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Tom Jones Restages Darker Version of 'Round and Round' in THE FANTASTICKS
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2017

Playwright Tom Jones is making some changes to his 57-year-old musical THE FANTASTICKS. Mr. Jones has done a little bit of rewriting of the musical number "Round and Round" which he has always felt never quite conveyed the darker elements he intended....


Mayor Bill de Blasio Visits South Street Seaport Museum Photo Mayor Bill de Blasio Visits South Street Seaport Museum
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2017

South Street Seaport Museum was paid a visit by Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio....


BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS Leaves Lasting Impression
by Paul Batterson - May 07, 2016

In the third song, 'See I'm Smiling,' of the musical THE LAST FIVE YEARS, Catherine Hiatt (played by Melissa Hall) sings to her husband, 'I think you're really gonna like this show. I'm pretty sure it doesn't suck.'...


Richard Nelson's 'THE GABRIELS' to Stream Live from The Public Theater on BroadwayHD
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2017

Online theater streaming service BroadwayHD will live stream The Public Theater's 'THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family,' written and directed by Richard Nelson. The critically acclaimed three-play cycle is currently touring internationally and will return to The Public Theater on M...


EDINBURGH 2017: BWW Q&A- Majuli
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 17, 2017

BWW speaks to Shilpika Bordoloi about 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Majuli....


BWW Review: BILLY ELLIOT The Musical Sings and Dances Its Way on the Beck Center Stage
by Roy Berko - July 13, 2016

The year is 1984. Margaret Thatcher, the first woman British Prime Minister, declared war on the coal labor unions, closed 20 mines and laid off 20,000 workers in what she called 'the process of bringing the British coal industry up to competitive levels.'...


Maltz Jupiter Theatre Announces Plans for a Major Expansion
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2016

Want to see the next Hamilton or Wicked before it hits it big?...


The British Museum Acquires Rare Picasso Prints
by Christina Mancuso - September 26, 2016

The British Museum has acquired sixteen important lithograph prints and three aquatint prints by Pablo Picasso covering the post-war period from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. This acquisition closes the last major gap in the British Museum's representation of Picasso's achievements as a printmak...


BWW Review: TCC's Uncut THE CRUCIBLE Is a Powerful Classic
by Trevor Durham - November 17, 2016

Director Matthew Watson presents an unabridged production of Miller's classic, with strong performers and supporting tech....


WNYC FM To Air Electronic Opera HERESY, 11/15
by Molly Tracy - November 10, 2016

Where do you start to describe Heresy, "Ireland's first electronic opera" by composer Roger Doyle? You can't, and I won't. Besides, there is no point. It's not about the story. It's not about the singing. To some extent, it's not even about the music. Heresy is, from start to finish, an exquisitely ...


Copyright Case Against HAND TO GOD Appealed to the Supreme Court
by Julie Musbach - April 29, 2017

According to Forbes, the descendants of Abbott and Costello have appealed their copyright claim against the play HAND TO GOD all the way to the Supreme Court. The case originated when the heirs discovered that the play used over a minute of the famous 'Who's on First' routine without permission. The...


Connie J. Brewer Releases 'The Torah in Living Color: The Book of Deuteronomy'
by Christina Mancuso - February 01, 2017

'The Torah in Living Color: The Book of Deuteronomy': a stunning and brilliant tool that can be used to promote weekly Torah readings and the love of the Lord. 'The Torah in Living Color: The Book of Deuteronomy' is the creation of published author, Connie J. Brewer, gifted artist and devoted grandm...


First Exhibition Devoted to Valentin de Boulogne to Open This Fall at The Met
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2016

The greatest French follower of Caravaggio (1571-1610), Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) was also one of the outstanding artists in 17th-century Europe. In the years following Caravaggio's death, he emerged as one of the most original protagonists of the new, naturalistic painting....


St. Petersburg Philharmonic to Perform Shostakovich and Brahms at Cherry Orchard Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2017

The legendary St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russia's oldest musical ensemble, returns to New York today, March 4 to celebrate its 135th anniversary with a concert at Carnegie Hall, led by its esteemed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Yuri Temirkanov....


