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Talkback With Nancy Romer Follows EXTREME WEATHER At La MaMa
by Julie Musbach - February 28, 2018
Nancy Romer, a member of the People's Climate March Steering Committee, will discuss how to promote a culture of sustainability and environmental justice March 3 following the performance of 'Extreme Whether' by Karen Malpede at La MaMa Theater, 66 East 4th Street. The play is a drama of America's...
Photo Flash: THE BOYS IN THE BAND Cast Makes the Cover of T Magazine
by Stephi Wild - February 26, 2018
The Boys in the Band cast members Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, and Jim Parsons posed for a cover photo for T Magazine, The New York Times Style Magazine....
Hedwig And Billie Holiday Come To West Seattle
by Stephi Wild - February 23, 2018
ArtsWest has announced an addition to the 2017-18 I Am Season - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (by John Cameron Mitchell) and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (by Lanie Robertson), presented together in rotating repertory under the title Practical Questions of Wholeness from June 7 through July 8, 201...
Gary Becks New Poetry Collection 'Blossoms Of Decay' Released
by A.A. Cristi - February 21, 2018
Direct, cutting, and visceral. Gary Beck takes no prisoners and writes in an uncompromising style. His subjects include politics, the state of America, and teenage bullying. Love or hate his views, you will certainly know where you stand. His style makes compulsive reading and you will move from poe...
NOW I ACCUSE A Story Collection by Gary Beck - Out Now!
by A.A. Cristi - February 20, 2018
Diving deep into love, enmity, compassion, and regret, acclaimed poet Gary Beck brings us through the complexities of life with his brilliant collection of short stories, Now I Accuse. As hope-filled dreams collide with cruel reality, some will rise above adversity, some will give under its weight, ...
Finborough Theatre Announces New Season
by Stephi Wild - February 19, 2018
Our second season of 2018 - the 150th year of the Finborough Theatre building - features new writing with two European premieres from award-winning playwrights from Canada and the United States, and a UK premiere from controversial German dramatist Rolf Hochhuth in his fourth production at the Finbo...
BWW Review: When Everything Falls Apart: SKELETON CREW at Center Stage
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 02, 2018
The human spirit, Morisseau seems to be suggesting, is hard to crush, regardless of the direction in which the great tides of industrial affairs may flow....
BWW Review: HAMILTON ~ Spectacular! The National Tour Keeps The Flame Alive
by Herbert Paine - February 01, 2018
The National Tour of HAMILTON is now at ASU Gammage in Tempe through February 25th. What more can be said about a production that, since its opening three years ago, has already received the ultimate in honors and plaudits and for which the best adjectives have already been used? Yes, awesome, glori...
BWW Review: AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE: THREE 20-MINUTE OPERAS at The Kennedy Center
by Molly Korroch - January 23, 2018
Composers and librettists were the stars Saturday night at The Kennedy Center's triple world premiere. For six years, the American Opera Initiative Festival (AOI) has selected three composer-librettist teams to create their own 20-minute operas under the guidance of a seasoned composer and librettis...
VIDEO: Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons & More Pose for Broadway Return in THE BOYS IN THE BAND
by Nicole Rosky - January 22, 2018
The Boys In The Band will star Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells, along with Charlie Carver, Robin De Jes s, Brian Hutchison, Michael Benjamin Washington and Tuc Watkins. Watch below as the cast chats about preparing to bring the landmark play to Broadway....
THE BOYS IN THE BAND Tickets Go Onsale Saturday
by Stephi Wild - January 19, 2018
Tickets for the highly anticipated 50th Anniversary production of Mart Crowley's landmark play, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, directed by Joe Mantello, will go on sale to the general public this Saturday, January 20 at 12:00am EST....
WNO presents The American Opera Initiative Festival This January
by BWW News Desk - January 19, 2018
Washington National Opera (WNO) presents the sixth season of its acclaimed American Opera Initiative, a comprehensive commissioning program that brings contemporary American stories to the stage while fostering the talents of rising American composers and librettists. All of the program's world prem...
Christopher Dinolfo and Felicia Curry to Star in Ford's Theatre Society's JEFFERSON'S GARDEN
by Julie Musbach - December 21, 2017
Ford's Theatre Society announced casting for playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker's sweeping new drama, Jefferson's Garden, playing from January 19 to February 11, 2018. The production features Christopher Dinolfo as Christian and Felicia Curry as Susannah, with Christopher Bloch, Michael Kevin Darnall...
