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Gilda's Laughfest To Announce 2018 Festival Artists Next Week
by BWW News Desk - Nov 6, 2017

On Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 a.m., Gilda's LaughFest, the nation's first ever community-wide festival of laughter, will announce artists performing at the 2018 10-day festival, which runs March 8 18, 2018.

Kathy Griffin's Fall 'CELEBRITY RUN-IN' Tour Stop at bergenPAC on Sale Friday
by BWW News Desk - Nov 4, 2017

New show on sale at bergenPAC: Kathy Griffin: Celebrity Run-In Tour-Today, November 4, 2017 at 8PM.

Photo Flash: Mainstage Irving-Las Colinas presents SISTER ACT
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 3, 2017

MainStage Irving-Las Colinas will the divine musical comedy SISTER ACT, running November 3 through 18, 2017, at the Irving Arts Center's Dupree Theater (3333 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving, TX 75062). All evening performances are at 7:30 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. Single tickets range from $21-31 and are on sale now at the Irving Arts Center Box Office (972.252.2787/ www.irvingartscenter.com). Ticket discounts are available for seniors and students.

Uproar Entertainment Releases Ty Barnett's GROWN MAN...BABY STEPS Comedy Album
by BWW News Desk - Nov 3, 2017

Uproar Entertainment has announced the release of 'GROWN MAN...BABY STEPS' by Ty Barnett. Recorded live at The Comedy Underground in Seattle, Wash.

Breaking: Danny Burstein & Victoria Clark Step Up to the Plate for Roundabout's DAMN YANKEES Benefit Concert!
by Nicole Rosky - Nov 3, 2017

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) has just announced that Danny Burstein Van Buren and Victoria Clark Meg Boyd have joined the Benefit Concert Reading of Damn Yankees, the Tony award-winning musical comedy by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The evening will bring these beloved stars of stage and screen back to the Broadway stage for one night only! Tony and Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg is also set to star as Applegate and Golden Globe winner Maggie Gyllenhaal will star as Lola.

Brandy Norwood, Bernadette Peters & More Look Back on Twenty Years Since CINDERELLA
by Nicole Rosky - Nov 2, 2017

It's been two decades since an entirely new kind of princess graced our television screens, singing songs of possible dreams. Twenty years ago, Cinderella came back to the small screen, starring Brandy Norwood in the title role, with a multi-cultural, star-studded supporting cast of Bernadette Peters, Victor Garber, Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Alexander and Whitney Houston.

Steven Brinberg Brings SIMPLY BARBRA'S BROADWAY to Don't Tell Mama Next Week
by BWW News Desk - Oct 31, 2017

Next week Barbra Streisand plays an intimate club in NYC......in the guise of world renowned impressionist Steven Brinberg as SIMPLY BARBRA'S BROADWAY.

TV: Watch Highlights of Natalie Weiss & More in New Teaser for GHOST THE MUSICAL at WPPAC
by BroadwayWorld TV - Oct 25, 2017

The White Plains Performing Arts Center (WPPAC) presents GHOST THE MUSICAL playing now through October 29. BroadwayWorld has an extended look at new footage from the show in the teaser below!

Dimitri Kleioris and Garen McRoberts to Join Steven Brinberg in SIMPLY BARBRA at Don't Tell Mama
by BWW News Desk - Oct 24, 2017

Barbra Streisand plays an intimate club in NYC......in the guise of world renowned impressionist Steven Brinberg as SIMPLY BARBRA'S BROADWAY.

SISTER ACT, BRIGHT STAR, ELF, and More Lead Barter Theatre's 2018 Season
by Julie Musbach - Oct 21, 2017

Barter Theatre announced its 2018 Season lineup during an exclusive preview event featuring select excerpts from various productions. The event revealed details of more than 15 diverse shows planned for 2018.

BWW Review: GHOST THE MUSICAL at White Plains Performing Arts Center
by Kathryn Kitt - Oct 20, 2017

When Ghost the movie premiered in 1990, it became an instant sensation. The combination of romance, comedy and fantasy made for a movie going experience that men and women could relate to. Everyone wanted Demi Moore's haircut, pottery classes and the song Unchained Melody performed at proms and weddings.

WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT to Play Ringling International Art Festival
by BWW News Desk - Oct 19, 2017

Alive-and-kicking theater is coming to the Ringling International Art Festival this fall.

Andrea Burns to Star in BORN YESTERDAY at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
by Rebecca Russo - Oct 18, 2017

What would you do if the gorgeous blonde you discovered ended up being a lot smarter than you gave her credit for?

Justin Sayre to Return to Joe's Pub with EGGPLANTS, PEACHES, & TEARS
by BWW News Desk - Oct 16, 2017

After their recent run in I'm Gorgeous Inside, comedian and writer, Justin Sayre returns to Joe's Pub with a new show, EGGPLANTS, PEACHES, & TEARS. The show, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of the modern queer life, runs November 17 & 18 at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater in New York City.

BWW Interview: Glenda Manwaring, director of GHOST - THE MUSICAL at Centre Stage
by Neil Shurley - Oct 16, 2017

'The question is how do you represent these beloved iconic characters and this story without becoming mimics of their work. The answer is to tell the story in the best way that our actors and their gifts could tell it, making it their own and bringing the theatrical elements that we can produce on a thrust stage to support the story and allowing the audience and their imagination to fill in the rest.'

BWW Interview: Adrianna Hicks of THE COLOR PURPLE at Fox Theatre
by Justin Cole Adams - Oct 16, 2017

Adrianna Hicks tells us all about the national tour of THE COLOR PURPLE and how incredibly honored she is to be the lead in this iconic story.

MainStage Irving-Las Colinas Announces the Divine Musical SISTER ACT
by Julie Musbach - Oct 16, 2017

MainStage Irving-Las Colinas will the divine musical comedy SISTER ACT, running November 3 through 18, 2017

MISSION FORCE ONE Blasts Off on Disney Junior This October
by BWW News Desk - Oct 16, 2017

Lauded for inspiring young viewer's imaginations about science, technology and space, Disney Junior's 'Miles from Tomorrowland' – the series created and executive-produced by Sascha Paladino, will premiere its third season with the new title MISSION FORCE ONE – MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 on Disney Channel (9:30 a.m. EDT), Disney Junior (6:00 p.m. EDT) and the Disney Junior App.

Drama Book Shop to Host Joyce Bulifant in Conversation with Richard Skipper to Discuss 'My Four Hollywood Husbands'
by Julie Musbach - Oct 14, 2017

My Four Hollywood Husbands is a book about love, a lasting love that is woven through the fabric of the world of entertainment, alcoholism, co-dependency and family.

BWW Review: GHOST Wonderfully Haunts at Beef And Boards
by The Marriage Matinee - Oct 14, 2017

If you are a fan of the cult classic film Ghost, you will enter the musical with high expectations. Luckily, you will not be disappointed because the musical includes the presence of all your favorite lines and the requisite sounds of Unchained Melody underlying some of the most tender moments of this love story. What I found surprising was the ease with which the stars of this cast took on the larger-than-life roles first portrayed by Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg.

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