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THE GREAT GATSBY Soundtrack Lands at No. 2 on Billboard Album Chart

The Great Gatsby, the companion album to the Baz Luhrmann-directed movie of the same name, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart this week, selling 136,840 copies and becoming the bes... (more...)

THE GREAT GATSBY Soundtrack Released; Film Opens in PH May 17

MCA Music Inc./Universal Music Group has just released the movie soundtrack of Tony nominee and acclaimed filmmaker Baz Luhrmann's book-to-screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American nov... (more...)

Review - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/5/13 & Theatre Quote of the Week

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BWW Reviews: TEAM OF HEROES 3 at Annex Suffers Lack of Pace and Plot

The conclusion of the "Team of Heroes" Trilogy, "Team of Heroes: No More Heroes" currently playing at Annex Theatre has swooped in to save us all, but it could use some saving of its own. Yes, all of... (more...)

BWW Reviews: Delany and Weber Star in SCR's Witty World Premiere of THE PARISIAN WOMAN

In South Coast Repertory's amusingly naughty World Premiere production of Beau Willimon's THE PARISIAN WOMAN (now playing through May 5), 'Body of Proof' star Dana Delany plays Chloe, a morally ambigu... (more...)

Review - Jekyll and Hyde

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BWW Reviews: Seattle Shake's TAMING OF THE SHREW - A Rip Snortin' Good Time

I've always been leery of transplanting locales and time periods of classic plays just because we can. Naked 'Macbeth', 'Romeo and Juliet' in a high school, cartoon lions in Africa doing 'Hamlet'. O... (more...)

Full GREAT GATSBY Soundtrack Now Streaming

The complete soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's highly-anticipated new 3D feature film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's heralded Jazz Age novel THE GREAT GATSBY is now available to stream in full, court... (more...)

BWW INTERVIEW: STAGE AND SCREEN STAR STEFANIE POWERS DRAWS ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FOR 'LOOPED'

Beloved actress best known for television's 'Hart to Hart' steps into 'Looped' tour as the legendary stage and screen diva Tallulah Bankhead. Powers co-starred with Bankhead in the 1965 cult thriller ... (more...)

BWW Reviews: ASSISTED LIVING at ACT Lives Only From Assistance

A few days ago I posted a review for another comedy in town where I commented on the fact that they just don't write farces like they used to. And last night the current production at ACT, "Assisted ... (more...)

Review - The Memory Show

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BWW Reviews: Bewitching But Bothersome FALLING FOR MAKE BELIEVE at Colony Theatre

Currently in its world premiere run at Burbank's Colony Theatre through May 19th, Falling for Make Believe is a 95-minute bio-musical-dramedy chock full Broadway nostalgia, debilitating alcoholism, co... (more...)

BWW Reviews: An Enchanting Evening With THE BOYS NEXT DOOR

Tom Griffin's 'THE BOYS NEXT DOOR' is a tricky script…its subject matter is a group home in the Boston area housing four mentally-challenged adult men; Arnold, Norman, Lucien and Barry. They have a ca... (more...)

Review - Orphans

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GYPSY OF THE MONTH: Heather Tepe of MATILDA

Heather has grown up on Broadway, going from Baby June to Little Who to Ballet Girl to a partly adult role now. (more...)

Review - The Assembled Parties & Macbeth

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BWW Reviews: BOEING BOEING at Seattle Rep - Nicely Naughty Hilarity

They just don't make good door slammer farces like they used to. Perhaps we've lost the sensibilities to come up with new ideas that make these tales of mistaken identity, concealed trysts and ridicu... (more...)

BWW Reviews: SCR Stages World Premiere of SMOKEFALL

This year's main-stage attraction of SCR's annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, SMOKEFALL---a co-production with Chicago's Goodman Theatre directed by Anne Kauffman---starts off initially intriguing, ... (more...)

Two Major Miami Auctions of Paintings, Sculptures, Furniture and 20th Century Design Set for 4/27 & 5/2

FAAM is pleased to present its spring auction schedule which will feature two back to back auctions today, April 27, 2013 and May 2, 2013. (more...)

THE GREAT GATSBY Soundtrack to Be Released on Vinyl This Summer

Third Man Records is proud to announce the worldwide release of the vinyl version of The Great Gatsby film Soundtrack. Anticipation is already high for this companion piece to Baz Luhrmann's groundbre... (more...)

Review - Here Lies Love

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Two Major Miami Auctions of Paintings, Sculptures, Furniture and 20th Century Design Set for 4/27 & 5/2

FAAM is pleased to present its spring auction schedule which will feature two back to back auctions on April 27, 2013 and May 2, 2013. The first, a traditional auction of important paintings and sculp... (more...)

BWW Interviews: Cathy Rigby Takes Final Flight as 'PETER PAN'

The high-flying actress, and former award-winning gymnast, Cathy Rigby ends her decades-spanning reign as 'Peter Pan' in one final run in Boston April 23-28. She brings her relationship with the boy w... (more...)

BWW Interviews: Janet Dickinson, On the Road with BILLY ELLIOT

Each night---and sometimes even twice in a single day---actress Janet Dickinson gets to pretend to be a sassy, chain-smoking Brit in charge of a bunch of rowdy, screech-happy pre-teens at a community ... (more...)

BWW Reviews: Orange County Welcomes BILLY ELLIOT Back to So. California

I first reviewed the national tour of BILLY ELLIOT - THE MUSICAL during its triumphant five-week stop at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre a year ago (which you can read HERE) and found it to be quite an e... (more...)