A corrupt politician covers up his daughter Vicky's pregnancy by forcing her to give the baby up for adoption. The newborn is adopted by a loving couple unable to have children, but a year later Vicky, now in college, realizes she was forced into signing the papers and really wants her daughter back. After sneaking into the adoption agency to find out who the adoptive parents are, she takes them to court to fight for custody.
THE COMMOTION TIME Comes To Exeter Northcott Theatre
by Stephi Wild - June 17, 2024
To coincide with their season announcement, today Exeter Northcott announces the World Premiere of The Commotion Time, the first play by South West based and highly sought after RSC and Globe dramaturg, Sarah Dickenson. ...
Minnesota Students Held 'Sit-In' to Protest Canceled Theatre Productions
by Joshua Wright - May 01, 2024
The College of St. Scholastica has announced the decision to suspend its theater productions this coming fall, prompting a vibrant sit-in protest by students, alumni, and community members....
Open-Door Playhouse Debuts GRACE Next Month
by Stephi Wild - April 15, 2024
Open-Door Playhouse will continue to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play Grace will debut on May 14, 2024 online....
Fulton Books Author Walter Schmidt Releases New Book - An Age Of Treason: Parts One And Two
by A.A. Cristi - March 18, 2024
Explore the gripping fictional future of America in Walter Schmidt's new book, AN AGE OF TREASON: PARTS ONE AND TWO. ...
Idyllwild Arts To Present Black History Jazz Concert in February
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 29, 2024
Celebrate Black History Month with a free jazz concert at Idyllwild Arts Academy on February 17. ...
VIDEO: Watch Nina Stemme as Kostelnička in Janáček's JENŮFA (Act Three)
by Blair Ingenthron - November 26, 2023
Lyric Opera of Chicago has released video footage of Nina Stemme from their production of Janáček’s JENŮFA. Watch the footage here!...
Buffalo Theatre Company Presents NEW PLAY READING FESTIVAL Vol. 1, December 8- 10
by A.A. Cristi - November 14, 2023
Join First Look Buffalo Theatre Company, for a New Play Reading Festival VOL 1, written by members of our Playwright Wing. VOL 2 to follow January 19-21, 2024!...
Elif Dame Takes Back Her Life In Honest & Vulnerable EP, 'Securely Detached'
by Michael Major - November 06, 2023
Born to a jazz pianist and retail-clerk, the Amsterdam based Elif Dame (meaning she who brings light) started practicing her creativity at a young age. Having her musical interests initially sparked by the likes of Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and the gospel genre, it would greatly expand and shif...
Review: LA TRAVIATA, London Coliseum
by Franco Milazzo - October 24, 2023
Much shorter than Richard Eyre’s three-hour plus version for the ROH, Peter Konwitschny’s La Traviata perhaps should be renamed La Trav or L’ Abbreviata. Its breathless sprint over 105 uninterrupted minutes takes more than it gives but there’s an admirable boldness to it all....
Review: THE REVENGE OF POPPERFACE, The Place
by Matthew Paluch - September 10, 2023
The Revenge of Popperface by Gareth Chambers invites the audience to muse over 'an experimental exploration of masculinity' through the occult and opera no less....
WE ARE THE LAND Comes to ArtsEmerson This Month
by Stephi Wild - September 05, 2023
ArtsEmersonw ill bring the Wampanoag Nation's We Are The Land to Boston audiences as its first stage production of its 2023-2024 season. Following its premiere in Plymouth, UK, We Are The Land comes to Boston for a very special two performance engagement from September 29 – 30, 2023 at the Emerson...
S. Dylan Zwickel's THE MOSS MAIDENS Makes SheNYC History With Two Extensions
by Blair Ingenthron - July 29, 2023
The Moss Maidens from playwright S. Dylan Zwickel makes SheNYC Arts Summer Theater Festival history as the first production to be extended twice in the festival's eight-year existence. ...
S. Dylan Zwickel's THE MOSS MAIDENS Comes To SheNYC Arts Summer Theater Festival
by Stephi Wild - July 25, 2023
The Moss Maidens from playwright S. Dylan Zwickel will play the Connelly Theater (220 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10009) August 2nd, August 5th, and August 6th as part of the SheNYC Arts Summer Theater Festival....
