BWW Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, 27 September 2016
by Emma Cann - September 28, 2016 The cult musical, Little Shop of Horrors, has long been a favourite amongst cinema and theatre fans alike. Following an unlikely beginning - a low budget Sci-fi B movie shot in just two days - Little Shop of Horrors was turned into a musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, turning this quirky part...
BWW Review: Intense WATCHING O.J. Provides A Delicate Balancing Act of Dejá Vu Tensions
by Gil Kaan - October 12, 2015 In the world premiere of his WATCHING O.J., playwright David McMillan deftly balances both sides of the black and white/innocent vs. guilty/jubilant and angry reactions of a multi-racial neighborhood in their varied responses to the infamous O.J. Simpson verdict in 1995. A cross-section of races and...
BWW Review: Langston Hughes' BLACK NATIVITY Portrays Christmas Gospel through Poetry and Soul
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - December 08, 2016 Black Arts MKE presents their joyous and triumphant 2nd annual version of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity first produced in 1961. Numerous theaters throughout America remount the production every year to celebrate the holiday season with an all African American cast. At Wilson Theater in Vogel Hall,...
Daniel Radcliffe Signs On for Psychological Thriller JUNGLE
by Caryn Robbins - February 10, 2016 Daniel Radlcliffe has signed on to Greg Mclean's psychological thriller JUNGLE, based on Yossi Ghinsberg's memoir...
Nashville Opera To Lead The Way With THREE WAY
by Molly Tracy - December 21, 2016 The Nashville Opera is leading the charge with the 2017 season opener of 'Three Way' -- a slightly naughty but highly important opera about all types of relationships and the people/motives behind their actions....
BWW Review: A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME Cooks Up Frothy Musical Fun
by Michael Dale - November 25, 2016 While Debra Barsha and Hollye Levin's A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME isn't the first musical to contrast the accepted female gender roles of the 1950s with the liberated revolution of the 1960s (Off-Broadway's second visit from THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES is still running at the Kirk.) the York's fun and f...
The Hartt School Community Division to Present Tchaikovsky's THE NUTCRACKER, 12/11-20
by Tyler Peterson - October 07, 2015 The Hartt School Community Division (HCD) announces its annual holiday production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, opening December 11, 7:30 p.m. at the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. This year's production promises magical storytelling and vivid dancing with a newly c...
STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 2/6/16- PRIVATE LIVES
by Nicole Rosky - February 06, 2016 Today in 1975, Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rogers Theatre), where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noel Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in...
BWW Review: Challenging A Society That Has Become Accustomed To A Fear Of Terrorism, OSAMA THE HERO Reminds Us Facts Are Important And Vigilante Justice Is Unjustified
by Jade Kops - January 28, 2017 Dennis Kelly's work with a confronting title, OSAMA THE HERO, is presented with a raw honesty under the direction of Richard Hilliar at Kings Cross Theatre....
BWW Review: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Tells a tale of two acts
by Daniel Martine - July 05, 2016 The actors in this Circuit Playhouse production, directed by Bob Hetherington, are uniformly excellent, if overly energized....
VIDEOS: UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT's Tituss Burgess Making A Broadway Splash in THE LITTLE MERMAID and GUYS AND DOLLS
by Michael Dale - April 19, 2016 like many breakout television stars, Tituss Burgess was a Broadway favorite before the rest of the country discovered him....
BWW Review: A LINE IN THE SAND is Intense, Intimate and Heartbreaking
by Jason Carlos - March 12, 2016 The next piece in Factory Theatre's Naked Season is Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef's acclaimed play, A LINE IN THE SAND. Nigel Shawn Williams directs this stripped down and intimate production about a tense and unconventional relationship between a Canadian soldier and a young Palestinian t...
BWW Review: Vagabonds' MOON OVER BUFFALO Keeps the Audience in Stitches
by Jack L. B. Gohn - May 31, 2016 Driven to a frenzy by the thought that director film director Frank Capra is in the audience, the Hay family and their retinue get completely confused about the play to be performed for him. Is it Private Lives or Cyrano de Bergerac? It kinda matters which, since the two plays aren't interchangeable...
BWW Review: Annaleigh Ashford and Jake Gyllenhaal Star In A Glorious SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
by Michael Dale - February 24, 2017 Inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillism masterwork 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,' the authors explore how 'the art of making art' can be less about applying paint to a canvas as it is about applying a signature to a check....
Archway Theatre to Stage OEDIPUS-ANTIGONE This Spring
by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2016 It is the fall of the entire House of Laius presented as one single production when the Archway Theatre presents its resident company production of 'Oedipus-Antigone,' May 13 through June 18....
BWW Review: DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Duke of York's Theatre, April 21 2016
by Laura Jones - April 26, 2016 Doctor Faustus is arguably Christopher Marlowe's best-loved and most well known play. What would we give to get whatever we wanted? In Marlowe's production, Faustus literally sells his soul to the devil in order to gain knowledge. However Jamie Lloyd's adaptation gives it a more modern twist....
BWW Review: I'M STILL GETTING MY ACT TOGETHER - Some Beautiful Songs Performed Ever So Beautifully
by Gil Kaan - October 12, 2015 An incredibly talented cast populate the West Coast premiere of Gretchen Cryer's I'M STILL GETTING MY ACT TOGETHER (AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD). This production actually includes the original 1978 I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road as the first act with the newly written second act...
Soprano Sarah Zahn to Perform Maury Yeston's DECEMBER SONGS in Hershey
by BWW News Desk - December 13, 2016 Sarah Zahn will perform December Songs at 7:30 pm January 14, 2017 at the Hershey Area Playhouse in Hershey, Pennsylvania....
Archway Theatre to Stage OEDIPUS-ANTIGONE This Spring
by BWW News Desk - April 19, 2016 It is the fall of the entire House of Laius presented as one single production when the Archway Theatre presents its resident company production of 'Oedipus-Antigone,' May 13 through June 18....
BWW Review: Hale Centre Theatre's SISTER ACT is Rousing
by Tyler Hinton - October 20, 2016 SISTER ACT at Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley is a 1970s disco dream, an uplifting story of self-improvement and love, and a rousing good time....
BWW Review: George C. Wolfe's SHUFFLE ALONG, An Exhilarating Demand For Recognition
by Michael Dale - April 29, 2016 The director/bookwriter tells the story of a groundbreaking 1921 musical that has since been reduced to a footnote....
BWW Review: Extra! Extra! NEWSIES Tour Makes Headlines at Providence Performing Arts Center
by Veronica Bruscini - October 21, 2015 The stage production of NEWSIES, now playing a limited run at the Providence Performing Arts Center, features the same stirring and beloved songs that captured the hearts of moviegoers, as well as newly choreographed, high-octane dance numbers that dazzle with gravity-defying leaps and spins....
BWW Review: BORN YESTERDAY at Ocean State Theatre Company is Scary/Funny
by Larry O'Brien - January 28, 2017 On opening night, Garson Kanin's BORN YESTERDAY had 'em rolling in the aisles at the Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC) in Warwick. Actually, the first act had 'em rolling in the aisles; the second act had 'em marching in the streets....
VIDEO: First Look - Daniel Radcliffe Stars in SWISS ARMY MAN
by Caryn Robbins - April 04, 2016 There are 7 billion people on the planet. You might be lucky enough to bump into the one person you want to spend the rest of your life with....
BWW Review: THE NUTCRACKER at Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center - A Home for Classical Storytelling
by Amber Adams - January 03, 2017 "A home for classical storytelling" for children is that of the Kelsey Kirkland Arts Center's performance of "The Nutcracker."... |