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...
BWW Review: 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE Engrosses and Shocks at IRISH CLASSICAL THEATRE
by Michael Rabice - September 30, 2019 Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre Company has chosen to open their 2019-20 season with a rarity, 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE by John Ford. First seen in 1633, the question arises as to whether this Jacobean drama still deserves to be produced. Happily, this often shocking play has enough intrigue to k...
BWW Review: CARLOS ACOSTA: A CELEBRATION, Royal Albert Hall
by Vikki Jane Vile - October 04, 2018 Nearly two years ago to the day, Carlos Acosta presented A Classical Farewell at London's Royal Albert Hall, a mix of solos and pas de deux with his esteemed Royal Ballet colleagues to celebrate his career . Fast forward to 2018, and he's still saying farewell but now with a focus on the future, th...
Now I am Dead Productions Presents THE MOST HUMOROUS AND TRAGIC TALE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S SHAKESPEARE
by BWW News Desk - December 13, 2018 William Shakespeare. We performed him in drama class, poured over theory on him in English class. Hoisted him onto a throne of theatrical and literary legacy. Yet he was human. Human like the rest of us...
OUTPUT Presents New Year's Eve With John Digweed
by Tori Hartshorn - November 29, 2018 Continuing a beloved holiday tradition, Brooklyn's award-winning nightclub and premier dance music destination, OUTPUT, proudly presents New Year's Eve with world renowned DJ/producer John Digweed on December 31 from 10pm to 8am. As his third consecutive New Year's Eve celebration at the Williamsbur...
BWW Review: PIPPIN at Acting Against Cancer
by Keith Waits - September 03, 2019 Intrigue, plots to bring disaster. Humor, handled by a master. Romance, sex presented pastorally. Acting Against Cancer in collaboration with CirqueLouis certainly has magic to do as it opens another season with Pippin. This outright delight of a show hits the mark with tricks, tumbles, and flights ...
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...
VIDEO: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie Interrupt JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 23, 2019 Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie cut through Jimmy Kimmel's studio on the way to the premiere of their film Once Upon on a Time in Hollywood - and they have a big surprise for our audience....
USA VS. THE WORLD to Air on NBC January 27
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 17, 2019 NBC will air its annual high-stakes international ninja competition special “USA Vs. the World” on Sunday, Jan. 27 (8-10 p.m. ET/PT)....
BWW Review: A Godly Intervention To Stop Climate Change In Madeleine George's Comedy HURRICANE DIANE
by Michael Dale - February 25, 2019 Pulitzer finalist Madeleine George describes the title character of her decidedly weird little comedy about the threat of global warming, Hurricane Diane, as 'a butch charm factory.' Becca Blackwell sure fits that bill perfectly, delivering the 90-minute play's exposition monologue with the engaging...
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 ...
BWW Review: Seattle Public's World Premiere FIRE SEASON Crackles with Honest Vulnerability
by Jay Irwin - January 28, 2019 Seattle Public Theater is currently offering a play you've probably never heard of, "Fire Season". And you've never heard of "Fire Season" because it's a World Premiere having been written by author Aurin Squire under the auspices of having won the inaugural Emerald Prize, Seattle Public Theater's ...
BWW Review: Familial Bonds and Tradition Ground THE BROTHERS SIZE in Moving Production
by Isabella Perrone - May 11, 2019 THE BROTHERS SIZE, directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu and produced by Soulpepper, is a look into the lives of two brothers following the youngest's return home from prison. Tarell Alvin McCraney's 2000 work is an emotional examination of brotherhood and redemption in the deep south....
VIDEO: See Leonardo DiCaprio in an Extended Clip from ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 22, 2019 Watch an extended clip of Leonardo DiCaprio from Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood!...
BWW Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Fountain Hills
by Emily Noxon - October 14, 2018 Set in 1980's Louisana, Steel Magnolias presents a real-life look into relationships through joy and heart ache....
The Lion King's Santino Juan Santiago to Debut as Little Rizal in RIZAL BEHIND BARS
by Oliver Oliveros - February 02, 2020 SV Studios Events and Workshop Services' revival production of Rizal Behind Bars revisits Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal's final moments in prison. What was on his mind at that time? What were his frustrations or fears? Child actor Santino Juan Santiago, who alternates with David Jesu Ferro...
PlayME Podcast Launches Cliff Cardinal's Award-Winning Play HUFF
by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2019 Expect Theatre's PlayME - the podcast that transforms Canadian plays into audio dramas - and Canada's #1 podcaster, CBC Podcasts, announced that Huff, from Dora Award-winning playwright and performer Cliff Cardinal, is available now as an audio drama in three bingeable chapters. An additional episod...
RIZAL BEHIND BARS Tour to Launch in Silang, Cavite
by Oliver Oliveros - December 10, 2019 This special performance of Rizal Behind Bars commemorates Rizal's heroic death, which is honored every 30th of December....
BWW Review: REYKJAVIK at Rorschach Theatre
by Sarah Murphy - February 13, 2019 You may be forgiven if the phrase 'romantic getaway' doesn't immediately inspire images of Iceland and, though it features several couples, Steve Yockey's 'Reykjavik' is unlikely to change your mind. What it will do is give a momentary, and at times uncomfortably intimate, glimpse into the relations...
BWW Review: Containers of the Mind- East Coast Premiere of BOXES
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - November 09, 2019 The Good Theater's production of Jule Selbo's BOXES offers a taut psychological study of manipulation and longing, misconceptions about self and love, all carefully crafted into a thriller with rapid twists and turns that compels the audience's attention for its brisk ninety-minutes. The boxes of t...
BWW Review: THE GREAT LEAP at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
by Rachel Weinberg - September 17, 2019 Steppenwolf Theatre Company's season opening production of Lauren Yee's THE GREAT LEAP combines the energy of the final moments of a major sporting event alongside moments of great intimacy and intensity for which the company is largely known....
BWW Review: JUDAS – ADELAIDE FRINGE 2019 at Bakehouse Theatre
by Barry Lenny - March 04, 2019 This is a master class in acting....
BWW Review: New York City Ballet's THE NUTCRACKER
by Wesley Doucette - December 23, 2019 Nostalgic rose-colored glasses so tint few works as The Nutcracker. Its music, its images, its audience of children, either mesmerized or fidgeting in their Sunday best, have become annual staples of the Christmas season. Balanchine's 1954 staging of the ballet is its quintessential manifestation. A... |