BWW Review: 7th House Theater's New Original Musical THE PASSAGE, OR WHAT COMES OF SEARCHING IN THE DARK is Funny, Poignant, and Modern
by Jill Schafer - November 22, 2016 Musical theater is my favorite art form, and new original musicals are my favorite things in the world. I love seeing how music and theater can combine to tell a story in interesting forward-thinking ways. After re-imagining a couple of classic musicals (and one play), newish theater company 7th Hou...
Crossroads Theatre Company Presents BACK TO THE REAL, A World Premiere
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2018 In Back to the Real the audience enters the post 2016 election world of a brother and sister as they navigate the challenges of racial and sexual identity. Current themes confronting the characters include anti-LGBTQ sentiment, colorism in the African-American community, and hiding our true identi...
The Recording Academy Celebrates the Passage of the Music Modernization Act in the House of Representatives
by Macon Prickett - April 26, 2018 Today, one week after the Recording Academy's GRAMMYs on the Hill® Awards and Advocacy Day, music creators are applauding the House of Representatives' passage of the Music Modernization Act (H.R. 5447). Introduced on April 10, 2018, by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ra...
GUNPOWDER Brings Wild West To FailSafe Festival 2018
by Stephi Wild - July 31, 2018 GUNPOWDER tells the story of two of the most notorious, influential, and wealthy entrepreneurs and burlesque performers of the young United States, while blurring the past and the present. Klondike Kate who entertained miners in the Yukon, generating a fortune with her infamous dances and wit, and i...
George Takei to Executive Produce HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET
by Caryn Robbins - September 06, 2017 George Takei will executive produce the The New York Times best-selling debut novel HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET. Producer Diane Quon announced today that she has acquired the film rights...
RATINGS: NBC Wins Monday Night with AMERICA'S GOT TALENT
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 29, 2019 NBC (8.784 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.5, #T1) was the network to beat on Monday thanks to fresh installments from 'America's Got Talent: The Champions' (10.382 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.8, #1) and 'Manifest' (5.587 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.0, #5)....
House of Blondes To Release New Album TIME TRIP with Alrealon Musique
by Macon Prickett - March 20, 2018 Three years after their last album House of Blondes continue to develop their sound with progressive leaps and bounds. The duo still operates within long-form arrangements; tracks will extend accross space and time in a transcendent fashion, elongated themes are comprised of remarkably pleasant synt...
BWW Spotlight: Village Theatre's 18th Annual Festival of New Musicals
by Jay Irwin - August 21, 2018 Several years ago, I remember watching the Tony Awards and seeing Broadway power couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker presenting the award for Best Score and getting all giddy and nerdy over it because "NEW SONGS!" Well that's how I feel every summer at Village Theatre's Festival of Ne...
Fox to Premiere Epic Thriller THE PASSAGE
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 23, 2018 New epic thriller THE PASSAGE will premiere Monday, Jan. 14 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Based on author Justin Cronin's best-selling trilogy of the same name, THE PASSAGE is an expansive, character-driven action drama series written by Liz Heldens (“Friday Night Lights”)....
Harry Hall Pens PRIDE AND PASSION
by Christina Mancuso - November 28, 2016 Inspired by his wife and their love for each other, Harry Hall wrote his debut novel 'Pride and Passion.' The book is unique for the romance genre in that it focuses primarily on the perspective of a man....
Haberdasher Theatre to Present ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER CHRISTMAS
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2016 Haberdasher Theatre presents fabled French novelist and playwright Marie Nimier's first play to be translated and put on in English in America, Another Year, Another Christmas (Noel revient tous les ans), translated by playwright Peter Schulman. Mr. Schulman has deftly translated Marie Nimier's love...
1070 Approaches Opening at Herberger Theater
by Julie Musbach - June 10, 2017 '1070', a new play by James Garcia, premieres at the Herberger Theater Center on June 23 with performances running through July 9th. Tickets are $15 - $25 and are on sale now at herbergertheater.org....
