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THE PHILADELPHIA REGION IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS! Mark Your Calendars for Events Now Through December 2022
by Marina Kennedy - Mar 30, 2022


Check out the over 75 events that are incredibly engaging in the greater Philadelphia area.  Mark your calendars for theatre, music, food event, festivals and so much more that are happening through the end of 2022.  Make Philly your all-season’s destination and start planning.

2022 MAC Award Nominees Announced; View the Full List
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 7, 2022


The Manhattan Association of Cabarets has announced the 2022 MAC Award nominees. The nominees were determined by votes cast by the active MAC membership, except for the song and recording categories, which were determined by special committees.

Museum of the Moving Image Announces Lineup for 11th Edition of First Look
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 7, 2022


Museum of the Moving Image has announced the complete lineup for the 11th edition of First Look, the Museum’s festival of new and innovative international cinema, which will take place in person March 16–20, 2022.

Carnegie Hall Announces Complete Afrofuturism Festival Schedule for February-March 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 18, 2022


This February and March, Carnegie Hall will present Afrofuturism, a citywide festival exploring the thriving aesthetic and cultural movement that looks to the future through a Black cultural lens, intersecting music, visual art, literature, politics, science fiction, and technology.

The Green Room 42 Announces January Line-Up
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 7, 2022


he Green Room 42 has announced their January line-up for in-person performances in addition to launching reWINEd, a new streaming series where you can rewatch some favorite recent shows paired with at-home drink recommendations from each artist. 

BWW Exclusive: Dawn Derow Releases Music Video From Album MY SHIP: SONGS FROM 1941
by Stephen Mosher - Jan 4, 2022


Dawn Derow's hit cabaret show has been laid down in the recording studio, and the first music video has been released in a Broadway World exclusive.

Son House to Release New Album 'Forever On My Mind'
by Michael Major - Dec 15, 2021


Forever On My Mind, the new album of previously unreleased Son House recordings from Easy Eye Sound, the independent label operated by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, is the premiere release from Waterman’s personal cache of ’60s recordings by some of the titans of Delta blues.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Announces 2022 Season
by Stephi Wild - Dec 15, 2021


Programmed by long-standing Artistic & Music Director, Brett Weymark OAM, this richly diverse season traverses choral classics by Mozart, Bach, Haydn and Handel; the glorious colours of Puccini; living repertoire by Pēteris Vasks and Eric Whitacre; and six newly commissioned short works from local Sydney composers Jessica Wells, Aija Draguns, Tomas Parrish-Cheynoweth, Aiden Rosa, Maria Lopes, and Melbourne’s Stuart Greenbaum.

Dawn Derow Brings CD Release Celebration Show to the Green Room 42
by Stephi Wild - Dec 13, 2021


On December 10, ZOHO Music, a latin, jazz, and rock indie CD label, is releasing the studio recorded CD version of My Ship: Songs From 1941, which Dawn Derow will celebrate with a One-Night-Only return of the award-winning show at New York's Green Room 42 on January 15, 2022 at 7 pm.

BWW Exclusive: A History of ANNIE on Broadway and Beyond
by Jeffrey Kare - Dec 2, 2021


Tonight, NBC will air its sixth live musical production. Following in the footsteps of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz, Hairspray, and Jesus Christ Superstar, the peacock network will be presenting Annie. Based on Harold Gray's comic strip titled Little Orphan Annie, this musical tells the story of a little orphan with equal measures of pluck and positivity who charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in New York City in the year 1933.

BWW Review: LEOLA'S LADY LAND LOUNGE at The Green Room 42 is New, Cool, and Tons O' Fun
by Stephen Mosher - Nov 20, 2021


The Broadway World Cabaret Award winner for Best Spoken Word show is back with a new format that is working for hostess Leola... and she is working for it, too.

Paul Anka to Bring ANKA SINGS SINATRA: HIS SONGS, MY SONGS, MY WAY to MPAC
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 5, 2021


Paul Anka will return to Mayo Performing Arts Center to perform music from the Sinatra catalog and more on Tuesday, October 26 at 7:30 pm. Tickets for Anka Sings Sinatra: His Songs, My Songs, My Way are Sunday, October 24 at 7 pm.

Binge Free Festival Starts October 10
by Marianka Swain - Sep 6, 2021


Santa Monica Playhouse has been a cultural treasure in the seaside community for 61 years. Now, the Playhouse is giving love back with its Sixth Annual Binge Free Festival (BFF), a full month of free performances, workshops, readings, music and poetry in Santa Monica's ONLY fringe festival.

