Pride Films and Plays will present an unprecedented weekend of new plays and screenplays with lesbian characters during our Women's Work Weekend September 7 to 11 at the Hoover-Leppen Theater at Center on Halsted.
The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's blockbuster 2012 Season continues this fall when the criminally entertaining Kander and Ebb musical Chicago opens at the theatre on Friday evening, September 9th.
TRACES, the acclaimed show by the Montreal-based troupe 7 Fingers, is currently playing New York's Union Square Theatre (100 East 17th Street). TRACES began previews Friday, July 29 with an official opening last night. BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage of the opening below!
Stage and screen star Linus Roache is set to guest star on the September 21 season premiere of NBC's ‘ Law & Order: SVU,' according to TVGuide.com. Roache will play District Attorney Michael Cutter, a role which he has played on ‘Law & Order' for three seasons.
Direct from his 2nd sold out appearance at Carnegie Hall on December 8, 2009, Andy Cooney has taken the Irish-American music scene by storm. Andy Cooney was christened by The New York Times as 'Irish America's Favorite Son'. With his outstanding voice and dynamic stage presence makes him a favorite with audiences as he renders songs ranging from all-time favorites like 'Galway Bay' and 'Danny Boy' to his hit records 'The Irish Wedding Song', 'Boston Rose' and 'Daughter of Mine'. Andy's talent and versatility provide the ability to deliver a song directly to the hearts of his listeners.
It was announced today that Emmanuelle Chriqui, Roslyn Ruff and Zuzanna Szadkowski will join upcoming casts of the hit Off Broadway show Love, Loss, and What I Wore, now playing at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43 Street).
Yesterday, August 3, Jimmy Webb opened the first of his two-show stint at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage of evening below! Webb plays his final show tonight, August 4 at 8pm.
Since the inception of The Three Tenors on July 7, 1990 in Rome at the Baths of Caracalla on the eve of the FIFA World Cup Final, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and the one and only Luciano Pavarotti; have opened the doors for other great voices, such as the Irish Tenors, The Canadian Tenors and many other talented and renowned performers. Now three of New York's premier voices, Andy Cooney, Daniel Rodriguez and Michael Amante have joined together to honor the city of New York and our great nation as the one and only 'New York Tenors'. Yesterday, August 2, they brought their show to John J. Burns Park in Massapequa, NY. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage below!
After breaking box office records during its last visit to the Aronoff Center, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return to Cincinnati, November 2-26 as part of the Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Cincinnati 11/12 Season.
Cabaret, the explosive musical about the rise of Nazism set against the backdrop of a seedy German cabaret in the 1930s takes to the Heritage Center stage in Morrisville.
York Theatre Company Oh, Coward! and The Mad Show, the next titles in its Summer 2011 Musicals in Mufti Series-the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert performances. The concerts will run from July 15-17 and July 29-31, respectively. Individual tickets are $39.50 and available at the York box office (12-6 PM, Mon-Fri), by phone (212-935-5820), and at yorktheatre.org. Check out photos from the show below!
Whether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's new feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy your end of the week fix. Take a look below to catch up on the latest happenings from the Great White Way to the West End (and everywhere in between) with coverage of press events, rehearsals, opening nights and more!
Today, Trading Spaces star and Broadway veteran Paige Davis and Volunteers of America (VOA) Greater New York volunteers helped sort and stuff backpacks and school suppliesat Operation Backpack's 'Sort Day'. VOA's Operation Backpack drive aims to help 10,000 children in New York area shelters, so they can begin the school year with confidence, feeling more like their housed classmates. Children and parents who benefitted from the program will be on hand and Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond was also present.
Stretch those tendons! Warm up those hamstrings! In honor of National Dance Day yesterday, July 27, the Ballet Girls of Billy Elliot the Musical hosted a free dance warm-up outside their home away from home, the Imperial Theatre. Passersby were invited to join in the exercise, with tutus optional.
Emmy(R) and Golden Globe nominee Melissa Gilbert ('Little House on the Prairie') gets top billing starring as a recently-fired-again, domineering Broadway director whose only job option is getting a community Christmas play up and going in 'The Christmas Pageant,' a Hallmark Channel Original Movie, Holiday 2011.