BWW Review: LOAFERS, RADA Studios
by Cindy Marcolina - August 18, 2019 Caroline and Edward are two twenty-something who do nothing in their lives. They spend their upper-class existence pottering around their flat in their silk dressing gowns, lamenting their boredom....
BWW Review: Ladies of The Second City Return with a Vengeance in SHE THE PEOPLE: THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES
by Isabella Perrone - May 07, 2019 The women of The Second City return to the mainstage to present SHE THE PEOPLE: THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES, a follow-up to 2018's SHE THE PEOPLE. While the cast and creative team remains mostly the same as the original show, this reimagining explores a wider scope of true-to-life and absurd comedic sc...
Student Blog: Here's To 'Firsts'
by Student Blogger: Grace Cutler - March 17, 2021 When most ‘firsts’ are due to COVID, it was nice to have a ‘first’ that happened despite COVID. I was reminded that life can continue and adapt to these times, and nothing can take these experiences away from me - no matter how different they might be than normal....
The Green Room 42 Presents An Evening Of Ahrens & Flaherty Benefitting The Child HELP Partnership
by A.A. Cristi - February 12, 2020 The Green Room 42 Presents An Evening of Ahrens & Flaherty benefitting the Child HELP Partnership, Thursday, March 5, 2020....
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER
by Sarah Leiber - February 08, 2021 Check out the new trailer for Marvel Studios’ “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” which complements a new TV spot that aired during tonight’s big game. The all-new, six-episode series debuts exclusively on Disney+ March 19, 2021....
BWW Review: Mad Horse Theatre Grapples with Life's Vagaries in LIFE SUCKS
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - March 23, 2019 As a sequel to producing successfully Aaron Posner's Stupid F****ing Bird, South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre company has mounted Posner's take on Chekov's Uncle Vanya, Life Sucks. Filled with colorful characters and some truly witty dialogue, Posner's new play does a fine job of bringing the Russia...
BWW Review: Glenda Jackson is Wickedly Fun in Sam Gold's Surprisingly Comic Take on Shakespeare's KING LEAR
by Michael Dale - April 05, 2019 In recalling the great comedies penned by William Shakespeare, classics like TWELFTH NIGHT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and the one about all the errors have been making audiences bust out in laughter for hundreds of years. But King Lear? Certainly one of the English language's great tragedies, with ...
BWW Review: Familial Bonds and Tradition Ground THE BROTHERS SIZE in Moving Production
by Isabella Perrone - May 11, 2019 THE BROTHERS SIZE, directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu and produced by Soulpepper, is a look into the lives of two brothers following the youngest's return home from prison. Tarell Alvin McCraney's 2000 work is an emotional examination of brotherhood and redemption in the deep south....
Prosecutor and Defense Attorneys for Accused Men in Ahmaud Arbery Killing Speak on 48 HOURS
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 08, 2020 The viral video of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery being chased and shot dead in Brunswick, Ga., captured the attention of the nation....
PlayME Podcast Launches Cliff Cardinal's Award-Winning Play HUFF
by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2019 Expect Theatre's PlayME - the podcast that transforms Canadian plays into audio dramas - and Canada's #1 podcaster, CBC Podcasts, announced that Huff, from Dora Award-winning playwright and performer Cliff Cardinal, is available now as an audio drama in three bingeable chapters. An additional episod...
BWW Review: The American History Theater, The Roustabouts Theatre Co., & Teenage Youth Performing Arts Theatre Company (TYPA) present THE MOUNTAINTOP
by E.H. Reiter - April 27, 2021 THE MOUNTAINTOP explores the moments before a man with all his human gifts and foibles ascends into a mythic figure. Streaming through May 16th, production by American History Theatre, The Roustabouts Theatre Co, and Teenage Youth Performing Arts Theatre Company (TYPA) this play looks at this monume...
BWW Review: New York City Ballet's THE NUTCRACKER
by Wesley Doucette - December 23, 2019 Nostalgic rose-colored glasses so tint few works as The Nutcracker. Its music, its images, its audience of children, either mesmerized or fidgeting in their Sunday best, have become annual staples of the Christmas season. Balanchine's 1954 staging of the ballet is its quintessential manifestation. A...