Salzburg Festival Closes Nearly Sold-Out Season
by BWW News Desk - August 31, 2016

41 days ago Haydn's Die Schöpfung was performed at the Großes Festspielhaus, opening the Ouverture spirituelle and thus the 2016 Salzburg Festival....


Fans and Friends Offer Creative Ideas for Merriam Theater Re-Imagining Photo Fans and Friends Offer Creative Ideas for Merriam Theater Re-Imagining
by BWW News Desk - December 08, 2017

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts today formally released a comprehensive report summarizing the scores of ideas for re-imagining the Merriam Theater, which follows a spirited series of community forums about the Theater's future led by the Penn Project for Civic Engagement....


Orto-Da Theatre Group Presents Sculpture Drama STONES Plus THE MANSERVANTS
by Julie Musbach - January 22, 2017

The show 'Stones' is inspired by 'The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument' by Nathan Rapoport (1911-1987). It is performed, without talking, by six actors who sculpture the monument with their bodies and bring life to it in order to face humanity in its eye in its current time....


BWW Review, Part I: Part's MISERERE and Mozart's REQUIEM a Pair to Remember with Dudamel and LA Philharmonic
by Richard Sasanow - June 03, 2016

Early in May, Gustavo Dudamel—the brilliant music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic—was booed at the opening of TURANDOT at the Vienna State Opera purportedly for playing too loud. There were no such complaints when he returned to Disney Hall in Los Angeles on May 20, with a grand, finely nua...


Classical Theatre Company Receives American Theatre Wing Grant
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2016

Classical Theatre Company has announced that the American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards, is awarding the Classical Theatre Company with one of the 2016 National Theatre Company grants....


2017 Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award Winners Announced
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2017

Penny Van Horn, Board Chair of The Solti Foundation U.S. and Elizabeth Buccheri, Artistic and Awards Committee Chair, today announced the names of the recipients of the 2017 Solti Foundation Career Assistance Awards, bringing the number of such grants given by the Foundation to 55, and the amount aw...


British Museum Presents 'India And The World: A History In Nine Stories' Exhibit Photo British Museum Presents 'India And The World: A History In Nine Stories' Exhibit
by BWW News Desk - November 10, 2017

On November 10th, the British Museum with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Mumbai and the National Museum, Delhi will open a landmark exhibition to showcase some of the most important objects and works of art from India....


History to Explore Defining Moments in U.S. History in New Anthology Series THE COMMANDERS
by Caryn Robbins - March 22, 2017

HISTORY(R) is developing a new annual scripted television event, THE COMMANDERS, dramatizing pivotal moments in U.S. history that defined the men who served as the most powerful person in the nation, the President of the United States,...


Bloomingdale's Teams with THE GREATEST SHOWMAN for Holiday Window Display Photo Bloomingdale's Teams with THE GREATEST SHOWMAN for Holiday Window Display
by Caryn Robbins - November 22, 2017

To ring in the season of glitz, glamour and glee, Bloomingdale's has teamed up with the new movie that puts style and spectacle center stage, 20th Century Fox Film's THE GREATEST SHOWMAN....


Phoenix Theatre Partners with JCC for One-Night-Only AN ACT OF GOD
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2017

The Phoenix Theatre and the Indianapolis JCC will present a special partnership performance of An Act of God, by David Javerbaum. This divine comedy travels from the Phoenix Theatre to the JCC for one night only, March 7, 2017 at 7 p.m....


Bosch, Monet, Michelangelo, And Other American Impressionists Presented In EXHIBITION ON SCREEN
by Molly Tracy - December 19, 2016

Four new feature-length films in the EXHIBITION ON SCREEN series examine the lives, times, passions, practices, and creations of some of the best-knownand most influential artists in the Western canon. The current season offerings examine the Renaissance masters Hieronymus Bosch and Michelangelo and...






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