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Turning Point Ensemble Announces Season
by Stephi Wild - August 25, 2019
Turning Point Ensemble (TPE), Vancouver's outstanding chamber ensemble, is excited to announce its 2019/20 season! The rich and varied program will deliver the outstanding musicianship and innovative presentations that are signatures of the TPE experience. This year's season is especially strong ...
FSCJ Artist Series Presents THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL: A TRIBUTE TO WHITNEY HOUSTON Starring Belinda Davids
by Stephi Wild - August 13, 2019
Showtime Australia's acclaimed tribute concert The Greatest Love of All: A Tribute to Whitney Houston starring Belinda Davids is making its second visit to the U.S., following rave reviews of its debut tour last year. The show will play Jacksonville's Times-Union Center on January 26, 2020 for one p...
CHICAGO Comes to Winnipesaukee Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - August 10, 2019
CHICAGO, the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, written with the guiding hand of Bob Fosse, has the ability like no other to follow an inhale of razzle-dazzle with a deeply disturbing exhale of political distrust. This musical, now on stage at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse, is proof enough. At a recent...
GREATEST LOVE OF ALL Whitney Houston Tribute Comes To Poway
by A.A. Cristi - August 02, 2019
Showtime Australia's acclaimed tribute concert The Greatest Love of All: A Tribute to Whitney Houston starring Belinda Davids (GLOA*), is making its second visit to the United States this fall, following rave reviews of its debut tour last year. The Greatest Love of All makes its one-night-only appe...
Theater Close-Up Presents Broadcast Premieres of SCHOOL GIRLS, ON THE EXHALE, UNCLE VANYA
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 24, 2019
Theater Close-Up, a unique collaboration between THIRTEEN and New York City-area Off-Broadway and regional theaters, returns with three new episodes Fridays, August 16 and 23 at 9 p.m. on THIRTEEN and thirteen.org/theatercloseup, featuring a diverse selection of groundbreaking, entertaining plays...
Theatre Exile Announces 2019-2020 Season
by A.A. Cristi - July 23, 2019
Theatre Exile's Mainstage Season will be back home in South Philly at 1340 S. 13th Street. See the lineup below!...
Chester Theatre Company Stages ON THE EXHALE
by Julie Musbach - July 22, 2019
Chester Theatre Company (CTC) presents Martín Zimmerman's On the Exhale July 25-August 4. First preview is July 25 at 2:00pm, and the opening is July 25 at 8:00pm. Written in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, the play takes a unique look at the issues surrounding guns and gun violence i...
Exclusive Podcast: LITTLE KNOWN FACTS with Ilana Levine- More with Marin Ireland
by Little Known Facts w/ Ilana Levine - July 22, 2019
In this week's episode, Ilana chats with Marin Ireland! Marin Ireland has been seen on Broadway in Big Knife, After Miss Julie, reasons to be pretty (Tony nom, Theatre World Award). Selected Off-Broadway: Blue Ridge (Atlantic), Summer and Smoke (Transport Group/CSC), Three Sisters (CSC), Marie An...
Exclusive Podcast: LITTLE KNOWN FACTS with Ilana Levine and Marin Ireland
by Little Known Facts w/ Ilana Levine - July 15, 2019
In this week's episode, Ilana chats with Marin Ireland! Marin Ireland has been seen on Broadway in Big Knife, After Miss Julie, reasons to be pretty (Tony nom, Theatre World Award). Selected Off-Broadway: Blue Ridge (Atlantic), Summer and Smoke (Transport Group/CSC), Three Sisters (CSC), Marie An...
Wire Star Wendell Pierce To Appear At Royal Albert Hall
by A.A. Cristi - June 28, 2019
Following the success of last year's shows The Cosmic Shambles Network are proud to present another evening of Book Shambles Live from the Elgar Room at London's iconic Royal Albert Hall. The evening is another unique opportunity to delve into the lives and aspirations of some of the leading lights ...
BWW Review: GROSS INDECENCY at Slipstream Theatre Initiative Embraces Creativity Through Imaginative Production Design
by Stefani Chudnow - June 20, 2019
Slipstream Theatre Initiative has done it yet again. Since their run of On The Exhale finished last month, you can now see their next production until June 30th, a play entitled Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde....
Experience BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA Outdoors At Theater With A View
by Julie Musbach - June 18, 2019
Theater with a View, the highly-acclaimed professional theatre company located in the Valley Forge region of Pennsylvania, returns this September with a production that is a perfect fit for the intimate outdoor home of the company. Anna Moench's BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA will play at the Pottstown venu...
