Indie Folk-Rock Artist Angela Josephine To Release New Album DAYLIGHT May 4
by Macon Prickett - March 05, 2018 Daylight, the long-awaited, full-length album from indie-folk artist Angela Josephine, is scheduled for release on May 4, 2018. This project is at once a folk-rock opera and personal exploration; the listener is drawn into the narrative of a woman caught in the dark night and her revelatory journey ...
BWW Previews: LITTLE BLACK DRESS MUSICAL CHRONICLES STAGES OF LIFE WITH HUMOR AND HEART at The Straz Center
by Deborah Bostock-Kelley - April 19, 2018 LITTLE BLACK DRESS MUSICAL CHRONICLES STAGES OF LIFE WITH HUMOR AND HEART at The Straz Center...
Darren Criss to Star in Roland Emmerich's WWII Film MIDWAY
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 13, 2018 Darren Criss is set to star in Roland Emmerich's film, Midway, according to Deadline....
MTD's MEMPHIS has powerful message, but lacks heart
by Jared West - May 06, 2018 Love is love. That is the overarching message to the storyline of MEMPHIS. Love who you love: male, female, black or white. In the case of this particular show, the historically societal boundary being crossed is one of race. However, the words and songs in the script could apply to many current-day...
Shirley MacLaine to Receive Career Achievement Honor at AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards
by Kaitlin Milligan - December 18, 2018 Shirley MacLaine will receive AARP The Magazine's 2018 Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award, the publication announced today. MacLaine will be honored at the 18th annual Movies for Grownups® Awards ceremony on Feb. 4, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California....
BWW Review: SEDONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ~ Celebrating 25 Years And The Man Behind The Screens!
by Herbert Paine - February 18, 2019 In recognition of the SEDONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL's 25th Anniversary as unique communal experience for filmmakers and moviegoers. A profile of the event and the man who has steered its course, Patrick Schweiss. Running this year from Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 through Sunday, March 3rd....
The Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater and The Arthur Laurents Theater Come to New Jersey
by Stephi Wild - March 21, 2019 The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC), City of New Brunswick, and George Street Playhouse today announced The Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater and The Arthur Laurents Theater named after two George Street Playhouse benefactors. The $7.75 million in gifts, the largest in George Street Playho...
We Happy Few Presents THE HORROR REP
by A.A. Cristi - September 26, 2018 Come and see the culmination of our Classics-in-Action horror trilogy and our first-ever performance in repertory! Just in time for Halloween, take your pick from our adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. With our customary fidelity to the text, immer...
Sundance Institute, Skywalker Sound Announce Composers and Directors For 2019 Film Music And Sound Design Lab
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 25, 2019 Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound today announced the composers and directors selected for the Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab, which returns to the legendary Skywalker Sound Facilities for the seventh year....
HBO Films' FAHRENHEIT 451, Starring Michael B. Jordan Debuts May 19
by Tori Hartshorn - May 03, 2018 Michael B. Jordan (“Black Panther,” “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”) and Michael Shannon (HBO's “Boardwalk Empire”; Oscar® nominee for “Nocturnal Animals” and “Revolutionary Road”; Golden Globe nominee for “99 Homes”) star in HBO Films' FAHRENHEIT 451. Directed by Ramin Bahrani (“99 Homes”) from a scre...
African Children's Choir Founder Ray Barnett Pens Autobiography
by Julie Musbach - May 13, 2019 As a young boy struggling to find his way through the immense poverty, secrecy and war-time suffering that gripped his life in Northern Ireland, Ray Barnett dreamed of a life of adventure and travel like that of his hero: famed missionary-explorer David Livingstone. ...
Sundance Institute, Skywalker Sound Announce Composers and Directors For 2019 Film Music And Sound Design Lab
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 25, 2019 Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound today announced the composers and directors selected for the Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab, which returns to the legendary Skywalker Sound Facilities for the seventh year....
BWW Review: DETROIT '67 at the University Of Louisville
by Keith Waits - January 27, 2020 What you consider to be the turning point of the 1960s may depend on where you were standing. If you lived on the west side of Detroit it may have been July 1967, when five days of rioting left 42 dead. In Detroit '67, Dominique Morriseau creates a story just a short distance from the epicenter of t...
