Former Seattleite Returns With Drama & Comedy Exposing Gaps In Regional Queer Support
by Stephi Wild - September 22, 2018 The award-winning international touring writer/performer, Ren Lunicke, is coming hot off the heels of Victoria Fringe Festival with an award for BRAVEST SHOW of 2018 for BLOOD RELATIVE. This is after a prodigious nomination for a Development Award in New Zealand for the same play, and several awards...
The New Collectives Present BUYER'S REMORSE at The 2017 FRIGID Festival
by A.A. Cristi - January 25, 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? ...
MAD Spotlights the Convergence of Fashion and Craft in the Counterculture Movement of the 1960's and '70's
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2017 The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is pleased to present Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture, opening March 2 and running through August 20. The exhibition brings together over two dozen seminal artists working in the 1960s and '70s who fought for change by sewing, embro...
Northlight Theatre Announces Lineup for Their 44th Season
by Julie Musbach - March 05, 2018 Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces its 44th season, opening withCurve of Departure by Rachel Bonds, directed by BJ Jones and featuring Mike Nussbaum and Sean Parris. The season continues with the World Premiere of ...
Langhorne Players Honor The Late Sam Shepard With BURIED CHILD
by Julie Musbach - August 09, 2018 Langhorne Players at the Spring Garden Mill continue their 76th season with a heartrending production of the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Buried Child. Written by Sam Shepard (Fool for Love, True West), Buried Child depicts with brutality and humor the disintegration of the American ...
TRANSPARENT & More Set for Toronto Film Festival's Small Screen Section
by Caryn Robbins - August 18, 2016 The Toronto International Film Festival® tunes in to Primetime for its second year, tapping five high-quality television premieres from countries including the United Kingdom, South Africa, Kenya, the United States, the Czech Republic, and Canada. T...
THE NEWSPAPERMAN Documentary to Profile Legendary Editor Gene Roberts
by Movies News Desk - April 04, 2017 David Layton and Mike Nicholson announce the first ever documentary on legendary newspaper editor Gene Roberts....
National Geographic Documentary Films Announces INSIDE NORTH KOREA'S DYNASTY
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 22, 2018 With North Korea's relations with the rest of the world at a new and unpredictable inflection point, National Geographic Documentary Films presents INSIDE NORTH KOREA'S DYNASTY, a groundbreaking four-episode documentary series that examines the extraordinary history of the world's only communist dyn...
John O'Keefe's ALL NIGHT LONG Gets Southern CA Premiere
by Julie Musbach - August 13, 2018 The thin line between waking and dreaming, the conscious and subconscious, is exposed in an outrageously funny, surreal sit-com about 18 hours in the life of an all-American nuclear family.Jan Munroe directs theSouthern California premiere ofAll Night Long by John O'Keefe, opening Sept. 14 in anOpen...
Guest Blog: Road to Opening AIN'T THAT RICH
by Julie Musbach - October 20, 2017 My play Ain't That Rich, a true story of the complex relationship I have with money, runs at The Marsh San Francisco October 20 though December 2....
Lookingglass Announces Season of World Premieres
by Julie Musbach - March 27, 2018 Lookingglass Theatre Company announces its complete 2018-2019 season lineup. The season begins with the World Premiere of The Steadfast Tin Soldier: A Christmas Pantomime, conceived and directed by Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman from the story by Hans Christian Andersen. Following The Steadfast Tin ...
JOHN and More Slated for Stray Cat Theatre's 15th Anniversary Season
by BWW News Desk - September 16, 2016 Stray Cat Theatre unleashes its 2016-2017 Season!...
BWW Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Pico Playhouse
by Cary Ginell - August 24, 2016 Last Sunday, we ventured into Los Angeles to see two Ventura County theater alumni in a production of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's Next to Normal, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that is being staged at the Pico Playhouse. Michelle Lane and Harrison Meloeny were both in Cabrillo Music The...
