Give the Gift of Amazon Prime this Holiday Season
by BWW News Desk - November 22, 2013 (NASDAQ:AMZN) - Millions of members already enjoy the benefits of Amazon Prime. In the US, that includes unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on more than 15 million items, instant streaming of over 41,000 movies and TV episodes through Prime Instant Video and over 350,000 books to borrow through the Kin...
Amazon Greenlights Pilot MOZART IN THE JUNGLE & More for Full Seasons
by Caryn Robbins - March 31, 2014 Amazon Studios today announced that The After, Bosch, Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, Mozart in the Jungle, Transparent and Wishenpoof! will become the next Amazon Original Series...
BBC America's ORPHAN BLACK & More Now Available Exclusively on Prime Instant Video
by Caryn Robbins - March 07, 2014 Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a content licensing agreement that will make Prime Instant Video the exclusive online-only subscription home for streaming Season One and future seasons of Orphan Black....
A RAISIN IN THE SUN's Sophie Okonedo Joins BBC TV's THE HOLLOW CROWN
by BWW News Desk - May 29, 2014 The Daily Mail writes that Tony nominee Sophie Okonedo, currently starring in A RAISIN IN THE SUN on Broadway, will appear opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and others in BBC TV's upcoming trilogy THE HOLLOW CROWN, which includes Shakespeare's HENRY VI trilogy and RICHARD III....
Hosokawa's MATSUKAZE, Old Vic & Handspring Puppet Company's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Verdi's MESSA DE REQUIEM and More Set for Spoleto Festival USA 2013, Now thru 6/9
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013 Festival General Director Nigel Redden presents the 2013 artistic lineup for Spoleto Festival USA, which showcases nationally and internationally acclaimed artists in a celebration of opera, theater, dance, physical theater, music, and visual arts. The 37th annual Festival, to be held in historic Ch...
Clear Channel to Share Broadcast & Digital Radio Revenue on Fearless Records Label
by Caryn Robbins - June 03, 2013 Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, the leading media company in America with a greater reach than any other radio or television outlet, and Fearless Records, an independent music label specializing in up-and-coming rock bands...
Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment Developing ULTIMATE DJ Reality Show
by Tyler Peterson - April 29, 2014 SFX Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFXE), Syco Entertainment and T-Mobile US, Inc. (NYSE: TMUS) today announced they're joining forces to produce apioneering television show revolving around the booming electronic music culture and showcasing and cultivating fresh new EMC DJ/producer talent and creati...
Jeremiah James Joins the Cast of Off-Broadway's THE FANTASTICKS Today
by Tyler Peterson - October 29, 2013 West End star and international recording artist Jeremiah James will be joining the cast of The Fantasticks, the world's longest running musical, on Tuesday, October 29th, just weeks after its milestone celebration of 20,000 performances in New York. Mr. James will assume the role of El Gallo, which...
Feel the Heat When #EM3 Hits Redbox, 4/15
by Caryn Robbins - April 15, 2014 Sizzling thriller #EM3 (Eenie Meenie Miney Moe), chronicling the tense journey of a drug dealer, comes to Redbox on April 15, 2014....
Hosokawa's MATSUKAZE, Old Vic & Handspring Puppet Company's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Verdi's MESSA DE REQUIEM and More Set for Spoleto Festival USA 2013, Now thru 6/9
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013 Festival General Director Nigel Redden presents the 2013 artistic lineup for Spoleto Festival USA, which showcases nationally and internationally acclaimed artists in a celebration of opera, theater, dance, physical theater, music, and visual arts. The 37th annual Festival, to be held in historic Ch...
Derrick Weeden to Star in PCPA's CYRANO DE BERGERAC; Full Cast Announced!
by BWW News Desk - April 10, 2013 PCPA has assembled a stellar cast for this summer's production of the French masterpiece, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. It plays exclusively in the Solvang Festival Theater under the stars, August 17 through September 1, 2013....
MTV to Broadcast Tomorrowland 2014 Across Its International Channels
by Caryn Robbins - April 02, 2014 MTV today announced it will be the exclusive international broadcast partner for Tomorrowland 2014, the world's premier electronic dance music festival....
Broadway's Hannah Yelland and Tristan Sturrock Lead Kneehigh's BRIEF ENCOUNTER at the Wallis, Beg. Tonight
by BWW News Desk - February 15, 2014 The Broadway Cast - led by Hannah Yelland and Tristan Sturrock - will appear in the internationally celebrated Kneehigh production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, which will have a 43-performance limited engagement at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts today, February 15 to March ...
