International Voices Project to Kick Off 2015 Readings Series Next Month
by BWW News Desk - Jan 20, 2015
International Voices Project (IVP) is proud to present the sixth season of play readings by playwrights from around the world. The series is presented in collaboration with consulates and cultural institutions throughout Chicago. The 2015 engagement's represented countries include India, Canada, Sweden, Cuba, Syria, Norway, Poland and Chile. The readings take place at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, McVeigh Theatre, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave, February 15 - March 2, 2015.
Pride Films and Plays Present THE BOOK OF MERMAN, Opening Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Jan 17, 2015
Pride Films and Plays announces that Sam Button-Harrison* and Dan Gold join Libby Lane* as the cast of The Book of Merman, a new musical comedy by Jeff Award-winning playwright Leo Schwartz. The show opens tonight, January 17, 2015 at Mary's Attic, 5400 North Clark Street.
2015 FRIGID New York Festival Lineup Announced; Runs 2/18-3/8
by BWW News Desk - Jan 15, 2015
FRIGID New York at Horse Trade will present the 9th Annual FRIGID Festival at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) February 18 - March 8.
FRIGID New York to Present A SACRILEGIOUS LESBIAN AND HOMOSEXUAL PARADE
by Tyler Peterson - Jan 15, 2015
Direct from Ireland and a sell-out run at the 2014 Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival, this solo performance from multi-talented artist Brian Fleming runs from February 19th - March 9th for six shows only at UNDER St. Marks as part of the FRIGID New York Festival. Combining spoken word, costume, projection, live music, and quite bad dance, A Sacrilegious Lesbian and Homosexual Parade takes you on an unforgettable romp through 14 years of Irish LGBT celebration and struggle associated with New York's only all-inclusive St. Pat's For All parade in Queens, New York, an alternative to the city's annual St. Patrick's Day march down 5th Avenue.
Cain Park to Stage GODSPELL During 2015 Season
by Tyler Peterson - Jan 9, 2015
The City of Cleveland Heights and Cain Park 2015 Theater Artistic Director Ian Hinz announce that GODSPELL will open Cain Park's 2015 season in the Alma Theater June 12-28 (preview June 11). Hinz and Joanna May Hunkins, associate director of The Musical Theater Project, will co-direct this family-friendly musical with music direction by Jordan Cooper and choreography by Katie Nabors Strong.
Parade Productions to Present UNDO, 1/29-3/1
by Tyler Peterson - Jan 5, 2015
Imagine a world where in order to "undo" the tying of the matrimonial knot, the ceremony has to be re-enacted … in reverse. Playwright Holly Arsenault creates such a world of divorce drama in her dramedy, Undo. Joe and Rachel Pfeiffer are getting divorced by running their wedding, in all its details, backwards. The exception? Instead of food, there's liquor, and all things spill out!
THIRTEEN to Air Jason Robert Brown Concert with Anika Noni Rose Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Jan 2, 2015
This January on THIRTEEN and WLIW, three-time Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown makes his broadcast television debut in a high-powered concert with Tony winner Anika Noni Rose. Recorded in 2011 at New York City's historic Abrons Art Center, Brown and Rose and a band of some of Broadway's greatest musicians perform Brown's best-known and most-loved selections from The Last Five Years, Parade, Songs for a New World, 13, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes and his new Broadway smash Honeymoon In Vegas! Also tune in to hear the world premiere of four new songs from Brown's forthcoming second solo CD.
'The Showtune Mosh Pit' for December 31st, 2014
by Paul W. Thompson - Dec 31, 2014
The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Braodway. It's the Top Ten Hot Topix for the last half of 2014, and the BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards Celebration on Wednesday, January 7th, 2015!
San Antonio Symphony Announces 2015 Strauss Festival Lineup; Runs 1/4-2/22
by BWW News Desk - Dec 26, 2014
The San Antonio Symphony along with numerous festival partners is poised to begin its fifth annual city-wide winter composer festival, this year focusing on the late-Romantic German composer Richard Strauss. Opening in January, the Festival features a wealth of music by Strauss, including a collaboration with OPERA San Antonio for an undertaking of his epic opera Salome.
Houston Ballet to Welcome Alberta Ballet in 2015
by Tyler Peterson - Dec 24, 2014
From January 30 – February 1, 2015, Houston Ballet presents Alberta Ballet as part of the Cullen Series. One of the missions of the Cullen Series is to introduce the city to exciting contemporary dance makers. Under the artistic direction of Jean Grand-Maître, Alberta Ballet will perform Love Lies Bleeding, a celebration of the music of rock legend Sir Elton John and his writing partner Bernie Taupin. This wild and spectacular work features 14 classic songs, including Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, The King Must Die, and Rocket Man. It explores the trials, victories and sacrifices of achieving super stardom with an unforgettable story of rock and roll, drama, passion and, above all, love.
Merrimack Repertory Theatre to Present THE BEST BROTHERS in 2015
by Tyler Peterson - Dec 22, 2014
Daniel MacIvor's play 'The Best Brothers' quickly became a hit in Canada after its 2012 world premiere at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Merrimack Repertory Theatre will produce its East Coast premiere (and second production ever in the United States) this January, directed by Charles Towers.
THIRTEEN to Air Jason Robert Brown Concert with Anika Noni Rose Next Month
by Tyler Peterson - Dec 22, 2014
This January on THIRTEEN and WLIW, three-time Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown makes his broadcast television debut in a high-powered concert with Tony winner Anika Noni Rose. Recorded in 2011 at New York City's historic Abrons Art Center, Brown and Rose and a band of some of Broadway's greatest musicians perform Brown's best-known and most-loved selections from The Last Five Years, Parade, Songs for a New World, 13, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes and his new Broadway smash Honeymoon In Vegas! Also tune in to hear the world premiere of four new songs from Brown's forthcoming second solo CD.