BWW Review: ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET - SWAN LAKE, Liverpool Empire
by Vikki Jane Vile - May 28, 2020 The next lockdown treat courtesy of English National Ballet comes in the form of Derek Deane's Swan Lake. This production last ran over the 2018/19 Winter season with this particular performance seeing Principals Jurgita Dronina and Isaac Hernandez in the leading roles....
BWW Review: THE MOUNTAINTOP at Susquehanna Stage
by Rich Mehrenberg - February 18, 2020 Surprise! Surprise! Any production based on the life of Martin Luther King is bound to be deep, thought provoking, and moving. The Mountaintop by Katori Hall was no exception. Adding to the drama and emotion, however, was the unexpected humor in Hall's dialogue. This production had the audience burs...
Venus Furs Releases New Song 'Living in Constant'
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 14, 2020 Venus Furs, the moniker of Montreal's Paul Kasner, has announced the release of his new single, Living In Constant - a song cloaked in a laid-back, heavy atmosphere that describes the final moments of a disgraced priest on his deathbed....
Xenia Rubinos Shares New Track & Video 'Cógelo Suave'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 11, 2021 The track was recorded in the height of quarantine (Spring 2020), when the world was slipping into a deep kind of chaos, Xenia’s mom had an experience with covid, and it was generally hard to tell which way was up, the process of making the track provided a cloak of resilience. ...
BWW Review: LAUNDRY AND BOURBON at Gettysburg Community Theatre
by Andrea Stephenson - May 14, 2021 The show is filled with a wonderful mix of poignancy and humor, and the actors in Gettysburg Community Theatre’s production of Laundry and Bourbon handle it masterfully under the direction of Buff Wills. Audiences have the opportunity to experience Laundry and Bourbon online and in person at Gettysb...
BWW Review: ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET'S DUST, Milton Keynes Theatre
by Vikki Jane Vile - April 30, 2020 I've written about Dust, Akram Khan's work for English National Ballet World War One programme, Lest We Forget, several times. Somehow, each time, even knowing what's coming, it still packs a chilling, earth shattering punch both through the screen and on stage....
BWW Review: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, Peacock Theatre
by Vikki Jane Vile - February 21, 2020 Kate Prince is known for her unique blend of joyous, feel-good street and contemporary dance. She and the endless energy of her dance troupe, ZooNation, are responsible for West End hits such as Some Like It Hip Hop and Into the Hoods, which means it's no problem getting on board with new ideas - ev...
Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD Comes to Digital 11/25 & 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray & DVD 12/10
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 28, 2019 Academy Award winner[1] Leonardo DiCaprio and Academy Award nominee[2] Brad Pitt give “explosively funny and emotionally complex performances”[3] as actor Rick Dalton and his longtime friend and stuntman Cliff Booth, alongside Academy Award nominee[4] Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in the blockbuster...
The Public Theatre to Present I AND YOU
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 09, 2020 When was the last time you saw a play about a pair of compelling teenage characters that in its final moments left you breathless? I And You is that play - a youthful, humorous, powerful and profoundly moving story now playing at The Public Theatre....
THE STORY OF MY LIFE to Have Orange County Premiere
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 16, 2021 Chance Theater has announced that the Orange County premiere of Neil Bertram and Brian Hill’s musical, The Story of My Life will be the first show in their 23rd Anniversary Season. The musical is directed by Matthew McCray (The Other Place), with music direction by Robyn Manion (Ragtime)....
BWW Review: FIDELIO, BBC iPlayer
by Aliya Al-Hassan - July 27, 2020 In Beethovena's 250th anniversary year, it seems appropriate for a new version of his only opera, Fidelio, to have been created. However, it begs the question of whether Fidelio is actually a fundamentally a 'good' opera? ...
EDINBURGH 2019: BWW REVIEW: THE CANARY AND THE CROW, Summerhall
by Daniel Perks - August 14, 2019 Daniel Ward's The Canary And The Crow narrates his experience of being a black boy in a white, middle class high school. But it's so much more than those teenage years....