Clear Channel to Share Broadcast & Digital Radio Revenue on Fearless Records Label
by Caryn Robbins - June 03, 2013 Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, the leading media company in America with a greater reach than any other radio or television outlet, and Fearless Records, an independent music label specializing in up-and-coming rock bands...
BOSCH Among Amazon Studios First Two-Hour Drama Pilots
by Caryn Robbins - October 31, 2013 Following Amazon Studios' pilot announcement earlier this month, Amazon today announced it has given the green light for the production of its first two hour-long drama pilots...
Amazon Orders New Pilots THE COSMOPOLITANS & HAND OF GOD
by Caryn Robbins - April 09, 2014 Amazon Studios today announced it has greenlit two new pilots - the half hour dramatic comedy The Cosmopolitans, from Whit Stillman, and one hour drama Hand of God...
Richard Eyre's GHOSTS to Continue West End Theatre Series at Cinemas Across the UK and Ireland Today
by BWW News Desk - June 26, 2014 The WEST END THEATRE SERIES is delighted to announce its third title; Richard Eyre's five-star, multi award-winning revival production of Ibsen's Ghosts. The Almeida Theatre production will be screened in over 200 cinemas across the UK and Ireland for one night only, today 26 June '14 (www.westendth...
Spoleto Festival USA Announces 2013 Theater Program
by Kelsey Denette - April 25, 2013 Internationally recognized for its adventurous programming, Spoleto Festival USA offers a robust lineup of theater for its 37th season. In addition to the American premieres of Bristol Old Vic/Handspring Puppet Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Steven Berkoff's modern adaptation ...
Eight Seasons of 24 Now Available Exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video
by Caryn Robbins - April 01, 2014 Prime Instant Video is now the exclusive online-only subscription home for streaming all 192 episodes of the award-winning series 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland as heroic agent Jack Bauer....
Josie Rourke's THE WEIR Revival Transfers to Wyndham's Theatre Tonight
by BWW News Desk - January 16, 2014 Josie Rourke's Donmar Warehouse production of Conor McPherson's THE WEIR will be transferring to Wyndham's Theatre in the West End, beginning tonight, January 16, 2014, for a January 22nd opening. The show stars Risteard Cooper, Brian Cox, Dervla Kirwan, Peter McDonald and Ardal O'Hanlon....
Avalon Landing Represents Las Vegas in Final Round of HARD ROCK RISING
by Diana Heisroth - April 30, 2014 With more than 10,000 bands entered worldwide, 418,000 votes submitted and 750 bands competing in live battles at 70+ Hard Rock Cafes around the world, the results are in and Las Vegas' own Avalon Landing has made it to the final round of Hard Rock Rising -the world's largest battle of the bands com...
MAYDAY MAYDAY Welcomes Tristan Sturrock
by Samantha Vega - March 27, 2013 St. Ann's Warehouse (Artistic Director, Susan Feldman; Executive Director, Andrew D. Hamingson) is pleased to welcome back Tristan Sturrock, the leading man of Kneehigh's Brief Encounter (and a longtime member of the company), for the American premiere of Mayday Mayday. Written and performed by Stur...
Amazon Surpasses Hulu and Apple in Streaming Video Usage
by Caryn Robbins - April 08, 2014 Amazon Instant Video today announced that video streams on Prime Instant Video nearly tripled year over year. According to a report from Qwilt, which tracks growth in online video usage, Amazon has now passed both Apple and Hulu in streaming video usage....
Amazon Studios Debuts 10 New Original Pilots Today
by Caryn Robbins - February 06, 2014 Seduction in the symphony…murder in the first degree…magic and ingenuity. Starting today, these are just a few of the stories viewers will be thrown into with 10 new pilots launching exclusively on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. and LOVEFiLM in the UK....
A RAISIN IN THE SUN's Sophie Okonedo Joins BBC TV's THE HOLLOW CROWN
by BWW News Desk - May 29, 2014 The Daily Mail writes that Tony nominee Sophie Okonedo, currently starring in A RAISIN IN THE SUN on Broadway, will appear opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and others in BBC TV's upcoming trilogy THE HOLLOW CROWN, which includes Shakespeare's HENRY VI trilogy and RICHARD III.... |