Led by Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Roberta Pereira, The Playwrights Realm is pleased to announce its 2016-17 10th anniversary season. Over the past decade, The Realm has continually produced work by brave new voices and worked to introduce new initiatives to expand its commitment to providing holistic support to playwrights as they strive to make a life in the arts.
Celebration Theatre at the Lex in association with Nicholas Caprio, Michael C. Kricfalusi, Todd Milliner and Jack Morrissey presents, under the artistic direction of Michael Matthews & Michael A. Shepperd, the West Coast premiere of THE BOY FROM OZ, music and lyrics by Peter Allen, book by Martin Sherman, original book by Nick Enright, choreography by Janet Roston, musical direction by Bryan Blaskie, produced by Andrew Carlberg and directed by Celebration Theatre co-artistic director Michael A. Shepperd. THE BOY FROM OZ will begin previews on Friday, April 22 at 8pm; will open on Friday, April 29 at 8pm and perform through Sunday, June 19 at the Celebration Theatre's new home, Celebration at the Lex Theatre, 6760 Lexington Ave. in Los Angeles.
Theatre for a New Audience announces that as part of its 2016-2017 season at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Golden Globe Award winner Oscar Isaac will play the title role in Hamlet staged by Sam Gold. Oscar Isaac and Sam Gold last worked together on Zoe Kazan's We Live Here in 2011.Hamlet is their first collaboration on Shakespeare and their first production with Theatre for a New Audience. Hamlet will begin previews on June 4, 2017 for an opening June 22 and run through July 30.
Cleveland Play House's Centennial Season continues with MR. WOLF, an intense and compelling drama about faith, hope and healing.
Labyrinth Theater Company, the award-winning, nationally renowned theater company, will stage a reading of Company Member Jonathan Marc Sherman's adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, Texas Red on April 24, benefiting the Company's new play development programs. This one-night-only event will feature Labyrinth Company Members Bobby Cannavale, Chris Chalk, Ethan Hawke, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Portia, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Yul Vazquez and guest artists Paul Dano, Peter Dinklage, Maya Hawke, Zoe Kazan, and Laura Linney. Cast subject to continuing availability.
Cleveland Play House's Centennial Season continues with MR. WOLF, an intense and compelling drama about faith, hope and healing.
Last night, February 18, Harvey Weinstein hosted a star-studded performance of Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE -- starring Academy Award winner, Golden Globe Award winner & BAFTA winner Forest Whitaker and Tony Award winner Frank Wood at Broadway's Booth Theatre (222 West 45 Street) -- followed by and intimate reception in celebration of director Michael Grandage and Whitaker, who is making his Broadway debut. Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE opens Thursday, February 25, 2016, in a strictly limited engagement. Scroll down for photos from the party!
It's casting season, and BroadwayWorld has all the latest scoops from movies and television. Check out the latest updates below!
Deadline reports that Zoe Kazan has signed on to star in the title role for the HBO comedy pilot MAX.
SPECTRE's Daniel Craig and SELMA's David Oyelowo will team on stage for an off-Broadway production of OTHELLO next fall. A
Nicholas L. Ashe, Jeremy Bobb, Natalie Gold, Marin Ireland, and Samuel H. Levine will be featured in the LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater world premiere of KILL FLOOR, by Abe Koogler, directed by Lila Neugebauer. KILL FLOOR opens tonight, October 19, and runs for six weeks only through Sunday, November 15 at the Claire Tow Theater (150 West 65 Street).
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney and Zoe Kazan's new film OUR BRAND IS CRISIS was one of the movies showcased at The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year! The film stars Bullock as 'Calamity' Jane Bodine and is produced by Clooney. The film focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney and Zoe Kazan's new film OUR BRAND IS CRISIS was one of the movies showcased at The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year! The film stars Bullock as 'Calamity' Jane Bodine and is produced by Clooney. The film focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
Through out the past week, BroadwayWorld has been brinigng you coverage of the 67th Annual Emmy Awards with a decidedly theatre-specific focus, and tonight will be no different. At some point during the tedious Red Carpet, I will begin live blogging everything from the Andy Samberg's hosting performance to the awards to the acceptance speeches, and everything inbetween. That being typed, I will be doing this in shorts and a t-shirt, so don't expect too much fashion commentary.
The 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards telecast air live coast-to-coast on tonight, Sunday, September 20th (8 PM ET/5 PM PT) on FOX from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, and BroadwayWorld has you covered with all of the winners, highlights, and commentary. Check out all of BWW's week-long 2015 Emmy Coverage.
This afternoon, we are releasing our official BroadwayWorld predictions. Below you will find the predictions of all of BWW TV cumulative recappers; Jennifer McHugh, BWW TV Critic and Co-Host of the new 'Some Like it Pop Podcast,' Patti Murin, Broadway leading lady and BWW's resident BACHELOR expert; Caryn Robbins, BWW TV's Managing Editor; Michael Paul Smith, the star, writer, and director of BWW's hit web comedy THE RESIDUALS; and me, Matt Tamanini, BWW's Senior TV and Film Critic.
YPHIL - International Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off Seven Epic Concerts with the Play for Peace Concert at Peter Norton Symphony Space tonight, September 10, 2015 at 7pm.
YPHIL - International Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off Seven Epic Concerts with the Play for Peace Concert at Peter Norton Symphony Space on September 10, 2015 at 7pm.
YPHIL - International Philharmonic Orchestra presents the first of Seven Epic Concerts Play For Peace Concert Featuring the World Premiere of Faruk Kanca's Ornament Overture And the American Premiere of Nimrod Borenstein's Concerto for Violoncello and String Orchestra, Op. 56B At Peter Norton Symphony Space September 10, 2015 at 7pm
Nicholas L. Ashe, Jeremy Bobb, Natalie Gold, Marin Ireland, and Samuel H. Levine will be featured in the LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater world premiere of KILL FLOOR, by Abe Koogler, directed by Lila Neugebauer. KILL FLOOR will begin performances Saturday, October 3, open Monday, October 19, and run for six weeks only through Sunday, November 15 at the Claire Tow Theater (150 West 65 Street).
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