Malala Yousafzai News

BWW catches up with Faizal Abdullah to chat about bringing Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?) to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Enjoy the music of Latin American composers in the latest MusicaNova Orchestra-Harmony Project Phoenix collaboration, MÚSICA SIN FRONTERAS on May 6 and 7. The May 6 concert will be at 7 p.m. at South Mountain Community College, 7050 S. 24th St. The May 7 concert is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Central Methodist Church, 1875 N. Central Ave.

Check out photos of Ariana DeBose, Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Jessica Chastain, Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Angela Bassett, Janelle Monáe, Samuel L. Jackson, and more on the 2023 Oscars red carpet now!

Ophelia's Jump Productions (OJP) is proud to launch their 10th Season with Carmel Dean's musical, Well-Behaved Women. The production will be performed at the Ophelia's Jump Studio Theater, located at 2009 Porterfield Way, Suite H, in Upland, from February 11 through March 12, 2023.

Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, announced today that he will step down in September after successfully delivering 14 editions of the internationally-acclaimed festival.

Musicalsterren Pia Douwes en Stanley Burleson zijn in juni 2023 weer samen op het toneel te zien tijdens de Musical Cruise 2023. De spectaculaire Musical Cruise 2023 vaart van 10 tot en met 17 juni 2023 van Barcelona naar Civitavecchia (Rome). Tijdens de cruise, georganiseerd door 'musicalprofessor' Maxim Bezembinder in opdracht van cruiseorganisatie Zeetours, zullen beide sterren verschillende optredens verzorgen. Naast Pia en Stanley wordt binnenkort nog een derde musicalster aangekondigd.

Dramatic Publishing has licensed the Broadway production of The Kite Runner, and a North American tour is being planned for 2024. Tour cities, dates and casting will be announced. The Kite Runner will have played 17 previews and 117 regular performances on Broadway.

SONICA is a new, dynamic trio featuring three of today's most distinctive contemporary female musicians, including GRAMMY-nominated vocalists Thana Alexa, Nicole Zuraitis and renowned first-call bassist Julia Adamy. SONICA captures the enticement of female collaboration on this trio project fully engineered, produced and mixed by Thana Alexa.

Playwright Elena Carapetis brings the first heroine of western drama raging into the 21st century with a twisted and subverted take on Sophocles’ Antigone, premiering at Odeon Theatre this month.

She Is History is a show about women who make and made history. Watch Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony multitask - just like today's mom - running the house, fixing dinner and corralling the kids, all while working on the Fourteenth Amendment.

CreArte Latino Cultural Center is a major participant in the 2022 Suncoast Remake Learning Days Festival, presented by Remake Learning, which hosts festivals in 14 regions across the nation. This festival will be held in four Florida counties, including the Sarasota area, for the first time, April 29 through May 8.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Cinderella, playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London’s West End, will hold a special gala performance to raise money for Malala Yousafzai’s work to empower women and girls around the world.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit new musical Cinderella is to hold a special gala performance to raise money for Malala Yousafzai's work to empower women and girls around the world.

Lambert Jackson today announce Well-Behaved Women, a new song cycle by Carmel Dean celebrating women across history. Directed by Julie Atherton, with musical direction by Ellie Verkerk, the concert runs for one night only at Cadogan Hall on Friday 3 September 2021.

FRIENDS: THE REUNION will feature a variety of special guests including David Beckham, Justin Bieber, BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, Tom Selleck, James Michael Tyler, Maggie Wheeler, Reese Witherspoon and Malala Yousafzai.

At a time when women’s voices are still struggling to be heard, New York based Australian composer and lyricist Carmel Dean’s WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN is a wonderful battle cry of ballads about famous females from history to inspire modern generations to continue to break down the barriers. 

CBS THIS MORNING delivered 4.793 million viewers with 1.026 million of them in the 25-54 demographic. CBS THIS MORNING was up +74% in viewers and up +54% with adults 25-54, when compared to the same day a week earlier. 

The cast of Well-Behaved Women at the Hayes Theatre has been announced. The cast includes Ursula Yovich, Elenoa Rokobaro, Zahra Newman, and Stefanie Caccamo.

What would Cleopatra, Cathy Freeman, Frida Kahlo, Billie Jean King, Malala Yousafzai, Mary Magdalene, Maya Angelou and Virginia Woolf sound like if you heard them sing? 

BAM today announced plans for virtual programs including theater, kids and family, literary, and film events. The fresh slate of offerings include the world premiere of V's (formerly Eve Ensler) That Kindness: Nurses in their Own Words; a talk with co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Alicia Garza; and more!