre Company kicks off its 25th season with THE LARAMIE PROJECT, chronicling the assault and murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998. The Tectonic Theatre Project visited the town of Laramie where the murder took place to interview townsfolk immediately after the incident in 1998. ...
BWW Review: MUSIKAL BELAKANG PANGGUNG Shines with Both Activism and Theatrical Merit
by Rakaputra Paputungan - May 12, 2020 A new and original musical tackling on the subject of sexual abuse, Musikal Belakang Panggung, had completed its 4-show run on March 8th at the Institut Français d'Indonésie. The show was created in collaboration with Lentera Sintas Indonesia, an NGO with the mission to empower sexual abuse survivor...
PBS Summer Slate Celebrates the Cultural, Technological Milestones of Summer of 1969
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 02, 2019 PBS, America's home for documentary film, is telling the story of '69 with a special summer slate commemorating the cultural milestones and technological triumphs of 50 years ago....
Oprah to Sit Down With Bob Iger, Malcolm Gladwell & More on New SUPER SOUL SUNDAY
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 11, 2019 OWN announced today all-new episodes of its Emmy award-winning series “Super Soul Sunday” will premiere Sunday, September 15 at 11 a.m. ET/PT featuring thought-provoking, in-depth interviews with bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell (9/15), medical pioneer Dr. Dean Ornish, and his wife, Anne (9/22), ...
Upright Citizens Brigade Actress Lauren Hobbs Wounded In Crazed Crime Spree
by Stephen Mosher - January 08, 2021 Acknowledge by many as one of the sweetest people in the local entertainment industry, Lauren Hobbs recovers at home from a brain injury caused by a crazed man on a crime spree....
Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Belk Theater
by Perry Tannenbaum - December 03, 2022 Overamped at Belk Theater, with an underwhelming set of grievances in Diablo Cody's adaptation of Alanis Morissette's megahit 1995 album, JAGGED LITTLE PILL generates more fire and heat than substance until it arrives at its #MeToo moment - and finds its heart....
Miriam Clancy Breaks The Chains Of Abuse On Cathartic New Single 'Velveteen'
by Michael Major - December 14, 2022 The album captures the brilliance of Miriam and her telepathic band featuring Jeremy McDonald, Will Graefe and Mike Riddleberger as they move through intricate clouds of Clannad-esque guitars and vocals, which turn to sparse folk-rock deep cuts twisting into fleeting moments of Roxy Music influenced...
ROTTERDAM Cancelled In Southampton Following Homophobic Attack
by Marianka Swain - June 10, 2019 Performances of Jon Brittain's play Rotterdam at Nuffield Southampton Theatres were cancelled following an attack on two members of the cast. ...
Lizz Winstead And Morgan Murphy Headline Dirty Dancing Riff Party
by A.A. Cristi - March 08, 2021 Dirty Dancing is one of the most iconic movies ever made, just happens to have a non-judgmental plotline about abortion access, AND IT WAS MADE IN THE 1980s! The only thing that can make it better is watching it with these A-list comics for a hilarious night of fun and raising awareness around the ...
Sunday Morning Michael Dale: Baldwin Debates Buckley, The Brontës Rock Out and Billy Porter Revises The Life
by Michael Dale - March 20, 2022 Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley is an extraordinary recreation of A 1965 televised debate, Glass Town is a fun rock concert with a Bronte band, The Life gets reworked for Encores! and an O'Neill drama involving Andrew Jackson may be seen differently today....
Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Straz Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - May 19, 2023 What did our critic think of JAFrom the outside looking in, the Healeys are seemingly the Gold Standard flawless upper-middle-class family living in the Connecticut suburbs. JAGGED LITTLE PILL begins with the mom writing the annual holiday Christmas newsletter bragging about her husband's job and he...
World Premiere Of HUMAN INTEREST STORY By Stephen Sachs Announced At Fountain Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - January 13, 2020 a?oeThe line between where you are now and sleeping in your car is much thinner than you think.a?? The Fountain Theatre presents the world premiere of a timely new play, written and directed by Stephen Sachs (Arrival & Departure, Citizen: An American Lyric, Bakersfield Mist), about homelessness, cel...
ROTTERDAM Cancelled In Southampton Following Homophobic Attack
by Marianka Swain - June 10, 2019 Performances of Jon Brittain's play Rotterdam at Nuffield Southampton Theatres were cancelled following an attack on two members of the cast. ...
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at The Paramount Theatre
by Jay Irwin - December 17, 2022 More. That, Dear Readers, is the watchword the creators of the stage adaption of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film, “Moulin Rouge!”, subscribed to. They threw in more sparkle wherever they could in this stage musical, currently playing at the Paramount. Unfortunately, they also threw in more songs, more li...
Review: POWERHOUSE at Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre
by Carissa Chesanek - October 12, 2022 David Harms' new play POWERHOUSE recently opened this month at Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre (part of A.R.T./New York Theatres), dissecting the gender roles in the workplace in a daring but comedic story....
Review: AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS At The Geffen
by Tracey Paleo - April 18, 2023 Elizabeth McGovern gets downright gritty in a gutsy, full-blown exploration of one of Hollywood’s most meta-femmes fatales in AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS....
Everything Coming To Netflix This April
by A.A. Cristi - March 19, 2020 Check out the list of films and television shows headed to Netflix in April!...
Detroit Opera to Present Anthony Davis's THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE This Month
by Josh Sharpe - May 09, 2025 On May 10, 16, and 18, Detroit Opera will present The Central Park Five, directed by Nataki Garrett and featuring a new, expanded orchestration by composer Anthony Davis....
Cleveland Play House Releases Official Statement on Cancellation of Show
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 10, 2023 Read Cleveland Play House's official statement addressing the cancelation of one of its shows, I'm Back Now: Returning to Cleveland....
Compass Festival Announces 2021 Programme
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 09, 2021 The interactive festival’s fifth edition returns offers six thought provoking, moving and playful projects staged from 19 March and throughout 2021. Three projects and a podcast series are added to the programme which is announced today (Tuesday 9 February 2021).... |