ComEd Announces Powering The Arts Recipients
by A.A. Cristi
- Sep 23, 2020
As the COVID-19 continues to challenge the ways art is performed and experienced, ComEd and the League of Chicago Theatres today announced grants of up to $10,000 each to 12 non-profit arts organizations throughout northern Illinois to support the arts and encourage creativity in these unprecedented times.
BWW Interview: David Greig Talks ADVENTURES WITH THE PAINTED PEOPLE
by Jonathan Marshall
- Jun 4, 2020
Prolific playwright David Greig has a varied catalogue of work ranging from the recently revived Europe to West End hit Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and his acclaimed adaptation of Touching the Void. He is also Artistic Director of Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre. Greig's first original play in 7 years Adventures with the Painted People was due to begin its run in Edinburgh this summer but has since been adapted for radio due to the pandemic. The writer spoke with BroadwayWorld about his creative process, the future of theatre and his latest work.
Dr. Seuss's THE CAT IN THE HAT Comes to Civic Theatre
by Stephi Wild
- Feb 25, 2020
Civic Theatre brings everyone's favorite feline back for the seventh consecutive season in DR. SEUSS'S THE CAT IN THE HAT, February 25 a?" March 5, 2020. An inclusive performance is scheduled for Saturday, February 29 at 2:00 p.m.
Two Visionary Greek Musicians Debut THE SOUL OF EPIRUS on Oct. 4!
by Sarah Jae Leiber
- Sep 19, 2019
The story behind The Soul of Epirus begins years ago, in a little village in the heart of northwestern Greece. It's the story of a young Greek boy named Vasilis who would grow to become an acclaimed musician, performing with some of the world's best. But before that, there was the village, and a family who lived immersed in the soulful mystique of Greek folk songs. During seasonal festivities, the entire village would gather in the main square and Vasilis would dance to the sound of the clarinet. He didn't know it then, but eventually he would become a master of the stringed instrument known as laouto – the Greek version of the lute – and create an innovative new place for it in contemporary music.
Glamour 'Women Of The Year 2018' Honoree Betty Reid Soskin Releases New Album 'A Lifetime Of Being Betty'
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 26, 2019
Betty Reid Soskin's Little Village Foundation release, A Lifetime of Being Betty, is a fascinating work that taps into one African-American woman's American experience, and in the process tells an important story that's intimate, expansive and inspiring. The album was produced by Rosebud Agency founder and Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Mike Kappus, whose production credits include projects that have earned four GRAMMY Awards (13 nominations overall) and included collaborations with John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Ry Cooder, Ben Harper, and many more.
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS Improv Show Returns To The East Village
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 5, 2019
Dirty Little Secrets Improv Show is one of NYC's best kept indie improv secrets. The next show is Tuesday, June 18th. 7 PM doors for 7:30 PM show at Niagara Bar (112 Avenue A New York, New York 10009). Tickets are $6 in advance (Eventbrite) or $10 at the door. The show is based on the suggestion of audience secrets, collected at the door and shared anonymously.
BWW Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Village Arts is a musical with a bite
by E.H. Reiter
- Jun 3, 2019
Scifi, B movie monsters, comic book colors, and the imminent threat to humanity via your local florist have never looked as good as it does in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Village Arts, playing through August 4th. Honestly, this production and talented cast so perfectly defines campy, musical fun it's a shame it couldn't go to The Met Gala this year.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Invades New Village Arts this Summer
by A.A. Cristi
- May 3, 2019
New Village Arts is excited to announce the final production of its eighteenth season: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. NVA's Director of Connectivity and Artistic Associate AJ Knox will direct, with music direction by Benjamin Goniea, and choreography by Kevin "Blax" Burroughs.
BWW Review: VIVA LA PARRANDA! at Miami New Drama
by Roger Martin
- May 2, 2019
Michel Hausmann, Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, believes in diversity and my word, does he prove it. Last month it was 'Cocaine Cowboys' blasting the Colony Theatre stage; this month it's 'Viva La Parranda', one of the most endearing shows I've seen.
Announcing Florida Rep Education's 2019-2020 Season
by A.A. Cristi
- Apr 3, 2019
Florida Repertory Theatre's Education Department is pleased to announce its 2019-2020 season line-up. The Education Department season includes productions in its popular Theatre Conservatory Program, its second offering for the 2020 Junior Theatre Festival, and Theatre for Young Audiences Series, which tours across Southwest Florida to grades K through 12.
Five Chicagoland Schools Selected For 'Disney Musicals In Schools' Program
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 26, 2019
Now in its 2nd year, Goodman Theatre selects five Chicagoland elementary schools to participate in the "Disney Musicals in Schools" program--an outreach initiative developed by Disney Theatrical Productions to create sustainable musical theater programs in under-resourced elementary schools. The selected schools include John C. Haines Elementary School (China Town) performing Aladdin KIDS; Jonathan Y. Scammon Elementary School (Logan Square) performing The Lion King KIDS; Richard Yates Elementary School (Humboldt Park) performing Aladdin KIDS; Belmont-Cragin Elementary School (Belmont Cragin) performing The Lion King KIDS; and Gerald Delgado Kanoon Magnet Elementary School (Little Village) performing Aladdin KIDS. Coordinated by Goodman Theatre artists Adrian Azevedo and Anna Gelman, under the leadership of Walter Director of Education and Engagement Willa J. Taylor, the five area public elementary schools received performance rights to a Disney KIDS musical of their choice, at no cost.
New Village Arts Will Present LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
by Stephi Wild
- Feb 7, 2019
New Village Arts announces a change in programming for its eighteenth season. NVA had previously announced a summer production of the West Coast premiere of BELLA: AN AMERICAN TALL TALE, but due to staffing changes and material challenges, NVA has made the difficult decision to cancel the production. NVA's Executive Artistic Director, Kristianne Kurner, says, "All of us love BELLA, but we want to be sure we produce it when we are confident that we can put our best minds together with enough time for rehearsal to be successful."
BWW Review: DADA WOOF PAPA HOT at About Face Theatre
by Rachel Weinberg
- Jan 20, 2019
In DADA WOOF PAPA HOT, now in its Chicago premiere at About Face Theatre, playwright Peter Parnell explores that nagging question of what it means to have it all. The play centers on a gay couple and their circle of friends. Though Alan (Bruch Reed) and Rob (Benjamin Sprunger) have been together for fifteen years, they've been married for a much shorter period of time and must navigate their shifting identities as partners and as parents of their three-year-old daughter, Nicola. (The play's seemingly nonsensical title refers to her first words and attempt at her parents' names.) The characters in DADA WOOF PAPA HOT are clearly well-off, but that doesn't make the ways in which they struggle with the challenges of daily life and parenthood any less human.
BWW Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
by Jeffrey Kare
- Jan 9, 2019
Based on Sholem Aleichem's series of short stories about Tevye the Dairyman, Fiddler on the Roof centers on Tevye, a poor milkman who lives in pre-revolutionary Russia with his wife and five daughters. Among the traditions in their little village of Anatevka, the matchmaker arranges a match between a boy and a girl, and the father must approve the arranged marriage. However, Tevye must cope with both the strong-willed actions of his three eldest daughters who wish to marry for love and outside influences of the Tsar who intrude upon his village.
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