Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre Announces Their 2011 Season
by Robert Lawlor - Nov 4, 2010
The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has been one of the most unique entertainment venues in the region since it first opened. Offering a fantastic dinner combined with a Broadway-style show, the Way Off Broadway experience is a full evening of leisure and entertainment. But the dinner theatre is only on piece of what makes up Way Off Broadway. In 1996, the theatre opened, what has become, it's wildly popular Children's Theatre. To this day, the Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre is the only children's lunch matinee offered in the area.
UK Tour of BIG THE MUSICAL Postponed
by Nicole Rosky - Nov 2, 2010
According to Whatsonstage.com, the February 14 run of Big -The Musical at the Liverpool Empire has been postponed. As previously reported, the European premiere of the Broadway show BIG - THE MUSICAL will star Tom Chambers, winner of BBC TV's Strictly Come Dancing, and star of Holby City and Waterloo Road, in the role made famous by Tom Hanks in the original feature film. Additional details regarding the postponement have not yet been announced.
Lifeline Theatre Presents WURTHERING HEIGHTS, 9/20-10/31
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 31, 2010
Lifeline Theatre inaugurates its 28th anniversary MainStage season of 'Big Stories, Up Close' with the world premiere adaptation of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Christina Calvit, directed by Lifeline ensemble member Elise Kauzlaric. Inseparable from childhood, Heathcliff and Cathy believe themselves eternally bound. But when they are brutally torn apart, the resulting course of retribution provides an unflinching look into the cyclic nature of revenge and the unknowable passions of the heart. Travel across Yorkshire's stormy moors with one of literature's darkest antiheroes in this legendary tale of devotion and redemption. An epic love story, re-imagined as a highly physical work of powerful imagery, by the adaptor and director of 'Mariette in Ecstasy.' The show runs approximately two hours with one intermission, and copies of the book will be on sale in the lobby.
Lifeline Theatre Presents WUTHERING HEIGHTS 9/20-10/31
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 31, 2010
Lifeline Theatre inaugurates its 28th anniversary MainStage season of 'Big Stories, Up Close' with the world premiere adaptation of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Christina Calvit, directed by Lifeline ensemble member Elise Kauzlaric.
BWW Interviews: Andrea McArdle Talks ANNIE & Hannigan @ Musical Theatre West
by Don Grigware - Oct 18, 2010
Actress/singer Andrea McArdle made a big splash on Broadway in 1977 as the very first Annie, and has not stopped working since. She has been seen more recently in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express as well as State Fair, and this summer, essayed for the very first time the role of Miss Hannigan in Annie. She is about to repeat Miss Hannigan for Musical Theatre West's production opening in Long Beach on October 30. In our chat she speaks about Annie, Hannigan and other theatrical delights.
Arkansas Rep Stages EVITA Through 10/3
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 3, 2010
From small town anonymity to big city stardom, the life of Eva Peron reads like an Argentine Cinderella story. But there was no fairy godmother for Evita. She clawed her way to the top using both her beauty and her brains, rising from obscurity to become one of Argentina's most notable and notorious political figures.
Chambers Leads BIG: THE MUSICAL UK Premiere in 2011
by Jessica Lewis - Oct 1, 2010
The European premiere of the Broadway show BIG - THE MUSICAL will star Tom Chambers, winner of BBC TV's Strictly Come Dancing, and star of Holby City and Waterloo Road, in the role made famous by Tom Hanks in the original feature film.
Arkansas Rep Stages EVITA Through 10/3
by Gabrielle Sierra - Sep 20, 2010
From small town anonymity to big city stardom, the life of Eva Peron reads like an Argentine Cinderella story. But there was no fairy godmother for Evita. She clawed her way to the top using both her beauty and her brains, rising from obscurity to become one of Argentina's most notable and notorious political figures.
Lifeline Theatre Presents WUTHERING HEIGHTS 9/20-10/31
by BWW
News Desk - Sep 20, 2010
Lifeline Theatre inaugurates its 28th anniversary MainStage season of 'Big Stories, Up Close' with the world premiere adaptation of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Christina Calvit, directed by Lifeline ensemble member Elise Kauzlaric.
Photo Flash: Lifeline Theatre Presents WUTHERING HEIGHTS
by Gabrielle Sierra - Sep 13, 2010
Lifeline Theatre inaugurates its 28th anniversary MainStage season of "Big Stories, Up Close" with the world premiere adaptation of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Christina Calvit, directed by Lifeline ensemble member Elise Kauzlaric.
Lifeline Theatre Presents WURTHERING HEIGHTS, 9/20-10/31
by Nicole Rosky - Sep 2, 2010
Lifeline Theatre inaugurates its 28th anniversary MainStage season of 'Big Stories, Up Close' with the world premiere adaptation of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Christina Calvit, directed by Lifeline ensemble member Elise Kauzlaric. Inseparable from childhood, Heathcliff and Cathy believe themselves eternally bound. But when they are brutally torn apart, the resulting course of retribution provides an unflinching look into the cyclic nature of revenge and the unknowable passions of the heart. Travel across Yorkshire's stormy moors with one of literature's darkest antiheroes in this legendary tale of devotion and redemption. An epic love story, re-imagined as a highly physical work of powerful imagery, by the adaptor and director of 'Mariette in Ecstasy.' The show runs approximately two hours with one intermission, and copies of the book will be on sale in the lobby.
Cherie Gil: MASTER CLASS Is Tougher Than DOUBT
by Oliver Oliveros - Jul 27, 2010
On its tenth anniversary, the Philippine Opera Company ('La Boheme', 'Harana') brings back its critically acclaimed production of Terrence McNally's 1996 Tony award-winning play 'Master Class', starring Philippine cinema icon Ms. Gil in the role of the opera world's grand dame Maria Callas (1923-1977). Presented in a master class format, the straight play explores what could have transpired inside the opera's classroom with Callas at the Juilliard 1971-72, at the time when the dramatic soprano had already lost her voice.
Lifeline Theatre Extends NEVERWHERE To 7/18
by BWW
News Desk - Jul 18, 2010
Lifeline Theatre has extended its run of the world premiere adaptation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling 1996 urban fantasy novel Neverwhere, adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Robert Kauzlaric, directed by Lifeline ensemble member Paul S. Holmquist, to July 18th.
GayCo Productions Presents THE BIG GAYCO FUN SHOW 7/15
by BWW
News Desk - Jul 15, 2010
Remember when summer was fun, back when 'BP' stood for 'Brad Pitt' and not a greasy gulf? You can keep your Pride buzz going in July when GayCo Productions presents The Big GayCo Fun Show - a variety show of hot twink talent, babydyke standups, and new twists on old camp classics.
GayCo Productions Presents THE BIG GAYCO FUN SHOW 7/15
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jun 29, 2010
Remember when summer was fun, back when 'BP' stood for 'Brad Pitt' and not a greasy gulf? You can keep your Pride buzz going in July when GayCo Productions presents The Big GayCo Fun Show - a variety show of hot twink talent, babydyke standups, and new twists on old camp classics.