BAFTA Announces Nominations for Arqiva British Academy Television Awards
by Caryn Robbins - April 07, 2014 The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced the nominations for the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards...
Parmigianino's SCHIAVA TURCA Comes to US for the First Time at The Frick, 5/13-7/20
by Diana Heisroth - April 03, 2014 Parmigianino's 'Schiava Turca,' newly interpreted and in the US for the first time, will come to the Frick Collection May 13 through July 20, 2014....
BWW Reviews: RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS Falters Rather than Flies at the National Arts Festival
by David Fick - July 08, 2014 Protest theatre should burn fiercely in the darkness that surrounds it; RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS only flickers enough for us to make out what we have already seen....
Kelly Colleen McMahon's THE FAITHFULL, Feat. Music of Pearl Jam, to Debut at Benaroya Hall, 12/5
by BWW News Desk - November 04, 2013 In the most electrifying theater event to hit Seattle since Rock of Ages, writer/director Kelly Colleen McMahon presents the sensational new "rock-u-drama", The Faithfull. Inspired by the music of city legends Pearl Jam, and featuring a live stage band, The Faithfull offers a new slant on the conve...
Lincoln Center to Present THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy in Concert, April 2015
by Movies News Desk - September 02, 2014 For the first time in North America, the complete film trilogy The Lord of the Rings will be presented live, in concert, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, April 8-12, 2015. Beneath a giant screen, the Academy Award-winning scores by Howard Shore will be performed by 250 music...
BWW Reviews: Imagination Stage's RUMPELSTILTSKIN is Brilliantly Executed but Script is Disturbing
by Audrey Liebross - February 10, 2014 The version of RUMPELSTILTSKIN currently being presented at Imagination Stage, in Bethesda, Maryland, is a grim Grimm fairy tale. The production is brilliantly executed, but the script is so dark that it may not be appropriate for younger children....
Creative Team Set for 20th Annual SCREEN ACTORS GUILD Awards
by Caryn Robbins - December 09, 2013 Executive Producer Kathy Connell vividly remembers the 14 months leading up to the inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards® ceremony....
Lincoln Center to Present THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy in Concert, April 2015
by Movies News Desk - September 02, 2014 For the first time in North America, the complete film trilogy The Lord of the Rings will be presented live, in concert, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, April 8-12, 2015. Beneath a giant screen, the Academy Award-winning scores by Howard Shore will be performed by 250 music...
COC to Bring Nine Canadian Singers to Toronto for CENTRE STAGE Competition Gala, Nov 26
by BWW News Desk - November 11, 2013 Out of a pool of 155 young, aspiring opera singers from across the country, the Canadian Opera Company has selected nine to compete in the third annual COC Ensemble Studio Competition on November 26, 2013 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. The Ensemble Studio Competition is the feat...
BWW Reviews: The Table of Silence Project 9/11 Commemorates the September 11th Terrorist Attacks
by Frances Steiner - September 13, 2013 It is the instinctual reaction of an artist to create art from destruction. The Table of Silence Project 9/11 was conceived by Jacqulyn Buglisi and Rossella Vasta as a “public tribute and ritual for peace”—a reaction to the September 11th terrorist attacks and the world that day created....
Ranee Ramaswamy, Olga Viso & Rick Lowe Appointent to National Council on the Arts
by Nicole Rosky - December 05, 2013 Three new members have been confirmed by the Senate and appointed by the President to the National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the National Endowment for the Arts. These individuals will bring their varied experience -- ranging from contemporary art curatorship, to classical Indian dan...
COC to Bring Nine Canadian Singers to Toronto for CENTRE STAGE Competition Gala, Nov 26
by BWW News Desk - November 11, 2013 Out of a pool of 155 young, aspiring opera singers from across the country, the Canadian Opera Company has selected nine to compete in the third annual COC Ensemble Studio Competition on November 26, 2013 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. The Ensemble Studio Competition is the feat...
