Penguin Random House Audio To Produce Live Audiobook Recording Of DAVID DEAN BOTTRELL MAKES LOVE
by BWW News Desk - January 20, 2020 Penguin Random House Audio will produce a live audiobook recording of actor David Dean Bottrell's one-man storytelling show, David Dean Bottrell Makes Love (Random House Audio; on sale February 11, 2020). Bottrell's performance features funny and poignant true love stories from his own life as a gay... 
Jenn Lyon Stars in Lifetime Movie THE NEIGHBOR IN THE WINDOW
by TV News Desk - January 27, 2020 Jenn Lyon (“Jennifer” in TNT's “Claws”) is starring in Lifetime's upcoming Ripped From the Headlines movie, “NEIGHBOR IN THE WINDOW,” premiering @8pm on February 8th. Her character in the movie has a condition known as False Victim Syndrome, the fabrication of victimhood for a variety of reasons su... 
SCRUBS & COUGAR TOWN to Have Reunions at ATX Television Festival
by TV News Desk - February 06, 2020 ATX Television Festival has announced additional programming for year nine of the festival, which will take place June 4-7, 2020, in Austin, Texas. ATX Season 9 will include reunions for two beloved comedies from creator/director/executive producer Bill Lawrence: “Scrubs,” and “Cougar Town,” whic... 
BWW Review: BW/Beck's THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS is Both Compelling and Uneven
by Roy Berko - February 09, 2020 The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused in Alabama of raping two white-women on a train in 1931.... 
CD Review: Live from Carnegie Hall, Moravec-Campbell SANCTUARY ROAD with Oratorio Society
by Richard Sasanow - February 10, 2020 I was delighted to hear that the Oratorio Society of New York's world premiere at Carnegie Hall of SANCTUARY ROAD (Naxos 8.559884)--a work for orchestra, chorus and a quintet of soloists--had been captured on disc. Not only is the story worth bringing to a broader audience, but the magic of the work... 
BWW Review: NEWSIES at Westport Country Playhouse
by Sean Fallon - February 15, 2020 NEWSIES in Westport is a must-see masterpiece! A combination of local talent and Broadway talent help create a moving show that touches the hearts of all the viewers! I highly recommend this show!... 
Ellis Releases New Single 'Embarrassing'
by TV News Desk - February 18, 2020 Ellis - Hamilton, Ontario's Linnea Siggelkow - recently announced her breathtaking debut album, Born Again, and today she shares its incredible second single. Following the previously released “Fall Apart,” “Embarrassing” offers a layered meditation on regret and responsibility through its shape shi... 
BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Oklahoma Shakespeare is riveting, romantic, and incredibly relevant.
by Isaiah Werner - February 19, 2020 Oklahoma Shakespeare kicks off its 36th season with a captivating production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.... 
BWW Review: THE FUTURE IS MENTAL, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - February 22, 2020 This year, Network Theatre Company take their audience to an unspecified futuristic time with The Future is Mental, an anthology of six short plays that are heavily recalling of Black Mirror. Written and directed by Rosie de Vekey, the pieces are smart and precise, and don't conceal their external i... 
BWW Review: Eva Noblezada is a Seasoned Pro in WITH LOVE at The Green Room 42
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 25, 2020 During Eva Noblezada's introduction to the stage of The Green Room 42 last night, the audience was informed of this eye-popping fact: Eva Noblezada's show has been heralded as the most successful run of any cabaret show since Patti LuPone at Les Mouches, and has sold out more than twenty times at Th...
BWW Review: Eva Noblezada is a Seasoned Pro in WITH LOVE at The Green Room 42
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 25, 2020 During Eva Noblezada's introduction to the stage of The Green Room 42 last night, the audience was informed of this eye-popping fact: Eva Noblezada's show has been heralded as the most successful run of any cabaret show since Patti LuPone at Les Mouches, and has sold out more than twenty times at Th... 
Natalie Zea Joins LA BREA on NBC
by TV News Desk - February 26, 2020 Deadline reports that 'Justified' alum Natalie Zea has joined the cast of 'La Brea' on NBC.... 
HBO to Debut AFTER TRUTH: DISINFORMATION AND THE COST OF FAKE NEWS
by TV News Desk - February 27, 2020 AFTER TRUTH: DISINFORMATION AND THE COST OF FAKE NEWS, debuting THURSDAY, MARCH 19 (9:00-10:35 p.m. ET/PT), investigates the ongoing threat caused by the phenomenon of 'fake news' in the U.S., focusing on the real-life consequences that disinformation, conspiracy theories and false news stories have... 
