BWW Reviews: Gelsey Kirkland Presents THE NUTCRACKER
by Rose Marija - December 23, 2014 'Tis the season. On December 11, 2014 my first viewing of The Nutcracker this season was the opening night of Gelsey Kirkland Ballet's delightful version, choreographed and directed by Michael Chernov, co-artistic director, after Vasili Vainonen, assisted by Gelsey Kirkland and Alexandra Lawler. Wha...
BWW Reviews: Stages Repertory Theatre's VERONICA'S ROOM is a Blood-Curdling Thriller
by David Clarke - October 18, 2013 Ira Levin is best known for his suspenseful and creepy novels The Stepford Wives and Rosemary's Baby, both of which have been adapted into successful films. His 1978 play DEATHTRAP holds the record for the longest running comedy-thriller in Broadway history, playing almost 1800 performances across a...
BWW Reviews: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Trevor Worden - July 27, 2015 Great theater happening Maine! Check out the Review on broadwayworld.com...
BWW Reviews: THE MAX FACTOR FACTOR - A Frothy Farcical Mixture of Frivolity Features Some Fine Phenomenal Performances
by Gil Kaan - August 10, 2014 The Max Factor Factor boasts precision dancing and gorgeous harmonies amidst well-timed madcap shtick....
BWW Preview: WHAT THEY DID FOR LOVE Opening at Quality Hill Playhouse in Kansas City
by Steve Wilson - April 14, 2015 A season dedicated to the film music of the 1960s and 1970s cinema continues at the Quality Hill Playhouse at 303 W. 10 on April 17. The tunes of Marvin Hamlisch and Burt Bacharach come alive in What They Did for Love: The Music of Marvin Hamlisch and Burt Bacharach. The intimate cabaret revue ru...
Ballet Kelowna Presents Canadian Premiere of THE ASHLEY BOUDER PROJECT with NYC Ballet Luminaries Tonight
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2015 In an incredible coup for Ballet Kelowna, New York City's finest dancers will travel west to light up Kelowna's Community Theatre (1375 Water Street) with the anticipated Canadian premiere of The Ashley Bouder Project, tonight, March 3 at 7:30pm. New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Ashley Bouder, ...
BWW Reviews: ONE DAY: THE MUSICAL Brims with Teenage Angst, Pop-Rock Intensity
by Rachel Weinberg - February 20, 2015 "One Day: The Musical" exudes an angry, pop-rock sensibility and has teenage angst in spades. Though the show takes the journal entries of real teenagers as its basis, it sometimes feels like a mouthpiece for adolescent issues rather than a show about living, breathing humans. In striving to be a un...
The Second City's 55th Anniversary Tour Stops in San Diego Tonight
by BWW News Desk - March 28, 2015 The Second City is known as the world's leading comedy theater and improvisational troupe, delighting audiences for more than five decades. Celebrating their 55th Anniversary this year, The Second City will be opening their vault to share some of their greatest comedy sketches created by the biggest...
BWW Reviews: CONTACT.COM, Park Theatre, January 15 2015
by Laura Jones - January 17, 2015 Contact.com at the Park Theatre follows fortysomething married couple Matthew (Jason Durr) and his wife Naomi (Tanya Franks) as they prepare to open their home to young couple Ryan (Ralph Aiken) and Kelly (Charlie Brooks) whom they met after replying to their online advertisement. Both couples are s...
HAMLET A STAND UP Comes to New York, 10/21
by Courtnie Mele - October 15, 2013 Hamlet A Stand Up comes to NYC as a part of The United Solo Festival on October 21 at 9 p.m. at Theatre Row. In Hamlet A Stand Up, one man plays twenty roles....
BWW Reviews: Theo Ubique's Crazy Good Hamlisch Songbook
by Misha Davenport - June 09, 2015 Hits keep coming at Theo Ubique's latest revue honoring the late composer Marvin Hamlisch...
CMT Debuts INSTANT JAM: FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Tonight
by TV News Desk - October 18, 2014 Superstar duo Florida Georgia Line surprised a small group of fans with a pop-up concert at Nashville's Exit/In as part of CMT's INSTANT JAM: FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, premiering tonight, October 18....
BWW Reviews: THE FANTASTICKS Lacks Emotion
by Marietta Lunceford - August 25, 2014 Enjoying its 29th season, Terrific New Theatre is presenting THE FANTASTICKS now through September 13th. Directed by TNT founder Carl Stewart, a fixture in the Birmingham theatre scene for over 50 years, this production definitely has its ups and downs....
BWW Reviews: Madhorse Theatre Mounts Edgy Lindsay-Abaire Comedy
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - February 07, 2015 South Portland's Madhorse Theatre Company has chosen to mount Kimberly Akimbo, an edgy, quirky, wrenching comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire, as their second offering of the season. The five-character tale of a teenager's coming to terms with a strange disease that has caused her to age prematurely, wit...
BWW Review: The Mihailovsky Ballet in GISELLE
by Holly Kerr - November 14, 2014 The Mikhailovsky Ballet is on its first United States tour and is now at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center through November 23. The Company features several of Russia's greatest dancers: Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, formerly of the Bolshoi Ballet, and Leonid Sarafanov, formerly of th...
BWW Reviews: Haunting Season Finale at Mad Horse Theatre
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - June 02, 2014 South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre Company ended its season with a poignant and ambitious production of the Tony-award-winning musical, Grey Gardens. A musical is a bit of a departure for the small theatre company and its tiny black box space, but they acquitted themselves with both substance and ap...
BWW Reviews: CHEROKEE Sends Woolly on a Spirit Journey
by Itai Yasur - February 19, 2015 Woolly Mammoth's beautiful theater in which every seat has an intimate view of the expansive stage and the company's diehard dedication to new plays has found another win in Lisa D'Amour's follow up to 2013's DETROIT. Upon entering audiences are immediately greeted with recordings of tribal music an...
BWW Reviews: CHARLOTTE SQUAWKS: THE 11TH GLOWER
by Quinn Austin - June 15, 2015 If you want to see a great show with the humor of SNL on a stage in Charlotte, CHARLOTTE SQUAWKS is it!...
Stories on Stage to Present OLD FRIENDS, 4/11-12
by Tyler Peterson - March 11, 2015 Wise and witty tales of life's second act - its joys, its challenges, and the wonderful friends we make along the way....
BWW Reviews: SOUTH PACIFIC at Westchester Broadway Theatre
by Kathryn Kitt - October 15, 2014 Westchester Broadway Theatre dusted off the original version of Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. The show is based on the Pulitzer Prize- winning book "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener. This is not a revival of the production done a few years ago at Lincoln Center Theater....
BWW Reviews: AT HOME AT THE ZOO Wows in First Show
by Meghan Pearson - January 12, 2014 In their debut show, Chocolate Moose Theatre Company brings to life a piece that is deeply relatable to the human experience. At Home at the Zoo is a combination of Edward Albee's Homelife and Zoo Story, the first of which was written 49 years after the latter in an attempt to portray the relationsh...
STAGE TUBE: Protesters Pay Tribute to Mike Brown During Orchestra Concert
by Sally Henry Fuller - October 05, 2014 ...
Local SCROOGE Actor Breaks Leg During Performance
by Tyler Peterson - December 22, 2013 Trevor Jary, an actor performing in SCROOGE at Blackpool Opera House, broke his leg last Thursday when 'when a wall and door of a fake house collapsed on top of him,' according to The Telegraph.... |