BWW Review: THE GREAT LEAP at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
by Rachel Weinberg - September 17, 2019 Steppenwolf Theatre Company's season opening production of Lauren Yee's THE GREAT LEAP combines the energy of the final moments of a major sporting event alongside moments of great intimacy and intensity for which the company is largely known....
BWW Review: OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD from Strawberry Theatre Workshop - A Bit Long but Worth the Wait
by Jay Irwin - January 29, 2020 In Timberlake Wertenbaker's play a?oeOur Country's Gooda??, currently being offered from Strawberry Theatre Workshop, they say theatergoers should have three things. They should pay attention. How could you not with some of these incredible performances happening from the ensemble? They should be...
Final Season of History's VIKINGS to Premiere December 4
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 07, 2019 HISTORY's hit drama series 'Vikings' returns for its sixth and final season with a highly anticipated and powerful two-hour premiere kicking off Wednesday, December 4 at 9 PM ET/PT. For the past five seasons the Vikings have explored and conquered the known world, from early raids in England and the...
BWW Review: ACT's PEOPLE OF THE BOOK is Filled with Delicious Surprises
by Jay Irwin - September 13, 2019 If you're an aficionado of theater here in Seattle, then you've probably heard of Yussef El Guindi or at least seen one of his plays. An ACT 2018 core member, this prolific writer has had numerous plays around Seattle and beyond. And when reading the synopsis of his current piece making its World ...
BWW Review: LA OPERA LIVING ROOM RECITAL BY Latonia Moore
by Maria Nockin - August 09, 2020 LA Operaa??s 'Living Room Recital' by soprano Latonia Moore and pianist Roberto Berrocal is available for streaming on the operaa??s website. Wearing a long green gown with a draped skirt and sparkling jewels at her décolletage, Moore opened her program with Tatianaa??s Letter Scene from Pyotr Ilyic...
VIDEO: Watch the New Trailer for ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 21, 2019 Sony Pictures has released the new trailer for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt....
BWW Review: ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET - SWAN LAKE, Liverpool Empire
by Vikki Jane Vile - May 28, 2020 The next lockdown treat courtesy of English National Ballet comes in the form of Derek Deane's Swan Lake. This production last ran over the 2018/19 Winter season with this particular performance seeing Principals Jurgita Dronina and Isaac Hernandez in the leading roles....
Casely Releases New Video For 'Rude Boy Summer'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 11, 2020 Reminiscent of an old school dancehall summer jam with some deep bass feels, Casely’s magnetic video provides a vibrant way for fans to close out the whirlwind known as Summer 2020....
BWW Review: ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET - SWAN LAKE, Liverpool Empire
by Vikki Jane Vile - May 28, 2020 The next lockdown treat courtesy of English National Ballet comes in the form of Derek Deane's Swan Lake. This production last ran over the 2018/19 Winter season with this particular performance seeing Principals Jurgita Dronina and Isaac Hernandez in the leading roles....
BWW Review: THE MOUNTAINTOP at Susquehanna Stage
by Rich Mehrenberg - February 18, 2020 Surprise! Surprise! Any production based on the life of Martin Luther King is bound to be deep, thought provoking, and moving. The Mountaintop by Katori Hall was no exception. Adding to the drama and emotion, however, was the unexpected humor in Hall's dialogue. This production had the audience burs...
Venus Furs Releases New Song 'Living in Constant'
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 14, 2020 Venus Furs, the moniker of Montreal's Paul Kasner, has announced the release of his new single, Living In Constant - a song cloaked in a laid-back, heavy atmosphere that describes the final moments of a disgraced priest on his deathbed....
Xenia Rubinos Shares New Track & Video 'Cógelo Suave'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 11, 2021 The track was recorded in the height of quarantine (Spring 2020), when the world was slipping into a deep kind of chaos, Xenia’s mom had an experience with covid, and it was generally hard to tell which way was up, the process of making the track provided a cloak of resilience. ...
BWW Review: ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET'S DUST, Milton Keynes Theatre
by Vikki Jane Vile - April 30, 2020 I've written about Dust, Akram Khan's work for English National Ballet World War One programme, Lest We Forget, several times. Somehow, each time, even knowing what's coming, it still packs a chilling, earth shattering punch both through the screen and on stage.... |