Albuquerque Little Theatre presents DRIVING MISS DAISY
by A.A. Cristi - June 16, 2017 DRIVING MISS DAISY tells the story of an elderly Jewish matron, Daisy Werthan, and her chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn. At first, Daisy is none too happy about being forced to rely on a black man to get from one place to the next. Gradually, however, Hoke wins her over, and during the 25-year span of the p...
Opening Weekend for DRIVING MISS DAISY at Totem Pole Playhouse
by Rebecca Russo - May 25, 2017 Totem Pole Playhouse, Pennsylvania's premiere summer theater, located in Caledonia State Park between Gettysburg and Chambersburg, PA, is pleased to announce the opening night performance of the first play in the theatre's four-show subscription series, Alfred Uhry's, Driving Miss Daisy. The popular...
Matt Reeves Will Produce Pilot for Drama ORDINARY JOE
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 06, 2018 Variety reports that Matt Reeves will executive produce drama “Ordinary Joe” at NBC. The pilot is based on one Reeves wrote over ten years ago....
Noticias Telemundo Presents In-Depth Coverage of Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane Maria, 12/20
by Caryn Robbins - December 14, 2017 Noticias Telemundo announced special news coverage on the conditions in Puerto Rico three months after Hurricane Maria, airing Wednesday, December 20 on Al Rojo Vivo con Mar a Celeste at 4 p.m./3 C and Noticias Telemundo newscast at 6:30 p.m./5:30 C....
STRANGER THINGS Meets PAN'S LABYRINTH In David Darrow's Coming-of-age Mystery THE PASSAGE
by Julie Musbach - February 07, 2019 Village Theatre kicks off the third year of the Beta Series with The Passage, a new musical written by David Darrow that will run at Village Theatre's First Stage Theatre in Issaquah from February 15-24, 2019....
The Frick Collection Presents TURNER'S MODERN AND ANCIENT PORTS: PASSAGES THROUGH TIME, Today
by BWW News Desk - February 23, 2017 Exploring a turning point in the career of Britain's greatest land- and seascape painter of the nineteenth century, a major exhibition at The Frick Collection will illuminate Joseph Mallord William Turner's (1775–1851) distinctly modern approach to the theme of the port....
GUNPOWDER Brings Wild West To FailSafe Festival 2018
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2018 GUNPOWDER tells the story of two of the most notorious, influential, and wealthy entrepreneurs and burlesque performers of the young United States, while blurring the past and the present. Klondike Kate who entertained miners in the Yukon, generating a fortune with her infamous dances and wit, and i...
GALA TCHAIKOVSKY Comes To Teatro Cervantes 11/6
by Alan Henry - October 29, 2018 Teatro Cervantes presents GALA TCHAIKOVSKY on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m....
Village Theatre Announces New Season Of The Beta Series
by Julie Musbach - January 03, 2019 Village Theatre announces the third Season of the Beta Series. Built on Village Theatre's long-standing commitment to new musicals, Beta Series productions help launch promising new works into the next phase of development by providing writers with actors and an audience of smart, sophisticated, and...
Photo Flash: Meet Avila Family - Protagonists of 1070 'We were strangers once, too'
by Julie Musbach - June 11, 2017 '1070', a new play by James Garcia, premieres at the Herberger Theater Center on June 23 with performances running through July 9th. Tickets are $15 - $25 and are on sale now at herbergertheater.org....
FOX Musical Drama STAR Renewed for Third Season
by Macon Prickett - May 10, 2018 “Star” has been renewed for a third season at Fox. The musical drama centered on a girl group trio trying will be returning for the 2018-19 television season....
Haberdasher Theatre's ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER CHRISTMAS Begins Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 17, 2016 Haberdasher Theatre presents fabled French novelist and playwright Marie Nimier's first play to be translated and put on in English in America, Another Year, Another Christmas (Noel revient tous les ans), translated by playwright Peter Schulman. Mr. Schulman has deftly translated Marie Nimier's love...
Audio-Book 'A Sometimes Strange Story' by Uri Norwich is Released
by Christina Mancuso - February 09, 2017 Have you ever wondered what would have happened if you took a different turn at some point in your life? If a nineteen-year-old man listened to his instincts and took that different turn in Vienna, his entire life would have changed... A sequence of random encounters leads to unexpected events... |