Dialogue With Three Chords Concludes Tenth Season Of Indie Theatre Online With A HARD LIFE IS A GIFT FROM THE LORD
by A.A. Cristi - May 19, 2021 Dialogue with Three Chords concludes their tenth season of indie theatre virtually with 'A Hard Life is a Gift From the Lord.' It's the final installment of their ongoing series 'The Apocalypse Survivors Club.' Season ten showcases virtual plays on a monthly schedule, all written by Stephen Gracia a...
BWW Review: Isaac Gomez's THE WAY SHE SPOKE Explores a City's History of Violence Against Women
by Michael Dale - July 19, 2019 Perhaps it would be regarded as exploitative to directly quote the passage here, but the last several minutes of playwright Isaac Gomez's THE WAY SHE SPOKE consists primarily of the names, ages, causes of death and physical states of the corpses of several dozen women who were murdered, in scenarios...
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Share 'Tally-Ho' Video
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 05, 2020 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets deliver a set of brilliantly warped visuals to match their latest single, “Tally-Ho”....
PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS Share New Single 'Tally-Ho'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 14, 2020 Perth’s prominent experimental quintet - Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - have quickly become one of Australia’s hottest prospects, uncovering all kinds of weirdness and psychotic fuzz in their deceptively concise and punchy sonic warfare....
CM Performing Arts Center To Stream Their Annual Touring Dramatic Prayer Service For The First Time
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 03, 2020 Take a Journey back through time with us. Before CM Performing Arts Center became an entertainment center for Live Theatrical Entertainment and an institute for Theatrical Education, CM's roots started 33 years ago, with a humble pastor, Noel S. Ruiz, and his traveling Dramatic Prayer Service - Jour...
BWW Review: WAD at ACT
by Jay Irwin - March 25, 2021 The lives of prisoners are a well-known trope for many dramas. The inmate and the Nun in the film “Dead Man Walking”, two unlikely allied prisoners and a figment in “Kiss of the Spider Woman”. The genre is visited time and time again as it’s a world few of us, thankfully, have experience in, openi...
BWW Review: LOAFERS, RADA Studios
by Cindy Marcolina - August 18, 2019 Caroline and Edward are two twenty-something who do nothing in their lives. They spend their upper-class existence pottering around their flat in their silk dressing gowns, lamenting their boredom....
BWW Review: Ladies of The Second City Return with a Vengeance in SHE THE PEOPLE: THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES
by Isabella Perrone - May 07, 2019 The women of The Second City return to the mainstage to present SHE THE PEOPLE: THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES, a follow-up to 2018's SHE THE PEOPLE. While the cast and creative team remains mostly the same as the original show, this reimagining explores a wider scope of true-to-life and absurd comedic sc...
Student Blog: Here's To 'Firsts'
by Student Blogger: Grace Cutler - March 17, 2021 When most ‘firsts’ are due to COVID, it was nice to have a ‘first’ that happened despite COVID. I was reminded that life can continue and adapt to these times, and nothing can take these experiences away from me - no matter how different they might be than normal....
The Green Room 42 Presents An Evening Of Ahrens & Flaherty Benefitting The Child HELP Partnership
by A.A. Cristi - February 12, 2020 The Green Room 42 Presents An Evening of Ahrens & Flaherty benefitting the Child HELP Partnership, Thursday, March 5, 2020....
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER
by Sarah Leiber - February 08, 2021 Check out the new trailer for Marvel Studios’ “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” which complements a new TV spot that aired during tonight’s big game. The all-new, six-episode series debuts exclusively on Disney+ March 19, 2021....
BWW Review: Mad Horse Theatre Grapples with Life's Vagaries in LIFE SUCKS
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - March 23, 2019 As a sequel to producing successfully Aaron Posner's Stupid F****ing Bird, South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre company has mounted Posner's take on Chekov's Uncle Vanya, Life Sucks. Filled with colorful characters and some truly witty dialogue, Posner's new play does a fine job of bringing the Russia...
BWW Review: Glenda Jackson is Wickedly Fun in Sam Gold's Surprisingly Comic Take on Shakespeare's KING LEAR
by Michael Dale - April 05, 2019 In recalling the great comedies penned by William Shakespeare, classics like TWELFTH NIGHT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and the one about all the errors have been making audiences bust out in laughter for hundreds of years. But King Lear? Certainly one of the English language's great tragedies, with ... |