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Usdan to Host 2014 Open House, 2/19
by BWW News Desk - February 10, 2014
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), the nationally acclaimed summer arts day camp, announces several new programs for its 2014, 47th season: Musical Theater Dance and Musical Theater Audition Workshop, both for grades 7-12; and Sewing and Fashion Production, for grades 4-12.
Hampton Theatre Company to Present THE FOREIGNER, 3/13-30
by BWW News Desk - February 09, 2014
Confusion, conspiracies and the collision of cultures yield copious laughter when a painfully shy Englishman is brought by his friend to a backwoods Georgia fishing lodge in Larry Shue's 'The Foreigner,' the Hampton Theatre Company's revival of one of its greatest hits, from March 13 through March 30 at the Quogue Community Hall.
SoLuna Studio's A CHORUS LINES Opens Tomorrow
by BWW News Desk - February 06, 2014
SoLuna Studio will be producing the musical theatre classic A CHORUS LINE as a part of their professional main stage season, with performances running February 7th-23rd, 2014. Performances will be held on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm.
WHBPAC Students Present OKLAHOMA!, Now thru 2/1
by BWW News Desk - January 31, 2014
See students of the WHBPAC's Nancy & Frederick DeMatteis Arts Education Program sing, dance and act on the WHBPAC's world-class stage in the all-time favorite musical, Rogers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!, tonight, January 31 and Saturday, February 1 at 7:00 p.m.
BWW Reviews: The Engeman's OTHER DESERT CITIES
by Melissa Giordano - January 29, 2014
Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities' is an emotion roller coaster. It is a heart wrenching story set around what is supposed to be a happy time of year and Richard T. Dolce's cast wonderfully delivers at the stunning John W. Engeman Theatre. Running through March 9th at the Northport venue, the play revolves around a prominent political Californian family.
Photo Coverage: OTHER DESERT CITIES Opens at John W. Engeman Theater
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - January 26, 2014
John W. Engeman Theater presents OTHER DESERT CITIES, the funny, gripping and ultimately satisfying play about family secrets brought to light from Jon Robin Baitz (creator of TV's Brothers & Sisters), which was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Previews began on Thursday, January 23rd at 8:00 p.m. while the official opening was last night, Saturday, January 25th at 8:00 p.m., the production runs through March 9, 2014. BroadwayWorld was on the scene last night - check out photos below!
The Secret Theatre to Present THE UNLIKELY ASCENT OF SYBIL STEVENS, 2/6-23
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2014
The Secret Theatre has announced the production of Kari Bentley-Quinn's The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens directed by New Voices Co-Director Christopher Diercksen. The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens will play a three-week limited engagement at The Secret Theatre (4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101). Performances begin Thursday, February 6 and continue through Sunday, February 23, 2014.
BWW Reviews: Let CMPAC Entertain You with GYPSY
by Melissa Giordano - January 24, 2014
Creative Ministries Performing Arts Centre's (CMPAC) latest musical, Gypsy, is certainly one for the books. The Ronald R. Green III directed production boasts a great cast and a well told story. This classic piece runs through February 9th at the Oakdale, Long Island, venue.
TRUF Theater Company Presents NOT YOUR MAMA'S FAIRY TALES, Now thru 2/8
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2014
The TRUF Theater Company presents Not Your Mama's Fairy Tales or: In Real Life, Everything Sucks, a trilogy of one acts with an irreverent spin on classic fairy tales, today, January 24 - February 8 at The Chain Theater, 21-28 45 Road, Long Island City.
BRIC Presents WOW, Now thru 2/1
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2014
BRIC continues its inaugural season in the newly opened BRIC Arts | Media House (BRIC House), the organization's new 40,000-square-foot multi-disciplinary facility in Downtown Brooklyn, and presents work-in-progress performances of WOW, an experimental opera by Fort Greene residents Joe Diebes, Christian Hawkey and David Levine developed, in part, during a BRIC House Fireworks Residency. All three artists are known for trying to radically rethink or reinvent their respective backgrounds: musical composition (Diebes), poetry (Hawkey), and theater (Levine). And although they have, in the past, collaborated in pairs, the only form in which all three could share their drive for reinvention was, perhaps, the oldest multimedia spectacle of them all: opera. And, for their subject? The story of Milli Vanilli, a manufactured German pop duo whose spectacular rise and fall has become an American legend.
GYPSY Plays CM Performing Arts Center, Now thru 2/9
by BWW News Desk - January 18, 2014
Let CM Performing Arts Center 'entertain you' with the musical GYPSY!
WHBPAC to Present Swazzle's DREAM CARVER, 2/3-5
by BWW News Desk - January 17, 2014
As part of its School Day Performances Series, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center presents Swazzle's bilingual family musical Dream Carver, for ages 6 - 11, at 10 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. on Monday, February 3, Tuesday, February 4 and Wednesday, February 5. All tickets are $10 and can be purchased by calling Cheryl Wheeler at 631-288-2350, ext 102.
NFCT's STEEL MAGNOLIAS Begins Tonight
by BWW News Desk - January 17, 2014
The NFCT will present Steel Magnolias, a play by Robert Harling. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching-and, in the end, it draws on their underlying strength and love, which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
Ken Barnett, Susan Bott & More to Star in AND BABY MAKES SEVEN at New Ohio Theater, 3/11-4/12
by BWW News Desk - January 16, 2014
New Ohio Theatre Artistic Director Robert Lyons in association with Purpleman Theater have announced casting for Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's And Baby Makes Seven. Marc Stuart Weitz will direct ensemble including Ken Barnett (Wonderful Town, Julie Taymor's The Green Bird) as Peter, Susan Bott (Julie Kramer's The Best of Everything) as Ruth and Constance Zaytoun (Moby Pomerance's Broken Hands) as Anna. And Baby Makes Seven is an uproarious and timely comedy that has not been seen professionally in New York in 20 years. Performances will take place March 11-April 12 at the New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street, between Washington and Greenwich Streets). Critics are welcome as of March 19 for an opening of March 23.
