Takedown Festival & Tonic Rider Festival Announces Mental Health Support in 2023 Backstage Rider
by Michael Major - March 13, 2023 TAKEDOWN FESTIVAL have announced that they will be teaming up with TONIC RIDER to provide mental health support for artists, crew and staff at this year's festival. This unique collaboration will see Takedown become the first festival to offer such mental health charity resources backstage when it t...
Exclusive: A.R.T./NY Shares Findings from HEALTH + WEALTH Report
by Team BWW - May 19, 2025 Last week, our friends and theatre allies at A.R.T./NY released a first-of-its-kind research publication about the state of the New York City theatre field. We’ve partnered A.R.T./NY to share highlights from the report, called Health + Wealth, Empowering Theatremakers Through Data....
Exclusive: A.R.T./NY Shares Findings from HEALTH + WEALTH Report
by Team BWW - May 19, 2025 Last week, our friends and theatre allies at A.R.T./NY released a first-of-its-kind research publication about the state of the New York City theatre field. We’ve partnered A.R.T./NY to share highlights from the report, called Health + Wealth, Empowering Theatremakers Through Data....
Review: THE BEAR and AND I DECIDED..., Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre
by Gary Naylor - September 07, 2022 Opera at Home's double bill offers the traditional and the avant-garde...
Review: THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Keegan Theatre
by David Friscic - February 01, 2023 In a world of fake news, alternate facts, social media frenzy and an increasingly opinionated and polarized public/audience, the issues raised in the intellectually challenging play The Lifespan of a Fact are more relevant than ever. Now being presented at the Keegan Theatre, this play may be short...
Review: The Ronin Theatre Company Presents Richard Warren's HOW I CAME TO BE BUFFALO BILL
by Herbert Paine - August 23, 2022 Ronin Theatre Company's production of Richard Warren's HOW I CAME TO BE BUFFALO BILL is an illuminating profile of the legend in the making, featuring Keath Hall's compelling performance under the direction of Lee Cooley. The show runs through August 28th at Stage Left Productions in Surprise, AZ, w...
Review: INTIMATE APPAREL at Arizona Theatre Company
by Herbert Paine - February 20, 2024 INTIMATE APPAREL: It is the great achievement of Arizona Theatre Company that Lynn Nottage's meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire is fully realized. Directed by Oz Scott, with a stellar ensemble, featuring Tracy N. Bonner's tour de force performance, the production is a must-see. Runs thr...
Sarantos Speaks Out For LGBTQIA Rights On Latest Single
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 01, 2022 Chicago musician Sarantos releases 'Love Always Wins' on February 1st, 2022. It's the follow-up to his UK iTunes hit, 'A Spoonful of Greece.'...
Billy Idol Releases 'The Cage' EP
by Michael Major - September 23, 2022 The Cage EP, the new release from Billy Idol, is out now via Dark Horse Records. This new music follows Idol’s 2021 The Roadside EP, which received praise from fans and critics alike. As on The Roadside EP, Idol is joined on the new project by his longtime collaborator, co-writer and guitarist Steve...
Review: TITANIC at Fulton Theatre
by Rich Mehrenberg - April 22, 2023 While there may have been 28 singers on stage, it sounded, at least, double that number. The rich choral arrangements blew the roof off of the joint, and it was a great thing to experience....
BWW Review: Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre Presents
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
by Herbert Paine - December 12, 2021 Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre’s production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by Trisha Ditsworth is refreshing and entertaining holiday fare for the entire family. Runs through December 19th....
Brigitte Calls Me Baby Announce Debut 2024 US Headlining Tour
by Michael Major - November 15, 2023 ATO Records' new breakout band Brigitte Calls Me Baby, the Roy Orbison-admiring, Smith-influenced and Chicago-based five-piece is primed for a major 2024. Named a Breaking Act last weekend by The Sunday Times in the UK, the group is gaining traction with their 'breakout single' 'Impressively Average...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Aims to Open CINDERELLA on Broadway Next Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 27, 2021 Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed that his stage adaptation of Cinderella, currently running in the West End, will likely open on Broadway next season....
