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Monday, July 16, 2018

BWW Interview: Director Michael Arden Talks Upcoming ANNIE at the Hollywood Bowl by Don Grigware

Actordirectorwriter Michael Arden needs no introduction. He was nominated for a second Tony this past season for directing the Tony winner for Best Revival of a Musical Once On This Island a…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PM
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Exclusive: Susan Egan Talks Reprising Belle In BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in California by Don Grigware

Triple threat performer Susan Egan is no stranger to theatre audiences. She originated Belle in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and is now reviving it 20 years later for 5 Star Theatricals.…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PM
Saturday, November 18, 2017

BWW Review: CHASING MEM'RIES at the Geffen Shows Us the Path to a Happier Life by Don Grigware

lyrics by Alan amp Marilyn Bergmanmusic by Bill Cantos amp Mari Falcone, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Johnny MandelGeffen PlayhouseGil Cates Theaterthrough December 17 …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:50AM
Monday, February 20, 2017

BWW Interview: Actress Judith Light Talks GOD LOOKED AWAY and Working with Al Pacino by Don Grigware

Actress Judith Light certainly needs no introduction. A familiar face to television audiences, she co-starred in the soap One Life to Live winning two Daytime Emmy Awards and in prime time w…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AM
Monday, November 28, 2016

BWW Interview: Broadway Actor/Singer Cheyenne Jackson Talks GMCLA Holiday Show by Don Grigware

Actorsinger Cheyenne Jackson first appeared on Broadway with Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Needless to say, he caused a sensation and has since made the TV screen sizzle with hi…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PM
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

BWW Review: GLENN ROSENBLUM a Smash Cabaret Hit at Rockwell by Don Grigware

Glenn Rosenblum is the Musical Man at the Rockwell Table and Stage Review

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:49PM
Monday, September 28, 2015

BWW Review: Actress/Singer MEGAN HILTY Rocks VPAC by Don Grigware

Broadway and TV actresssingerMegan Hiltyperformed a splashy show at Valley Performing Arts Center at CSUN, Northridge on Thursday, September 24 at 8 pm to a packed audience of her fans. Hilt…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26AM
Monday, May 25, 2015

BWW Interviews: Andrea McArdle Talks ANNIE & Hannigan @ Musical Theatre West by Don Grigware

Actresssinger 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 Starli…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PM

Harps and Angels @ MT Forum Salutes Randy Newman by Don Grigware

Like an actor or writer who represents the common man, songwriter Randy Newman certainly stands heads above other contemporaries as the one who can really conjure him up. Whether he be a cou…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PM

Kristin Chenoweth Brings in 2011 With a Bang @ Disney Pavilion by Don Grigware

Renowned actresssinger Kristin Chenoweth upheld her Popular -ity on New Year's Eve the Walt Disney Pavilion by giving her audiences, who regail her for TV's The West Wing, Pushing Daisies a…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PM

Triple Threat Legend Lee Roy Reams Talks S.T.A.G.E. by Don Grigware

Triple threat Lee Roy Reams will be performing a song from 42nd Street in this year's S.T.A.G.E. benefit entitled Original Cast 2 at the Luckman Theatre on Saturday April 2. He has been in t…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PM
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

BWW interviews: Author JAMES SPADA's New Streisand In The Camera Eye Is Fetching by Don Grigware

Renowned authorbiographer James Spada, who has penned best-selling books on Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis and Peter Lawford, to name a few, has a new coffee table book which will …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PM
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

BWW Interviews: Actress/Singer Susan Egan Talks About March 1 Concert at Arcadia High School by Don Grigware

Prolific Broadway singeractress Susan Egan will perform a benefit concert on March 1 at Arcadia High School. She talks about the concert and other career tidbits in our chat below.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57AM
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Kritzerland Spends February at the Movies by Don Grigware

Just in time for our Oscar indulgence, Bruce Kimmel joined the bandwagon of Oscar tantalizers by presenting his monthy Kritzerland show, this month entitled Kritzerland Goes to the Movies, a…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PM
Friday, December 6, 2013