Bard SummerScape Will Celebrate Nadia Boulanger With 31st Bard Music Festival, NADIA BOULANGER AND HER WORLD
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2020 Bard SummerScape's 17th edition celebrates one of the most important female figures in classical music history, with seven weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film and the SummerScape Spiegeltent, centered around the 31st Bard Music Festival, 'Nadia Boulanger and Her World.'... 
Lil Uzi Vert Releases ETERNAL ATAKE
by TV News Desk - March 06, 2020 Multi-platinum superstar Lil Uzi Vert has officially announced today's release of his hugely anticipated new album, ETERNAL ATAKE available now via Generation Now/Atlantic Records at all music retailers and streaming services.... 
Akshara Theatre Presents WE ARE CITIZEN INDIA
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2020 The first words of our constitution are: a?oeWe the peoplea??a??. Yet, do our humongous behemoths of successive governments, with their systems, agencies, departments, actually fulfill the ideals of the Constitution and the needs of 'we the people', or are they running riot with power, imposing thei... 
BWW Interview: Robert Glenister Talks THE SEAGULL at the Playhouse Theatre
by Anthony Walker-Cook - March 12, 2020 Robert Glenister is currently treading the boards at the Playhouse Theatre in Anya Reiss's adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull. Starring alongside Game of Thrones's Emilia Clarke and Indira Varma, The Seagull marks Glenister's second production with director Jamie Lloyd. Glenister's recent theatre c... 
BWW Review: SAFE SEX, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - March 11, 2020 Harvey Fierstein's response to the AIDS outbreak in the 80s and the subsequent silence from the government came in the form of three one-act plays. The Network Theatre Company picked to stage Safe Sex as part of VAULT Festival, an accidental choice that turns out to be exceptionally timely at this p... 
BWW Review: MATILDA THE MUSICAL Stirs Hearts and Minds with Royal 'Bratness' and Wokeness
by Vince Vicentuan - March 11, 2020 Good musicals are like magnets a?' they attract crowds from near and far that not even pervasive talks of a global pandemic could stop them from inflicting their charm on their willing patrons.... 
BWW Review: HER HONOR JANE BYRNE at Lookingglass Theatre
by Rachel Weinberg - March 13, 2020 J. Nicole Brooks's HER HONOR JANE BYRNE, now in a world premiere production at Lookingglass, is a play deeply rooted in Chicago's not-too-distant history. Inspired by former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne (the first woman to serve as mayor here) and her decision to move into Cabrini-Green as a display of ... 
BWW Interview: GOING DARK, Part 14 - Sam Brinkley
by Adrienne Proctor - April 01, 2020 GOING DARK is an exclusive interview series, conducted during an unprecedented global pandemic. COVID-19 related cancellations have effectively ended the theatre industry as we know it, and there's no guarantee of when (or if) it'll be restored. These are the stories of the out-of-work artists and t... 
BWW Interview: GOING DARK, Part 15 - Jake Rydell
by Adrienne Proctor - April 01, 2020 GOING DARK is an exclusive interview series highlighting the impact of COVID-19 on the performing arts, and namely on the artists. Out of work artists are lending their voices to explain the personal and professional implications from this unprecedented pandemic. Part 15 features actor Jake Rydell. ... 
Duran Duran Guitarist John Taylor Reveals He Had COVID-19 But Has Recovered
by BWW News Desk - April 06, 2020 Duran Duran's guitarist John Taylor has revealed that he tested positive for COVID-19, but has recovered.... 
ID Greenlights TIGER KING Sequel About Carole Baskin
by TV News Desk - April 06, 2020 In a matter of weeks, Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage has cemented his claim to the throne as the one and only Tiger King. But if ever there was a rival to Joe Exotic, it's the world's now most talked about woman, Carole Baskin, the equally indisputable tiger queen. ... 
Sundance Now May Calendar Includes BAD MOTHERS, PENANCE, and More
by BWW News Desk - April 15, 2020 Psychological thriller SANCTUARY (Apr 23) starring Josefin Asplund (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Vikings) in a dual role and Matthew Modine (Stranger Things) as a manipulative doctor (Trailer), Sundance Now is excited to announce its May slate, which includes two Exclusive Premieres.... |
