New Pussy Riot Doc in the Works
by Tyler Peterson - November 23, 2015 The controversial Russian punk band 'Pussy Riot' has taken a starring role in a new 90-minute documentary film titled 'Looking For Kleptocracy,' in which an unlikely group of filmmakers and journalists are sent on an outlandish mission to uncover a mafia controlled government in a former Soviet bloc...
Photo Flash: Steppenwolf for Young Adults' Production of Orwell's 1984 Begins Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2015 On the heels of a sold-out production of George Orwell's Animal Farm last season, Steppenwolf for Young Adults (SYA) begins the 2015/16 season with another Orwellian masterpiece, 1984. Adapted by Andrew White and directed by SYA Artistic and Educational Director Hallie Gordon, Orwell's 1984 receives...
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of Trustus Theatre's THE VELVET WEAPON, Opening Tonight
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2014 Internationally produced playwright Deborah Brevoort premieres her new farce The Velvet Weapon at Trustus Theatre in The Vista. This script is the winner of the Trustus Playwrights' Festival, an annual competition that gives a full production to a new original work. This world premiere production of...
WHBPAC Presents FINEST IN WORLD CINEMA SERIES
by Sally Henry Fuller - February 21, 2015 Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center continues its Finest in World Cinema Series this March on most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays! Screening the best current release art house, foreign, independent and documentary films that run concurrently at the most prominent film houses in New York City, ...
Smithsonian Channel to Premiere THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING, 12/21
by Caryn Robbins - December 13, 2013 On December 21st 1988, Pan American World Airways Flight 103 exploded in the skies above Lockerbie, a small town in Scotland. All 259 people on board the Boeing 747 were killed, as were 11 people on the ground....
BWW Reviews: POL POT Is a Precocious Puzzlebox
by Alan Katz - August 12, 2014 As the strange and sharp-turning story unfolds, it becomes clear that there are eerie similarities between the regime of the genocidal dictator and the living arrangements of these six men. They are a group of urban creatures who have moved out into the country to live a self-sufficient life. They ...
Bard SummerScape 2013 Presents THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Stage Premiere, Now thru 7/21
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2013 The Bard SummerScape festival in New York's Annandale-on-Hudson presents the world premiere of an original stage adaptation of The Master and Margarita (1937) by Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita is widely recognized as one of the greatest and most beloved Russian novels of the 20th century...
Public Theater's 13th Annual UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL Kicks Off January 4
by BWW News Desk - January 02, 2017 The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) begins performances for the 13th annual UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL on Wednesday, January 4....
CHF Debuts New Annual Spring Festival
by Tyler Peterson - February 03, 2016 The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) announces the launch of the 2016 Spring Festival,Style, with more than 20 programs taking place in and around Chicago April 28-May 1. Exploring how style shapes who we are as individuals and what we value across cultures, CHF is making the bold statement, 'style...
HBO Debuts Moving Documentary CRIES FROM SYRIA, 3/13
by Caryn Robbins - February 21, 2017 CRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing account of the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the devastating civil war that has defined the country over the past five years....
Marin Alsop Leads BSO in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 13, 2014 Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 tonight, November 13 at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Sunday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore. Also on the program are Tchaikovsky's tone poem March...
MoMA to Open Eastern European & Latin American Art Exhibition 'TRANSMISSIONS' This Fall
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2015 The Museum of Modern Art presents Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980, an exhibition on view from September 5, 2015, through January 3, 2016, that focuses on the parallels and connections among international artists working in-and in reference to-Latin America and Easte...
Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum Presents KORNGOLD, THE LOST COMPOSER? Panel Today
by BWW News Desk - February 25, 2014 The Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum are the proud partners of what promises to be an extraordinary panel discussion on the life, the work and the legacy of exiled twentieth-century composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who went from Viennese 'wunderkind' to one of the founding fathers of the 'G...
Clarissa Ward & Elizabeth Palmer to Provide Reports from Inside Syria on Tonight's CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY
by Tyler Peterson - September 05, 2013 CBS NEWS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS CLARISSA WARD AND ELIZABETH PALMER PROVIDE RARE REPORTS FROM INSIDE THE SYRIAN WAR – TONIGHT ON THE “CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY” (6:30-7:00 PM, ET)...
Marin Alsop to Lead BSO in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, 11/13 & 11/16
by Tyler Peterson - October 31, 2014 Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 on Thursday, November 13 at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Sunday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore. Also on the program are Tchaikovsky's tone poem M...
Bookworks' IT'S ABOUT BOOKS For January
by BWW News Desk - January 31, 2014 Without a doubt Alexandra Fuller is one of my most favorite authors. Her first book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, is a delightfully funny yet poignant backward look at her childhood in Africa. The latest,Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, is, at first glance a charming, delightful...
MoMA to Open Eastern European & Latin American Art Exhibition 'TRANSMISSIONS' This Fall
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2015 The Museum of Modern Art presents Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980, an exhibition on view from September 5, 2015, through January 3, 2016, that focuses on the parallels and connections among international artists working in-and in reference to-Latin America and Easte...
Pacific Symphony and Chapman University's Global Arts Program Present DECODING SHOSTAKOVICH
by BWW News Desk - December 03, 2013 Orange County, Calif.—Dec. 3, 2013—One of Russia's most fascinating and complex composers—Dmitri Shostakovich—goes under the magnifying glass when Pacific Symphony partners with Chapman University's Global Arts Program to present “Decoding Shostakovich,” a festival dedicated to the iconic composer, ...
Free Reading of SHOSTAKOVICH Set for ACT, 5/12-13
by Tyler Peterson - April 11, 2014 A Contemporary Theatre's New Play Award recipient: Shostakovich by Jason Grote. Best known for his play 1001 (a deconstruction of Arabian Nights) and Maria/Stuart, Jason Grote's newest work focuses on the life and work of celebrated Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. Commissioned through the New...
This Sunday on ENFOQUE CON JOSE DÍAZ-BALART
by A.A. Cristi - February 03, 2017 On this week's edition of “Enfoque con José Díaz-Balart”: a look at the first days of Donald Trump's presidency and its impact on the Hispanic community; an analysis of new policy announcements on immigration; a conversation with Cuban dissident artist Danilo “El Sexto” Maldonado; and a profile of L...
Walter Jung Pens THE FUGITIVE
by Christina Mancuso - August 08, 2016 One man wanders about China and Mongolia, chased by the combined units of the local police and the resolute North Korean secret police, after being blindly accused of disloyalty from the ruling Kim Empire and fearing for his own life. With his clever and rough escape, he has become an enemy of the r...
Marin Alsop to Lead Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's FIFTH SYMPHONY, 11/13
by Matt Smith - November 02, 2014 Baltimore, Md. (October 31, 2014) — Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 on Thursday, November 13 at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Sunday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore. Also on the p...
Highlights from SNL's 'Weekend Update' with Seth Meyers and Cecily Strong
by Caryn Robbins - December 23, 2013 Below, check out highlights from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 'Weekend Update' with Seth Meyers and Cecily Strong'. The show aired Saturday, December 21, 2013....
BWW CD Review: Boston's Nelsons Shows his Love for Shostakovich
by Erica Miner - September 16, 2015 Reasons for his close link to the 20th century Russian composer... |
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