Telemundo Announces Sponsors for 2016 BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC AWARDS
by Caryn Robbins - April 27, 2016 TELEMUNDO today announced sponsors of the 2016 BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC AWARDS including DishLATINO, Domino's, Ford, Garnier Fructis, TWIX®, Pepsi, Samsung Electronics America, Sprint, State Farm, Target, Toyota and Victoria....
Robert Nightengale Releases THE MYSTERY OF SITTING BULL
by Christina Mancuso - February 16, 2016 FARIBAULT, Minn., Feb. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ An appeal has been made to the U.S. Army to correct the map used at the only official inquiry into Custer's Last Stand. 'The map used at the 1879 Reno Court of Inquiry was a poor reproduction of the original 1876 map,' says author Robert Nightengale of Fa...
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.'...
Cleveland Orchestra Manager Jennifer Barlament Joins Atlanta Symphony as Executive Director
by BWW News Desk - September 10, 2015 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Board Chair D. Kirk Jamieson today announced that Jennifer Barlament has accepted the position of Executive Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Barlament is currently the General Manager of The Cleveland Orchestra. She will begin in January 2016. She was selected a...
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.'...
Canadian Opera Company Posts $32,000 Surplus In 2015/2016 Year
by Molly Tracy - October 18, 2016 The Canadian Opera Company's 2015/2016 season was one of continued artistic excellence paired with financial stability, as reported today at the COC's Annual General Meeting by COC Board Chair Colleen Sexsmith and COC General Director Alexander Neef. The COC's operating expenses for the 15/16 season...
Palm Beach Photographic Centre to Present PULITZER BACK STORIES This Summer
by BWW News Desk - April 15, 2016 Fatima NeJame, president and chief executive officer of the world-renowned Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC), today announced that the next exhibition at the nonprofit organization would be Pulitzer Back Stories In Honor of the Pulitzer Centennial. ...
Houston Ballet to Present THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, 2/25-3/6
by Tyler Peterson - February 11, 2016 ?From February 25 - March 6, 2016, in celebration of Artistic Director Emeritus Ben Stevenson's 80th birthday, Houston Ballet will revive his spectacular staging of The Sleeping Beauty. The ballet is a flagship work for the company and a piece that is recognized as one of the supreme achievements of...
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...
Met Museum to Display Exhibit CELEBRATING THE ARTS OF JAPAN, 10/20
by Matt Smith - October 14, 2015 A spectacular array of Japanese works of art will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall, in a special exhibition featuring works of art drawn from the recent landmark gift to the Museum by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation. Opening on October 20, Celebrating the Arts of Japan: T...
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....
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Launches New Brand Voice
by Robert Diamond - September 10, 2015 CHEVY CHASE, Md., Sept. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. unveiled today a newly designed brand logo and brand voice that will be implemented across all guest touch points over the next year. The move to clarify, simplify and amplify the luxury brand's identity comes a...
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 ...
BWW Review: OZASIA FESTIVAL 2015: MISS REVOLUTIONARY IDOL BERSERKER Shredded The Dunstan Playhouse Rehearsal Room Before A Drenched And Ecstatic Audience
by Barry Lenny - October 01, 2015 Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker began, strangely enough, in the Dunstan Playhouse foyer, as the loose gathering of ticket holders were herded down the stairs....
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...
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...
Alliance Theatre Announces Final Designs for Theater Transformation
by Christina Mancuso - October 28, 2015 The Alliance Theatre has released final design renderings of its theater transformation, which is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2017. This is the first major building reinvention for the theater since its construction in 1968 as part of the Woodruff Arts Center campus, also home to the Atlant...
British & Scottish National Museums Present CELTS: ART AND IDENTITY Today
by BWW News Desk - September 24, 2015 This autumn the British Museum, in partnership with National Museums Scotland, will stage the first British exhibition in 40 years on the Celts. Celts: art and identity opens at the British Museum today 24 September and will draw on the latest research from Britain, Ireland and Western Europe....
GOODNIGHT MOON, PRANCER, THUMBELINA and More Set for Rose Theater's 2016-17 Season
by BWW News Desk - September 02, 2016 The Rose Theater will launch its 2016-17 season on Sept. 2, 2016, with the opening of Goodnight Moon, a musical featuring the classic children's book by the same name....
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....
Avant-Garde Soviet Photo and Film Exhibition Opens Today at Jewish Museum
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2015 From early vanguard constructivist works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, to the modernist images of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers played a pivotal role in the history of modern photography. The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film will exami...
THE CRIME OF CHERNOBYL is Released
by Christina Mancuso - April 11, 2016 Summary: Thirty years ago, on the 26th of April 1986, a catastrophic nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine, when large quantities of radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere and spread over vast swathes of western...
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....
Met Museum Exhibition Celebrates Artistic, Technological, Cultural Legacy of the Seljuqs
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2016 Opening April 27 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the landmark international loan exhibition Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs features spectacular works of art created in the 11th through 13th century from Turkmenistan to the Mediterranean.... |