Fort Worth Oprea Announces Line Up Of Unpublished Operas, 5/3-5/4
by Molly Tracy - February 07, 2017 Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) announced today the names of the eight composer and librettist teams whose unpublished works have been selected for the company's fifth annual, critically acclaimed new works series, Frontiers - funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation....
SCREWTAPE LETTERS Launches Fellowship for Performing Arts' NYC Return Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 15, 2016 Fellowship for Performing Arts returns to New York with their 2016/2017 season at the Pearl Theatre (555 West 42nd Street)....
Susan Graham to Appear in BSO's 'DAMNATION', Met's 'WIDOW', Lyric's TAHITI and More in 2017-18
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017 Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham opens her 2017-18 season with a return to the Boston Symphony to star in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under Charles Dutoit....
USC's Center for Performance Experiment Stages Existentialist Classic NO EXIT November 2-5
by A.A. Cristi - October 18, 2016 The University of SC Department of Theatre and Dance will present Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist classic, No Exit, November 2-5 at the Center for Performance Experiment. ...
BWW Review: Amy Herzog's MARY JANE Subtly Criticizes The Complexity of Obtaining Health Care
by Michael Dale - October 02, 2017 To say that there are no dramatic highs and lows in Amy Herzog's touching new drama, Mary Jane, is by no means a criticism. It's more of a recognition of the beautifully understated naturalism in both the playwright's text and in director Anne Kauffman's production....
BWW Interview: Gravity Players' Courtney Lomelo Talks Charlottesville, Harvey, and 'THE LAST DAYS of JUDAS ISCARIOT'
by Katricia Lang - September 08, 2017 The Gravity Players present an encore performance of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, where the courtroom is in purgatory, the special witnesses include Mother Teresa and the Devil, and the defendant is Judas Iscariot....
RI Philharmonic Youth Symphony to Perform Schubert, Strauss & More at Fall Concert, 11/15
by Matt Smith - November 05, 2015 The Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestras (RIPYO) presents their first concert of the season on Sunday November 15 at 3pm at The VETS in Providence. The concert features the top-level Symphony Orchestra conducted by Music Director Alexey Shabalin, Repertory Orchestra under the direction ...
MOZART IN THE JUNGLE Soundtrack Out This Month via Amazon Prime Music
by BWW News Desk - August 05, 2016 On August 12 Amazon will release the soundtrack to seasons 1 and 2 of Mozart in the Jungle, the 2016 Golden Globe award winner for best series and best actor, starring Gael García Bernal....
BWW Review: THE ICEMAN COMETH, a Symphony of Sadness (and Kindness), at The Vortex
by Devon Hoffman - March 23, 2017 Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh--the portrayal of a dysfunctional bunch of rock-bottom alcoholic barflies and the salesman who tries to 'save' them from their futile pipe dreams: This show is an extraordinary symphony--nineteen excellent actors all piping in and out, rising and falling collective...
Susan Graham to Appear in BSO's 'DAMNATION', Met's 'WIDOW', Lyric's TAHITI and More in 2017-18
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017 Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham opens her 2017-18 season with a return to the Boston Symphony to star in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under Charles Dutoit....
The Mariinsky Orchestra Performs 'Pray for Palmyra. Music Revives Ancient Ruins' Concert
by Christina Mancuso - May 05, 2016 On May 5, at 17:00 Moscow time [14:00 GMT], the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conducted by People's Artist of Russia Valery Gergiev, held the 'Pray for Palmyra. Music Revives Ancient Ruins' concert on the stage of Palmyra's world-famous amphitheater....
BWW Review: WAIT Over-simplifies the Complex Dilemma of Access to Education for Girls and Young Women
by David Fick - September 27, 2016 The discrimination against girls and young women when it comes to their education remains a pervasive issue in contemporary society. WAIT, currently playing at the Cape Town Fringe, focuses on just two of these: the priority of educating boys over girls and the marrying off of girls and young women ...
