BWW Reviews: Nashville Shakespeare Festival Updates MUCH ADO With 1940s Style and Swing

Fun-filled and light-hearted, Much Ado About Nothing-the latest Shakespeare-in-the-Park offering from Nashville Shakespeare Festival-offers its audiences a tuneful, sprightly way to celebrate late summer amid all the trappings of theatrical magic, brought to life by a confident, self-assured cast uttering the Bard's timeless words set to the tuneful music and lyrics of Janet McMahan and David Huntsinger. (more...)

BWW REVIEWS: ROCK OF AGES is a Rowdy, Face-Melting Romp

If you're feeling nostalgic for some classic 80s rock and your Van Halen albums just aren't cutting it, then throw on your favorite concert tee, put your lighter in your pocket, and get your butt to The Long Center. To borrow from Brett Michaels and Poison, ROCK OF AGES ain't nothin' but a good time. (more...)

WORST AUDITION EVER and WORST DATE EVER Set for Silver Lake's Cavern Club, 10/17 & 18

Worst Ever Productions presents its next set of shows as part of our Fall Season run of WORST AUDITION EVER at the Cavern Club in Silverlake - produced by Christine Lakin, Alec Ledd, Daniel A. Miles, and Corri English. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Timeless ANYTHING GOES Is 'Musical Theater for the Ages'

If I were to die very soon, there's no doubt that I would go to heaven, because Rachel York and the all-singing/all-dancing company of Anything Goes took me and a couple of thousand other people up to the heavenly gates with their spectacular opening night performance of "Blow, Gabriel, Blow." (more...)

WORST AUDITION EVER and WORST DATE EVER Set for Silver Lake's Cavern Club, 10/17 & 18

Worst Ever Productions presents its next set of shows as part of our Fall Season run of WORST AUDITION EVER at the Cavern Club in Silverlake - produced by Christine Lakin, Alec Ledd, Daniel A. Miles, and Corri English. (more...)

WORST AUDITION EVER and WORST DATE EVER Set for Silver Lake's Cavern Club, 10/17 & 18

Worst Ever Productions presents its next set of shows as part of our Fall Season run of WORST AUDITION EVER at the Cavern Club in Silverlake - produced by Christine Lakin, Alec Ledd, Daniel A. Miles, and Corri English. (more...)

BWW Interviews: On Tour With Anything Goes' Time-Traveling RACHEL YORK

Much like Dixie Wilson-the character she played in Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice's Turn of the Century at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2008-actress Rachel York, the clarion-voiced leading lady whose timeless appeal has made her one of Broadway's most beloved stars, might be a time traveler. For certain, the woman who now plays Reno Sweeney in the national tour of Roundabout Theatre's acclaimed revival of Anything Goes, readily admits she could very possibly have been born in the wrong era, any and all science fiction possibilities notwithstanding. (more...)

STEP OFF: Mutually Assigned Dances (Surprisingly) Don't Equal Mutually Assured Dance-truction

Tonight's decision of inviting Paula Abdul to guest judge on the same panel as Carrie Ann Inaba, an act known as turning the entire cock-a-doodie universe on its head, can only be described as either the most ingenious or most cruel thing broadcast television has ever done to an audience. I mean, those women, as shrill and confusing as they are, make for great TV. (more...)

Heather Adair, Christine Lakin and More Join WORST AUDITION EVER Shows at Cavern Club in Silver Lake, 11/13 & 14

Worst Ever Productions presents its next set of shows as part of the Fall Season run of WORST AUDITION EVER at the Cavern Club in Silverlake - produced by Christine Lakin, Alec Ledd, Daniel A. Miles, and Corri English. (more...)

Heather Adair, Christine Lakin and More Join WORST AUDITION EVER Shows at Cavern Club in Silver Lake, 11/13 & 14

Worst Ever Productions presents its next set of shows as part of the Fall Season run of WORST AUDITION EVER at the Cavern Club in Silverlake - produced by Christine Lakin, Alec Ledd, Daniel A. Miles, and Corri English. (more...)

BWW Remembers Arthur Laurents

To mark the one year anniversary of the passing of famed Broadway librettist,screenwriter and director Arthur Laurents, BroadwayWorld spoke with his close friend and the literary executor of his estate, David Saint. (more...)

