Minsky's is a big, racy, new musical comedy set in a time when entertainment was about legs and laughs, and you had to push the limits to keep the customers buying tickets. A rollicking backstage story, set in Prohibition Era New York City. Tony Award winning costume designer Gregg Barnes talked about his creations for MINSKY'S on the show's official site in a wonderful audio/video essay that we are excited to bring you here on BWW TV!
This fall brought the 4th B'way show and 2nd child for Kevin, a journeyman performer who also writes music.
Touring Production is Simply Sensational at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre
Rejoicing over the election, Stokes performs at a L.I. benefit prior to his Feinstein's engagement this week.
A new production of GUYS AND DOLLS, directed by Tony-winner Des McAnuff will begin previews on February 3, 2009 at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre. Opening Night is March 1.
In a co-commission with Theatre Royal Bath, ten talented young actors from communities throughout the Bay Area come together for the world premiere of My Life in the Silents by acclaimed playwright Timothy Mason (Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical on Broadway). Designed and directed by A.C.T. Young Conservatory Director Craig Slaight, My Life in the Silents continues the unique international artistic exchange between students from the United States and England. In this playful new comedy set in Hollywood's silent film era, a precocious teenager flees small-town Minnesota to chase her dream of becoming a movie star in Los Angeles-but discovers the road to fame isn't exactly paved with gold.
To open their 70th Season, Paper Mill Playhouse takes a fresh look at this musical theatre classic. Arguably the most brilliant musical ever created, Oklahoma! changed the face of American musical theatre forever. The high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story.
South Coast Repertory will present the Southern California premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl's fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man's cell phone and finds her life turned upside down. Directed by Bart DeLorenzo, Dead Man's Cell Phone runs Sept. 21 - Oct. 12 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.
Paper Mill Playhouse is proud to announce the opening of the theatre's 70th Season with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! Created by the team of director, James Brennan, and choreographer, Peggy Hickey, Oklahoma! will run at the Millburn theatre from September 17 through October 19, 2008. Press Opening is Sunday, September 21st at 7:30pm
Beginning Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25, 2008, Conductor Michael Krajewski and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will open the nsoro SuperPOPS! concert series with 'Andrew Lloyd Webber and Friends' - a musical revue featuring selections from Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Evita, as well as other Broadway blockbusters such as A Chorus Line, Jekyll and Hyde, Wicked and many others.
South Coast Repertory will present the Southern California premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl's fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man's cell phone and finds her life turned upside down. Directed by Bart DeLorenzo, Dead Man's Cell Phone runs Sept. 21 - Oct. 12 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival announces its 2009 season - a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights.
Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the opening of the theatre's 70th Season with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
After smash runs in Boston, Seattle, Edinburgh, and Prague, A Day In Dig Nation arrives at New York's avant-garde theatrical hotbed, Performance Space 122.
Today it was announced that GUYS AND DOLLS will open on Broadway for the first time in 17 years in the spring of 2009 at a Nederlander Theatre to be announced. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, this production is the first joint Broadway project by director Des McAnuff and Sergio Trujillo since Jersey Boys.
After smash runs in Boston, Seattle, Edinburgh, and Prague, A Day In Dig Nation arrives at New York's avant-garde theatrical hotbed, Performance Space 122.
American Conservatory Theater today announced the lineup of the company's 42nd subscription season. Running from September 2008 to July 2009, the season brings new plays, the nation's finest writers, fresh directors, and renowned performers to San Francisco, while presenting a carefully calibrated range of decades, aesthetics, and perspectives, ranging from dark comedy to serious drama, from movement-theater fusion to music-filled celebration.
The cast and crew of The Drowsy Chaperone held a door-decorating contest backstage at the Marquis Theatre.
Porchlight Music Theatre will again feature the popular musical A Wonderful Life, a stage version of Frank Capra's legendary film 'It's a Wonderful Life.' The production, which broke Porchlight box office records in 2006, previews November 17 and runs through December 30 at Theatre Building Chicago
Together, Forever takes on new meaning in this delightful musical featuring real life Broadway couple Brad Little & Barbara McCulloh.
Part two of a three part series about recent graduates of the Towson University Theatre Program - an actor, a director and a playwright - all of whom have made the successful, if difficult transition to life as a working artist.
Tony Award-winning producer, Stewart F. Lane (Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage aux Folles) and co-owner of The Palace Theatre, introduces his new book 'Let's Put on a Show!' an engaging and entertaining reference guide for theatrical producing novices.
New Discount! A new audition notice! Two new theatres! A new Best Bet!
An interview with Matthew Schleigh, star of It's a Wonderful Life, Ragtime, and Buddy.
Year-end round up of the best in regional/Equity theatre productions seen in Baltimore in 2006.
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