BWW Interview: Jenet Le Lacheur Talks HAMLET at St Paul's Church
by Cindy Marcolina - July 06, 2019 The grounds of St Paul's Church in Covent Garden are hosting a revolutionary staging of Hamlet. Directed by Daniel Winder, it sees non-binary transgender actor Jenet Le Lacheur taking on the main role. We caught up with them to learn more about how gender plays a big part in the production, which in...
Sundance Institute Announces Latest Documentary Fund Grantees
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 21, 2020 Sundance Institute today named the global cohort of 22 independent nonfiction filmmakers and their projects that comprise the latest Grantees of the Institute's Documentary Fund....
The New Regime to Support Angels & Airwaves on Fall Tour
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 15, 2019 Angels & Airwaves member (and Nine Inch Nailsdrummer) Ilan Rubin is serving double duty this fall. As frontman of new rock act The New Regime, he'll be filling the direct support slot on Angels & Airwaves' North American fall tour. The multi-instrumentalist--also known for a successful stint with Pa...
The New Regime Release Music Video for 'It's Gonna Be OK'
by Kaitlin Milligan - December 12, 2019 The New Regime, the brainchild of Ilan Rubin (Nine Inch Nails, Angels & Airwaves), released a new music video for 'It's Gonna Be OK' from Mind, the second installment of the upcoming album Heart Mind Body & Soul today....
Original Theatre Online Presents Park Theatre and Original Theatre's Production THE END OF THE NIGHT
by Stephi Wild - June 01, 2022 Original Theatre Online presents Park Theatre and Original Theatre's acclaimed recent world premiere production of Ben Brown's The End of the Night, online on demand from 4 July 2022. ...
Greek National Opera's Tribute Concerts Honoring Mikis Theodorakis Continue Throughout 2022–23 Season
by A.A. Cristi - September 21, 2022 The Greek National Opera (GNO) continues its three-year cycle celebrating and commemorating Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021) throughout the 2022-23 season with concerts presented on its main stage, Stavros Niarchos Hall, and its Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultur...
BWW Preview: Welcome to the 21st Century (and 1816) at Opera Philadelphia's Digital Festival, including BREAKING THE WAVES
by Richard Sasanow - April 30, 2020 Over the last five years, Opera Philadelphia has presented an impressive group of new operas it has commissioned, along with some classics from the standard rep. Starting tomorrow, we'll get a look at some of the best of them, with the company's Digital Festival running through May 29, available on ...
Photos: First Look at THE HANDMAID'S TALE at English National Opera
by A.A. Cristi - April 08, 2022 The English National Opera’s Artistic Director Annilese Miskimmon will makes her company directorial debut with a powerful new production of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale. Based on Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel, this outstandingly relevant work was last staged at the London Coliseum in 2003 whe...
Review: BABEL At Contemporary American Theater Festival Probes the Dilemmas That Could Be Presented By Eugenics
by Jack L. B. Gohn - July 18, 2022 Babel, which invites us to contemplate a world, apparently in the near future, in which the human genome is so well understood that every person’s – and fetus’s – potential, including the potential for antisocial behavior – is determinable, and if a child cannot be “certified” while in utero as meet...
West Coast Premiere of THE ABUELAS Explores Truth and Identity at Antaeus
by Julie Musbach - September 03, 2019 a?oeIf you have doubts about your identity, contact Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.a?? So read billboards across Argentina, where thousands of people were a?oedisappeareda?? between 1976 and 1983 under a brutal military dictatorship. Questions of truth and identity are explored when Antaeus Theatre Co...
John Greyson Wins 4th TEDDY Award From Berlinale 2021 for INTERNATIONAL DAWN CHORUS DAY
by A.A. Cristi - June 18, 2021 John Greyson's International Dawn Chorus Day, which had its world premiere at Berlinale 2021where it screened as one of 20 short films in the Documentary + Experimental programme, has won the Teddy Award for Best Short Film. International Dawn Chorus Day is the short, experimental documentary from J...
Between Kings Release Official Music Video For 'Antidote'
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 09, 2020 Rising alternative pop-rock band Between Kings has unveiled the official music video for their current single 'Antidote,' the lead track off their upcoming album Young Love, out April 24th via The Regime. ...