Pacific Symphony Presents Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, 10/24 - 10/26
by Rosie Hertzman - September 30, 2013 Pacific Symphony's 35th anniversary season continues with the sizzling sounds of 20th-century Spain igniting in the hands of Music Director Carl St.Clair as he leads the orchestra into the exotic world of flamenco, guitar and Spanish poetry....
BWW Reviews: OUR DON: ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Unveiled a Brand New Work
by Barry Lenny - August 18, 2014 The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra today world premiered a new work by ex-patriot South Australian composer, Natalie Williams, Our Don - A Symphonic Tribute to Sir Donald Bradman....
Ann Peacock to Pen Feature Screenplay based on SAVING THE LOST TRIBE
by Caryn Robbins - April 16, 2014 Ann Peacock ("The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe") is set to write a feature screenplay based on the acclaimed book Saving the Lost Tribe....
The 'Beat' Goes On at Harris Theater with The Chicago High School for the Arts, 3/6
by BWW News Desk - February 18, 2014 On Thursday, March 6 at 12PM, the talented young students of The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) kick off the third Eat to the Beat performance of the 2013-2014 season at the Harris Theater. Some of Chicago's best food trucks will be on site to provide concertgoers with a wide selection o...
Composer Max Richter Talks Score for HBO's THE LEFTOVERS
by Caryn Robbins - August 01, 2014 THE LEFTOVERS is the story of the people who didn't make the cut. Lindelof and Perrotta executive produce the series along with Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey....
The Peninsula Paris is Now Open!
by Robert Diamond - August 02, 2014 Following an extensive four-year restoration and marking the debut of The Peninsula Hotels into Europe, the newest hotel in The Peninsula Hotels' portfolio, The Peninsula Paris, opened today and welcomed its first guests....
BWW Reviews: Deaf and Blind Israeli Performers Fascinate Audience in NOT BY BREAD ALONE at the Ohio
by Roy Berko - March 21, 2014 'NOT BY BREAD ALONE' is everything good theatre should be....a thought- provoking, experience-broadening, emotionally inspiring experience that should open the eyes and hearts of the viewer. Mazel tov to Adina Tai and the Nalaga'at Deaf-Blind Theater Ensemble of Israel....
Lincoln Center to Present THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy in Concert, April 2015
by Movies News Desk - September 02, 2014 For the first time in North America, the complete film trilogy The Lord of the Rings will be presented live, in concert, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, April 8-12, 2015. Beneath a giant screen, the Academy Award-winning scores by Howard Shore will be performed by 250 music...
Ranee Ramaswamy, Olga Viso & Rick Lowe Appointent to National Council on the Arts
by Nicole Rosky - December 05, 2013 Three new members have been confirmed by the Senate and appointed by the President to the National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the National Endowment for the Arts. These individuals will bring their varied experience -- ranging from contemporary art curatorship, to classical Indian dan...
Michelle Obama to Serve as Honorary Chair of Roosevelt University's 125th Anniversary Season
by Tyler Peterson - December 09, 2013 The National Historic Landmark Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, led by Executive Director Brett Batterson and Board Chairman Melvin L. Katten, celebrates the milestone 125th Anniversary and announces programming for 2014 - 15 Season....
BWW Reviews: OUR DON: ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Unveiled a Brand New Work
by Barry Lenny - August 18, 2014 The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra today world premiered a new work by ex-patriot South Australian composer, Natalie Williams, Our Don - A Symphonic Tribute to Sir Donald Bradman....
The Music Hall to Continue 'Writers in the Loft' Series with 'IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE', 9/17
by BWW News Desk - August 19, 2014 The Music Hall's Writers in the Loft series welcomes Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and editor-at-large of Outside magazine, America's leading adventure-travel magazine, on Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Sides will discuss IN THE KINGDOM OF ICE: The Grand and Terrible Voyage of ...
BWW Reviews: Complex DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS Needs Deeper Interrogation
by David Fick - July 27, 2014 Eugene O'Neill's DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS is the subject of a new adaptation, with the action transferred from 1840s New England to the Eastern Cape of the 1890s in an attempt to amplify the resonance that O'Neill's classic play has for the South African theatre audiences of today.... |