BWW Reviews: Bette Midler a Triumphant Sue Mengers at the Geffen by Don Grigware

Bette Midler and Sue Mengers. Two iconic Hollywood female personalities of the last fifty years. Midler scored with her first movie The Rose in 1979, after many successful years in New York,…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PM
Friday, August 30, 2013

The World Mourns Passing of Great Humanitarian Trudy Morse by Don Grigware

The world mourns the loss of a great, one.of.a.kind philanthropistartist Gertrude 'Trudy' Morse, who passed away on August 21 at Arden Courts, Potomac, MD. She was 94. This pure renaissance …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04AM
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

BWW Interviews: Actress/Comedienne JoAnn Worley Talks About Performing Her One-Woman Show KEEP LAUGHIN' by Don Grigware

Actresscomedienne JoAnn Worley needs no introduction. One of the stars of the classic TV variety show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Worley will be at Welk Resorts in Escondido displaying her …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AM
Friday, April 5, 2013

BWW Interviews: International Singing Sensation Ramin Karimloo Talks About Bluegrass and His SRO Concerts at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal by Don Grigware

Olivier nominated for Love Never Dies, Canadian born actorsinger Ramin Karimloo will perform his cabaret act at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal April 21-22. This will mark his cabaret deb…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PM
Friday, September 14, 2012

BWW Reviews: Megahit BOOK OF MORMON Will Rule LA 'til November 25 at the Pantages by Don Grigware

With a stellar touring cast and astounding direction from Broadway directors Casey Nicholaw, who has also choreographed brilliantly, and Trey Parker, who also wrote the book, music and lyric…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02AM
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

BWW Reviews: Logan's Tony-Winning RED Fascinates at Mark Taper Forum by Don Grigware

Many plays with an art theme have been written over the past decades, chief among them Yasmina Reza's Art, which shows the positive and negative effects of art on everyday life, but in John …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:23AM
Friday, July 20, 2012

BWW Interviews: Comic Actor Roger Bart Talks Playing 'Carmen Ghia' in THE PRODUCERS at The Hollywood Bowl by Don Grigware

Comic actorsinger Roger Bart won a Tony for playing Snoopy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and a SAG Award for portraying George Williams on TV's Desperate Housewives. His versatility ha…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05AM
Friday, July 13, 2012

BWW Reviews: Brooke Shields is 'Remarkable' in Geffen's THE EXORCIST by Don Grigware

It's quite a shame when a well-written, absorbing play has three strikes against it from the onset. Such is the case with The Exorcist by John Pielmeier. The best-selling novel by William Pe…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32PM
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Victoria Clark Talks FOLLIES, Sally Durant Plummer and Stephen Sondheim by Don Grigware

Tony Award winning actresssinger Victoria Clark is currently co-starring in Follies at the Ahmanson in the complex role of Sally Durant Plummer. In our chat, she talks about Follies, Sondhei…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Lorenzo Lamas & David Burnham Lead Musical Theatre LA's JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Concert, 2/15 by Don Grigware

On February 15 at the historic Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills for one night only renowned Musical Theatre of Los Angeles will present a benefit Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat I…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PM
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

BWW Interviews: John Leguizamo Talks Ghetto Klown in LA by Don Grigware

Irrepressible actor John Leguizamo certainly needs no introduction. A star of TV, such films as Carlito's Way, To Wong Foo and Moulin Rouge, and on Broadway with his own plays Mambo Mouth, S…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PM
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

BWW Reviews: Stephen Schwartz's MY FAIRYTALE, An Enchanting New Musical by Don Grigware

There have been many theatrical re-imaginings of fairy tales, but hardly a more enchanting one than Stephen Schwartz's new musical My Fairytale now receiving its US premiere in Solvang. A PC…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PM
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

BWW Interviews: John Stamos on Hollywood Bowl HAIRSPRAY & Other Theater by Don Grigware

In the Hollywood Bowl's production of Hairspray August 5, 6 and 7, directed by Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, John Stamos will play the super suave TV Host Corny Collins. Stamos starred o…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:15PM

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