Quarantine Cabaret and Cocktails, produced and hosted by entertainer and LML Music founder, Lee Lessack, and actor and frequent SNL regular, Robert Bannon, will return tonight with the Origi…
This week, Quarantine Cabaret and Cocktails welcomes the original members of a?oeSide Showa?? on Broadway including Tony winner Alice Ripley, Tony nominee Emily Skinner, Tony nomine…
During last week's Best In Shows event, Bonnie Milligan and Eden Espinosa took the stage with Ricky the dog to perform a rendition of I Will Never Leave You from Side Show.
I was going to share this carte de visite of Mlle. Octavia, Queen of the Reptile World, a star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and let it go at that for this World Snake Day, but then came acros…
Sadly, people who are different haven't always been treated kindly by our society. This is largely true of the Hilton sisters, a pair of conjoined twins that were born in the early twentieth…
The two Broadway stars duetted on "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" at Birdland.
Come See the Freaks! A typical carney huckster works the crowd during the opening number of Dundalk Community Theatre's outstanding take on “Side Show,” the musical with a bo…
Dom O'Halon's musical Side Show pays homage to the Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, staging the tumultuous story of their upbringing, followed by the gloomy realities of celebratory st…
This is fledgling company Pint of Wine's first production. Its stated aim is to challenge theatrical convention and push boundaries. Bill Russell
Word is exploding among the sideshow community today that its most revered member, impresario Ward Hall has passed away at age 89. I never had the pleasure (or the honor) of meeting the man,…
Today is the birthday of the late Michael Jackson (1958-2009). From a certain perspective you might think he’d be the last artist I’d ever be tempted to write about. He’s S…
Following its successful Broadway revival in 2014 and recent London premier in 2016 at Southwark Playhouse, Bromley Players presents Side Show at the Bob Hope Theatre from the 24th - 27th Oc…
Courtney Balan and Luba Mason are part of the York Theatre Company production.
Lyricist-librettist Russell collaborated with composer Janet Hood on the musical, which officially opens May 3.
Lyricist-librettist Russell collaborated with composer Janet Hood on the musical, which begins performances April 24.
Lyricist-librettist Russell collaborated with composer Janet Hood.
Bill Russell and Janet Hood's musical opens Off-Broadway in April before transferring to London in September
Lyricist-librettist Russell collaborated with composer Janet Hood.
A celebration of the Tony winner’s stage career on her birthday December 14.
The cult musical Side Show opened on October 16, 1997.
The show, based on the lives of the Hilton Sisters, opened on Broadway October 16, 1997, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
Huge ensemble casts were a hallmark of 1930s theatre, which was largely driven by government funding of the Federal Theatre Project as part of the Works Progress Administration. A cast of 30…
Come look at the freaks Come gape at the geeks Come examine their aberrations Is this any way to begin a Broadway musical? Well, if the subject matter is any individual who has been the vict…
Matthew Seadon-Young's London musical credits include Billy Elliot, Urinetown and Les Miserables and now the ebullient performer is playing the American lyricist (and onetime husband of …
Designing Side Show has been a blessing and a challenge at the same time. A blessing, as the audience have an inclusive, immersive experience of a freak/vaudeville show and are able to obser…