Pittsburgh Public Theater Announces New Administrative Appointees
by A.A. Cristi
- Dec 5, 2017
Board Chair Michael H. Ginsberg today announced the team that will lead Pittsburgh Public Theater when Producing Artistic Director Ted Pappas departs this August after 18 seasons. Named Artistic Director is Marya Sea Kaminski, the current Associate Artistic Director at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Promoted to Managing Director is Louis A. Castelli, who has been with Pittsburgh Public Theater for 20 years.
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Dallas Theater Center
by Samuel Weber
- Dec 2, 2017
The holidays in Dallas would not be complete without the gorgeously wrapped trees of Mockingbird, Mariah Carey, and a production of A Christmas Carol. For at least ten years now, Dallas Theatre Center has brought the wintry story to life right in the heart of balmy Texas. Though the adaptation isn't the most dramaturgically sound, the production is flashy and fun, especially for young families.
Dallas Performing Arts Organizations Come Together To Elevate The Arts This Holiday Season
by A.A. Cristi
- Dec 1, 2017
AT&T Performing Arts Center (AT&T PAC), Dallas Summer Musicals (DSM), Dallas Theater Center (DTC) and Texas Ballet Theater (TBT) today announced a new holiday collaboration to elevate the arts by offering a buy one get one free offer to four holiday productions. Celebrate Holiday Classics allows people to experience the magic of Broadway, ballet and theatre at an affordable price.
BWW Interview: Marisha Wallace Talks New Christmas Album and Solo Concerts
by Nicole Ackman
- Nov 19, 2017
Marisha Wallace is taking over the role of Effie White, alongside Moya Angela and Karen May, in the West End Dreamgirls from 20 November, after being one of the Effie alternates. She's also performing two London concerts at Charing Cross Theatre on 3 December to celebrate the release of her debut album, Soul Holiday.
Cal Rep presents POLAROID STORIES by Naomi Iizuka
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 13, 2017
Playwright Naomi Iizuka radically adapts and retells Ovid's ancient classic Metamorphoses, with homeless youth crafting stories both for their physical survival and for the transformation of their souls. In this contemporary collage of classical mythology and real-life stories of street kids, the play weaves a world where myth-making and storytelling are vital weapons for the characters to survive a system that erases and ignores them.
LIZZIE Rock Musical to Make Chicago Premiere as Firebrand's Inaugural Show
by BWW
News Desk
- Nov 11, 2017
Firebrand Theatre, the first musical theatre company committed to employing and empowering women by expanding opportunities on and off the stage, is pleased to present its inaugural production, the Chicago premiere of LIZZIE, the rock musical based on the true-life story of accused axe-murderess Lizzie Borden.
World Premieres by Robert Askins, Will Power & Lindsey Ferrentino Headed to La Jolla Playhouse in 2018-19
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 8, 2017
La Jolla Playhouse announces three world premieres and one west coast premiere for its 2018/2019 season, including: The Squirrels, by Tony Award nominee Robert Askins (Broadway's Hand to God), directed by Playhouse Artistic Director and 2017 Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley; Seize the King, by Will Power (Playhouse's The Seven), directed by Playhouse Associate Artistic Director Jaime Casta eda; The Year to Come, by Lindsey Ferrentino (Ugly Lies the Bone) and queens, by Martyna Majok (Ironbound).
Ripe Time Premieres Haruki Murakami's SLEEP in Philadelphia
by BWW News Desk
- Oct 27, 2017
Sleep will make its world premiere, October 27-28, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and will have its New York premiere at BAM Fisher as part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival, November 29 - December 2.
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