BWW Interviews: Deborah Boily Talks Cabaret, Career, and Concertby David Clarke - May 19, 2013Deborah Boily is preparing for her cabaret performance of DEBORAH BOILY - ONE NIGHT ONLY. (more...)
2013 Drama Desk Awards Are Tonight; Check Out the Nominees!by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2013The 58th Annual Drama Desk awards will take place tonight, May 19th at Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street). Scroll below for the full list of nominees, and be sure to check back later for BWW's live coverage! (more...)
SPECIAL COVERAGE: All the 2013 Drama Desk Award Winners - Updating Live!by BWW Special Coverage - May 19, 2013The 58th Annual Drama Desk take place tonight, May 19th at Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street). BroadwayWorld will be updating the list of winners live, so be sure to check back to stay in the know! (more...)
InDepth InterView: Susan Stroman Talks PBS Mel Brooks Doc, BIG FISH, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, SCOTTSBORO BOYS In LA/UK, BLAZING SADDLES & Moreby Pat Cerasaro - May 19, 2013Today we are talking to a five-time Tony Award-winning director/choreographer celebrated for her stupendous work on CRAZY FOR YOU, THE PRODUCERS, CONTACT, THE FROGS, THOU SHALT NOT, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS and many more - the master musicals director Susan Stroman. In discussing a vast array of topics, Stroman and I touch upon many of her past projects as well as look ahead to her current and future endeavors - that is: the forthcoming Broadway bow of the new musical BIG FISH, starring Norbert Leo Butz, as well as the world premiere of Ahrens & Flaherty's LITTLE DANCER next year. Most importantly, Stroman shines a light on her enduring artistic partnership with Mel Brooks in bringing to life the screen-to-stage musical adaptations of both THE PRODUCERS and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, with BLAZING SADDLES on the way - their rich collaboration also being highlighted in this week's AMERICAN MASTERS tribute to Mel Brooks on PBS. Additionally, Stroman reflects on some of her lesser-known entities and casts a light on some of her foremost influences as well as candidly discusses her specialty work for a bevy of major stars - such as at SONDHEIM: A CELEBRATION AT CARNEGIE HALL in 1992 - and the finer points of working with Stephen Sondheim and Nathan Lane on Sondheim's most recent original Broadway musical, THE FROGS. Plus, Stroman shares first details of her upcoming collaboration with comedy master Woody Allen on the musical stage adaptation of Allen's Academy Award-winning BULLETS OVER BROADWAY and also offers the 411 on the upcoming Los Angeles and West End productions of Kander & Ebb's THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS - including the real-life role the musical has played in the pardoning of the originally accused nine just last month. Stroman also comments on her work with Hal Prince on the career revue PRINCE OF BROADWAY, opening in Japan in 2015, and also touches upon her ongoing desire to pursue a film adaptation of her multi-Tony Award-winning and genre-redefining 2000 Best Musical, CONTACT. All of that and much, much awaits in this wide-ranging conversation! (more...)
Now Playing Onstage in Ft. Myers/Naples - Week of 5/19/2013by BWW - May 19, 2013Upcoming Shows - Week of 5/19/2013 for Ft. Myers/Naples (more...)
BRAVO@KAT to Stage FIDDLER ON THE ROOF JR., 6/8-9by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2013What possibly could be said or written about a production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Jr. that hasn't already been announced countless times? Probably nothing except the one word 'tradition' and that's the lasting essence of this theatrical phenomenon on two levels for this BRAVO@KAT student production. The show retells the ethnic traditions of a specific family but it has universal appeal. The 'tradition' here is a dual one because it includes the re-enactment of the cherished Broadway tradition of teaching new generations of American children the theatrical classics of our culture. (more...)
SIGNS OF LIFE Gets Staged Reading at American University, 6/1-2by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2013Snap-Two Productions, Inc. and LimanAde Productions in association with Issembert Productions, Inc. will present a staged reading of the new drama with music, Signs of Life, at American University in the Katzen Arts Center Studio Theatre on June 1 at 7:00 P.M. and June 2 at 1:00 P.M. The performances will feature American University alumni, current students and a student from BRAVO@KAT, the children's wing of Kensington Arts Theatre. This is the first academic production of Signs of Life. (more...)
BWW Reviews: 2012 MetroStar Talent Champ BILLIE ROE Delivers a Gritty, Winning Tribute to Tom Waitsby Stephen Hanks - May 18, 2013You probably don't have to feel sorry for a mature, experienced female singer who decides to tackle the gritty music of Tom Waits and calls her show 1978 NYC Underground, but it was still tough not to feel for Billie Roe as she performed this week at the Metropolitan Room. Roe, who in 2011 offered the highly-praised Dangerous Women: Life In Film Noir, admittedly has yearned to present a Waits songbook for 35 years, but just a couple of months before her four-show run which ends tonight at 9:30 pm (her prize for winning the 2012 MetroStar Challenge Competition at the Met Room), rising cabaret star Marissa Mulder staged a Tom Waits-themed show that was close to perfect in every way and earned rave reviews from the New York Times and BroadwayWorld.com. (more...)
Surf's Up with Todd Barrett Swimwearby BWW News Desk - May 18, 2013Todd Barrett Swimwear is hosting an event this weekend at Tongue and Groove. Todd will be on hand with some of Elite Models Atlanta's sexiest swim models. Come by at midnight to see Todd's super sexy runway show, meet Todd and a chance to get free gifts and to shop the collection. (more...)
