Primo News

 Pittsburgh Opera announces its 2016-2017 season. The season includes the very first world premiere in our 78 year history and two Pennsylvania premieres. The season will encompass four operas produced at the Benedum Center and two Resident Artist operas - the annual production at Pittsburgh CAPA Theater and the Second Stage Project at Pittsburgh Opera Headquarters.

On September 23, 2016 a diverse lineup of artists join celebrated Man Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan when he brings his new novel Nutshell to life at Harbourfront Centre Theatre.

Black Moon Theatre Company presents BLISS, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, with performances on September 8-25.

The opening program for this year's Mostly Mozart Festival—the 50th--at David Geffen Hall may not have offered any new insights into the mind of the genius composer or uncovered any long-lost masterpiece not heard in 200 years. On the other hand, it was filled with wonderful music, inspired singing and total bliss for the audience, in a program that flew by, all in the name of Mozart.

Rock of Ages runs July 29 through Aug. 7. Evening performances are July 29, 30 - 31 and Aug. 3-6 at 7:30 and Matinees are July 31 and Aug. 3 and 7 at 2:00pm.

The Carnegie patrons can expect 'Nothin' But a Good Time' with the 2016-17 Theatre Season opener, ROCK OF AGES. The classic boy meets girl tale features classic 80s hair band hits and runs weekends August 13-28, 2016.

Sabato 25 giugno ha debuttato al Multisala Pio X di Padova NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS - A HORROR MUSICAL, prodotto dalla Dreaming Academy, l'accademia di musical padovana. Lo spettacolo, messo in piedi da Alessio Guerra (direttore artistico dell'accademia) e Vittorio Attene (regista) con la collaborazione dei ragazzi e dei professori della Dreaming, riprende naturalmente la storia e le canzoni del famoso film d'animazione di Tim Burton.

More dynamic home renovations, primo yard overhauls and fascinating house flips are on the way this summer when DIY Network premieres fresh seasons of six popular series

Circa's groundbreaking new work, IL RITORNO, fusing its world famous stripped-back acrobatics with baroque opera, will be performed at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse from 17-20 August. Over 75 taut minutes, it retells Claudio Monteverdi's Il Ritorno D'Ulisse in Patria, intermingling it with folk songs and new compositions and percolating it through the lens of Primo Levi's post WW2 European displacement.

On Monday, May 16, local men will compete for the title of Man of the District, an annual event that raises funds for Children's National Medical Center.

Over 300 performances of more than 50 different programs of theater, dance and music featuring local and world-renowned talent are on tap for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts' 2016/17 season, among them a production of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, helmed by SPRING AWAKENING director Michael Arden.

Rivisitazione del capolavoro shakespeariano attualizzato in chiave moderna versione musical con l'inserimento dei piu famosi brani pop internazionali degli anni '80

Da mercoledi 4 a domenica 15 maggio arriva al Teatro Sistina di Roma OBLIVION: THE HUMAN JUKEBOX. Cinque contro tutti. Un articolato mangianastri umano che mastica tutta la musica e la digerisce in diretta in modi mai sentiti prima.

BWW Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Goes Beyond Skin Deep

Oltre 18 anni di successi inarrestabili per lo spettacolo che ha debuttato il 4 marzo 1997 e, da allora, ha dato il via alla musical-mania in Italia. GREASE, il musical dei record prodotto da Compagnia della Rancia con la regia di Saverio Marconi, con piu di 1.600.000 spettatori all'attivo, torna a grande in tour in tutta Italia fino a maggio.

Si e svolta il 19 aprile la cerimonia di premiazione della terza edizione di PrIMO, il Premio Italiano del Musical Originale (trovate tutti i dettagli in questo articolo). Noi di BWW vorremmo approfittarne per fare un rapido excursus delle opere in gara, accompagnate dalle nostre impressioni che per ovvi motivi possiamo pubblicare solo ora.

Finalmente, dopo mesi di trepidante attesa, martedi scorso, 19 aprile, a Milano, si sono svolte le premiazioni della Terza Edizione di PrIMO, il Premio Italiano del Musical Originale.

Frank Zappa's 3-CD Lumpy Money Project/Object set and his 2-CD Road Tapes, Venue #1 and Road Tapes, Venue #2performance albums will be reissued, and Road Tapes, Venue #3 will debut on May 27 from Zappa Records/UMe. All four titles will be available on CD and digitally.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) will present a book discussion and signing with Sir Antony Sher, actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company and author of Year of the Fat Knight, at the renowned Drama Book Shop in New York City, Thursday, April 28th, 2016 at 5:00pm.

Spring has sprung with the chirping of birds, the blooming of flowers and freshly chopped Romaine - Fazoli's, the nation's largest fast casual Italian chain, welcomes Spring with a Saladbration for guests by unveiling four new inSALADas beginning April 4, 2016.