What's the Longest and Shortest Broadway Musical?
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - Jul 2, 2023
This month, the reader question was: What’s the longest and shortest Broadway musical? Find out about all the musicals that clocked in at 90 minutes or less, or three hours or more!
THE MAGIC FLUTE is Now Playing at Teatr Wielki
by Stephi Wild - Jun 27, 2022
This dazzlingly hallucinatory show featuring actors playing in a live animation is a tribute to silent film. The director calls it ‘a silent movie by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’ inspired – one might add – by 18th-century chalcography, Yellow Submarine, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and superhero comics, to name just a few obvious references. It is an amazing show, an operatic joyride.
Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa Presents THE MAGIC FLUTE
by Stephi Wild - Jan 3, 2022
In the internationally popular Komische Oper’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute which we have been lucky enough to have in Warsaw for a few seasons now, the aria is performed by a giant lady spider dancing over a wriggling Tamino.
Study Up on Irving Berlin and Celebrate Broadway's Return with #NoBusinessLikeShowBusiness
by Team BWW - Nov 10, 2021
Live theatre is officially back and Concord Theatricals is celebrating! 'There's No Business Like Show Business' is a digital celebration that launched just last month, marking the return of live theater and all of the incredible people who help to make it happen. The celebration coincides with the 75th anniversary of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun and its iconic showstopper 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' a song that has more resonance than ever this year.
Christina Bianco to Perform Farewell Show A LOT TO UNPACK at Birdland Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 27, 2021
BIRDLAND THEATER will present Christina Bianco in her new show “A Lot to Unpack” on Friday, October 15 and Saturday, October 16 at 8:30 PM. Her bags are packed for London but before she leaves her hometown this globetrotting, genre-crossing, multi-voiced, multi-wig-wearing funny girl has some serious unpacking to do.
Darius de Haas, Ann Harada, Lesli Margherita & More to Take Part in AMANDA GREEN & FRIENDS 'VAXXED AF!'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 21, 2021
BIRDLAND will present Amanda Green & Friends “Vaxxed AF!” on Monday, October 4 at 7:00 PM. Tony Award-nominated lyricist/composer and award-winning performer Amanda Green will be joined by some amazing Broadway friends, including Darius de Haas, Ann Harada, Lesli Margherita, Curtis Moore, Natalie Douglas, and Dan Finnerty of The Dan Band.
The Center For Ballet And The Arts At NYU Announces 2018-19 Fellows
by A.A. Cristi - May 9, 2018
The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University (CBA), the first international institute devoted to the creation and academic study of ballet, today announced the 27 artists and scholars who will serve as CBA Fellows in the 2018-19 academic year. The group - which represents The Center's largest and most far-reaching cohort yet - features distinguished individuals in a range of disciplines, including scholar Cecile Feza Bushidi, lighting designer Brandon Stirling Baker, choreographer Chase Brock, choreographer, filmmaker, and dancer Pontus Lidberg, and scholar Janice Ross, among others.
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Now Playing At Stage Door Theatre
by Carol Kassie - Mar 6, 2018
Bootleggers and 'business men', duchesses and dancers, and senators and 'servants' will populate Stage Door's Theatre 1 when Nice Work If You Can Get It opens on March 2nd. The production will run through April 15th.
Stage Door Theatre Presents NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
by Carol Kassie - Feb 14, 2018
Bootleggers and 'business men', duchesses and dancers, and senators and 'servants' will populate Stage Door's Theatre 1 when Nice Work If You Can Get It opens on March 2nd. The production will run through April 15th.
BWW Review: Of Fairy Tales and Trials at Opera Philadelphia's WAKE WORLD and MAGIC FLUTE
by Richard Sasanow - Sep 27, 2017
Superficially, Wolfgang Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (or DIE ZAUBERFLOTE for you purists) and David Hertzberg's THE WAKE WORLD couldn't seem less alike and, taken together, they stretch the definition of what makes an opera. Yet, as part of Opera Philadelphia's daring new O17 opera festival, they have a surprising amount in common including spectacular scores that demand to be heard again and again.
PEZ Candy, Inc. announces new Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy offering
by Marina Kennedy - May 1, 2017
PEZ Candy, Inc. today announced the latest addition to its product line with the addition of Rocket and Groot from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. The all-new Guardians of the Galaxy Twin Pack features the iconic Groot and Rocket with Rocket appearing on a twin-pack exclusive mini PEZ dispenser. The Marvel PEZ assortment has been updated to include Rocket and Groot in addition to Marvel favorites Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America.
BWW Review: TUDO E JAZZ (And the World Goes 'Round) Pays Tribute To The Great Kander & Ebb Musicals
by Claudio Erlichman - Oct 13, 2016
Tudo E Jazz - Um Tributo Musical a Kander & Ebb (And the World Goes 'Round - the Songs of Kander & Ebb) debuts at Sao Paulo stage. The show, which brings together renowned names in the cast, is a tribute to the great musicals of the duo John Kander & Fred Ebb, successful Broadway composers, responsible for creating Chicago, Cabaret, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and the great musical hit 'New York, New York', immortalized in the voices of Liza Minelli and Frank Sinatra.
Jennifer Bowles & Rob McClure Set to Lead Encores! IRMA LA DOUCE; Runs May 7-11
by Nicole Rosky - Mar 24, 2014
Jennifer Bowles will play the title role opposite Rob McClure in New York City Center Encores! production of Irma La Douce, running for seven performances,May 7 - 11, 2014. The final production of the 2014 Encores! season will also feature Sam Bolen, Allan Corduner, Ben Crawford, Stephen DeRosa, Ken Krugman, Zachary James and Chris Sullivan. Irma La Douce will be directed by John Doyle and choreographed by Chase Brock, with music direction by Rob Berman.
Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal to Receive Samuel H. Scripps Award 5/10
by BWW
News Desk - May 10, 2010
Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor and Oscar-winner Elliot Goldenthal will be honored with the Samuel H. Scripps Award at Theatre for a New Audience's 30th Anniversary Gala Celebrating Shakespeare's 446th Birthday. The celebration, Monday, May 10, will be held at The Powerhouse at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street.