Green Space Announces September Programs
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 22, 2019 Green Space has announced a diverse roster of artists for its signature programs this September. Take Root will present an evening of work by Elisabetta Minutoli and Beau Dobson & Dancers, curated by Chris Ferris, on December 13th and 14th, and Fertile Ground showcases works-in-progress by multiple ...
Greek National Opera Announces 2022-23 Season Featuring World Premiere of New GNO Production of Verdi's FALSTAFF
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 28, 2022 The Greek National Opera’s 2022-23 season curated by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis will feature ten new opera and ballet productions, one newly commissioned opera, five revivals of past productions, music concerts, major co-productions with some of the world’s foremost opera houses, coll...
Russian Arts Theater Presents Encore Run Of ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE: POETRY AND MUSIC UNDER STALINIST REGIME
by BWW News Desk - February 16, 2019 The Russian Arts Theater and Studio (TRATS) continues its 2019 season with an encore run of Enemies Of The People: Poetry and Music Under Stalinist Regime. After selling out two previous runs at Pushkin Hall, renowned Russian director Aleksey Burago leads a critically-acclaimed ensemble featuring ac...
Martha Graham Dance Company Returns To The Soraya With World Premiere, March 19
by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2022 A lost 1952 dance creation by Martha Graham herself—a primal artistic force of the 20th century—is reborn with the Martha Graham Dance Company's World Premiere of The New Canticle for Innocent Comedians at The Soraya on Saturday, March 19 at 8pm. ...
TFANA and Bard Fisher Center Present the Premiere of MAD FOREST
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 15, 2020 Theatre for a New Audience and the Fisher Center at Bard join forces to present the professional premiere of the groundbreaking undergraduate Bard College Theater & Performance Program production of Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, created by acclaimed experimental theater and opera director Ashley Tat...
BWW Review: LIFE AND DEATH OF A JOURNALIST, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - February 28, 2020 Laura (Lucy Roslyn) has just returned from Hong Kong after reporting from the protests. When Vicky (Melissa Woodbridge) offers her a job at an independent newspaper with the promise of letting her tell the story of how her friend died, her personal and professional lives are put on the line. The pap...
BWW Review: In Lauren Yee's CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, Music Spits In The Face Of Oppression
by Michael Dale - March 03, 2020 Family secrets, political history, moral dilemmas in the face of genocide and loud, kick-ass rock tunes mix terrifically in Lauren Yee's gripping and (for this reviewer) informative new drama Cambodian Rock Band, an often horrifying, but ultimately exhilarating reminder that if there's one thing tot...
Repertory Dance Theatre's COMPASS Coming to the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in November
by Gigi Gervais - October 16, 2021 Repertory Dance Theatre continues their 56th season with COMPASS, featuring choreography from Martha Graham, Bebe Miller, and Ihsan Rustem, this November. The performance will take place at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center with limited seating capacity to account for social distancing, Novembe...
BWW Interview: Actor Jason Michael Evans Talks ANASTASIA's North American Tour
by Katricia Lang - March 05, 2019 Stalin, Lenin, mass executions. Who knew that war and civil unrest would make a good backdrop for a love story? Well, a lot of people. Margaret Mitchell, Victor Hugo, the Hollywood execs behind THE NOTEBOOK. But that doesn't make ANASTASIA, a romantic musical from librettist Terrence McNally, and co...
Between Kings Releases the ANTIDOTE EP
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 24, 2020 Rising alternative pop-rock band Between Kings has released the Antidote EP today via The Regime...
THE SPACE: THEATRE OF SURVIVAL Narrated by James Earl Jones is Coming to BroadwayHD
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 04, 2022 BroadwayHD announced today that they will be bringing The Space: Theatre of Survival to their platform for its exclusive U.S. debut on February 17th. Narrated by iconic actor James Earl Jones and directed and produced by Dan Poole (Muse of Fire, Black Matter- with Giles Terera) and Mark Street....
51FEST Announces Lineup For Its Inaugural Festival July 18-21 In New York City
by A.A. Cristi - July 16, 2019 51Fest, presented by Women in the World and IFC Center, today unveiled the lineup for the inaugural event. Celebrating the voice, vision and stories of the female majority through compelling screenings and conversations, all by or about women, the first annual 51Fest will be held July 18-21 in New Y... |