Hulu Announces New Movies & Shows Coming this June
by Macon Prickett - May 18, 2018 Hulu releases June Highlights: The Bold Type: Season 2 Pre-Premiere (Freeform) (6/5) (Watch The Bold Type season 2 premiere episode early exclusively on Hulu!):...
#TWF18 Crowns Stella Shouting Contest Winner
by A.A. Cristi - March 25, 2018 Participants of the 32nd annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival descend to Jackson Square for the 2018 edition of the Stella Shouting Contest in hopes of seeing who will best channel their inner Tennessee Williams....
BWW Review: PATIENCE, Hackney Empire
by Alexandra Coghlan - March 09, 2017 'What a very singularly deep young man that deep young man must be!' You don't have to look very far in selfie-taking 2017 for an equivalent to the narcissism and aestheticism that are so thoroughly sent up in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1881 Patience. So perhaps it's best that director Liam Steel has le...
BRIC TV to Present 'MUSLIM IN NEW YORK' #BHeard Town Hall This Week
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2017 BRIC has announced that, as part of its BRIC TV initiative, and in partnership with CUNY CLEAR, The Intercept and The Secret Life of Muslims, it will present Muslim in New York: A Community Comes Together, a live-broadcast #BHeardtown hall discussion, Today, October 11, 7-9pm, at BRIC House in Downt...
Comedienne Roseanne Barr, Motown Supergroup The Temptations And Soft Rock Duo Air Supply Perform At The Orleans In May
by A.A. Cristi - April 10, 2018 The Orleans will bring top comedy and musical acts to The Orleans Showroom and Bourbon Street Lounge in May, featuring performances by Emmy Award-winning comedy star Roseanne Barr, legendary Motown group The Temptations, Australian soft rock duo Air Supply and more....
BWW Review: THE EXPLORERS CLUB at Everett Theatre
by Rosanne DellAversano - February 15, 2018 THE EXPLORERS CLUB: Let the brandy and cigars plus a few laughs fly....
Review Roundup: GALA Hispanic Theatre's IN THE HEIGHTS
by Molly Tracy - April 28, 2017 The U.S. premiere in Spanish of the ground-breaking musical In The Heights. Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, with book by Quiara Alegria Hudes, music and lyrics by Mr. Miranda will conclude the 41rd main stage season of Teatro Gala. In The Heights is being directed and choreographed by original Broa...
Playwrights' Center Welcomes New Managing Director
by BWW News Desk - April 05, 2017 The Playwrights' Center today announced that Robert Chelimsky will join the organization as managing director, effective May 1, 2017. Chelimsky most recently served as managing director of Epic Theatre Ensemble in New York....
New National Tour Dates Announced for Jen Kirkman
by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2017 Comedian Jen Kirkman is poised for another round of tour dates around North America for her 'All New Material Girl' tour of 2017, fresh off the heels of her latest Netflix special Just Keep Livin'? After appearances on CONAN, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HARRY, and her Netflix special, Jen Ki...
Anna Deavere Smith Receives George Polk Award for Journalistic Work in NOTES FROM THE FIELD and More
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2017 Long Island University (LIU) has announced the winners of the 68th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism, continuing the University's longstanding tradition of honoring and celebrating the impact of courageous and authentic journalism on our national and global discourse....
La Cantata Dei Pastori's Italian Holiday Show Opens, Today
by BWW News Desk - December 22, 2017 Go back in time to Southern Italy with ALESSANDRA BELLONI and I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA, the renowned Italian music/theater/dance company, when they present their traditional Southern Italian 'La Cantata dei Pastori,' (The Shepherd's Cantata) a musical family holiday delight. One performance to celebrat...
Adelaide Writers' Week Lunch Event THE DRUNKEN BOTANIST with Amy Stewart Sold Out
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2017 Excitement is building for Adelaide Writers' Week at the 2017 Adelaide Festival, with New York Times' best-selling author Amy Stewart's special lunch event The Drunken Botanist selling out seven weeks before the full program launch....
