BWW Review: Poignant & Powerful THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE Grips the Milwaukee Repertory Theater
by Kelsey Lawler - March 10, 2019 'It wasn't supposed to be like this. I thought they'd be like us. But better than us. Better versions of us.'...
BWW Review: FUN HOME Receives Loving Local Production
by Frank Benge - December 22, 2018 FUN HOME is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic novel of the same name. The story is a memoir of Bechdel's discovery of her own sexuality, her relationship with her gay father, and her attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life. It was also...
TEEN Announces New Album
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 28, 2018 Today Brooklyn-based band TEEN - comprised of sisters Teeny, Lizzie, and Katherine Lieberson - announces its fourth studio album Good Fruit. Out on March 1st, 2019 via lifelong label Carpark, and the band's first self-produced record, Good Fruit is a remarkable and bold statement on moving forward a...
Now I am Dead Productions Presents THE MOST HUMOROUS AND TRAGIC TALE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S SHAKESPEARE
by Julie Musbach - October 29, 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...
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...
BWW Review: Seattle Children's Theatre Amps Up the Awww Factor with THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
by Jay Irwin - November 03, 2018 We all have those special toys that became real to us as children. I still have my old teddy bear (who's older than I am) who sits in a place of honor in my living room. This is probably why Margery Williams' classic story "The Velveteen Rabbit" resonated with so many of us. I know it did for me....
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....
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...
BWW Review: HAMLET at Pop-up Globe Auckland
by Monica Moore - March 12, 2019 It's those feelings and desires to which we can all connect. Shakespeare knew this well - and the direction of this play presented a range of skilled and moving performances that had groundlings in front of me, and the audience seated in the bays of the lower gallery beside me, entirely captivated. ...
BWW Review: THE CORPSE WASHER at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
by Keith Waits - March 08, 2019 A young man is raised with the expectation that he will follow in his father's footsteps, working in the trade and carrying on an important tradition, but instead, he wants to follow his own path and become an artist. It is a classic coming-of-age narrative of a generational and cultural shift that ...
Bishop Arts Theatre Company Brings LA LLORONA: A Love Story To Oak Cliff
by BWW News Desk - February 08, 2019 The Bishop Arts Theatre Center (BATC), Oak Cliff's multicultural and multidiscipline center for the arts, continues its 25th Anniversary 'Silver Threads' season with playwright Kathleen Anderson Culebro's La Llorona: A Love Story. The production previews on February 7th with opening night Today, Feb...
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: 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...
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: 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...
TITANIC May Be Sailing to Broadway with Eric Schaeffer at the Helm
by Julie Musbach - September 10, 2018 According to a recent Equity casting notice, a revival of Titanic may be setting course for Broadway in the 2019-2020 season....
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: 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....
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...
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....
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: 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... |