Guess the Gift and Win Tickets to AVENUE Q's Bar Mitzvah Celebration
by BWW News Desk
- Dec 27, 2016
As 2016 - inarguably one of the most unforgettable years in recent memory - comes to a close, the Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q will ring in the New Year with a one-of-a-kind contest featuring Hillary Clinton and President-elect Donald Trump, whose puppet likenesses joined the company of AVENUE Q to great effect during the recent election season.
O'Neill National Music Theater Conference Artistic Director Steps Down After 40 years
by Rebecca Russo
- Nov 30, 2016
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today that Paulette Haupt, founding Artistic Director of its National Music Theater Conference, will step down following the 2017 season, after 40 years leading the program. The program began in 1978 after George C. White, founder of the O'Neill, invited Ms. Haupt to launch a new development program for music theater, in a similar mold to the O'Neill's groundbreaking National Playwrights Conference, launched in 1964.
Cher Musical Coming to Broadway? Reading Set for Early 2017
by Nicole Rosky
- Nov 16, 2016
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Cher's much-hyped biomusical could soon light up Broadway. According to an Equity casting notice, Jason Moore (Avenue Q) will direct a reading this January, produced by Jeffrey Seller (Hamilton) and Flody Suarez. The project features a book by Tony winner Rick Elice.
BWW Review: BETTY'S SUMMER VACATION is 'the Vacation From Hell!' at Bare Bones Theater
by Nicholas Pontolillo
- Nov 14, 2016
Who would've thought serious topics like rape, dismemberment and molestation could be met with humor? All of these horrific acts occur in the hysterically angry Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang. The play begins with the arrival of Betty and Trudy arriving at their summer timeshare hoping for a relaxing summer. Tranquility soon ends when Betty realizes that she will be spending her summer with the hyper energetic Trudy who breaks her promise of limiting her talking, Keith, a bi-sexual serial killer who hides body parts in hat boxes, Mrs. Seizmagraff, the landlady of the time share who is also Trudy's mother and is jealous of her own daughter due to her serial molester husband, Buck an extremely horny frat-jock, and Mr. Vanislaw, a flasher. In addition to this dynamic cast of characters is a mysterious laugh track that emits from an unknown source within the time share and serves as the play's Greek chorus.
Photo Flash: First Look at ASSASSINS at Manatee Performing Arts Center
by BWW News Desk
- Oct 28, 2016
A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation's culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America's four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written. The show is currently running at Manatee Performing Arts Center, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
NYC's New World Stages' Puppeteered CLINTON AND TRUMP DEBATE Previews This Monday, Sept. 26
by Liz Cearns
- Sep 23, 2016
If you're one of those people who feels as though this Presidential election campaign has been a "joke" or "no laughing matter" or somewhere in between, take heart: the long-running, Tony Award-winning musical comedy AVENUE Q (now in its 13th year in NYC) is entering the race, as it were, with the addition of a HILLARY CLINTON puppet and DONALD TRUMP puppet to its acting company of people and puppets.
AVENUE Q Enters the Race with Clinton and Trump Puppet Debate Next Week
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 22, 2016
If you're one of those people who feels as though this Presidential election campaign has been a 'joke' or 'no laughing matter' or somewhere in between, take heart: the long-running, Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q (now in its 13th year in NYC) is entering the race, as it were, with the addition of a Hillary Clinton puppet and Donald Trump puppet to its acting company of people and puppets.
STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 7/31/16- AVENUE Q
by Nicole Rosky
- Jul 31, 2016
Today in 2003 Avenue Q opened at the John Golden Theatre, where it ran for 2534 performances. Avenue Q was conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics. The book was written by Jeff Whitty and the show was directed by Jason Moore. Avenue Q is an 'autobiographical and biographical' coming-of-age parable, addressing and satirizing the issues and anxieties associated with entering adulthood. It opened Off-Broadway in March 2003, co-produced by The New Group and the Vineyard Theatre, and later won three Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and spawned Las Vegas and West End productions, two national tours, and a variety of international productions.
BWW Flashback: Jesse Tyler Ferguson's FULLY COMMITTED Takes its Final Bow
by Ashley LaChant
- Jul 31, 2016
FULLY COMMITTED, Jesse Tyler Ferguson's hilarious one man comedy, will play its final Broadway performance at the Lyceum Theatre this Sunday, July 31, 2016. FULLY COMMITTED started previews on April 1st, and after an opening on April 25th and an extended run, it will have played 28 previews and 104 performances. BroadwayWorld takes a look back on the show's Broadway run below!
Only For Now? You Wish! AVENUE Q to Mark 13th Anniversary
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 27, 2016
If ever a show has become part of the 'fabric' of New York and pop culture, it is the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q -- with its colorful cast of humans and puppets. The ground-breaking musical hits a new landmark this summer when it celebrates its 13th anniversary on Sunday, July 31, 2013 at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.) in New York City.
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