Discovery Channel Announces OPERATION THAI CAVE RESCUE Documentary In the Works
by Macon Prickett - July 11, 2018 From the moment the heartbreaking news broke that 12 young Thai soccer players and their 25-year-old coach were stuck in a cave complex near the Myanmar border, the world has been glued to the rescue and recovery details. For over two weeks, the facts of how the group ended up in the cave and the s...
CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper Speaks at Mayo Performing Arts Center 9/16
by A.A. Cristi - August 16, 2017 CNN anchor Anderson Cooper speaks at Mayo Performing Arts Center on September 16 at 8 pm. Tickets are $59-$150....
New National Tour Dates Announced for Jen Kirkman
by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2017 Comedian Jen Kirkman is poised for another round of tour dates around North America for her 'All New Material Girl' tour of 2017, fresh off the heels of her latest Netflix special Just Keep Livin'? After appearances on CONAN, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HARRY, and her Netflix special, Jen Ki...
New National Tour Dates Announced for Jen Kirkman
by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2017 Comedian Jen Kirkman is poised for another round of tour dates around North America for her 'All New Material Girl' tour of 2017, fresh off the heels of her latest Netflix special Just Keep Livin'? After appearances on CONAN, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HARRY, and her Netflix special, Jen Ki...
Comedian & Author Jen Kirkman Returns with All-New Material, Girl Tour
by Caryn Robbins - November 13, 2017 FSheehan@avalon-entertainment.com Following three sell-out London runs, US comedian, author, and podcaster Jen Kirkman is returning to UK soil for a 6 night Soho Theatre run with her latest stand-up show 'The All New Material, Girl Tour' from 29th January to 3rd February....
BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
by Alan Portner - March 31, 2018 An outstanding cast opened Kansas City Repertory Theatre's new production of Steven Sondheim's 1979 'Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' at the Spencer Theater on the UMKC campus. KC Rep Artistic Director Eric Rosen does more than justice to Sondheim's incredible operatic score and the...
Jen Kirkman Announces Special Show At Leicester Square Theatre
by Julie Musbach - May 16, 2018 Following four sell-out London runs, US comedian, author, and podcaster Jen Kirkman is returning to UK soil for one night with her latest stand-up show 'I Don't Give A F*ck Tour' at the Leicester Square Theatre on Friday 22nd June at 9:30pm....
New National Tour Dates Announced for Jen Kirkman
by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2017 Comedian Jen Kirkman is poised for another round of tour dates around North America for her 'All New Material Girl' tour of 2017, fresh off the heels of her latest Netflix special Just Keep Livin'? After appearances on CONAN, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HARRY, and her Netflix special, Jen Ki...
The New Collectives' BUYER'S REMORSE Begins Tonight at 2017 FRIGID Festival
by BWW News Desk - February 16, 2017 Sex, regret, and a road trip. In Buyer's Remorse, Mara is on the road with nothing but a playlist, podcasts, and her thoughts. She confronts romantic love, intimacy, and loneliness. Can you be independent without being alone? ...
BWW Reviews: SNS' TOXIC AVENGER Earns a Glowing Review
by Paul Batterson - August 27, 2018 Lisa Glover, Johnathon L. Jackson, Steven Michael Mooney, Sheri Sanders and Jesse Daniel Trieger could probably fit in a Honda Civic and need only one large pizza for the cast party. Yet their performances, with many of the actors taking on an exhausting list of roles, make TOXIC AVENGER seem like a...
Neighborhood Theatre Group To Premiere CRYPTIC By A.M. Dean
by Stephi Wild - January 31, 2018 Neighborhood Theatre Group (NTG) is proud to present the premiere of Cryptic by Michigan playwright A.M. Dean. Performances are February 23-24 at 8pm and February 25 at 2pm at Bona Sera Underground (200 W. Michigan Ave.) in downtown Ypsilanti. Tickets are $10 general and $5 students (with valid ID) ...
FSLC Announces Spotlight on Documentary Lineup for NYFF55
by Caryn Robbins - August 23, 2017 The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the complete lineup for the Spotlight on Documentary section of the 55th New York Film Festival (September 28-October 15). This year's series of dispatches from the front lines of nonfiction cinema features intimate portraits of artists, depictions of soc... |