Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Announces 2013 Season
by BWW News Desk - Dec 19, 2012
Following the 80th Anniversary Season's record-breaking attendance, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival announces the 2013 Festival schedule today. Jacob's Pillow is a National Historic Landmark, home to America's longest-running dance festival, and a recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
Cooking Classes, Story-Hours and More Set for New-York Historical Society's Family Programs, Jan 2013
by BWW News Desk - Nov 27, 2012
The New-York Historical Society is offering a large and diverse selection of activities in January 2013 designed for families to enjoy the holiday spirit together and make history come alive. The exciting series of family programs at the DiMenna Children's History Museum at New-York Historical-the first-ever museum bringing American history to life through the eyes of children.
AMERICAN STORM, UNWILLING AND HOSTILE INSTRUMENTS and More Set for Theatre Seven's 2012-13 Season
by BWW News Desk - Sep 12, 2012
Theatre Seven of Chicago, recipient of the 2012 Emerging Theater Award, has announced its full 2012/13 Season: AMERICAN STORM by Carter Lewis, directed by Artistic Director Brian Golden at the Greenhouse Theater Center; BLACKTOP SKY by Christina Anderson, directed by Cassy Sanders, presented as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 4th annual Garage Rep in The Steppenwolf Garage; JOHNNY by Artistic Director Brian Golden at the Greenhouse Theater Center; and UNWILLING AND HOSTILE INSTRUMENTS: 100 Years of Extraordinary Chicago Women, a collection of seven new plays by some of the industry's most talented playwrights and directors.
David Cromer Re-envisions Our Town at the Broad, Santa Monica
by BWW
News Desk - Feb 12, 2012
Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town has been a part of my American cultural mindset since high school, practically all my life. And, of course, being a New Englander, it is not very hard to put myself into Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, even though the time period for the play 1901-1913 is about 30 + years before my existence. People are people and daily life was pretty much the same; things - except cars replacing horse and buggy - didn't really start changing until the middle of the 20th century. Now in this spaced out, high tech, faster-than-the-speed-of-light world we live in, it's nice to look back and see how it once was and reflect on what it maybe should be. On the Broad stage through February 12 only, David Cromer's fascinating staging puts his audience smack dab in the middle of the town and makes us believe we have time-traveled back to this simpler but just as psychologically complicated era. How inexpensive things cost, how people trusted one another, and how they amused themselves by reading, attending choir practice or actually conversing with one another instead of being glued to the TV set or sidetracked by other low quality, insignificant perversions! But there were some who just could not cope, like Mr. Stimson, the alcoholic choir director, who ended up committing suicide. We've all known people like him. So, the play is timeless. And somehow contemporary dress for the actors is not a hindrance to our accepting who and where they are, as it makes them like us, as we all fit together into one big macrocosm.
David Cromer Re-envisions Our Town at the Broad, Santa Monica
by Don Grigware - Jan 20, 2012
Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town has been a part of my American cultural mindset since high school, practically all my life. And, of course, being a New Englander, it is not very hard to put myself into Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, even though the time period for the play 1901-1913 is about 30 + years before my existence. People are people and daily life was pretty much the same; things - except cars replacing horse and buggy - didn't really start changing until the middle of the 20th century. Now in this spaced out, high tech, faster-than-the-speed-of-light world we live in, it's nice to look back and see how it once was and reflect on what it maybe should be. On the Broad stage through February 12 only, David Cromer's fascinating staging puts his audience smack dab in the middle of the town and makes us believe we have time-traveled back to this simpler but just as psychologically complicated era. How inexpensive things cost, how people trusted one another, and how they amused themselves by reading, attending choir practice or actually conversing with one another instead of being glued to the TV set or sidetracked by other low quality, insignificant perversions! But there were some who just could not cope, like Mr. Stimson, the alcoholic choir director, who ended up committing suicide. We've all known people like him. So, the play is timeless. And somehow contemporary dress for the actors is not a hindrance to our accepting who and where they are, as it makes them like us, as we all fit together into one big macrocosm.
Tom Crean Travels to Roscommon Arts Centre
by Gabrielle Sierra - Oct 14, 2011
Play on Words Theatre & Fairbank Productions have announced The return of Tom Crean ?'Antarctic Explorer' to Roscommon Arts Centre for one performance only Thursday 3rd November 2011.
National Theatre Wales Announces Autumn Shows for 2010
by Gabrielle Sierra - Sep 2, 2010
Since the curtain was raised on its first production in March, National Theatre Wales - Wales' first English-language theatre company - has staged six stunning productions in locations across the country, to overwhelming critical acclaim.
'10 Lincoln Center Festival Runs 7/7-7/25
by BWW News Desk - Jul 7, 2010
Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is sponsored by American Express. Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is also made possible by Nancy A. Marks, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Isilon Systems, The Skirball Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc.
Theater on the Lake Announces 2010 Season of Revived Productions from Local Companies
by BWW
News Desk - Jun 16, 2010
The Chicago Park District's 58th annual Theater on the Lake season features reprisals of eight artistically diverse Chicago theater companies June 16 - Aug. 8, 2010. The season opens with The Second City's 50th Anniversary Revue (June 16-20) and continues with popular productions by Bohemian Theatre Ensemble (June 23-27), A Red Orchid Theatre (June 30-July 4), Baby Wants Candy (July 7-11), Strawdog Theatre Company (July 14-18), Rivendell Theatre Company (July 21-25), The Gift Theatre Company (July 28 - Aug. 1), and Caffeine Theatre (Aug. 4-8).
Lincoln Center Festival 2010 Announces Updated Lineup
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jun 2, 2010
Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is sponsored by American Express. Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is also made possible by Nancy A. Marks, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Isilon Systems, The Skirball Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc.
Theater on the Lake Announces 2010 Season of Revived Productions from Local Companies
by Gabrielle Sierra - Apr 8, 2010
The Chicago Park District's 58th annual Theater on the Lake season features reprisals of eight artistically diverse Chicago theater companies June 16 - Aug. 8, 2010. The season opens with The Second City's 50th Anniversary Revue (June 16-20) and continues with popular productions by Bohemian Theatre Ensemble (June 23-27), A Red Orchid Theatre (June 30-July 4), Baby Wants Candy (July 7-11), Strawdog Theatre Company (July 14-18), Rivendell Theatre Company (July 21-25), The Gift Theatre Company (July 28 - Aug. 1), and Caffeine Theatre (Aug. 4-8).
ABQ Theatre Guild Releases Their March Calendar
by Gabrielle Sierra - Feb 15, 2010
The Albuquerque Theatre guild is an umbrella organization of live theatre companies, theater practitioners, and theater lovers dedicated to making the Albuquerque area's rich live-theatre scene better known to both residents and visitors alike.
American Rapture: Lonely as a Coyote
by Duncan Pflaster - Feb 16, 2009
Oberon Theatre Ensemble presents 'American Rapture', an evening of several short plays by Alex Dinelaris combined with the classic one-act 'Hello Out There' by William Saroyan.