St. Louis Musician Beth Bombara Set To Unleash New Album
by Tori Hartshorn - June 17, 2019
Michigan-bred, St. Louis-based musician Beth Bombara's album Evergreen began thousands of feet above sea level. Looking to step back and clear her head after a long bout of touring, the rock & roll-influenced Americana artist nestled herself in the Rocky Mountains in a remote cabin. The cabin's n...
HADESTOWN's Rachel Hauck Wins 2019 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical
by BWW News Desk - June 09, 2019
Rachel Hauck has won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for HADESTOWN....
TRYING IT ON Comes to Traverse 1
by Stephi Wild - June 07, 2019
Prolific playwright David Edgar is directed in his professional performance debut by triple Fringe First Award-winner Christopher Haydon in a solo show considering the legacy of the events of 1968. In 1968, playwright David Edgar was 20 years old. It was also the year of some of the most important a...
BWW Review: ON THE EXHALE at Slipstream Theatre Initiative Confronts the Impossible Questions About School Shootings
by Stefani Chudnow - May 02, 2019
In the days since seeing playwright Martin Zimmerman's On the Exhale, which is running at Slipstream Theatre Initiative in Ferndale through May 19th, I have been thinking a lot about the 1999 Columbine shooting, the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, and the 2018 Parkland shooting. Slipstream's one-woman ...
Audible Announce New London Production Of RADIO at Arcola Theatre
by Stephi Wild - April 30, 2019
Audible, the world's leading producer and provider of spoken-word entertainment, today deepens its commitment to UK theatre announcing a new London production of Radio written by Al Smith. Josh Roche directs Adam Gillen as Charlie Fairbanks in a one-man play about memory, love and spaceships. The pr...
Chester Theatre Company Announces 2019 Season Casting
by Stephi Wild - April 29, 2019
Co-founded by Vincent Dowling and H. Newman Marsh in 1990 with the belief that every town should have a professional theatre, Chester Theatre Company (formerly The Miniature Theatre of Chester) prepares to celebrate its landmark 30th Season with four works, each a New England Premiere....
BWW Interview: Bailey Boudreau Talks ON THE EXHALE at Slipstream Theatre Initiative and Why It's Important Right Now
by Katie Laban - April 22, 2019
Slipstream Theatre Initiative is having a conversation that is long past due - gun violence. It's one they admit is uncomfortable, upsetting, and can make you cringe, but it is a topic that is long past time and very necessary right now. Now in their fifth season, Slipstream has always been determin...
Salt-N-Pepa, DJ Spinderella and SWV Star In BET's New Docuseries LADIES NIGHT
by Tori Hartshorn - April 08, 2019
Rap and R&B royalty holds court with the BET premiere of “LADIES NIGHT,” starring Salt-N-Pepa (SNP), DJ Spinderella and SWV. With a legacy spanning over three decades, Salt-N-Pepa has landed their biggest career accomplishment to-date, a Las Vegas residency. While simultaneously preparing f...
Chester Theatre Company Welcomes Tara Franklin in a New Role
by Stephi Wild - April 02, 2019
Tara Franklin, well-known to area audiences for her stage work (including Bar Mitzvah Boy, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, and Sister Play at Chester Theatre Company) has joined the staff of the organization in a dual role, that of Associate Artistic Director/Director of Education. Additionally, this summ...
BLACK 90S: A TURNING POINT IN AMERICAN CINEMA Announced At BAM
by A.A. Cristi - March 29, 2019
From Friday, May 3 through Wednesday, May 22, BAM presents Black 90s: A Turning Point in American Cinema, a nearly three week-long program of films, both low-budget art films and classic blockbusters, from an era of explosive creativity and newfound studio support for black filmmakers....
Slipstream Presents ON THE EXHALE
by Stephi Wild - March 20, 2019
We need to have a conversation about gun violence. It may be uncomfortable. It may be upsetting. It may make you cringe. But it's long past time. So let's talk. And then let's act....
New Book Offers Neurosurgeon's Perspective On Christ's Death
Griffin Theatre Company Presents EXHALE By Black Birds 9-13 April
by Stephi Wild - March 07, 2019
Following the enormous success of Brown Skin Girl at Griffin's inaugural Batch Festival in 2018, Sydney interdisciplinary collective Black Birds return to the Stables stage with their powerful show, Exhale. Created and performed by Ayeesha Ash and Emele Ugavule, this intercultural, intersectional wo...
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