Ogunquit Playhouse Nominated For 17 IRNE Awards
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 28, 2018
The Ogunquit Playhouse is thrilled to announce it has received seventeen Independent Reviewers of New England Award (IRNE) nominations for its 2017 productions of Bullets Over Broadway, Ragtime, and From Here to Eternity including Best Sound Design, Best Projection Design, Best Choreography, Best Ensemble, and Best Musical, as well as Best Music Director for Jeffrey Campos, Best Director for Seth Sklar-Heyn and Jeff Whiting, Best Supporting Actress for Sally Struthers, Best Supporting Actor for Julian Decker, Best Actress for Kirsten Scott, Best Actor for Josh Young, Darnell Abraham, and Reed Campbell, and Most Promising Young Performer for Tyler Wladis.
Mammoth Follies Roars Into TPAC in March
by Julie Musbach - Feb 15, 2018
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the longest operating performance venue in lower Manhattan, proudly presents the next event in the 2017-2018 Family Series Season: Mammoth Follies on Saturday, March 10 at 1:30PM. Mammoth Follies is part of BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center's 2017-2018 Family Theater Season, featuring plays, musicals, puppetry, concerts and dance for all ages.
Photo Flash: Remembering Jan Maxwell
by Walter McBride - Feb 12, 2018
As BroadwayWorld sadly reported yesterday, Broadway star Jan Maxwell passed away at 61 years of age after a battle with cancer. The star is survived by her husband, actor/playwright Robert Emmet Lunney, and their son William Maxwell-Lunney.
PTC presents World Premiere of /i/ by Jeff Talbott
by Julie Musbach - Feb 5, 2018
Pioneer Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of i by Jeff Talbott. The new play was featured in our 2016-2017 Play-by-Play new play reading season and will take the main stage Friday, Feb. 16 through Saturday, March 3, 2018.
EXIT Theatre Heats Up With BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZA
by Julie Musbach - Jan 16, 2018
EXIT Theatre proudly presents our first annual Burlesque Extravaganza, four unique evenings featuring some of the Bay Area's most treasured performers. Thanks to the respective successes of our previous full-length Burlesque cabaret shows Rebel Without a Bra, At the White Rabbit Burlesque, Hotel Burlesque, and Just Another Zombie Holiday Show; as well as our monthly burlesque showcase, DIVA or Die Burlesque EXIT Theatre is becoming a recognized home of Burlesque in the Bay Area. We're thrilled to share this amazing line-up of beauty, talent, and sequined hotness to shake you out of the mid-winter doldrums, and extend your Valentine's Day celebrations by a whole extra week. Our featured acts include a titillating Sing and Strip hosted by the tasty Red Velvet, Seven Deadly and Other Sins with Magnoliah Black as MC, How Lovely to be a Woman, a one-woman show featuring DeeDee Queen, and our outrageous Burlesque Improv Night with If 'N' Whendy and a bevy of buxom babes.
Craig Jessup to Celebrate Career of Stephen Sondheim
by Julie Musbach - Jan 10, 2018
One of the Bay Area's best entertainers celebrates the work of one of our greatest composers. Craig Jessup's Sondheim Tonight! brings together more than a dozen Sondheim gems from some of his earliest shows as a composer/lyricist (Saturday Night, Anyone Can Whistle) to some of his most beloved (Company, Follies, Merrily We Roll Along).
Kristine Nielsen to Star in Theresa Rebeck's New Comedy THE WAY OF THE WORLD at D.C.'s Folger Theatre
by BWW
News Desk - Jan 9, 2018
Folger Theatre continues its 2017/18 season with The Way of the World, a new comedy freely adapted from the classic play by William Congreve. Written and directed by renowned author Theresa Rebeck (Mauritus and Seminar and Broadway; creator and head writer of TV's Smash), the production will star Tony Award nominee Kristine Nielsen (Present Laughter, You Can't Take It With You, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on Broadway).
Pascale Armand, Molly Camp and More Announced for MCC's RELEVANCE
by Julie Musbach - Dec 20, 2017
MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) today announced the complete cast for the third show of its 2017-18 season: the World Premiere of Relevance, written by JC Lee ( How to Get Away With Murder, Looking ) with direction by Tony Award nominee Liesl Tommy (Eclipsed).
New York Theatre Ballet Announces ONCE UPON A BALLET SERIES
by BWW
News Desk - Dec 15, 2017
New York Theatre Ballet announces the 2017-18 ONCE UPON A BALLET Series. Based on beloved children's stories, these one-hour ballets are the perfect way to introduce children to the wonderful worlds of dance, music, visual art, and literature. In the intimate setting of Florence Gould Hall, audiences truly become part of the action!
Winners Announced For the 2017 BroadwayWorld UK Awards
by Marianka Swain - Dec 12, 2017
We're excited to announce the winners for the 2017 Broadway UK Awards! As voted for by the public, the awards celebrate the best long-running West End productions and best new productions from around the country. Thank you to everyone who voted, and huge congratulations to our fantastic winners.
Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Dec. 3
by Audition Roundup - Dec 3, 2017
Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, December 3, 2017 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition!
Final Week To Vote In The 2017 BroadwayWorld UK Awards
by Marianka Swain - Dec 4, 2017
The 2017 BroadwayWorld UK Awards honour the best productions from the past year around the country and the best long-running West End shows. Voting is open until midnight on Friday, 8 December, with the winners announced soon afterwards.
Photo Flash: Pioneer Theatre Company presents Disney's Hit NEWSIES This December
by BWW
News Desk - Dec 1, 2017
Pioneer Theatre Company presents the Disney hit Newsies. The Tony-winning musical opens Today, Dec. 1, and runs through Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. Newsies occupies the traditional holiday spot. Keeping with what is now a seven-year tradition of collecting donations for local nonprofits, PTC will partner with Granite Education Foundation to collect new books for 'Santa Sacks' for children ages K-12.
PTC presents Disney's Hit NEWSIES This December
by BWW
News Desk - Dec 1, 2017
Pioneer Theatre Company presents the Disney hit Newsies. The Tony-winning musical opens Today, Dec. 1, and runs through Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. Newsies occupies the traditional holiday spot. Keeping with what is now a seven-year tradition of collecting donations for local nonprofits, PTC will partner with Granite Education Foundation to collect new books for 'Santa Sacks' for children ages K-12.