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Anna Kendrick to Pen 'Witty' Essay Collection
by BWW News Desk - April 16, 2015

According to USA Today, INTO THE WOODS and PITCH PERFECT star Anna Kendrick is writing a collection of autobiographical essays for Touchstone, set for release next fall....


FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE Begins Tonight at Broward Stage Door Theatre
by Carol Kassie - December 10, 2014

Everyone knows Scrooge and Mr. Potter, but can the holiday spirit work its magic on everyone's favorite man of mystery? Back for a fourth year, Raven Theatre's Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose follows Holmes and Watson as they investigate the mysterious theft and even more mysteri...


Adelaide Writers' Week Lunch Event THE DRUNKEN BOTANIST with Amy Stewart Sold Out
by A.A. Cristi - December 14, 2016

Excitement is building for Adelaide Writers' Week at the 2017 Adelaide Festival, with New York Times' best-selling author Amy Stewart's special lunch event The Drunken Botanist selling out seven weeks before the full program launch....


60th Annual OBIE AWARDS Come to Webster Hall This May
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2015

The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice are thrilled to announce that the 60th Annual OBIE Awards will be held on Monday, May 18, 2015 at Webster Hall (125 East 11th Street). Tickets to the 2015 OBIE Awards are now available via www.ObieAwards.com....


BWW REVIEW: PIPPIN Brings Its Magic Back to Boston
by Jan Nargi - February 10, 2016

The extraordinary journey of the Broadway revival of PIPPIN began at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge a few years back, and now that triumphant Tony Award-winning musical, directed by Diane Paulus, is back in Boston via the national tour. While some tweaks have since been made to the prod...


American Heroes Channel Premieres JUSTICE FOR MLK: THE HUNT FOR JAMES EARL RAY Tonight
by TV News Desk - January 17, 2016

The death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an event that shook the world, changed the face of America, and sparked one of the largest manhunts in the history of the FBI....


Third Season of PEAKY BLINDERS Coming to Netflix
by Tyler Peterson - November 13, 2014

The third season will come to the streaming service after airing in the U.K., though a premeire date has not been set....


Photo Flash: The Actors' Gang and Sankofa.org present LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN
by A.A. Cristi - February 10, 2017

The Actors' Gang today announced that Lyrics From Lockdown, written and performed by Bryonn Bain and directed by Gina Belafonte will now open on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 8pm. The groundbreaking multimedia production tells Bryonn Bain's true story of racial profiling and wrongful incarceration a...


This Week at Bookworks Features Laura Sanchez, Linda Tigges and More
by BWW News Desk - January 16, 2015

Friday, January 16 7pm • W.C. Bauers • Unbreakable The colonists of the planet Montana are accustomed to being ignored. Situated in the buffer zone between two rival human empires, their world is a backwater: remote, provincial, independently minded. Even as a provisional member of the Republic of...


This Week at Bookworks Features Lynne Hinton, Cea Sunrise Person, Maggie Hall and More
by BWW News Desk - January 09, 2015

This week's events at Bookworks are below. For more information please visit bkwrks.com/event....


BWW Review: Exquisite Lunacy in A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at the Hippodrome
by Tina Collins - December 29, 2016

Can murder be funny? It is when a group of eccentric aristocrats are involved with all the frills and trills of the Edwardian Age in A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER currently playing at the Hippodrome...


BLUE MAN GROUP to Release New Studio Album in April
by Tyler Peterson - February 23, 2016

Blue Man Group will release their third studio album, THREE, on April 22, 2016, featuring 14 new instrumental tracks....


Roseanne Barr to Host Season 2 of Investigation Discovery's MOMSTERS: WHEN MOMS GO BAD
by Caryn Robbins - March 23, 2015

On the heels of a hugely successful first season, Investigation Discovery today announced the greenlight for season two of MOMSTERS: WHEN MOMS GO BAD...


Andy Cohen & Anderson Cooper Coming to Fabulous Fox, 10/15
by Tyler Peterson - February 19, 2016

Join Cohen and Cooper Live at the Fabulous Fox Saturday, October 15 at 8:00 p.m. for an unscripted, uncensored and unforgettable night of conversation. The late night talk show host and the journalist, longtime friends, interview each other and take questions from the audience. It's a live, interact...


BWW Review: At Metropolitan Room, Singing Raconteur Eric Yves Garcia Gets Down and Revealing While Pouring Out Spirits and Stories From His Piano Bar Days
by Remy Block - November 16, 2015

Eric Yves Garcia has stepped away from the piano. I repeat, stepped away from the piano. The performer strides into the center stage light, his dark eyes twinkling, his jaw defined by just the right amount of stubble. This guy could be a movie star. I was excited. For the Metropolitan Room audience,...


VIDEO: Sneak Peek - Season 3 of Comedy Central's BROAD CITY, Premiering 2/17
by Caryn Robbins - January 13, 2016

BROAD CITY is back bb! Season three of the hit Comedy Central series returns with ten all-new episodes beginning on Wednesday, February 17 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT....


Jessica Hecht and Tony Shalhoub to Read ABOUT ALICE at The New Yorker Festival
by BWW News Desk - September 09, 2016

The New Yorker Festival will present a Theatre for a New Audience production of a reading of the new two-character play About Alice that Calvin Trillin adapted from his memoir about his late wife, the educator Alice Stewart Trillin. About Alice, with Jessica Hecht as Alice and Tony Shalhoub as Calvi...


Jessica Hecht and Tony Shalhoub to Read ABOUT ALICE at The New Yorker Festival
by BWW News Desk - October 08, 2016

The New Yorker Festival will present a Theatre for a New Audience production of a reading of the new two-character play About Alice that Calvin Trillin adapted from his memoir about his late wife, the educator Alice Stewart Trillin. About Alice, with Jessica Hecht as Alice and Tony Shalhoub as Calvi...


BWW Preview: IF ALL THE SKY WERE PAPER Celebrates Veterans Day at the Lobero
by Maggie Yates - November 09, 2015

Andrew Carroll, author of 'If All the Sky Were Paper,' lost everything in a fire - most importantly, letters he'd saved from his ancestors, a family history in a series of first-person accounts. Relief came from an unlikely source: A distant cousin sent Carroll a bundle of letters that he was planni...


WOMEN AND WAR Month-Long Festival to Open in July
by Tyler Peterson - May 09, 2016

Women and War is a month long festival examining the effect of warfare on women worldwide....


VIDEO: Season 3 of Comedy Central's BROAD CITY Premieres Tonight
by TV News Desk - February 17, 2016

BROAD CITY is back bb! Season three of the hit Comedy Central series returns with ten all-new episodes beginning tonight, February 17 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Get a first look below!...


60th Annual OBIE AWARDS Come to Webster Hall This May
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2015

The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice are thrilled to announce that the 60th Annual OBIE Awards will be held on Monday, May 18, 2015 at Webster Hall (125 East 11th Street). Tickets to the 2015 OBIE Awards are now available via www.ObieAwards.com....


BWW Review: The MAESTRO Returns at 59E59
by Peter Danish - September 21, 2016

Hershey Felder's 'MAESTRO' returns to NYC triumphantly....


BWW Review: THE EXPLORERS CLUB Discovers Laughs a Plenty
by Rosanne DellAversano - May 10, 2016

THE EXPLORERS CLUB: The place to discover eternal lettuce, the East pole and belly laughs....


Episode Two of Sara Benincasa's Podcast Now Available
by Casey Judge - December 15, 2014

Veteran radio host, comedian and author Sara Benincasa interviews guests such as John Hodgman, Patton Oswalt and Michael Ian Black...






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