Chicago Shakespeare Theater Marks Shakespeare's Birthday This Month
by Stephi Wild
- Apr 6, 2023
As the world commemorates William Shakespeare's 459th birthday this April, Chicago Shakespeare Theater will celebrate the Bard with multiple events throughout the month. The Theater will honor the legacy of Founding Artistic Director Barbara Gaines with the Spirit of Shakespeare Award, which will be presented at a fundraising event at the Theater's home on Navy Pier on Monday, April 24, 2023.
Yiddish Women Playwrights Series Continues With ALE FENTSTER TSU DER ZUN (ALL WINDOWS FACE THE SUN)
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 17, 2022
At long last, women playwrights take center stage at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. The Yiddish Women Playwrights Series, scheduled to proceed on June 21, 2022 with a FREE streamed production of Kadya Molodowsky's Ale Fentster Tsu der Zun (All Windows Face the Sun), highlights revolutionary, avant garde, feminist works from writers whose contributions to the Yiddish theatre have long been overlooked, ignored, and locked away.
HARMONY: A NEW MUSICAL Original Cast Album Set To Be Recorded
by A.A. Cristi
- May 12, 2022
Harmony: A New Musical, starring musical theatre icons Chip Zien (Into the Woods, Caroline, Or Change) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, The Phantom of the Opera), has announced the recording of their original cast album, to be produced by Barry Manilow and co-produced by Lawrence Manchester. Jill Dell'Abate is the Production Manager.
Melissa Manchester Takes the Stage at Feinstein's/54 Below
by Julie Musbach
- Jun 12, 2018
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Melissa Manchester in The Fellas on July 13-15, 2018. Let's hear it for the boys! More than 25 years after releasing her 1989 Tribute album that honored the great female singers who influenced her, Manchester turns the tables with The Fellas in a nod to the legendary male vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett and Dean Martin, and the iconic songs they made famous.
Experience Hendrix Tour Plays Atlanta's Fox Theatre Today
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 27, 2016
Hailed by critics and fans alike as the 'Guitar Event of The Year,' the multi-artist celebration known as the Experience Hendrix Tour returns to Atlanta's Fox Theatre today, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, at 8 p.m.
EXPERIENCE HENDRIX Tour Will Return to the Fox Theatre in 2016
by Nicole Rosky
- Nov 2, 2015
Hailed by critics and fans alike as the 'Guitar Event Of The Year,' the multi-artist celebration known as the Experience Hendrix Tour is set to return in 2016. These special concert performances present legendary artists who join together to pay homage to Jimi Hendrix. This next edition of the Experience Hendrix Tour will encompass twenty seven performances this coming February and March, stopping in more than two dozen cities along the east coast, midwest and southern states. Now in its second decade, the tour celebrates the musical genius of Jimi Hendrix by bringing together a diverse array of extraordinary musicians, ranging from blues legend Buddy Guy to Black Label Society and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, as well as Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa and many others. Billy Cox, bassist for both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys, anchors a rhythm section that provides the foundation for exciting renditions of such signature Hendrix favorites as "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)".
2016 EXPERIENCE HENDRIX TOUR ROLLS to Come to the Fox Theatre in March
by Reilly Hickey
- Oct 28, 2015
Hailed by critics and fans alike as the 'Guitar Event Of The Year,' the multi-artist celebration known as the "Experience Hendrix Tour" is set to return to the Fox Theatre on Friday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. These special concert performances present legendary artists who join together to pay homage to Jimi Hendrix.
LOVE SONGS PLAYAROUND SHAKESPEARE Runs This Week in Ann Arbor
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 26, 2015
LOVE SONGS PLAYAROUND SHAKESPEARE combines the lyrical and romantic songs from a new contemporary musical, LOVE SONGS-A Musical (Music & Lyrics by Steven Cagan, veteran composer/conductor, DREAMGIRLS Musical Director), with some of Shakespeare's most passionate, poetic love scenes, enhanced by modern visual technology and dance.
LOVE SONGS PLAYAROUND SHAKESPEARE Runs 3/26-27 in Ann Arbor
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 19, 2015
LOVE SONGS PLAYAROUND SHAKESPEARE combines the lyrical and romantic songs from a new contemporary musical, LOVE SONGS-A Musical (Music & Lyrics by Steven Cagan, veteran composer/conductor, DREAMGIRLS Musical Director), with some of Shakespeare's most passionate, poetic love scenes, enhanced by modern visual technology and dance.
Experience Hendrix Plays Mesa Arts Center Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Oct 7, 2014
ldly successful twenty-five date national excursion this past March and April, the Experience Hendrix Tour is set to launch another trek across the U.S. in September and October, which will include a performance in Mesa Arts Center's Ikeda Theater tonight, October 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Experience Hendrix to Play Mesa Arts Center in October; Tickets On Sale Today
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 21, 2014
ldly successful twenty-five date national excursion this past March and April, the Experience Hendrix Tour is set to launch another trek across the U.S. in September and October, which will include a performance in Mesa Arts Center's Ikeda Theater on Tuesday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m.
HARMONY Begins Rehearsals Tomorrow at the Ahmanson in LA
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 10, 2014
Rehearsals begin tomorrow, February 11, 2014, for Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's 'Harmony,' A New Musical, which opens March 12, 2014, at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre and plays through April 13. (Previews begin March 4.)
Wayne Alan Wilcox, Tony Yazbeck & Leigh Ann Larkin to Lead Barry Manilow's HARMONY at Alliance Theatre in September!
by Tyler Peterson
- Jun 27, 2013
Atlanta's Tony Award winning Alliance Theatre is pleased to announce the cast and creative team behind its upcoming production, HARMONY - A NEW MUSICAL, with music by Barry Manilow and book & lyrics by Bruce Sussman. HARMONY tells the true story of The Comedian Harmonists, a close harmony ensemble of six young men in 1930s Germany, who took the world by storm until their religious composition - a mixture of Jews and Gentiles - put them on a collision course with history. HARMONY is a co-production with Center Theatre Group.
Chromolume Theatre Presents LOVE SONGS, A MUSICAL by Steve Cagan, Now thru 7/28
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 22, 2013
Chromolume Theatre has announced its next production, the world premiere of Love Songs, A Musical with book, music and lyrics by Steven Cagan, and directed by Kay Cole. Featuring orchestrations and arrangements by Doug Walter and music direction by Richard Berent. Opening is set for tonight, June 22 at 8pm. Love Songs will play a limited engagement through July 28 only.
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