Briana Butler News

A recap of Season Five, Episode Three of THE VOICE, all the performances and coach shenanigans that happened!

It's episode 5 of The X Factor and the auditions heat up.

The Marvelous Wonderettes, presented by the Main Street Players, created by Roger Bean, will be directed by Carla Zackson Heller and runs tonight, September 27th - October 13th.

Producers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment, Warner Bros. & The Nederlander Organization have announced that the first North American tour of the new stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ will make its L.A. debut at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre for a limited 3 week engagement; today, September 17 - October 6, 2013. Full casting for the tour is now complete.

Do you know a Kid of Achievement? Now in its 22nd year, the Staten Island Children's Museum's Circle of Friends luncheon is the Museum's way of expressing appreciation to the non-profit and business communities by recognizing people and organizations that have significantly contributed to the lives of Staten Island's children.

Single tickets go on sale today, September 13, for Theatre for a New Audience's inaugural production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by multiple Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor with original music composed by Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning Elliot Goldenthal, at the Theatre's newly-named building, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present Big Love by Charles Mee, October 3 - 13 in the Nafe Katter Theater, Storrs. Classical drama collides with modern-day excess in Charles Mee's Big Love, a fiercely extravagant adaptation of Aeschylus' The Suppliants that The New York Times described as 'an MGM musical in Technicolor, a circus and, believe it, a Greek tragedy.'

The Marvelous Wonderettes, presented by the Main Street Players, created by Roger Bean, will be directed by Carla Zackson Heller and runs September 27th - October 13th.

The Tony Award winning musical GREASE cruises onto the Manatee Players' stage as the first full theatrical season continues at the Manatee Performing Arts Center! The show opens on September 12 and runs through September 29.

Goodman Theatre Resident Director Chuck Smith presents the Chicago premiere production of Cheryl L. West's Pullman Porter Blues-a 2013 Helen Hayes/Charles MacArthur Award nominee for Outstanding New Play/Musical. This blues-infused 'glorious ride' (DCist) follows three generations of African American Pullman porters in the 1930s-an era that no longer enslaves them, but still exploits them-in an updated production especially for the city of Pullman's origin. Below, BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast and creative team in rehearsal!

Bravo Media delivers a reunion to remember with an Epic three-episode event featuring the ladies of 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' beginning tonight, August 12 at 8 P.M. ET/PT. Host Andy Cohen looks back at all the must-see moments from season eight with the Housewives franchise that started it all. Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Barney, Gretchen Rossi, Alexis Bellino, Heather Dubrow and Lydia McLaughlin head to the couches to reflect on the emotional roller-coaster season.

ELR Productions, LLC has announced that Playwright Dan Fingerman (THE AUSTERITY OF HOPE) will team up with director Christina Roussos (MAGIC TRICK) to present the world premiere of STRANDED ON MOTOR PARKWAY; a new family drama set against the backdrop of the 1986 World Series victory, today, August 9 - 16.

Producers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment, Warner Bros. & The Nederlander Organization have announced that the first North American tour of the new stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ will make its L.A. debut at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre for a limited 3 week engagement; September 17 - October 6, 2013. Full casting for the tour is now complete.

Producers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment & Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures just announced that casting is complete for the first North American tour of the new stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ, which will commence on September 10, 2013 at The Smith Center in Las Vegas, NV.

Tickets go on sale Friday, August 9 for Goodman Theatre Resident Director Chuck Smith's Chicago premiere production of Cheryl L. West's Pullman Porter Blues-a 2013 Helen Hayes/Charles MacArthur Award nominee for Outstanding New Play/Musical. This blues-infused "glorious ride" (DCist) follows three generations of African American Pullman porters in the 1930s-an era that no longer enslaves them, but still exploits them-in an updated production especially for the city of Pullman's origin.

Bravo Media delivers a reunion to remember with an epic three-episode event featuring the ladies of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” beginning Monday, August 12 at 8 P.M. ET/PT. Host Andy Cohen looks back at all the must-see moments from season eight with the Housewives franchise that started it all. Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Barney, Gretchen Rossi, Alexis Bellino, Heather Dubrow and Lydia McLaughlin head to the couches to reflect on the emotional roller-coaster season.

LES MISERABLES, Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of the world's longest running musical, runs at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis for one week only, today, July 30-August 4, 2013.

This weekend, Village Players of Birmingham staged unique and entertaining original dramas by local playwrights as part of its Playwrights @ Work Festival.

Briana Lynn Wolf has written and directed an original Song Cycle, 'Constructing Chaos', to be performed at the Laurie Beechman Theater (Downstairs at West Bank Cafe, 407 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036). The show is tonight, July 28th at 9:30PM.

Briana Lynn Wolf has written and directed an original Song Cycle, 'Constructing Chaos', to be performed at the Laurie Beechman Theater (Downstairs at West Bank Cafe, 407 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036). The show is July 28th at 9:30PM.