Masterworks Broadway releases A Chorus Line - 40th Anniversary Celebration, a definitive, newly remastered edition of the best-selling 1975 Original Broadway Cast Recording. The reissue features eight bonus tracks that - for the first time - allow the listener to eavesdrop on the creative process of composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Edward Kleban, including songs that did not make it into the final version of their acclaimed score. A Chorus Line - 40th Anniversary Celebration will be available October 23, 2015 on CD,downloads in enhanced audio formats and via streaming audio providers.
jes films (lead by producers Jodi Schoenbrun Carter and Evie Whiting) and 1022m announced today that Sara Ramirez, the Tony Award-winning star of 'Grey's Anatomy,' has joined the producing team of the new feature film Loserville.
The Connecticut Senior Juried Art Show at Pomperaug Woods, Southbury's only not-for-profit retirement community, invites the public to view the work of talented Connecticut artists -- all of whom are 70+ years of age -- at the 8th annual Connecticut Senior Juried Art Show, September 26 & 27.
The Harbor Lights Theater Company, a professional Equity Theater Company based in Staten Island, led by Founders and Artistic Directors Tamara Jenkins and Jay Montgomery, stages RENT - 20th Anniversary Celebration! now through October 4th at the Snug Harbor Music Hall. Click below to watch highlights from the show!
Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop) has announced the upcoming productions of three new plays during its 2015 - 2016 season, BroadwayWorld has learned.
This week FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visitwww.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.
Allison Janney, star of the stage and screen, won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her performance as Bonnie in MOM. Her seventh Emmy, this one makes her tied with Ed Asner as the performer with the second-most acting Emmys of anyone. Check out her acceptance speech below!
Through out the past week, BroadwayWorld has been brinigng you coverage of the 67th Annual Emmy Awards with a decidedly theatre-specific focus, and tonight will be no different. At some point during the tedious Red Carpet, I will begin live blogging everything from the Andy Samberg's hosting performance to the awards to the acceptance speeches, and everything inbetween. That being typed, I will be doing this in shorts and a t-shirt, so don't expect too much fashion commentary.
The 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards telecast air live coast-to-coast on tonight, Sunday, September 20th (8 PM ET/5 PM PT) on FOX from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, and BroadwayWorld has you covered with all of the winners, highlights, and commentary. Check out all of BWW's week-long 2015 Emmy Coverage.
The Metropolitan Room hosted two simultaneous events last night. The 10th year of the MAC Award Winning Benefit Series Cabaret Cares, and the 3rd 40th Birthday of the charities creator Joseph Macchia. The non profit Joseph started 10 years ago has raised over $100,000 to help children living with HIV and AIDS. It was a cabaret spectacular and Broadwayworld was there to catch all the action. Check it out below!
This afternoon, we are releasing our official BroadwayWorld predictions. Below you will find the predictions of all of BWW TV cumulative recappers; Jennifer McHugh, BWW TV Critic and Co-Host of the new 'Some Like it Pop Podcast,' Patti Murin, Broadway leading lady and BWW's resident BACHELOR expert; Caryn Robbins, BWW TV's Managing Editor; Michael Paul Smith, the star, writer, and director of BWW's hit web comedy THE RESIDUALS; and me, Matt Tamanini, BWW's Senior TV and Film Critic.
Halloween superstar, Ghoulmaster, is about to open the doors to his secret Haunted Playhouse this October. And you're invited. 1984 Entertainment, LLC presents the World Premiere Original Theater Experience; Ghoulmaster's Haunted Playhouse produced by Pete Carter & Charles Convery opening Friday, September 25 through Saturday, October 31 at The Hudson Theatre MainStage.
Broadway veteran and Tony Award Winner Patti LuPone could be coming to city near you! It was just announced that Patti LuPone will be embraking on a tour this coming spring!
Harbor Lights' production of the landmark 1996 Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning musical RENT will be helmed by award winning director Alex Perez. The production begins tonight, September 18, and runs through October 4, 2015 at The Music Hall at Snug Harbor.
The Harbor Lights Theater Company (Harbor Lights), a professional Equity Theater Company based in Staten Island, led by Founders and Artistic Directors Tamara Jenkins and Jay Montgomery, will stage RENT -- 20th Anniversary Celebration! September 18- October 4th at the Snug Harbor Music Hall.
Chocolat Author Joanne Harris writes in her quarterly magazine, THE AUTHOR, that “subliminal indoctrination” of children through gendered packaging of books gives “the false message to a new generation that boys must be clever, brave and strong, while girls should aspire to be decorative”.
A new musical co-production written by Paul Higgins and Deacon Blue singer and songwriter Ricky Ross and directed by Dominic Hill will be premiering at the Citizens Theatre this autumn. The Choir will be the first production to emerge from a partnership between The Citizens Theatre and Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), which was launched to create brand new musical theatre using the talent of local writers and composers.
With two-time Green Room Award nominee Nick Simpson-Deeks as Robert and Sally Bourne as Joanne.
One of the most beloved and ground-breaking works in the Sondheim cannon, Watch This will present along awaited season of Company at fortyfivedownstairs.
Company is a musical comedy, which explores love, relationships and the struggle for intimacy - the original
production was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards and won six.
Fred Winship, long time theatre reviewer for UPI, died peacefully at 90 in his apartment on E. 57th Street in NYC on September 3, 2015. No cause of death was given; it was probably a sudden heart attack. He was writing a review of a play he had just seen when he died.