Daily Deal 5/18/13: Must Have Summer Sneakersby BWW News Desk - May 18, 2013I have to admit, I hated wedge sneakers with a Passion when they first came out. I mean hated. But then, all of the sudden I had to have them, starred at them daily on the computer and would have shoe envy when I saw someone walking down the street wearing them. It got so bad one weekend when I was traveling and told my sister, 'I felt so short walking through the airport in my converse.' Not one of my finer moments. But I immediately marched over to Bloomingdale's and satisfied my urge with a pair of wedge sneakers and I couldn't be more thrilled with them! (more...)
Life Is Beautiful Festival, Downtown Las Vegas Music Showcase, Set for June 2013by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013Life Is Beautiful Festival presents its fifth showcase in a series of monthly musical events, geared towards providing a platform for the best musicians in the Las Vegas Valley. Each month, the festival hosts free local concerts at varying Downtown Las Vegas venues with the intent of showcasing and selecting a few homegrown acts to play at the highly-anticipated festival this fall. Attendees of the June Showcase will enjoy a night of rocking rhythms and moving musicianship, as well a $5 beer and shot special at Downtown Las Vegas' popular spot, Beauty Bar. (more...)
Cornelia Street Cafe to Present THE LIFE I'M LEADING: MUSIC OF DANIEL FELSENFELD, 6/2by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013Cornelia Street Cafe presents CCi's Serial Underground featuring The Life I'm Leading: Music of Daniel Felsenfeld including several premieres on Sunday, June 2nd at 6pm. Guest Artists include flutists Meerenai Shim (California based), Jessica Schmitz and Sarah Carrier, pianists Blair McMillen and Mila Henry, cellist Rose Bellini, soprano Marcy Richardson and violist Stephanie Griffin. (more...)
Fun., MGMT, She & Him to Headline Kanrocksas Music Fest; Full Lineup Announced!by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013The daily band lineup for the second annual Kanrocksas Music & Arts Festival has been announced. The heartland's newest major music festival--Kanrocksas--Friday, June 28 and Saturday, June 29 at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, KS--will feature performances from some of the biggest names in alternative rock, EDM, hip-hop, punk and folk, including: Tiësto, Fun., Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit, MGMT, Kendrick Lamar, The Avett Brothers, Pretty Lights, Imagine Dragons, Miguel, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, She & Him, Empire of the Sun, Sublime with Rome, Zeds Dead, Descendents and many more across four main stages. The daily performance lineup is as follows: (more...)
TCG Books Releases Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando: Two Renderings for the Stage by Sarah Ruhlby BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of Sarah Ruhl'sChekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando: Two Renderings for the Stage which includes an introduction by the author. The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (The Clean House; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play) offers two new dramatic renderings for the stage. Ruhl's version of Three Sisters was commissioned by, and premiered in 2009 at, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Orlando was commissioned by, and premiered in 1998 at, the Piven Theatre Workshop, before receiving its NYC premiere in 2010 at Classic Stage Company. (more...)
MusicDishTV Presents 'Teeth Swallower' By Australian Metal Band KUNVUKby BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013Unlike most artists today, Australian metal band KUNVUK goes hard and doesn't just push the boundaries. They absolutely destroy it. (more...)
SPRING AWAKENING Opens Tonight at The Playhouseby BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013An innovative, fearless, heard rock look at teenage sexual awakening in the spring of their lives, and the disastrous consequences brought about by the ultra-conservative, repressive society in which they live. Set in 1891 Germany, Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater is as current as Roe v. Wade, and as American as apple pie. Directed by Shannon Jarrell-Ivey and choreographed by Wendy Ellis, with music direction by Andrew Hendley, the musical runs at The Playhouse - Russell Hill Rogers Theater tonight, May 17, through June 9, 2013. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek - SPRING AWAKENING Opens Tonight at The Playhouseby Stage Tube - May 17, 2013Directed by Shannon Jarrell-Ivey and choreographed by Wendy Ellis, with music direction by Andrew Hendley, SPRING AWAKENING runs at The Playhouse - Russell Hill Rogers Theater tonight, May 17, through June 9, 2013. Click below for a sneak peek at the production! (more...)
BWW Reviews: Theatre Under the Stars' Rollicking SPAMALOT is Hilarious and a Ton of Funby David Clarke - May 17, 2013Having grown up on Monty Python reruns and films, it doesn't take a lot to get me excited about seeing a production of Monty Python's SPAMALOT. The hilarious hit musical is making a gloriously triumphant return to Houston in its first locally produced performance at Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS). The First National Tour enjoyed a four week run in the summer of 2007 that was co-produced by Broadway Across America - Houston and TUTS, and because of popular demand TUTS decided to produce the show again. (more...)
Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre Announces 2013-14 Seasonby BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013Artistic Director/co-Founder Fred Anzevino has announced the 2013-2014 season of Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre. The schedule of five productions will include an exciting mix of musical theatre, cabaret, and drama with music. In addition, the company has added a 'student rush' policy where all unsold tickets will be $15 at the door with student ID. (more...)
The Church of the Transfiguration to Present BACHFEST: CANTATA 147, 6/7by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013The Church of the Transfiguration ('The Little Church Around the Corner'), 1 East 29th Street in Manhattan, presents Bachfest: Cantata 147 ('Hertz und Mund und tat und Leben') and Brandenburg Concerto No.5 on Friday June 7th at 7:30pm. (more...)
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