EDINBURGH 2023: MEMORIES OF THE EARLY 1950s Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 19, 2023
BWW caught up with Christine Hayward to chat about bringing Memories of the Early 1950s to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....
Redhouse And Arc Of Onondaga Celebrating 10 Years Of Partnership With A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by A.A. Cristi - June 02, 2023
Redhouse Arts Center and Arc of Onondaga are celebrating 10 years of partnership with the upcoming performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Redhouse....
Guest Blog: 'I Had Set Myself an Impossible Task'; Writer and Actor Lucinda Coyle on the Challenges and Triumphs of Creating OUR FIRST LAST
by Guest Author - June 02, 2023
Writing Our Last First was never going to be easy. From the start I had set myself up for an impossible task and opened myself up to criticism…but that was why I needed to write it....
Review: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, @sohoplace
by Abbie Grundy - May 18, 2023
While the romance shared between Ennis (Lucas Hedges) and Jack (Mike Faist) was immortalised by the Academy-Award Winning film of the same name, it takes on an entirely new life on the stage in a stunning production directed by Jonathan Butterell....
Video: Little Hurt Shares 'I Can Do Better Than You' Video
by Michael Major - May 18, 2023
Alt.Pop artist Little Hurt (Colin Dieden, former lead singer of The Mowglis) has released his new album Lovely Hours. He is sharing the high energy, bursting with color video for “I Can Do Better Than You”. The video was directed by Kyle Vorbach, who has worked with the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lova...
Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Washington Pavilion
by Sonja Niles - April 19, 2023
What did our critic think of DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Washington Pavilion? The touring production of DEAR EVAN HANSEN opened on Thursday, April 18th in the Mary Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion with the preshow sounds of social media alerts and a visual array of platforms streaming via projecti...
The Holy Gasp Releases New Album '…And the Lord Hath Taken Away'
by Michael Major - April 11, 2023
Toronto-born founder of The Holy Gasp, Benjamin Hackman, along with fellow composer, Anthony William Wallace, and Maestro Robert W. Stevenson, continue their undefinable style, aiming their artform towards the intersection of words and music on the newly released album, “…And the Lord Hath Taken...
Interview: Behind the Lens with Mark Mann
by Christina Pandolfi - April 08, 2023
Mark Mann has photographed everyone. Google his name, and you will find hundreds of famous people he has exquisitely captured through the lens of his camera. Actors. Musicians. Presidents. Literally everyone in the public consciousness. But perhaps his greatest undertaking was during the COVID-19 l...
BLANKET BAN Comes to Southwark Playhouse Next Month
by Stephi Wild - March 10, 2023
Following its hit run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, theatre makers and activists Davinia Hamilton and Marta Vella bring their rallying cry for Maltese reproductive rights to Southwark Playhouse. ...
Review: WHERE WE BELONG at Portland Center Stage
by Krista Garver - March 08, 2023
Madeline Sayet’s sweeping and poetic one-person play WHERE WE BELONG tells the story of Achokayis, a Mohegan theatre-maker, who in 2015 moves to England to get her PhD in Shakespeare. It deals with issues that we as a country have actively worked to avoid talking about, or at least to relegate the...
Dave Lombardo Announces Debut Solo Album 'Rites of Percussion'
by Michael Major - March 08, 2023
Dave Lombardo will release his debut solo album, Rites of Percussion. The 13-track collection, previewed with the release of “Journey of the Host,' is the result of a 40-year career that saw Lombardo rise to prominence as a co-founder of Slayer, earn two GRAMMY-Awards, and expand his repertoire ac...
'Just Take Them And Leave Me Alone' Artwork Will Be Displayed in London
by Stephi Wild - February 27, 2023
“Just Take Them and Leave Me Alone” by Raoof Haghighi touched on the most raw-nerve at the centre of the Iranian Women's Rights movement. It depicts a surreal image of a woman who, as her breasts and groin have been removed, is left free from the abusive constraints or demands placed on her beca...
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