2020 PuSh Festival Presents Line-up Of Daring, Visionary Artists
by Stephi Wild - November 29, 2019 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh) presents its 16th annual edition from January 21 to February 9, 2020 at various venues across the Lower Mainland. Featuring 27 works from 24 companies from nine countries a?' including six world premieres a?' the festival line-up is dedicated to cre...
BWW Dance Interview: Kyle Abraham Talks Live! The Realest M.C and More!
by Barnett Serchuk - April 01, 2019 KYLE ABRAHAM is a 2017-18 Joyce Creative Residency Artist, 2016 Doris Duke Recipient, 2015 City Center Choreographer in Residence, a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, and a New York Live Arts Resident Commissioned Artist for 2012-2014....
Music Recording Artist Bill Curreri To Play The Turning Point On September 7
by A.A. Cristi - August 20, 2019 As if achieving a #1 hit on US Adult Contemporary Radio for three weeks in 2015 with his pulsating, Stones-like composition, Fade Away wasn't enough to establish his INDIE music bona fides, Bill Curreri has also witnessed the incredibly strong charting of several of his songs on Adult Contemporary R...
BWW Review: LEGALLY BLONDE at Paramount Theatre
by Emily McClanathan - September 09, 2018 Paramount Theatre's production of LEGALLY BLONDE-THE MUSICAL lands the familiar tale of sorority-girl-turned-lawyer Elle Woods firmly in 2018, and it works well. Based on the 2001 movie, the musical premiered on Broadway in 2007, and, unlike some stage adaptations of beloved chick flicks, still reso...
Alt-Folk, Hip-Hop Trio Judah & The Lion Share '7000x', Plus Announce Latitude, World Tour
by Tori Hartshorn - April 09, 2019 The genre-smashing Nashville trio Judah & the Lion are thrilled to share another new track'7000x', out now. The track gives fans another preview of the band's forthcoming third studio album Pep Talks, which is due for physical release in the UK on July 5th, via Cletus the Van/Caroline....
BWW Blog: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's Amanda Brennan on Acting for the Screen
by BWW News Desk - January 03, 2020 Amanda Brennan is an acting coach, film director, producer, and the Principal Lecturer and Course Leader in MA Acting for Screen at London's Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her recent coaching credits include Collette, Sex Education and His Dark Materials. She is currently writing her sec...
Vanessa Collier to Embark on Winter 'Honey Up' Tour
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 04, 2019 Acclaimed soulful blues singer/saxophonist Vanessa Collier embarks on her Winter 2019 'Honey Up' U.S. Tour, in support of her recent album of the same name, with a local performance at Mauck Chunk Opera House, 14 W. Broadway, Friday, January 11. Showtime: 8pm. Tickets: $25 (VIP), $15 (General Admiss...
MACBETH and IDOMENEO Come to The Marlowe
by Stephi Wild - April 10, 2019 For their annual visit to The Marlowe Theatre, they will be presenting Macbeth (Friday 10 May) and Idomeneo (Saturday 11 May), with each opera featuring a large chorus and a live orchestra....
BWW Review: HIT THE WALL at Pandora Productions
by Keith Waits - May 20, 2019 That the 1969 riots at the center of Ike Holter's play are identified as 'Stonewall' is a neat metaphorical turn of phrase, even if it is happenstance. It is the turning point for Gays emerging from the shadows and staking a claim for a rightful place in society. And the walls came tumbling down....
BWW Review: CONQUEST, The Vaults
by Cindy Marcolina - February 22, 2018 Alice (Lucy Walker-Evans) is trying to buy the morning after pill in Boots when she meets Jo (Colette Eaton), who drags her into a world of feminist revenge. Written by Katie Caden and directed by Jess Daniels, Conquest explores feminism and consent in a humorously, full of darker undertones....
SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS Receives the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Award
by Stephi Wild - January 24, 2018 The Trustees of The Laurents / Hatcher Foundation, Inc. are pleased to announce that SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS by Donja R. Love is the recipient of the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award. Mr. Love will receive $50,000, and Manhattan Theatre Club, who will present the world premiere in June 2018, will re...
Glenn Dicterow To Appear With Pegasus At Merkin Hall
by A.A. Cristi - October 29, 2019 Pegasus: The Orchestra will make their Merkin Hall debut on Saturday, November 23rd at 8pm led by conductor Karén! Hakobyan. Glenn Dicterow, the legendary former concertmaster of New York Philharmonic, will join Pegasus concertmaster Eiko Kano for Bach's Double Violin Concerto. Opening the program w... |