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Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th Century's most consequential and compelling personalities.

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BWW Recap: Another Monster is Born on SLEEPY HOLLOW
by Alan Henry - September 29, 2014

This week SLEEPY HOLLOW picks up right after where we left off last week. Katrina is still being kept captive by the horseman. Crane and Abby are still planning to rescue her, and through a dream Crane learns the horseman intends to bind himself to her using an ancient ritual....


BWW Reviews: Ideas Pop at Dog & Pony DC's TOAST
by Pamela Roberts - September 23, 2014

Toast playfully explores innovation, technology, crowd-sourcing and the very roots of inspiration. You don't 'see' a show at dog & pony dc, you become part of it. Dog & pony is committed to "Audience Integration" or participatory theatre - that means when you attend a show you are intimately knit in...


VIDEO: Sneak Peek - 'The Kindred' Episode of FOX's SLEEPY HOLLOW
by - September 23, 2014

On the next episode of FOX's SLEEPY HOLLOW titled "The Kindred" - Ichabod Crane and Lt. Abbie Mills concoct a daring plan to try to rescue Ichabod's wife, Katrina, from the Headless Horseman by resurrecting a Frankenstein-like monster created by Benjamin Franklin. ...


Comedian Marlon Wayans to Host VH1's PHILLY 4TH OF JULY JAM
by BWW News Desk - July 04, 2014

Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans has been named the host of the fourth annual Philly 4th of July Jam as part of the WaWa Welcome to America Festival....


THEATRICAL THROWBACK THURSDAY: 1776 - 60s, 70s & 90s Style
by Pat Cerasaro - July 03, 2014

In honor of this week's major national holiday of Independence Day, today we celebrate the most patriotic musical of them all, 1776....


Comedian Marlon Wayans to Host VH1's PHILLY 4TH OF JULY JAM
by Caryn Robbins - July 01, 2014

Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans has been named the host of the fourth annual Philly 4th of July Jam as part of the WaWa Welcome to America Festival....


WSR Signature Theatre to Present 1776, 7/2-3
by Tyler Peterson - June 26, 2014

It's the summer of 1776, and the nation is ready to declare independence...if only our founding fathers can agree to do it! 1776 follows John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia as they attempt to convince the members of t...


CTG to Host Free Community Barbecue on 6/28
by Tyler Peterson - June 17, 2014

Center Theatre Group is opening the doors of its costume and prop shop in the east Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights for a free community barbecue June 28 from 4 to 7 p.m. Activities will include art-making activities, live music by local bands El-Haru Kuroi and...


Recess Monkey's 'Wired' Tour Arrives in Philly Area This June
by Caryn Robbins - May 19, 2014

Inspired by the breathtaking creativity and inventiveness of today's DIY kids, kindie music icon Recess Monkey celebrates 'maker' culture with the band's eleventh studio recording, Wired....


BWW Review: Less Than Rent Theatre's LITTLE MAC, LITTLE MAC, YOU'RE THE VERY MAN!
by Juliana Adame - April 18, 2014

Charlie Polinger directs an attempted statement on several political and pop culture icons with the story of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera thrown in there....


TV Exclusive: Backstage with Richard Ridge- SAG Foundation Conversations Series with Kathleen Chalfant
by Nicole Rosky - April 13, 2014

Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Broadway World have partnered for an filmed Conversations Q&A series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and the union actors who aspire to have a career on the stage and screen. The most recent conversation featured stage lege...


BWW Invite: Attend SAG Foundation Career Conversations with Kathleen Chalfant!
by Nicole Rosky - March 17, 2014

Screen Actors Guild Foundation and BroadwayWorld have partnered for an inaugural filmed Conversations Q&A series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and the union actors who aspire to have a career on the stage and screen. The next Career Conversations will feat...


BWW Invite: Attend SAG Foundation Career Conversations with Kathleen Chalfant!
by Nicole Rosky - March 10, 2014

Screen Actors Guild Foundation and BroadwayWorld have partnered for an inaugural filmed Conversations Q&A series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and the union actors who aspire to have a career on the stage and screen. The next Career Conversations will feat...