Playwrights Realm Announces Cast And Creative Team For Jonathan Payne's THE REVOLVING CYCLES TRULY AND STEADILY ROLL'D
by A.A. Cristi - August 13, 2018 The Playwrights Realm (Katherine Kovner, Founding Artistic Director; Roberta Pereira, Producing Director) today announces the complete cast and creative team for the world premiere of Jonathan Payne's The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll'd, directed by Awoye Timpo (Sept. 7-Oct. 6, at The Duk...
The Second City Celebrates Pride Month & Improv Brunch Returns
by A.A. Cristi - June 06, 2018 The Second City is proud to announce a June run for "The Second City's Let's Make It Perfectly Queer: A Salute to Pride," a sketch show performed entirely by an all -LGBTQIA cast. Under the direction of Mick Napier with musical direction by Nick Gage, "Let's Make It Perfectly Queer" is Second City's...
ART/WNY Presents HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS AND THEN KILL THEM
by A.A. Cristi - November 03, 2016 From the first moment one walks into American Repertory Theater of WNY's production of Halley Feiffer's "How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them", there is a sense that what will transpire on stage won't be your typical theater presentation. ...
World Premiere of SPECIAL Comes to Theatre of NOTE
by Stephi Wild - December 04, 2018 Special is the World Premiere comedy that commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the worst variety show in television history with a behind-the-scenes imagined look of how The Star Wars Holiday Special came to be....
Shakespeare & Company Presents HIR By Taylor Mac
by Julie Musbach - August 28, 2018 Shakespeare & Company presents Obie Award-winning playwright Taylor Mac's dark comedy HIR, directed by Alice Reagan, and featuring long-time Company veterans John Hadden and Elizabeth Aspenlieder. Performances run in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre September 13 - October 7....
Stray Cat Theatre to Close 16-17 Season with Gender-Bent Comedy HIR
by BWW News Desk - April 06, 2017 Stray Cat Theatre presents Hir by Taylor Mac, directed by Ron May. ...
Trans Non-Binary Performer Brings Two Stories About Diversity, Belonging, And Resilience
by A.A. Cristi - August 29, 2018 New Zealand-based Ren Lunicke is Redmond, WA born, Canadian trained, and New Zealand based. Raised in the bible belt outskirts of King County and San Juan Islands County, they had a late exposure to secularism, coming to adulthood in neighboring B.C., Canada. Years later, in a "same-sex" Canada-appr...
THE NEWSPAPERMAN Documentary to Profile Legendary Editor Gene Roberts
by Movies News Desk - April 04, 2017 David Layton and Mike Nicholson announce the first ever documentary on legendary newspaper editor Gene Roberts....
Tony Winner Glenn Close to Star in Amazon Pilot SEA OAK
by Caryn Robbins - October 23, 2017 Amazon today announced the lineup for its forthcoming fall pilot season which will debut on November 10 in over 200 countries and territories exclusively on Amazon Prime Video for all customers to stream....
Lookingglass Theatre Announces Casting For Mary Zimmerman's THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER: A CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME
by Julie Musbach - August 09, 2018 Lookingglass Theatre Company announces casting for the world premiere of The Steadfast Tin Soldier: A Christmas Pantomime, from the story by Hans Christian Andersen, conceived and directed by Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman. This family-friendly, holiday show runs November 7, 2018 - January 13, 2019 ...
AMY AND THE ORPHANS: A Conversation with Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino and Director Scott Ellis
by Roundabout Theatre Company - March 28, 2018 February 24, 2018, Lindsey Ferrentino and Scott Ellis spoke about Amy and the Orphans with education dramaturg Ted Sod as part of Roundabout Theatre Company's lecture series....
Sharp/Shock Reinvent Buzzcocks Standard EVER FALLEN IN LOVE (WITH SOMEONE YOU SHOULDN'T'VE)
by Tori Hartshorn - October 04, 2018 Whether they're revitalizing Brit punk tenets, or putting a fresh new spin on American rock standards, Sharp/Shock is no stranger to reinvention. The trio's newest release, a cover of the Buzzcocks' “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've),” showcases their no-holds-barred approach to po... |