STATION ELEVEN Adds Matilda Lawler
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 23, 2019 Deadline reports that Matilda Lawler has joined the cast of 'Station Eleven,' a new limited series on HBO Max....
FESTIVAL FATALE Returns With Female-Led Theatre In October
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2018 Celebrating theatre created by women, for everyone, Women in Theatre and Screen's critically acclaimed Festival Fatale will return to the Eternity Playhouse today 27th October following a hugely successful inaugural festival in 2016....
Veteran Entertainment Publicist Emily McGill Announces Boutique PR Firm Press Play
by Stephi Wild - October 11, 2018 After a decade working in the New York City entertainment industry, veteran publicist Emily McGill founded Press Play, a boutique public relations firm serving the entertainment community. Prior to her most recent position with Disney Theatrical Productions where she handled the Broadway production...
The Dramatists Guild Of America Presents A New Program, 'End Of Play'
by Stephi Wild - January 08, 2020 The Dramatists Guild of America announces a new program designed to engage playwrights across the country by working with them to create a brand-new play, to or revise an old one. In March 2020, the Guild will celebrate a?oeEnd of Playa?? month. Writers who participate in the month's a?oeEnd of Pla...
SISTERHOOD Will Tour
by Stephi Wild - September 01, 2019 New multimedia play follows the footsteps of self-proclaimed Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins.... by Robert Diamond - January 31, 2019 ...
BWW Review: WARHEADS, Park Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - August 17, 2019 Miles and Mory, two naïve young men who think they have nothing to lose, join the British Army. They come back home tour after tour feeling less than themselves. Miles is especially suffering as his crippling bouts of PTSD start corroding his relationship with his girlfriend Tena and his approach to...
BWW Review: FRIENDSICAL, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
by Jo Fisher - October 22, 2019 This year, the ever-popular sitcom Friends turns 25 years old; and what better way to celebrate than by seeing it memorialised on stage in musical form?...
BWW Review: THE CROFT, Perth Theatre
by Fiona Scott - February 05, 2020 Sometimes we just want to get away. We all have our reasons for wanting a bit of peace and quiet in the middle of nowhere but being cut off from the rest of the world isn't necessarily a solution to life's problems. Ali Milles' new thriller The Croft follows two stories across multiple timelines tha...
BWW Review: COMMUNICATING DOORS at SBCC Theater Group
by Maggie Yates - March 10, 2018 Alan Ayckbourne's 'Communicating Doors,' produced by the SBCC Theatre Group, follows Poopay (Felicia Hall), a blue-collar London dominatrix who shows up at a luxury hotel to service wealthy business mogul, Reece (Matt Smith), but instead gets pressured into witnessing his deathbed confession of embe...
Eight Musicals Have Been Chosen For SOUND BITES 7.0
by Stephi Wild - February 25, 2020 Theatre Now has announced the top 8 musical finalists chosen for SOUND BITES 7.0, the Seventh Annual Festival of 10-Minute Musicals. The SOUND BITES 7.0 Adjudication Committee selected the top 8 finalists for this year's festival from a record-breaking number of submissions. This one-night only even...
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announce Spring 2018 Releases
by Macon Prickett - March 06, 2018 The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced its lineup of new releases for the 2018 spring season, featuring Arnaud Desplechin's Ismael's Ghosts, Lucrecia Martel's Zama, Claire Denis's Let the Sunshine In, and an exclusive run of Hong Sang-soo's The Day After, all NYFF55 selections; plus Sophie...
BWW Spotlight: Aurora Theatre's THE TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SH*T UP Expands Creative Boundaries
by Sally Henry - September 18, 2018 Neighbors Max and Diana were put through the ringer as children as their parents had a dysfunctional affair off and on for most of the kids' growing up years. Aurora Theatre's production of Carla Ching's THE TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SH*T UP follows two characters from age 9 to mid-life, with a twist....
Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS To Receive Professional Premiere In Wales, Staged With Integrated Sign Language
by Stephi Wild - October 25, 2018 Communication breakdown is at the heart of the Welsh premiere of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years in a new concept by Leeway Productions using sign language as well as sung English. The story of a powerful love affair will be performed simultaneously through song and movement with We...
Horace Mungin Celebrates 50 Year Career Anniversary With Re-Release Of 10 Literary Works
by Julie Musbach - July 08, 2019 It was 1968 when literary giant Horace Mungin penned his first published work, 'Dope Hustler's Jazz,' part one of a two volume set of anti-drug poetry. 'Dope Hustler's Jazz' was the beginning of a writing career that started in the Black Arts Movement and would extend over five decades of literary c...
SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE BOY Comes to Jack Studio Theatre
by Stephi Wild - September 27, 2018 Mars is a street-smart, enthusiastic, lyrically-saturated man on-the-edge about to propose to the girl of his dreams in present-day London. Bounty is a very quiet boy in a very loud borough paddling through the 90s with this new politically charged Black identity swirling around him. As the worlds...
SOUND BITES 7.0 is on Sale Now
by Stephi Wild - March 10, 2020 Theatre Now has announced that tickets are now on sale for SOUND BITES 7.0, the Seventh Annual Festival of 10-Minute Musicals. This one-night only event, now in its seventh year, showcases 8 new musicals by up-and-coming musical theatre writing teams. SOUND BITES 7.0 will be held on Wednesday, April...
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with DEVIL WITH THE BLUE DRESS
by Julie Musbach - March 19, 2018 Slyly exhuming the little blue dress that launched the biggest media circus of a generation, the five women who were at the centre of this infamous scandal collide on stage: A First Lady, a secretary, a daughter, a confidant, and an intern. A theatrical battle emerges over how it all went down, who ...
Malloree Hill, Gabriella Garcia, Aurora Heimbach, and Molly Wheaton Lead an Industry Reading of SAMUEL
by Stephi Wild - May 24, 2018 Malloree Hill, Gabriella Garcia, Aurora Heimbach, and Molly Wheaton will lead an industry reading of Samuel by Alexis Roblan, directed by Madeline O'Hara, on Sunday, May 27, at 3p at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios (311 W 43rd St, 8th floor, Studio B). Jillian Lebling, Patrick Merveille, and Lynita S...
BWW Review: THE CROFT, Perth Theatre
by Fiona Scott - February 05, 2020 Sometimes we just want to get away. We all have our reasons for wanting a bit of peace and quiet in the middle of nowhere but being cut off from the rest of the world isn't necessarily a solution to life's problems. Ali Milles' new thriller The Croft follows two stories across multiple timelines tha...
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal With WARHEADS Coming To Park Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - July 29, 2019 True Maverick Media are delighted to bring their thought-provoking production, Warheads to Park Theatre. The piece, which is based on the story of writer and lead actor Taz Skylar's best friend, shines a light on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in young soldiers. The production runs from 15th ...
Photo Flash: THE LAST FIVE YEARS At Cupcake Studios In North Hollywood
by A.A. Cristi - March 28, 2019 Before it became a feature film starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, The Last Five Years began as a stirring stage musical that was hailed as one of the 10 best shows of 2001 by Time magazine....
BWW Review: TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH — BON VOYAGE, BOB, Sadler's Wells
by Dzifa Benson - February 23, 2019 During her lifetime, Pina Bausch's expansion of German expressionist dance into raw, bizarre but nonetheless affecting spectacle revolutionised contemporary dance. In the decade since her sudden death, her company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch has restricted itself to performing the back catalog...
Mad Cow Theatre Company Brings THE LAST FIVE YEARS (IN SPANISH) to Orlando 5/2 - 5/4
by Alan Henry - April 30, 2019 THE LAST FIVE YEARS, in spanish, will be playing at Mad Cow Theatre in Orlando from May 2 to 4, 2019....
Review Roundup: What Did Critics Think of BRIGHT STAR at The Opera House Players?
by Paul Smith - September 17, 2019 At long last Bright Star has opened at The Opera House Players! Find out what the critics had to say!... |