BWW Reviews: Jerry Herman's DEAR WORLD - Revised & Revived by The Civic Light Opera Company
by Mark Andrew Lawrence - May 29, 2012 Each season Toronto's Civic Light Opera Company revises and revives failed and forgotten shows from Broadway's past. This year it's the 1969 Jerry Herman musical DEAR WORLD based on the Jean Giraudoux play THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT. Barbara Boddy and David Haines lead the cast in making the case for ...
Review: 'Legally Blonde' - National Tour
by Greg Rice - February 05, 2010 'What you want' is now playing at the Buell Theater!...
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's STEEL MANGOLIAS Opens 1/27
by BWW News Desk - January 27, 2012 Anchorage Community Theatre will present STEEL MAGNOLIAS from January 27th through February 19, 2012....
Review: JERSEY BOYS at the Toronto Centre for the Arts
by Mark Andrew Lawrence - January 25, 2009 That roar you hear every night at around 10:30 is not the wind. It's the crowds cheering the new Canadian cast of Jersey Boys at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. This Tony-award winning musical sent it's touring cast here last August but demand was so great that when that cast moved on to their next...
REVIEW: Stray Dog Theatre's Season Continues with Sondheim and Lapine's INTO THE WOODS
by Chris Gibson - September 21, 2009 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's whimsical musical, INTO THE WOODS, is an amusing combination of fractured fairy tales from the like of the Brothers Grimm and others. It's an intriguing idea that brings these disparate characters together to interact in ways that are decidedly different from thei...
Town Hall Theater Screens GISELLE, 10/8
by Kelsey Denette - September 27, 2012 It's one of the most famous ballets in the repertory, seen in a new and mesmerizing way. Filmed at the historic Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, this HD broadcast of Giselle gives everyone a 'best seat in the house' experience....
Review - Sunday in the Park With George & Flora, The Red Menace
by Michael Dale - February 25, 2008 The second act of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 1984 musical, Sunday In The Park With George is centered on a then-contemporary artist/inventor named George who has created a series of machines called chromolumes, which electronically fill rooms with color and light. His latest, 'Chromolume #...
The Psychological Art Circus Arrives At Wilton's Music Hall June 9-11
by Gabrielle Sierra - June 07, 2010 Introducing The Psychological Art Circus... The Psychological Art Circus is like no other. They are more artists than aerial performers, carefully scripting sequences of events that are both visually and emotionally captivating....
Broadway Pulse: NY Times Says 'We'll Wait, But Not Forever' to Review SPIDER-MAN
by Robert Diamond - December 27, 2010 Update: The New York Times has now weighed in on the early reviews of SPIDER-MAN, in which they spoke to Manuela Hoelterhoff, the Executive Editor of Bloomberg News about their decision to review the show early. 'I worried that by the time the show opened,' Ms. Hoelterhoff wrote, 'I might be in a re...
Mill 6 Presents EAT, PRAY, SMOKE by William Donnelly, 2/7
by BWW News Desk - February 02, 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....
BWW Reviews: Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Presents Solid OTHELLO
by Chris Gibson - June 10, 2012 When Iago talks about 'Jealousy…the green-eyed monster,' he might as well be referring to himself. It's his envy of Cassio's promotion under the leadership of Moorish general Othello that sets a devious plot in motion that will leave many dead and others wounded. And so it goes, in St. Louis Shakesp...
The Cabaret At Columbia Club Presents Darius de Haas: Broadway and Beyond 7/10
by BWW News Desk - July 10, 2010 On July 9 & 10, 8:00 PM the cabaret at the Columbia Club presents Darius de Haas: Broadway and Beyond- Star of Broadway's 'Rent,' 'Kiss of the Spiderwoman' and more!...
ACT Presents Rivera's New Work BOLEROS FOR THE DISENCHANTED 5/7-5/31
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 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...
11th Hour Theatre Company Set to Close Season With Philadelphia Premiere of THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
by Kelsey Denette - May 16, 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...
Merrily We Roll Along at Derby Playhouse
by Jake Brunger - April 20, 2007 Despite a much weaker first half, due to a myriad of problems both in script and cartoonish delivery, Merrily We Roll Along rewards audience loyalty by producing a touching, superior second act that has many beautiful moments....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.... |
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