FIAF to Screen Opera de Paris' THE DAMNATION OF FAUST, 6/9
by Tyler Peterson - May 24, 2016 ?The French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) is thrilled to present an HD Opera screening straight from the Opera de Paris, capturing every detail of Alvis Hermanis' stunning production of The Damnation of Faust, on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 7pm at FIAF's Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street,...
The Collective NY to Take on Gay Conversion Therapy in THE RETREAT Benefit Reading
by BWW News Desk - November 30, 2016 The Collective NY under their Collective: Next Stage (C:NXT) banner presents a staged reading of THE RETREAT, a new play written by Brandon T. Snider, on Sunday, December 3rd. Richard Masur (TRANSPARENT) is set to direct....
SCREWTAPE LETTERS and 'MARTIN LUTHER' Set for Fellowship for Performing Arts' NYC Return
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2016 Fellowship for Performing Arts announced today their return to New York with the 2016/2017 season at the Pearl Theatre (555 West 42nd Street)....
MOZART IN THE JUNGLE Soundtrack Out This Month via Amazon Prime Music
by BWW News Desk - August 05, 2016 On August 12 Amazon will release the soundtrack to seasons 1 and 2 of Mozart in the Jungle, the 2016 Golden Globe award winner for best series and best actor, starring Gael García Bernal....
Susan Graham Replaces Sophie Koch as 'Dido' in Lyric Opera of Chicago's LES TROYENS
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2016 Anthony Freud, Lyric's general director, president & CEO, announced today that French mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch has withdrawn from the company premiere of Berlioz's Les Troyens for personal reasons. Stepping into the role of Dido will be American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, world-renowned as an inte...
Maddie Hasson, & More Join Cast of YouTube's Sci-Fi Thriller Pilot IMPULSE
by Caryn Robbins - December 19, 2016 Universal Cable Productions (UCP) and YouTube revealed the casting for the pilot IMPULSE (working title), a 60-minute genre-bending action-thriller directed and executive produced by Hypnotic's Doug Liman ('Bourne Identity,' 'Live. Die. Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow')....
Critically Acclaimed Musical UPSTAIRS Brings Forgotten LGBT Tragedy to LA Pride & Hollywood Fringe
by A.A. Cristi - May 31, 2017 In 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, claiming 32 victims in what was, until the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, the deadliest mass murder of LGBT people in U.S. history. The arson remains unsolved and was largely forgotten in the interveni...
Critically Acclaimed Musical UPSTAIRS Brings Forgotten LGBT Tragedy to LA Pride & Hollywood Fringe
by A.A. Cristi - May 31, 2017 In 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, claiming 32 victims in what was, until the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, the deadliest mass murder of LGBT people in U.S. history. The arson remains unsolved and was largely forgotten in the interveni...
Photo Flash: First Look at Dashnight Productions' World Premiere of CHOPS
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2016 Dashnight Productions is delighted to present the World Premiere of CHOPS, previewing July 7, running through August 14, with press opening on Thursday, July 14 at 8 p.m. at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!...
Photo Flash: World Premiere of Dashnight's CHOPS Celebrates Opening Night
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2016 Dashnight Productions is delighted to present the World Premiere of CHOPS, running through August 14, with press opening last night, July 14 at 8 p.m. at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont. BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening below!...
BWW Review: THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, Park Theatre
by Gary Naylor - December 09, 2016 Gary Naylor sees a loyal, committed adaptation of CS Lewis's once celebrated novel that fails to ignite fully as drama, but works well as polemic....
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS Begins Tonight at The Pearl Theatre
by Tyler Peterson - January 06, 2016 Fellowship For Performing Arts (FPA) (Artistic Director Max McLean) is proud to present the New York return of THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, which begins performances tonight as the second show in FPA's inaugural 2015/2016 New York season at The Pearl Theatre (555 West 42nd Street). Based on the novel by C...
Susan Graham to Appear in BSO's 'DAMNATION', Met's 'WIDOW', Lyric's TAHITI and More in 2017-18
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017 Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham opens her 2017-18 season with a return to the Boston Symphony to star in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under Charles Dutoit.... |