BWW Reviews: EMERGENCE Shows Off Artistic Collaboration At Its Very Best

Let's face it: You have to give Paul Vasterling, the grand poobah (as both artistic director and CEO of Nashville Ballet, what other title suits him best?) of all things musical/dancical/theatrical in Music City, a whole bunch of credit for the imaginative-heretofore unexperienced-heights he has helped his company achieve and his city to claim as its own. The man has redefined the idea of collaboration while giving human form to the term "synergy" with his continuing efforts to push the creative envelope in a city filled with artistic types and their sometimes conflicting sensibilities. (more...)

BWW Reviews: 'Nashville's Own' KRISTIN CHENOWETH Sings Her Way Into the Heart of All of Her Fans

Kristin Chenoweth was in Nashville last night, performing her critically acclaimed concert act just for me-oh, sure, there were another 2,000 or so people in the audience, as well, who thought she was singing just for them-but she and I both know the truth. She looked straight into my heart and sang every one of my favorite songs and, in the process, she touched my heart in a way only someone who really knows me can do. (more...)

BWW REVIEWS: Why We Love The '80s: THE WEDDING SINGER at The Roxy Regional Theatre

There are so many starmaking turns-and some wonderfully engaging and endearing antics-onstage at Clarksville's Roxy Regional Theater in the company's revival of The Wedding Singer, that you cannot help but become a fan of the show, even if you've never seen the movie that inspired the onstage musical comedy. (more...)

BWW Reviews: BOOM Confounds and Delights as Sideshow's First Season Closes With a Big Bang

Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb knows how to deliver such a dramatic jolt and he does so in his play boom, the season-ending production from Sideshow, the "project" of Actors Bridge Ensemble that has brought something new and exciting to Nashville theater-pushing the envelope through a series of innovative theatrical initiatives that are far removed from the staid old comedies and dramas we tend to see so often on local stages. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Studio Tenn Delivers a Refreshing SOUND OF MUSIC to the Stage of The Franklin Theatre

With a cast led by Broadway veterans Jessica Grove (who ideally captures the spirit and charm of Maria in her thoroughly captivating performance) and Ben Davis (tall and commanding as the naval captain torn by conflicting loyalties and social upheaval), Logan presents The Sound of Music you would expect from him, although in no way can you call it predictable or expected. To the contrary, Logan excels at delivering the unexpected and while The Sound of Music is probably the one show you would expect to be played out in the traditional, often-seen manner you've encountered in numerous other productions, he manages to surprise and delight you with his vision, his concept and his daring. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Laura Tisdall's THE IN-BETWEEN Original Concept Album

The In-Between is a new fantasy musical written entirely by Laura Tisdall, an up and coming musical theatre writer. The show is a fully written, two act production which is yet to receive any commercial backing. Therefore this original concept album is great publicity to showcase Tisdall's work, and judging by what I have heard, she ought be snapped up immediately. All of the orchestrations, original instrumental programming, recording, mixing, lyrics and book have been done by Tisdall which is no mean feat! This is one talented lady. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Nostalgic HAPPY DAYS, THE MUSICAL Onstage at Roxy Regional Theatre

What with contemporary musical theater's artistic bent toward the nostalgic in recent years, it should come as no surprise that Happy Days, the ABC sitcom that painted an affectionate portrait of life in Milwaukee in the late 1950s/early 1960s, was adapted by the show's creator Garry Marshall and composer Paul Williams into a musical comedy. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Nelson Delivers a Knock-out THE MUSIC MAN Led By Hancock and Pendzick

But The Music Man? Come on, the classic Meredith Willson musical chestnut is as corny and all-American as you can possibly get (let's face it, Willson is the master of that particular genre of musical theater occupied by The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown-plus he wrote the Oscar-nominated score for William Wyler's The Little Foxes, which is one of my all-time favorite movies: "The grits didn't hold they heat"), it's pure hokum and there is absolutely nothing at all cynical about it. So why the heck does it make me respond with some emotional fervor? (more...)

BWW Reviews: Wash Your Cares Away with Singin' In The Rain

... The other impression I got from "Singin'" was the incredible depth of talent required of all the actors. The legendary Gene Kelly was the original choreographer, setting a high bar for anyone to follow (or vault over), to belabour the metaphor. This performance is meant to be extremely high intensity; highly athletic. To pull it off, actors must have a huge vocal range, a powerful voice, be highly gifted dancers in a number of genre's including tap, flamenco, ballet, have the agility of an acrobat, be incredibly funny and posses the ability to act ! They were all so physically beautiful, (or perfectly caste, befitting their role). One imagines a vast pool of players and an extreme vetting process to have achieved so many creme de la creme in one show. (more...)

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