There will be a staged dramatic reading of an original play by local playwright Jim Hetrick, entitled Blessed Event. The play is a dramedy (combination of Drama and Comedy) about a slightly dysfunctional French Canadian family living in Brooklyn, CT who are dealing with the impending death of the family patriarch. The reading will be held at the Burton Leavitt Theater on Main Street, Willimantic, CT on Saturday evening, September 12.
More than 100 cities and 10 countries after the first show, Menopause The Musical®, the hilarious celebration of women and The Change, is celebrating its sixth year, with the latest run at the State Theatre in Easton, Friday, October 9th through Sunday, October 11th
HART (Hillsboro Artists Regional Theatre) is kicking off their 15th season with a production of the Broadway hit Moon Over Buffalo. The show opens on Friday, September 11th and runs through October 4th with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 and Sunday matinees at 2pm.
Natalie Joy Johnson, currently on tour as Paulette in LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL, sits down with BroadwayWorld to talk about her early work, her gay iPod, and living her musical theater dream, one new city at a time.
BroadwayWorld.com presents its newest column, Twitter Watch, which will bring you only the best and most interesting reports straight from the mouths of Broadway stars, shows and more on the hot social networking service - Twitter!
Rebel Theater Company will present a series of staged readings of Little Rock written and directed by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj. Little Rock presents untold stories of nine
young teenagers otherwise known as ?Little Rock Nine? and their struggles, strengths, hardships, and triumphs over the tragic events of the 1957 Little Rock crisis. The readings will be September 29th at 7pm, September 30th at 12noon and 7pm at Union Square Theater, 100 East 17 Street. Seating is limited. For ticket information, contact wicgrsvp@gmail.com.
Everything you've heard about Wicked is true; it's an awe-inspiring stage spectacle filled with special effects, gorgeous sets and lighting, exquisite costumes, an amazingly gifted cast, a glorious musical score and an immensely entertaining, yet slightly irreverent (and maybe even a little subversive) script. It also has plot points so broad that you could drive a freight train through them, but if you're willing to suspend disbelief and allow yourself to become totally immersed in the phenomenon, you can't help but walk away tremendously satisfied, humming those wonderful tunes and having a sort of 'which came first: the chicken or the egg' debate with your companions.
Wicked opened its run at Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center Wednesday with a capacity crowd enjoying the performance by the Second National Touring Company in Andrew Jackson Hall. Opening night also featured the inaugural Nashville.BroadwayWorld.com First Night Theatre Event, with some 25 theatre devotees attending the show, with cocktails and hors d'oevres before curtain and a dessert/champagne reception afterward.
HART (Hillsboro Artists Regional Theatre) is kicking off their 15th season with a production of the Broadway hit Moon Over Buffalo. The show opens on Friday, September 11th and runs through October 4th with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 and Sunday matinees at 2pm.
Don't tell Marcie Dodd and Helene Yorke (Elphaba and Glinda, respectively, in the second national company of Wicked), but during every performance Colin Donnell, aka Fiyero, has a ritual, 'a tradition' if you will, that he follows. He stands in the wings and watches his two leading ladies in a scene 'and everytime I do it, it gives me chills,' he says, 'it sort of reminds me what's going on with the show and why I'm doing it. They inspire me.'
What do a caveman, a personification of Justice, a brothel manager, and a mermaid have in common? They're all characters in 'Sex and Desperation,' the Spotlighters Theatre's Baltimore Playwrights Festival production, now on stage through Sept. 6th.
Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles proudly announced their new and exciting 2009/20010 season on August 27th at Andaz West Hollywood. On hand for the celebration was the comedic star of stage and screen Carole Cook, who was introduced by GMCLA's Artistic Director, Hywel Sims, as a great friend to both GMCLA as well as the Gay community at large. The evening included a performance by GMCLA's own NPYNK performing a Show Business/Hollywood medley ('There's no Business Like Show Business' & 'Hooray for Hollywood') and 'Tonight' from West Side Story.
Bill Weeden, the veteran songwriter-comedian whose tunes were the basis for 2006's long-running musical revue Into the Weeds, closes this weekend in the American premiere of Richard Foreman's George Bataille's Bathrobe at The Brick, the Williamsburg theater known for its adventurousness and edge. The production was much-praised and so was Weeden's performance in the leading role. BWW caught up with Bill this week via e-mail to ask him about Foreman, the production, and his career.
This summer, celebrate your love of classic film as the 12th annual Cinema at the Square series returns to PlayhouseSquare August 6-23, 2009. This years series showcases fifteen classic films from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the special-effects laced blockbusters of the 1980's; all for a very 'retro' price of just $5 per film.
MTV is promoting the upcoming Video Music Awards with a series of West Side Story-themed ads. In the ads, the hottest young singers share their own special version of the song 'Tonight' from the award-winning musical.
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