BWW Reviews: NOISES OFF, Funny On at PlayMakers Repertory Company
by Larissa Mount - April 16, 2012 This sounds like an exaggeration, but I promise that it's not: Noises Off at PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill is, honest-to-goodness, the funniest thing I have seen in quite some time. It reminded me that live theater is magical - I cannot think of a single movie which is as funny as thi...
BWW Reviews: Secret Rose Offers Broadway Fare with Full Frontal Nudity in THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
by Don Grigware - June 26, 2012 Douglas Carter Beane's Tony nominated Best Play of 2007 The Little Dog Laughed, with its satirical take on happiness Hollywood Style, especially in its depiction of gay relationships, is timely, topical and most welcome in LA, where ironically there's still enough animosity and money stacked up agai...
BWW Reviews: SCR Revives THREE DAYS OF RAIN
by Michael L. Quintos - May 28, 2011 There is perhaps a certain truth in the adage that we as adults are simply the end product of a combined cocktail of biologically-inherited traits, as well as the many environmental factors that invade our lives as young children that are carried into maturity. By this logic, is it fair to ask... if...
ACT Presents Rivera's New Work BOLEROS FOR THE DISENCHANTED 5/7-5/31
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 06, 2009 American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) continues its 2008-09 season with Boleros for the Disenchanted, the brilliant new work by José Rivera (A.C.T.'s Brainpeople, Marisol), the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Motorcycle Diaries. One of Rivera's most personal plays, Boleros for the Disen...
BWW Reviews: SF Opera Delivers Traditional Production of Bizet's Carmen
by Harmony Wheeler - November 17, 2011 Unless you've never seen 'Carmen,' one of the most legendary operas ever written, San Francisco Opera's production of 'Carmen' will come across as old news. The chorus and orchestra, led by the spirited conductor, Nicola Luisotti, bring the only real action and vitality present in the production, wh...
Sayonara: Android-Human Theatre Comes to Melbourne, 8/24 & 25
by Kelsey Denette - August 10, 2012 Featuring an extraordinarily life-like humanoid robot, Seinendan Theatre Company (Japan) brings their breathtaking and intimate performance Sayonara: Android-Human Theatre to Melbourne on 24 and 25 August. Robot Geminoid F stars alongside Canadian actress Bryerly Long in a performance that asks the ...
Review - Glimpses Of The Moon and Two Thousand Years
by Michael Dale - February 11, 2008 You would think that Edith Wharton's fizzy little comic novel, The Glimpses Of The Moon, might have been a perfect property for Rodgers & Hart or Kern, Wodehouse & Bolton to musicalize when it was fresh off the presses in 1922. But no, it took until 2008 for New Yorkers to get a glimpse, not to men...
Hart Theatre Presents THREE DAYS OF RAIN 3/11 & 3/12
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2011 HART Theatre will be performing the second production of their Staged Reading Series, Three Days of Rain, by Richard Greenberg. Directed by Devan McCoy, Greenberg's Pulitzer nominated play, opens with Walker and Nan Janeway, siblings trying to reconcile their childhood in the aftermath of their fath...
BWW Reviews: Louisa May Alcott’s LITTLE WOMEN at 2nd Story Theatre
by Veronica Bruscini - November 22, 2011 The 2nd Story Theatre company brings Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic, Little Women, to life on stage for the 2011 holiday season. ...
Liza's At The Palace...And On Your DVD Player, Too
by Ellen Sterling - February 04, 2010 She is one of those rare people who is known by first name only. And that's because beginning when she was just 19, Liza (Minnelli) has dazzled audiences around the world and in every medium. This week, her latest work - the DVD/BluRay recording of her Tony-winning show Liza's At the Palace became a...
SPIDER-MAN Alternate Matthew James Thomas Suffers Head Injury on SPIDER-MAN Set
by Nicole Rosky - November 10, 2011 According to Newsday, Matthew James Thomas, who plays Reeve Carney's alternate in Spider-Man twice a week on Broadway, was injured backstage during Wednesday's matinee at the Foxwood's Theatre. Thomas was taken to the hospital to get stitches in his head, after suffering a head injury at the top of ...
BWW Reviews: ETC's COURT MARTIAL AT FORT DEVENS Makes Its Case
by Jacques Lamarre - April 16, 2012 Jeffrey Sweet's military drama casts a spotlight on racism during World War II....
