Bad Quarto Productions' ANNA KARENINA LIVES Opens This Weekby BWW News Desk - October 18, 2017Bad Quarto Productions, a theatre company specializing in performing modern theatre using Shakespearean staging techniques, will open it's latest production: Anna Karenina Lives!, a new vaudeville-style musical comedy by Germaine Shames, this October 21st and 22nd at 353 W. 48th St. in Midtown Manhattan. Photo Flash: EPIC Returns with YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN This Fallby BWW News Desk - October 18, 2017EPIC Players Inclusion Company (EPIC) returns with the second play of their 2017-18 season, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, with book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner. The musical adaptation of Charles M. Shulz comic strip Peanuts, runs November 16 - 19 at The Flea's new theater in Tribeca. Check out a first look at the cast below! Photo Flash: Michael Campayno, Rachelle Rak, James Whiteside and More Perform at HERO Awardsby BWW News Desk - October 17, 2017The HIV Experience Resources Organization (HERO) presented, in association with Stage 48, 'The Fourth Annual Broadway and Ballet, HERO Awards' to benefit HERO, an organization that helps newly diagnosed and people living with HIV/AIDS. Below, BroadwayWorld has photos from the event, which featured ABT star James Whiteside, Broadway legend Rachelle Rak, Broadway star Michael Campayno and more! Salon/Sanctuary Concerts to Present FROM GHETTO TO CAPPELLA This Fallby BWW News Desk - October 17, 2017Most recently presented at Temple Emanu-El in partnership with the Carnegie Hall La Serenissima Festival, in Italy at the Teatro all'Antica di Sabbioneta and the Great Synagogue of Florence, Salon/Sanctuary Concerts is partnering with historic Brotherhood Synagogue in presenting the fourth annual New York performance of 'From Ghetto to Cappella.' Photo Flash: Sneak Peek - MELODY LINGERS ON Coming to The Actors' Templeby BWW News Desk - October 17, 2017Melody Lingers On will be presented at The Actors' Temple on Wednesday, November 8th, 7:00 P.M. A musical revue written and directed by Karin Baker Kayne, based on the book, Irving Berlin, A Daughter's Memoir, by Mary Ellen Barrett, this is a 20-year cast reunion of a great show with music by Irving Berlin, and a benefit for the temple. Scroll down for a look at some of the works featured in the show, plus photos of the original cast and Ellin MacKay and Irving Berlin! VIDEO: Annie Golden & More in Highlights from BARING IT ALL WITH CALL ME ADAMby BWW News Desk - October 17, 2017Helping Adam launch the show were Orange is the New Black's Annie Golden ('Norma Romano') and Lin Tucci ('Anita DeMarco'), plus Broadway's Lauren Elder (revivals of Hair & Side Show), and award-winning composer/lyricist Bobby Cronin (forthcoming Mary & Max). Check out highlights from the first episode below! Edo de Waart Replaces Christoph von Dohnanyi for New York Philharmonic Concertby BWW News Desk - October 16, 2017Edo de Waart will replace Christoph von Dohn nyi in concerts featuring the World Premiere-New York Philharmonic commission of Bent S rensen's Evening Land; Emanuel Ax as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 (replacing the previously announced Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27); and Brahms's Symphony No. 2. Pace School of Performing Arts to Present LYSISTRATA at 3-Legged Dogby BWW News Desk - October 16, 2017 Lysistrata is presented with a futuristic spin by the School of Performing Arts of the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University. It was developed, and will be performed, at the 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center in Lower Manhattan. Stand Up NY to Present A THOUSAND DEATHS Storytelling Showby BWW News Desk - October 16, 2017Erin Maguire and Ashley Austin Morris in association with Stand Up NY present 'A Thousand Deaths,' a storytelling show featuring some of NYC's best stand up comics reliving their most horrifying experiences on stage. LO-FI NYC Comedy Show Coming to UNDER St. Marks This Fallby BWW News Desk - October 16, 2017LO-FI NYC is the wild basement comedy show you've always dreamed of. With stand-up, sketches, sledgehammers and subway musicians, it's a little like The Muppet Show, but with fewer puppets and way more drinking. Armitage Gone! Dance to Present HALLOWEEN UNLEASHED at La MaMaby BWW News Desk - October 16, 2017The core of Armitage's work centers on a series of dance 'dreamscapes' that take the viewer on a poetic journey to evoke mysterious landscapes of reverie, dream and altered consciousness. Her latest work, Halloween Unleashed: Dancing Bones, Tasting Darkness and the Skeleton Within, is a subversive comedy designed to spook adults and families in a live action rendition of Disney's 1929 animated masterpiece, The Skeleton Dance. Combined with images from the wild, capricious street theater of Haitian carnival, Halloween Unleashed offers punk attitude and visual high-jinx, in a dance where bones dance alone, shoes fly off feet, and skeletons turn into musical instruments. Friends of the High Line to Host ¡ARRIBA! Fundraiser for Puerto Rico & Mexicoby BWW News Desk - October 16, 2017Friends of the High Line will host a special edition of their popular Arriba! series entitled ARRIBA! Special Fundraiser Edition: Coming Together for Puerto Rico & Mexico to raise funds and compile supplies that will support relief efforts in Puerto Rico and Mexico on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 6 9 pm on the High Line at 16th St. BWW Review: Betty Buckley Brings Righteous Anger to Joe's Pub in Exceptional STORY SONGS #2by Ashley Steves - October 14, 2017Betty Buckley's STORY SONGS #2, the artist's new show at Joe's Pub running through Sunday night, was initially supposed to have another, darker title. She won't divulge the original choice, but one can certainly imagine. Making a sequel to the original, which, as a mixtape of numbers rich to the core with vibrant tales, was one of 2016's best solo shows, it feels like a momentary return to some form of normalcy, musical comfort food in its purest form. LTR House Party to Stage Reading of Tanya Everett's T(WO) TRAINby BWW News Desk - October 13, 2017Less Than Rent Theatre continues LTR HOUSE PARTY, a new reading series presenting bold, innovative works by emerging playwrights, with a staged reading of Tanya Everett's T(wo) Train: to be in transit(ion) at Axis Theatre in the West Village. Documentary-Inspired TRUMP RALLY Opens Tonight at United Soloby BWW News Desk - October 14, 2017TRUMP RALLY, a new short play by writer/director Sean Pollock based on Sean Dunne's film documentary of the same name, opens on October 14 at the United Solo Theatre Festival. Actress Anna Rock molds herself into 28 different personalities depicted in the documentary TRUMP RALLY filmed at a Las Vegas Trump rally in 2016. Playwright Sean Pollock seeks to break the echo chamber in NYC and to encounter the real people depicted in TRUMP RALLY and their connections to the Trump movement.
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