Interview: Jason Graae: IT'S A GRAAE NIGHT FOR SINGING! at The Gardenia Supper Club
by Gavin Glynn - Aug 12, 2025
Jason Graae (pronounced 'grah'or 'graw', but not 'gray' is an established American musical theater actor, best known for his musical theater performances but with a varied career spanning Broadway, opera, television and film. He has won four Bistro Awards, two Ovation Awards, two New York Nightlife Awards, the Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Joel Hirschhorn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre.
MIKE LEIGH AT THE BBC Now Streaming on The Criterion Channel
by Michael Major - Jan 6, 2023
In the seventeen years between his first two theatrical features (1971’s BLEAK MOMENTS and 1988’s HIGH HOPES), Mike Leigh, the great humanist of British cinema, sharpened his distinctive voice and famously improvisatory process at the BBC, where he directed a string of striking, bittersweet slice-of-life dramas built on sharply etched characters.
ABIGAIL'S PARTY Comes to Watford Palace Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Feb 11, 2022
This brand new production by Pravesh Kumar with Goldy Notay as Beverley casts the attitudes to class and social standing of Mike Leigh's classic in a whole new light.
Tony Nominee Lenka Peterson Passes Away at 95
by Nicole Rosky - Oct 5, 2021
BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen veteran Lenka Peterson passed away in her New Haven, Connecticut home on September 24. She was 95 years old.
Harvey Virdi Cast As Beverley In ABIGAIL'S PARTY
by Stephi Wild - Feb 14, 2020
Set against the backdrop of an evolving Britain of the 70s, this fresh production shows the classic Mike Leigh satire in a new light. Performed in traverse with intimate on-stage seating offering audience the chance to join Beverly and Laurence's soireé, bringing them closer to the experience.
BWW Interview: Owen O'Neill of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre At The Warwick Theatre
by Paul Bolton - Apr 14, 2019
The Shawshank Redemption performs at the Warwick Theatre on Main Street in Kansas City, MO from April 4-21, 2019 The show runs close to 2 hours and has an intermission between the two acts. There are some scenes of brief nudity and simulated assault.
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre is located at 3927 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64111. There is ample parking behind the building. For tickets, call 816-569-3226. Visit www.metkc.org for more information or to purchase tickets online. Owen O'Neill interview
The London Film Festival Announces Full Lineup, Opening with European Premiere of Steve McQueen's WIDOWS
by Kaitlin Milligan - Aug 30, 2018
The 62nd BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® today announces its full programme, featuring a diverse selection of 225 feature films from both established and emerging talent. This 12-day celebration of cinema illustrates the richness of international filmmaking, with films to delight and entertain audiences, and also films that probe and interrogate issues of significance.
Flamin' Groovies Come to NYC 8/25 to Celebrate New Album
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 23, 2017
Rejoice, rock 'n' rollers: San Francisco's Flamin' Groovies are returning with Fantastic Plastic, an all-new album of high-energy, pop-inflected original songs that bring together the band's prime movers of the '70s, singers-guitarists-songwriters Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson for the first time in 38 years. Produced by Jordan and Joel Jaffe (who also contributes guitar) mostly at Studio D in Sausalito, Calif., and due Sept. 22, 2017 on the band's own independent imprint Sonic Kicks Records and Severn
Flamin' Groovies Announce New Studio Album; Original Frontmen Reunited After 38 Years
by Caryn Robbins - Jul 26, 2017
Rejoice, rock 'n' rollers: San Francisco's Flamin' Groovies are returning with Fantastic Plastic, an all-new album of high-energy, pop-inflected original songs that bring together the band's prime movers of the '70s, singers-guitarists-songwriters Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson for the first time in 38 years.
'Understanding the Work of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church' is Released
by Christina Mancuso - Mar 30, 2017
Dan Johnson's new book, Understanding the Work of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church ($15.99, paperback, 9781498466431; $7.99, eBook, 9781498466448) aims to set forth, in a nuts and bolts fashion, the biblical evidence that apart from believers being baptized by the Holy Spirit 'into Christ' at conversion, the justice of God cannot be maintained.
Jeff Swearingen's THE ULTIMATE HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE to Return to Fun House
by BWW
News Desk - Dec 2, 2016
It has been four years since Fun House Theatre and Film took audiences back to the 1980's and told the tale of the night Dan Quayle saved Christmas. In the show that Fun House fans have never stopped clamoring for, Jeff Swearingen and his crew of small but mighty actors do what they do best in creating an original story that appeals to adults and children alike.
Star-Studded OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY Begins Tonight at Long Wharf Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Nov 23, 2016
Long Wharf Theatre, under the director of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Joshua Borenstein, present Other People's Money, by Jerry Sterner, directed by Marc Bruni from tonight, November 23, through December 18 on the Claire Tow Stage in the C. Newton Schenck Theatre.
Jeff Swearingen's THE ULTIMATE HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE to Return to Fun House
by BWW News Desk - Nov 7, 2016
It has been four years since Fun House Theatre and Film took audiences back to the 1980's and told the tale of the night Dan Quayle saved Christmas. In the show that Fun House fans have never stopped clamoring for, Jeff Swearingen and his crew of small but mighty actors do what they do best in creating an original story that appeals to adults and children alike.