Review: Douglas Morrione's FAIRWAYS TO HAPPINESS Goes Online
by Herbert Paine - October 27, 2022 FAIRWAYS TO HAPPINESS is Doug Morrione's intriguing documentary that opens wider the doors of perception about happiness and the pathways to realizing it. The film goes online (iTunes, Amazon, Google Play) on November 17th....
BWW Review: Hale Centre Theatre Presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Herbert Paine - November 29, 2021 Hale Centre Theatre's production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL ~ A Play with Music is a wholesome and joyful celebration of the Christmas spirit ~ the perfect Holiday fare for the entire family. Directed by David Dietlein and featuring Tim Dietlein as Scrooge (in the Red Cast), the show runs through December...
92Y School Of Music's Cabaret Conversations With Michael Kirk Lane Announces New Lineup
by Stephi Wild - July 09, 2021 Performances are Thursdays, 8-9 pm ET, August 5-26. Learn more about how to register here!...
Jimmy Webb to Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 37th Annual Bistro Awards
by Michael Major - March 21, 2022 Three-time Grammy Award winner and iconic songwriter-performer Jimmy Webb will be honored at the 37th Annual Bistro Awards where he will be receiving the ASCAP–Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bistro Awards’ highest honor, for musical and storytelling accomplishments over his five deca...
THE TWENTY-SIDED TAVERN to Open in NYC Tomorrow
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 08, 2021 Gamiotics Studios, the emerging leader in real-time audience engagement will be presenting The Twenty-Sided Tavern, a live-action Dungeons and Dragons style interactive adventure at The Asylum NYC in New York City as part of a multi-city rollout of this new live narrative experience....
Chameleons Set Eastern North American Tour
by Josh Sharpe - February 04, 2025 Co-headlining this round of dates with Texas darkwave act Twin Tribes, Chameleons find themselves starting off in Minneapolis on April 25th and moving east, including shows in Chicago, Montreal, and Brooklyn....
'We Want to Remain Artistically Relevant and Energised.' Guest Blog from Gareth Machin, Artistic Director of Wiltshire Creative
by Guest Author - July 03, 2023 Are professional performance and community participation two separate strands of work or should they seamlessly intertwine within an artistic project, a programme and an organisation? Should funding structures be separated out into professional and community work? Should they be equal priorities for...
Omnivore Recordings Announces Previously Unissued Performance From Iconic Folk-Rock Band Steeleye Span
by Michael Major - January 10, 2024 Fairport Convention co-founder and bassist Ashley Hutchings and legendary singer Sandy Denny parted ways with the group after their classic Liege And Leaf album. Hutchings recruited Tim Hart and Maddy Prior (an established folk duo) and Terry and Gay Woods, naming their new band after a character in...
WITCHES AND DIVAS! Makes Engeman Theater Premiere
by A.A. Cristi - July 23, 2021 Performer and creator Christina Pecce teams up with music director/pianist Matthew Stephens, bassist Sean Murphy, and drummer/percussionist Kevin McNaughton to celebrate WITCHES AND DIVAS! at The John W. Engeman Theater. ...
Interview: Justin Mark Reflects on TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at Clowes Memorial Hall
by The Marriage Matinee - January 23, 2024 There can be no doubt that there is a great weight to any role in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. It is a classic novel, but it is so much more to those of us who have read it and absorbed its intensity, integrity, and challenge to evaluate our own biases. As it finds new life as a play, we had the privilege...
Filmmaker Christina Rose Set To Wrap Up Production On THE LOST VOICE
by Emmy Rice - July 27, 2025 MirrorWater Entertainment (MWE) is finalizing production on The Lost Voice, the much-anticipated documentary about the first woman believed to have ever filmed in the Amazon. ...
BWW Review: Don Bluth Front Row Theatre Presents
A BENCH IN THE SUN
by Herbert Paine - August 13, 2021 Like vintage wines, veteran actors Lee Cooley and Jim Coates just get better with age in Don Bluth Front Row Theatre’s reprise of Ron Clark’s bittersweet play, A BENCH IN THE SUN, now playing through September 18th.... |