BWW Reviews: SoLuna's Long Island Premiere Of BONNIE & CLYDE
by Melissa Giordano - January 15, 2014
The Long Island premier of Bonnie & Clyde went off without a hitch this past weekend at SoLuna Studio. With a book by Ivan Menchell, the 'biographical' musical of two of the most nutorious gangsters shows true love, the solidarity of family, and unwavering loyalty. Running through January 26th at the Hauppauge venue, the cast is truly on top of their game in this production.
Richard Maxwell Wins Spalding Grary Award
by BWW News Desk - January 13, 2014
The Spalding Gray National Consortium has announced that playwright and director Richard Maxwell is the recipient of the 2014 Spalding Gray Award. Named after the groundbreaking monologist Spalding Gray (1941-2004), the award is sponsored by the consortium that includes Kathleen Russo, Gray's widow; the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; On the Boards in Seattle; Performance Space 122 in New York; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It comes with a $20,000 commission to create a new work and provides for a full production of that work by each organization. In his new work, Maxwell will collaborate with choreographer Sarah Michelson, who will take charge of the production's design, and actor Gary Wilmes, one of Maxwell's oldest friends and collaborators.
WHBPAC Students to Present OKLAHOMA!, 1/31-2/1
by BWW News Desk - January 13, 2014
See students of the WHBPAC's Nancy & Frederick DeMatteis Arts Education Program sing, dance and act on the WHBPAC's world-class stage in the all-time favorite musical, Rogers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!, Friday, January 31 and Saturday, February 1 at 7:00 p.m. All tickets are $15 and are available online at www.whbpac.org.
TRUF Theater Company to Present NOT YOUR MAMA'S FAIRY TALES, 1/24-2/8
by BWW News Desk - January 09, 2014
The TRUF Theater Company presents Not Your Mama's Fairy Tales or: In Real Life, Everything Sucks, a trilogy of one acts with an irreverent spin on classic fairy tales, January 24 - February 8 at The Chain Theater, 21-28 45 Road, Long Island City. The Equity production is a 12-performance limited engagement featuring Little Red, Forever Neverland, and Weight of Wishing. Details and tickets are available at www.TheTRUF.org.
Hampton Theatre Company Presents HEROES, Now thru 1/26
by BWW News Desk - January 09, 2014
Three high-spirited World War I veterans confined to an old soldiers home seek to rise above their predicament and their limitations in the comedic and often touching 'Heroes,' the second play in the Hampton Theatre Company's 2013-2014 season in Quogue.
Tina Satter's HOUSE OF DANCE Returns to Abrons Arts Center, Now thru 1/13
by BWW News Desk - January 09, 2014
As part of the ninth edition of the COIL festival, Performance Space 122, New York City Players (NYCP) and American Realness present an encore engagement of Tina Satter's House of Dance as part of NYCP's American Playwrights Division in association with Half Straddle and Abrons Arts Center. Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run this fall, which Ben Brantley in The New York Times called, 'enchanting,' and, 'so very refreshing,' House of Dance returns to Abrons Arts Center for four performances only.
Bay Street Theatre to Host 2014 FEBRUARY SCHOOL VACATION KIDS CAMP, 2/17-21
by BWW News Desk - January 08, 2014
Bay Street Theatre has announced its upcoming February School Vacation Kids Camp, February 17-21. The camp is for ages 8 through 12, and runs from 9am - 3 pm each day at the Bay Street Theatre. Cost is $385 for the weeklong camp per child.
GYPSY to Play CM Performing Arts Center, 1/18-2/9
by BWW News Desk - January 07, 2014
Let CM Performing Arts Center "entertain you" with the musical GYPSY!
Photo Coverage: First Look at Engeman Theater's WHITE CHRISTMAS
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - January 07, 2014
The John W. Engeman Theater just presented White Christmas, starring Darien Crago, Kennedy Caughell, Drew Humphrey and Benjamin Eakeley. BroadwayWorld brings you photos of the cast in action below!
Mac Wellman's MUAZZEZ Plays PS122's COIL, Now thru 1/17
by BWW News Desk - January 07, 2014
As part of the ninth edition of the COIL festival, Performance Space 122 and The Chocolate Factory present the New York premiere of Mac Wellman's Muazzez. Written and directed by one of America's leading playwrights, Muazzez is an offbeat tale performed by longtime Wellman collaborator Steve Mellor.
WHBPAC's Arts Education Program Announces Winter and Spring 2014 Class Schedule
by BWW News Desk - January 06, 2014
Sing! Dance! Act! The WHBPAC's Nancy and Frederick DeMatteis Arts Education Program unveiled a winter/spring class schedule which allows young performers to do all three in the same semester! And for the first time, registration is available online, making it even easier to enroll in your favorite classes! The WHBPAC's Arts Education Program welcomes all ages and skill levels and boasts professional Teaching Artists who provide innovative performing arts training in a nurturing, positive and safe learning environment. These gifted educators bring both their talents and their training to the classroom, stimulating imaginations and creativity through the performing arts!

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