Breaking: THE BOYS IN THE BAND Will Come to Broadway This Spring with Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells & More!
by Nicole Rosky - November 01, 2017
Ryan Murphy and David Stone will present the Broadway debut of Mart Crowley's groundbreaking comic drama, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, for a strictly limited 15-week Broadway engagement at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street), April 30 August 12, 2018. This 50th Anniversary production will be directe...
Timely Documentary BALTIMORE RISING Debuts on HBO 11/20
by Caryn Robbins - November 01, 2017
Exploring how to make change when change is hard, the thought-provoking, timely documentary debuts MONDAY, NOV. 20 (8:00-9:35 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO....
Gary Beck Releases New Poetry Book, PERTURBATIONS
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2017
Gary Beck's new poetry book evokes concern about disruptions to the desire for a comfortable, prosperous, untroubled life, Perturbations leads us through all its gloriously chaotic uncertainties....
Walter Borden Stars in TRAGEDIE OF LEAR by William Shakespeare
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2017
What happens to a family when its head has lost his grasp on reality and the family has no idea? The fault lines in this intergenerational conflict are exposed in Tragedie of Lear, arguably William Shakespeare's most compelling tragedy. In his directorial debut, Dora-nominated actor Ash Knight explo...
Walter Borden Stars in TRAGEDIE OF LEAR by William Shakespeare
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017
What happens to a family when its head has lost his grasp on reality and the family has no idea? The fault lines in this intergenerational conflict are exposed in Tragedie of Lear, arguably William Shakespeare's most compelling tragedy. In his directorial debut, Dora-nominated actor Ash Knight explo...
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Adds Flash Fiction to its Writing Contests
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2017
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival is now accepting entries for its 2017-18 Fiction, Poetry, and One-Act Play Contests, plus a new category: Very Short Fiction....
Walter Borden to Lead Upcoming TRAGEDIE OF LEAR at Palmerston Library Theatre
by Julie Musbach - October 07, 2017
What happens to a family when its head has lost his grasp on reality and the family has no idea? The fault lines in this intergenerational conflict are exposed in Tragedie of Lear, arguably William Shakespeare's most compelling tragedy. In his directorial debut, Dora-nominated actor Ash Knight explo...
NICK & ZOE Comes to The Fridge Festival
by A.A. Cristi - July 31, 2017
The Arctic Group has commissioned playwright Daniel Talbott (Slipping and Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait) to write a new short play that will be performed on a double bill with Steve McMahon's Sad Indie Love Song in Series B of their inaugural FRIDGE Festival. The festival runs August 31 - S...
Documentary BALTIMORE RISING Debuts on HBO This November
by Caryn Robbins - July 26, 2017
Directed by Sonja Sohn (one of the stars of the HBO series “The Wire”), BALTIMORE RISING follows activists, police officers, community leaders and gang affiliates, who struggle to hold Baltimore together, even as the homicide rate hits record levels....
Gary Beck Releases New Poetry Book VIRTUAL LIVING
by BWW News Desk - June 14, 2017
Poet Gary Beck's new collection Virtual Living is a revealing glimpse of how our relationship with the world around us is an ever-evolving experience....
by BWW News Desk - June 14, 2017
Poet Gary Beck's new collection Virtual Living is a revealing glimpse of how our relationship with the world around us is an ever-evolving experience....
Virtual Living Gary Beck's New Poetry Book Released
by BWW News Desk - June 14, 2017
Poet Gary Beck's new collection Virtual Living is a revealing glimpse of how our relationship with the world around us is an ever-evolving experience....
by BWW News Desk - June 14, 2017
Poet Gary Beck's new collection Virtual Living is a revealing glimpse of how our relationship with the world around us is an ever-evolving experience....
Walter Borden Stars in TRAGEDIE OF LEAR by William Shakespeare
by A.A. Cristi - May 25, 2017
What happens to a family when its head has lost his grasp on reality and the family has no idea? The fault lines in this intergenerational conflict are exposed in Tragedie of Lear, arguably William Shakespeare's most compelling tragedy. In his directorial debut, Dora-nominated actor Ash Knight explo...
by A.A. Cristi - May 25, 2017
What happens to a family when its head has lost his grasp on reality and the family has no idea? The fault lines in this intergenerational conflict are exposed in Tragedie of Lear, arguably William Shakespeare's most compelling tragedy. In his directorial debut, Dora-nominated actor Ash Knight explo...
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