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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 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: ROUNDING THIRD at Ocean State Theatre Company
by Katelyn Corp - June 07, 2015

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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 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...


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 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...


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...


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: 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...


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...


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: 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 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: 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 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...


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...


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 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!...


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....


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 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...


BWW Reviews: Solid Cast, Uneven Script Gives MIDDLETOWN a Disconnected Feel
by Paul Batterson - October 28, 2014

Otterbein University's theater department has never been known to play it safe when it comes to selecting plays. The department, which brought such works as AFTER THE FALL, SPRING AWAKENINGS and FULL MONTY to the stage in recent years, continues to stretch its audience with its most recent productio...


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 Reviews: A Very Tangled THREESOME at Portland Center Stage
by Patrick Brassell - February 02, 2015

It's a thoughtful script about Arab-American relations, a wacky comedy about a couple who invite another man into their sex life, and a dry look at how men and women view each other. And while each of these things is interesting, they make for very strange bedfellows...as do the three characters in ...






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