RADIUM GIRLS Comes to Metropolitan Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - February 22, 2020 Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents the New York premiere of D.W. Gregory's RADIUM GIRLS, newly revised for a limited run from March 19 through April 12, 2020, at the Playhouse home: 220 E 4th Street. Laura Livingston (State of the Union, The Jazz Singer) directs....
Ucross and The Blank Theatre Announce Semi-Finalists For Future of Playwriting Prize
by Stephi Wild - February 17, 2021 Ucross, a prestigious artist residency program and creative laboratory for the arts in Wyoming, and The Blank Theatre, a Los Angeles institution celebrating 30 years of imaginative theatre, today announced the semi-finalists for the newly created Ucross + The Blank Theatre – Future of Playwriting Pr...
RATINGS: NBC, CBS Top Charts with State of the Union Address on Tuesday
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 05, 2020 NBC (4.365 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 0.9, #1) was the demp champ on Tuesday with its mix of 'Ellen's Game of Games' (5.005 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.0, #1), 'State of the Union' (4.388 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T2) and 'State of the Union Analysis' (3.017 million v...
Latest Additions to 2020 Sundance Film Festival Announced
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 18, 2019 Sundance Institute adds three feature films to the 2020 Sundance Film Festival's robust slate of independent work today, alongside previously announced work. The Institute also confirmed that previously-announced Special Event, Love Fraud, will screen on Day One of the Festival. The Festival will ta...
AMC Plus, Sundance Now and Shudder Offer A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES Catch-Up
by Sarah Jae Leiber - January 04, 2021 The entire first season will be available on Sundance Now, Shudder and AMC+ as free content without a subscription from January 4 through January 18....
THUNDER ROCK Comes to the Metropolitan Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - November 21, 2019 Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse revives Robert Ardrey's THUNDER ROCK for a limited run from January 16 through February 9, 2020, at the Playhouse home: 220 E 4th Street. Artistic Director Alex Roe directs....
COLD CALL Premieres on Sundance Now on Nov. 19
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 05, 2020 AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now features the U.S. and Canadian premiere of the new gripping psychological thriller COLD CALL on Thursday, November 19, 2020....
ATX TV Fest Announces Closing Night Event HBO Partnership & Additional Programming
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 13, 2021 A Closing Night World Premiere Screening and Conversation featuring HBO’s forthcoming limited series from Mike White (“Enlightened”), “The White Lotus” will take place on Saturday, June 19 at 7pm CT. ...
Blues Legend Elvin Bishop To Perform In Morristown And Tarrytown
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 28, 2020 Alligator recording artist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Elvin Bishop will give a special stripped down performance with harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite and guitarist/pianist Bob Welsh at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown on Thursday, February 20 and the Tarrytown Music Hall in Ta...
Premiere of TORERA, A NIGHT'S DREAM Adaptation & More Will Play Long Wharf Theatre in 2020-21
by Nicole Rosky - March 11, 2020 Long Wharf Theatre announced today the complete lineup for its 2020/21 Breaking Boundaries season. In the first season fully programmed by Artistic Director Jacob G. Padrón, the non-profit theatre is re-dedicating itself to its founding mission to present innovative art with the community at its cen...
VIDEO: THE CHAOS TWINS Are Joined by Director Schele Williams
by The Chaos Twins - September 02, 2020 Tune in today, September 2 (4pm ET) to watch the next episode right here at BroadwayWorld or on Facebook Live. This week's special guest is director Schele Williams!...
Director Schele Williams to Release Book on The History of Slavery
by A.A. Cristi - September 30, 2020 Theatre director and social justice activist, Schele Williams, has written a new book for young readers on the history of enslavement. ...
THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH Announces Live Democratic Presidential Primary Debate Coverage
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 14, 2019 The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will be live on Tuesday, October 15, providing instant analysis and late night's earliest commentary about the Democratic Party's fourth round of presidential primary debates. Alex Wagner, co-host and executive producer of Showtime's The Circus and special correspond...
Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal for the UK Premiere of HIGH FIDELITY
by Stephi Wild - October 04, 2019 The Turbine Theatre has announced it's first musical production, High Fidelity and leading the ensemble is musical theatre start Oliver Ormson as vinyl shop owner, Rob. The rest of the cast will include Carl Au (Dick), Robbie Durham (Barry), Rosie Fletcher (Anna), Joshua Dever (Neil Young/Bruce Spri...
AMC Greenlights First Ever Prime-Time Animated Drama Series PANTHEON
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 10, 2020 AMC today announced that it has greenlit “Pantheon,” an ambitious one-hour animated drama based on a series of short stories by Ken Liu about Uploaded Intelligence, or, human consciousness uploaded to the 'cloud.' Craig Silverstein (“Turn,” “Nikita,” “Terra Nova”) will serve as the series writer/cre...
Showtime Will Debut THE END on July 18
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 20, 2021 Produced by See-Saw Films, the 10-part series is a co-production between Sky UK and Foxtel Australia, and was created and written by Samantha Strauss and directed by Jessica M. Thompson and Jonathan Brough....
Native American Producer David Strickland Releases New Single 'Turtle Island'
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 20, 2020 Legendary Grammy and JUNO Award-winning Indigenous multidisciplinary artist and producer, David Strickland, brings an all-encompassing project to life with new single, 'Turtle Island'. The song is from his forthcoming album, Spirit Of Hip Hop, set for release June 29 via Entertainment One. Premierin...
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT Opens at the Black Box
by Steve Wilson - August 22, 2021 I saw an AMERICAN IDIOT in Kansas City, and I LIKED it. Produced by Padgett Productions, AMERICAN IDIOT explodes onto the stage at The Black Box in Kansas City, Missouri. With only a short run of four days, it begins to give hope to the theater-starved residents that maybe live theater is beginning ...
Wake Up With BWW 10/16: Tony Nominations - JAGGED LITTLE PILL, MOULIN ROUGE, and More!
by Stephi Wild - October 16, 2020 Yesterday, the nominees for the 2020 Tony Awards were announced! Jagged Little Pill leads with 15 noms. Did your favorite get nominated? Check out the full list below, as well as reactions from some of the nominees! ...
Meryl Streep, Chris O'Dowd, Jacob Tremblay and Ruth Negga Voice Earth Day Animated Short Film
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 02, 2020 Apple TV+ today released the trailer for the new original animated short film 'Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth,” premiering in anticipation of Earth Day, on Friday, April 17. ...
Showtime to Air Dark Comedy Series THE END
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 15, 2020 SHOWTIME has picked up the 10-episode first season of THE END, a half-hour dark comedy series starring Emmy nominee Harriet Walter....
Chicago Rapper Prez Harris Teams Up With China Shadae In 'Wrong Side'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 21, 2021 A collaboration with singer-songwriter China Shadae, 'WRONG SIDE' demonstrates Harris' lyrical prowess and unique ability to deliver complex rhyme schemes all the while, remaining vulnerable and sharing the unfavorable parts of his journey....
Wale Releases Brand New Single ON CHILL Feat. Jeremih
by Tori Hartshorn - July 12, 2019 The GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi-platinum Washington, D.C. rapperpoetagitator and iconoclast serves up his signature slick wordplay over a sultry minimal beat. Produced by LT Mo and Va, Wale winds up vivid verses for a lover, promising to “modify your energy” before declaring, “If we good, that's g...
David Tennant Stars in DES, Premiering Oct. 15
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 09, 2020 David Tennant stars in a bone-chilling true-crime drama focusing on one of the most infamous serial killers in UK history – Dennis Nilsen. ...
Photo Flash: Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Opening of Irving Berlin's CALL ME MADAM on Broadway
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 12, 2020 Americans were listening to 'Goodnight, Irene' and Bing and Gary Crosby's interpretation of a 1914 song by Irving Berlin, 'Play a Simple Melody.' And Berlin's new musical, Call Me Madam, was opening at New York's Imperial Theater with an advance of over one million dollars, by far the largest in Bro... |