Regional Roundup: Top 10 Stories This Week Around the Broadway World - 2/13

With over 100 U.S. cities and 30 international regions featured on our site, we have so many exciting theatre happenings around our Broadway World! Below, we've highlighted our top 10 stories from this week. Check out the roundup below!

East Coast

1. Washington, DC: Editor, Pamela Roberts explores Shakespeare in her review of OTHELLO, playing at the Theatre on the Run through March 1. She calls it "a smart, contemporary and intriguing interpretation of the 400-year-old story" Read her full review here.

Southeast

2. Raleigh, North Carolina: Editor, Jeffrey Karasarides, reviews North Carolina Theatre's production of BILLY ELLIOTT. He gives it rave reviews, saying, "Playwright Lee Hall has brilliantly adapted his own Oscar-Nominated screenplay into a very funny, and very moving theatrical piece that anyone wanting to pursue a career in the arts can relate to! It still remains to be one of the greatest musicals I've ever seen in my life!" Read more here.

3. Orlando, FL: Senior Editor, Matt Tamanini says that Rollins Players' TIME STANDS STILL "delivers an emotional journey." He goes on, "While all four of the actors performed admirably in their roles, there seemed to be yet another level of depth and connection of which they were capable, and that the play required." Read his full review here.

Midwest

4. Milwaukee, WI: Editor Peggy Sue Dunigan recaps MKE Ballet Stages GENESIS: INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHIC COMPETITION, calling it "a thrilling program...." where "three emerging choreographers travel from around the globe to showcase their original dances for Milwaukee." Check it out here.

5. Wichita, KS: Editor Alison Bridget Chambers reviews ALWAYS... PATSY CLINE at Roxy's Downtown, which is playing through March 28. Starring Cindy Summers and Christine Tasheff, she says,"The two actresses have a lovely comic charisma. Summers is polished, captivating, and captures the charming qualities of Cline. Tasheff is delightful and sassy." Read her full review here.

West Coast:

6. Santa Barbara, CA: Editor Maggie Yates reviews Elements Theatre Collective's NIXON'S NIXON, now playing through February 22, 2015. She says, "Director Matthew Tavianini's production is a thought-provoking examination of power (both actual and perceived). Nixon is known in American lore as a paranoid, unscrupulous statesman, but Michael Bernard brings vulnerability to the character that goes far beyond the rote sketch-comedy caricature." Want to read more? Check out her full review here.

7. Los Angeles, CA: Editor Michael L. Quintos is pleasantly surprised at 3-D Theatrical's production of SEUSSICAL starring Cathy Rigby (playing through February 22 at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton. In his review, he calls it, "A fun, silly show with a surprising amount of wit, imagination, and heart, SEUSSICAL - THE MUSICAL is wonderfully childish yet notably smart at the same time." Read more here.

8. Germany: In Europe, Senior Editor Iris Moebius reports on Theater am Marientor Duisburg. Check it out here.

9. Sydney, Australia: Our Senior Editor down under, Jade Kops, Reviews c*ckplaying at the Old Fitz Theatre, Woolloomooloo through March 6. She says, "This is an interesting story, complex whilst being simple and thought provoking whilst being scattered with humour that breaks the tension." Find out more about this story in her full review here.

National Tour Highlight:

10. ADDAMS FAMILY National Tour came to the Mercury Theatre in Chicago. Editor Misha Davenport gave it "two snaps" and goes on, "It's creepy, kooky and altogether ooky and you'll laugh yourself silly. Under the direction of L. Walter Stearns, Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley and the rest of the family are in good hands. Stearns has enabled his cast to hone in on some truly inspired comedic performances. I've seen the show four times and still laughed myself silly." Read her full review here.

BONUS! Good News! BWW Toronto Confirms that Angela Lansbury is STILL Perfect! Check out the article here.

This week, we would like to welcome the return of Anthony Logan Cole as our guest blogger in San Diego, J.P. McLaurin and Karen Bovard as new regional editors in South Carolina, Emily Neuberger as a student writer reporting on NYU productions, and Lola Arruti in Mexico. Wow, what a week! Now, go snuggle up with the one that you love, have some wine and chocolate for Valentine's Day, and enjoy a perfect date night at the theatre.

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