ManiaTales Wins Benjamin Franklin Award
by Christina Mancuso - October 17, 2013

EggMania: Where's the Egg in Exactly? has earned the prestigious Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Benjamin Franklin Digital Award Silver Seal of Excellence. Written by Sherry Maysonave and illustrated by Denise Caliva, EggMania is an enhanced Apple iBook aimed at children ages 6-12....


Louis Armstrong House Museum Kicks Off 10th Anniversary Bash Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 15, 2013

The Louis Armstrong House Museum celebrates its 10-year anniversary today, October 15th, 2013. It has welcomed 100,000 visitors since opening its doors to the public as a historic house in 2003....


ACT Stages Open-Captioned Performance of 1776 Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 03, 2013

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is pleased to offer an open captioned performance ofTony Award-winning director Frank Galati's triumphant new staging of the musical 1776 tonight, October 3 at 8 p.m., at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater (415 Geary Street, San Francisco). Special seats have been reserved...


Louis Armstrong House Museum Announces 10th Anniversary Bash and Reveals Life Mask
by Robert Diamond - October 01, 2013

The Louis Armstrong House Museum celebrates its 10-year anniversary on Tuesday October 15th, 2013. It has welcomed 100,000 visitors since opening its doors to the public as a historic house in 2003....


BWW Reviews: ACT's 1776 Drums Up Patriotic Fun
by Harmony Wheeler - September 23, 2013

The creators of '1776' held political opinions that strongly disagreed with the ideals of many, like former president Richard Nixon, who ultimately came to enjoy and appreciate the musical. One can easily assume members of both major political parties made up the opening night audience of American C...


Hispanic Heritage Month In Philadelphia
by Robert Diamond - September 16, 2013

Philadelphia's Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) is jam packed with fun, food and culture....


STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at A.C.T.'s 1776
by Christina Mancuso - September 12, 2013

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) kicks off its 2013-14 season with passionate (and patriotic) fireworks with the West Coast premiere of Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati's triumphant new staging of the musical 1776. A.C.T.'s production of 1776 runs September 11-October 6, 2013, at The G...


Photo Flash: First Look at Brandon Dahlquist, Andrew Boyer, Bernie Yvon and More in A.C.T.'s 1776
by Christina Mancuso - September 12, 2013

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) kicks off its 2013-14 season with passionate (and patriotic) fireworks with the West Coast premiere of Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati's triumphant new staging of the musical 1776. A.C.T.'s production of 1776 runs September 11-October 6, 2013, at The G...


Fulton Theatre Annouces New Emerging Writers Series in Honor of Ellen A. Groff
by Tyler Peterson - September 05, 2013

A year following the death of beloved Fulton Theatre Trustee EmeritusEllen Arnold Groff, Fulton Theatre announces the creation of a new performance series in her honor. The Ellen Groff Studio Series will be an annual collection of performances taking place in the theatre's 4th floor studio theatre. ...


EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: THE BRIDGE THAT TOM BUILT, C Nova, August 14 2013
by Amy Hanson - August 15, 2013

Tom Paine - a famous political author, a source of inspiration during the American War of Independence, the supporter and later prisoner of the French Revolution, and now the subject of a new one-man show. In "The Bridge That Tom Built", Dominic Allen portrays Paine from his youth in Thetford throu...


ACT to Stage Open-Captioned Performance of 1776, 10/3
by Kristin Salaky - August 13, 2013

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is pleased to offer an open captioned performance ofTony Award-winning director Frank Galati's triumphant new staging of the musical 1776 on Thursday, October 3 at 8 p.m., at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater (415 Geary Street, San Francisco). Special seats have been rese...


Richard Easton, Liz Larsen & More to Star in Peccadillo's LIGHT UP THE SKY Reading Tonight
by Tyler Peterson - July 29, 2013

Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Liz Larsen, Steve Vinovich, and Glory Crampton are set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Moss Hart's 1948 play LIGHT UP THE SKY tonight, July 29th at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street (between Ninth & Tenth A...





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