Angela’s Ashes: The Musical coming to your computer screen
The Pulitzer Prize winning and “New York Times” bestselling memoir, Angela’s Ashes, is now also a stage musical – and you can be among the first to see it virtually. Specifically, the award-winning, Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre will stream the show from Sept. 9 through Sept. 22. The online production...
Forget Alexa; “Sounds of Broadway” likely plays the theater song you wish to hear
Photo from www.soundsofbroadway.com Stuart Brown has no shortage of material when it comes to musical theater By AARON KRAUSE If people listening to the online radio station “Sounds of Broadway” wanted to hear songs from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they were in luck. Although the legendary 1976 Broadway...
Obie winners include esteemed Black theater company
NBT founder Dr. Barbara Ann Teer NBT Artistic Director Jonathan McCrory NBT CEO Sade Lythcott One of the oldest Black theater companies in the country has received its first Obie Award. This is an honor recognizing excellence Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. In fact, the Obie recognition came a...
The show goes on with the Drama Desk Awards
While the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing have yet to announce a new date for the Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Awards will air at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 31. However, due to the pandemic, this year’s edition will not feature a traditional ceremony. Instead, the public will...
Love, Linda offers a stylish, charming recollection of the Porters’ starry marriage
Photo courtesy of publicist Daniel Demello Stevie Holland as Linda Porter in Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter By AARON KRAUSE NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — By Linda Porter’s own admission, the 1946 film Night and Day portrays the “perfect” love story between Porter and her husband,...