BWW Reviews: SF Ballet Ends the Christmas Season with Colorful NUTCRACKER
by Harmony Wheeler - December 23, 2011 San Francisco Ballet holds a special place in "Nutcracker" history. It brought the once unknown and little performed Tchaikovsky ballet to the United States in 1944 - the beginning of what has become an American and world-wide holiday tradition. It's a magical tradition that has children dancing in ...
Hart Theatre Presents THREE DAYS OF RAIN 3/11 & 3/12
by Kelsey Denette - February 21, 2011 HART Theatre will be performing the second production of their Staged Reading Series, Three Days of Rain, by Richard Greenberg. Directed by Devan McCoy, Greenberg's Pulitzer nominated play, opens with Walker and Nan Janeway, siblings trying to reconcile their childhood in the aftermath of their fath...
Libby Whittemore Returns to Actor's Express with New Show, 6/16-19
by Meghan Schuler - May 16, 2011 Actor's Express announces the latest installment of its LIBBY'S AT THE EXPRESS cabaret series with Atlanta icon Libby Whittemore. The June show promises terrific music and lots of fun. LIBBY'S runs June 16-19 at 7:30 p.m....
Mill 6 Presents EAT, PRAY, SMOKE by William Donnelly, 2/7
by BWW News Desk - February 07, 2010 Mill 6 is very pleased to present three short plays by local writer Bill Donnelly. Presented as part of Whistler in the Dark's Second Act Series this one night only performance features the plays Divorce Ribs, Sugar Glider and Aether....
11th Hour Theatre Company Closes Season with THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, 6/4
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2012 11th Hour Theatre Company is set to close its season with the Philadelphia premiere of The Marvelous Wonderettes. This musical trip down memory lane, written and created by Roger Bean, begins previews June 1, opens Monday, June 4 at 7 p.m. and will close Sunday, June 24. The show will be performed a...
BWW Reviews: Citilites' Production of PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS
by Chris Gibson - August 23, 2010 Playwright John Patrick Shanley explores the 'feminization' of the male of the species with his work PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS (google Krafft-Ebbing for a more detailed explanation of the historical and ground-breaking, but essentially flawed, text that the title is copped from, but bears no resemblance...
Broadway Pulse: First Newsday, Now Bloomberg Reviews SPIDER-MAN
by Robert Diamond - December 26, 2010 Well, last night Newsday, which normally hides Linda Winer's reviews behind a pay-wall, but made an exception for the sure traffic grabbing piece, published their critics take on SPIDER-MAN, in which she didn't so much express many of her own opinions, as she did talk to audience members. As to why ...
BWW Reviews: DCTC's 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
by Greg Rice - October 11, 2010 Dracula opens at the DCTC...
Review: 'The Secret Garden'
by Mark Andrew Lawrence - February 19, 2011 This new production of The Secret Garden comes to us from The Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. A tighter, more effective first act is a decided improvement, and though the show remains somewhat problematic, it will entertain and delight your inner child. * * * 1/2 (out of 5)...
11th Hour Theatre Company Closes Season with Philly Premiere of THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, Now thru 6/24
by BWW News Desk - June 04, 2012 11th Hour Theatre Company closes its season with the Philadelphia premiere of The Marvelous Wonderettes. This musical trip down memory lane, written and created by Roger Bean, opens tonight, June 4 at 7 p.m. and will close Sunday, June 24. The show will be performed at the Skybox at the Adrienne, 20...
Young Frankenstein - ALIVE in Durham!
by Shane Hudson - December 10, 2010 Young Frankenstein, playing at the Durham Performing Arts Center through December 12, is wickedly funny and incredibly bawdy. It's almost exactly what you'd expect from a musical based on a Mel Brooks movie - almost. ...
The Night of Nosferatu: Gruesome Toothsome
by Duncan Pflaster - October 12, 2007 Stanton Wood's 'The Night of Nosferatu' is an atmospheric vampire spookfest, as performed by Rabbit Hole Ensemble....
TheatreWorks New Milford Hosts A New Years Eve Event Tonight
by Gabrielle Sierra - December 31, 2009 The evening begins at 7:00 with hors d'oeuvres and cocktails (an open bar of beer, wine, and soft drinks).... |
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