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“The kids need a future,” a city council member tells Dorothea (Tyne Daly) half way through the first of Patrick Wang’s two-part A Bread Factory: “they need to learn about the world.” Forty years prior to the exchange, Dorothea and her partner Greta (Elizabeth Henry-Macari) bought a bakery in the fictional upstate New York town of Checkford, and turned it into the Bread Factory, an arts center the married couple has fought hard to keep afloat through the years. Cash and funds have historically been finite and resources volatile—but while stage director Dorothea and actress Greta powered through the decades with indomitable determination and grit, the creation of a bigger arts institute in the opposite side of town, led by a couple of world-renowned Chinese performance artists, May Ray (Janet Hsieh and George Young), is poised to spell the end of the Factory’s illustrious work. The center...

“A Bread Factory,” written and directed by Patrick Wang, is a drama that tickles your spirit in a special, buoyant way. It’s set in the small town of Checkford, N.Y. (it was shot in the picturesque historical village of Hudson), and though Wang has conceived the film as an epic — it’s four hours long, and is being shown in two parts, each of which is presented as a movie unto itself — “A Bread Factory” revolves around something that may sound astonishingly minor: a community arts center, the sort of homespun place that presents plays, chamber-music concerts, and art shows and hosts the occasional visiting luminary and features after-school programs for children.

The center is called the Bread Factory (that’s because it’s situated in an old bread factory), and it’s been run for 40 years by its two founders, crusty WASPy Dorothea (Tyne Daly) and elegant...

Tony Award nominee Max Von Essen An American in Paris, Evita, Dance of the Vampires, Jesus Christ Superstar, etc, Giuseppe Bausilio Cats, Aladdin, Newsies, Billy Elliot, Michael Lanning Bonnie amp Clyde, Civil War, Zachary Sayle Newsies Nat'l Tour, and Liv Rand will lead a group of Broadway favorites shining a light on Pulmonary Hypertension Ph at the 2nd annual breathless on Broadway benefit at Sardi's Restaurant, 234 West 44th Street, NYC on Monday, June 6th, 2016.

Newsies, the Tony Award-winning 'critics' pick' Broadway musical smash, is touring the country, currently playing at La's Pantages Theatre. The production features Dan DeLuca as 'Jack Kelly', Steve Blanchard as 'Joseph Pulitzer', Stephanie Styles as 'Katherine', Angela Grovey as 'Medda Larkin', Jacob Kemp as 'Davey', Zachary Sayle as 'Crutchie', and Vincent Crocilla and Anthony Rosenthal alternating the role of 'Les.'Below, watch as DeLuca and the cast performs a tap rendition of Walk The Moon's hit song 'Shut Up and Dance' in this Disney Playlist Session.

Disney Theatrical Productions will present the eagerly anticipated North American tour of Broadway's Tony Award-winning smash hit musical, Disney's Newsies. Rehearsals began on Wednesday, September 3 in New York City in preparation for the first performance on Saturday, October 11 in Schenectady, NY at Proctors. During its first year of touring in the 2014-15 season, the production will play 25 cities, over 43 weeks.The production features Dan DeLuca as 'Jack Kelly', Steve Blanchard as 'Joseph Pulitzer', Stephanie Styles as 'Katherine', Angela Grovey as 'Medda Larkin', Jacob Kemp as 'Davey', Zachary Sayle as 'Crutchie', and Vincent Crocilla and Anthony Rosenthal alternating the role of 'Les.' The company just met the press and BroadwayWorld was there for the big day. Go inside rehearsal with Richard Ridge below...

Susanna Fazer The Nerd will direct a cast starring Paige Simunovich Finians Rainbow, Mary Poppins and Zachary Sayle Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Christmas Story, The Musical with Justin Luciano, Stacey Scotte, Doug Shapiro, and Sean Patrick Folster in a reading of Jay DAmico last Piano-in-Residence at Windows of the World and Pulitzer- nominated Tom Diggs new musical The Fairy Hoax in midtown Manhattan one day only today May 20, 2012 at 6 pm at Workshop Theater Company.

Susanna Fazer The Nerd will direct a cast starring Paige Simunovich Finians Rainbow, Mary Poppins and Zachary Sayle Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Christmas Story, The Musical with Justin Luciano, Stacey Scotte, Doug Shapiro, and Sean Patrick Folster in a reading of Jay DAmico last Piano-in-Residence at Windows of the World and Pulitzer- nominated Tom Diggs new musical The Fairy Hoax in midtown Manhattan one day only on May 20, 2012 at 6 pm at Workshop Theater Company.