BAM curates a selection of international, independent, and classic movies perfect for film-going families. The winter/spring season includes an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island starring the Muppets, Dutch stop motion animation Miffy, the Oscar-nominated time traveling Japanese animation Mirai, the best of the 2019 BAMkids Film Festival, and a selection from the 2019 FilmAfrica festival.
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! We hope all of our northeast readers survived yesterday's windstorm. Settle in to this much quieter morning by reading the top Broadway stories.
Dopo Aggiungi un posto a tavola (per il quale la Compagnia dell'Alba ha ottenuto i diritti di rappresentazione da autori ed eredi per la prima volta al di fuori del Teatro Sistina di Roma, collezionando in tre stagioni oltre 150 repliche), Nunsense: il Musical delle Suore!, miglior spettacolo 'off' all'Italian Musical Award 2016, e Tutti insieme appassionatamente (attualmente al suo secondo anno di tour) la Compagnia dell'Alba presenta il musical A Christmas Carol...
Comedian Dom Joly, actress Beverley Callard, TV presenter Alison Hammond, comedian Steve Punt and actor Philip Franks will star as The Narrator in the 2018/9 UK tour of The Rocky Horror Show. The five stars will take to the stage to perform the iconic role at various moments during the new national tour of the show, which opens at Theatre Royal Brighton this December and then travels across the country until November 2019. More celebrity narrators will be announced over the coming months.
Aisle Say's favorite interview was yesterday, with King Arthur (Steve McCoy) of SPAMALOT, opening at The Playhouse on October 25 and running for 4 nights. Mais oui, a kindred spirit, but his career took a slightly different trajectory than mine; a 20-year-old moving to NYC in 1970, attempting to make it on Broadway (and failing miserably).
Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show has become a staple at The Bucks County Playhouse. Year after year, director Hunter Foster restages this cult classic that brings audiences in by the car load. A night mixed with theatre lovers as well as committed fans of both the movie, 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', and the classic musical.
If you grew up in Columbus in the 80s, the movie THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW at the Graceland Theatre was a teenage rite of passage, much like White Castle runs, midnight rounds of Putt-Putt and Little Kings Cream Ale.
Pull out those fishnets, tighten that corset and get ready to do the Time Warp as the Castle Craig Players host two interactive screenings of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, October 19 & 20, at at their intimate cabaret venue in Meriden.
Tupelo Community Theatre will present an interactive, audience participation showing of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show on October 31st at 8 p.m. at TCT Off Broadway at 213 East Franklin Street.
Since it first opened in London in June 1973 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show has become the world's favourite Rock 'N' Roll musical, having been performed worldwide for 45 years in more than 30 countries and translated into over 20 languages. This critically-acclaimed stunning new production is now back by public demand and returns for a 12 month UK tour starting at Theatre Royal Brighton on 13 December 2018.
State Theatre New Jersey presents a screening of the cult classic movie musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday, October 26, 2018 at 11pm. In addition to the screening, from 9pm to 11pm, State Theatre is hosting a pre-show party with a full service bar, ticket giveaways, a DJ, and a costume contest with prizes. Tickets are $15 and include a goodie bag of props.
Rex Smith (Broadway: The Pirates of Penzance, Grand Hotel, The Scarlett Pimpernel) stars as Victor Velasco in Neil Simon's classic hit comedy Barefoot In The Park at the historic Sharon Playhouse in Connecticut from July 27 through August 12.
A major theme running throughout THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW musical is transvestism which, according to O'Brien, was not originally meant to be as prominent as it ended up being after its original London production starring the cross-dressing, incredibly sexy Tim Curry as Frank-n-Furter. Brilliantly continuing in that tradition since the Maverick Theater's first production in 2007 is Dennis Tong, who absolutely inhabits the iconic role with every ounce of his being. From the moment he appears atop the bar in the theater and throws back his cape to reveal Frank-n-Furter's scantily dressed sexy self, you know this is going to be a night of theater you will never forget. In fact, the entire cast creates each and every character purely from their hearts.
Rex Smith (Broadway: The Pirates of Penzance, Grand Hotel, The Scarlett Pimpernel) stars as Victor Velasco in Neil Simon's classic hit comedy Barefoot In The Park at the historic Sharon Playhouse in Connecticut from July 27 through August 12.
Stratford Ontario has caught ROCKY HORROR fever with the hit production at the Stratford Festival's Avon Theatre, and BWW had the chance to chat with the performers, the director, and audience members from all walks of life to find out just what magic is at work here!
Victoria Theatre Association's 2018 Reel Late at the Vic Films Series presents cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, one night only: July, 14, 10:30 p.m. C. Wrights Parlour Tricks opens the event at 10 p.m. $6 single tickets and $5 theatre-friendly survival kits are available for purchase in advance or at the Victoria Theatre box office on the night of the show.
Victoria Theatre Association's 2018 Reel Late at the Vic Films Series presents cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, one night only: July, 14, 10:30 p.m. C. Wrights Parlour Tricks opens the event at 10 p.m. $6 single tickets and $5 theatre-friendly survival kits are available for purchase in advance or at the Victoria Theatre box office on the night of the show.
Despite a bomb threat that caused the audience of the Saturday matinee to be evacuated from the Alex Theatre in Glendale and the performance to be cancelled, GMCLA persevered and went forward with the Saturday evening performance of their spectacular Pink Carpet.
This week we'd rather be us...but also be with our new #FriendoftheShow and Mean Girls star Barrett Wilbert Weed! We're cracking open WAY TOO MANY MANCAN Wine cans while Barrett spills about sharing a dressing room with Kerry Butler, the honesty she brings to her unconventional roles, and how we should call more things a menagerie.
Dialing It UpThis quote from a live cabaret performance by Charles Busch could be referencing his play, Die! Mommie Die!, which is a parody of the kind of grotesque, overwrought melodrama that fueled the careers of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the 1960's. Busch is certainly juicing up an old model, registering the conniving and backstabbing plot twists beneath a veneer of arch camp.