BWW Review: COPENHAGEN, Rose Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Jul 21, 2021


In 1941 two leading physicists secretly met in Nazi-occupied Denmark to discuss the race between Hitler and the allies to create the nuclear bomb. These men were Werner Heisenberg, a German working on Hitler's bomb programme, and his old mentor Niels Bohr, a half-Jewish Dane with links to the United States’ nuclear programme. First seen in 1998, Michael Frayn’s fascinating but ultimately frustrating play, Copenhagen, explores several possibilities of what may have happened between the men.

BWW Review: WHEN CALLS THE HEART THE MUSICAL Shines At Round Barn Theatre
by Tara Olivero - Jun 25, 2021


World Premiere of WHEN CALLS THE HEART THE MUSICAL on stage at the Round Barn Theatre through July 17-- you won't want to miss this show.

BWW Interview: Gloria Swansong and Maxie Factor - Two Sisters Making Each Other's Dreams Come True PART ONE
by Stephen Mosher - Jun 25, 2021


Gloria Swansong is a drag artist with a focus on the goddesses of the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties. Fellow drag performer Maxie Factor's focus is almost exclusively the divas of the Sixties. One is a costumer, the other is a hairstylist. It's kind of like they were destined for each other, and guess what? They were.

STYX First New Studio Album In Four Years, 'Crash Of The Crown,' Set For Release
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 6, 2021


The title track to CRASH OF THE CROWN was released today—premiering exclusively during Eddie Trunk’s “Trunk Nation” program on SiriusXM Satellite Radio--and is now available to stream and download with pre-orders on digital platforms.

COPENHAGEN By Michael Frayn To Open At Theatre Royal Bath Before UK Tour
by A.A. Cristi - May 5, 2021


Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions will present COPENHAGEN by Michael Frayn, which will open at Theatre Royal Bath for three weeks from 9 June before touring to Southampton, Malvern, Cambridge, and Kingston-Upon-Thames.

GYPSY IN MY SOUL: DAWN DEROW SINGS EYDIE GORME To Debut May 23rd
by Stephen Mosher - May 10, 2021


Bistro and MAC-award winner Dawn Derow is debuting her latest cabaret performance, GYPSY IN MY SOUL: Dawn Derow Sings Eydie Gormé on Sunday, May 23rd at The Bijou Theatre.

The State of the London Stage: April 2021
by Matt Wolf - Apr 7, 2021


May 17 has long held near-sacrosanct status in and around London theatreland. That's the date earmarked for a return to live performance, albeit to limited audiences, with a further diary entry worth marking of June 21 (the summer solstice no less) when all restrictions on social contacts will be removed and playhouses may - one stresses the word may - be allowed to return to something resembling pre-pandemic capacity.

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, Magos Herrera and Brooklyn Rider & More Announced for VOICES OF HOPE Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 26, 2021


From April 16-30, 2021, Carnegie Hall will present Voices of Hope, an online festival that examines the resilience of artists, exploring works that they felt compelled to create despite—and often because of—appalling circumstances and human tragedy.

BWW Exclusive: Jennifer Ashley Tepper's THE UNTOLD STORIES OF BROADWAY, VOLUME 4- Spotlight on Studio 54
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - Mar 3, 2021


On Tuesday, March 9, Dress Circle Publishing will release of THE UNTOLD STORIES OF BROADWAY, VOLUME 4, the latest in a series by acclaimed historian and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper. Can't wait to get your hands on it? Let BroadwayWorld hold you over with a special sneak peek!

The Glimmerglass Festival Announces Plans for Summer 2021
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 1, 2021


The Glimmerglass Festival, the summer opera and musical theater festival in Cooperstown, New York, has announced plans for the summer of 2021 in the wake of its 2020 season cancelation due to COVID-19. The 2021 season will run July 15 through August 17.

HBO Max Launches Valentine's Day Spotlight Page
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Feb 4, 2021


HBO Max is spreading the love this Valentine’s Day with a dedicated spotlight page called “Straight From the Heart,” which is home to romantic-themed content. The “Straight From the Heart” spotlight page on HBO Max is the best destination for people to escape and rediscover what it means to fall in love… or celebrate being single.

New and Upcoming Releases For the Week of January 25 - KINKY BOOTS Blu-Ray, and More!
by Stephi Wild - Jan 27, 2021


Need something new to read, watch, or listen to? Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases! This week's list includes the Blu-Ray recording of the West End production of Kinky Boots, and more!

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