BWW Review: TOLSTOY IN SUFFOLK - Smartly Written & Brilliantly Acted
by Gil Kaan - October 28, 2017 The world premiere of Robert Allan Ackerman's two-hander TOLSTOY IN SUFFOLK receives a strong mounting from Studio C Artists and Combined Artform. Ackerman's intricate, smart and very descriptive script depicts the meeting of theatre producer Greg and playwright Brendan at Brendan's remote cottage i...
BWW Review: Don Bluth Front Row Theatre Presents BLITHE SPIRIT
by Herbert Paine - March 22, 2019 Noel Coward's BLITHE SPIRIT is Don Bluth Front Row Theatre's current production, running through May 24th. Charm permeates this show, directed by Janis Webb and featuring a glorious performance by Joy Bingham Strimple as the clairvoyant Madame Arcati....
Playwright Paul Zindel's Estate Claims 'The Shape of Water' Was Derived From His 1969 Play
by Stephi Wild - January 26, 2018 Playwright Paul Zindel's estate has accused the film The Shape of Water of using Zindel's work from a 1969 play without credit. The estate argues that the film was 'obviously derived' from Zindel's work, according to The Guardian....
BWW Review: Sedona International Film Festival Presents IN THIS GRAY PLACE
by Herbert Paine - February 25, 2019 Sedona International Film Festival presents IN THIS GRAY PLACE, written and directed by R.D. Womack II and featuring Aleksander Ristic. An unconventional but oddly romantic morality tale....
BWW Review: FACES IN THE CROWD, White Bear Theatre
by Gary Naylor - March 16, 2018 Claustrophobic play about two ill-suited spouses re-united for pragmatic reasons and working through their pain from ten years ago - a gruelling watch....
BWW Review: ON CLOVER ROAD at Elmwood Playhouse
by Peter Danish - January 28, 2018 Elmwood Playhouse's On Clover Road is a tense, nail-biting thriller which keeps the audience guessing from the opening scene to the shocking conclusion....
THE LAST JEDI Sequence Prompts Movie Theater Confusion
by A.A. Cristi - December 26, 2017 A sound sequence in the current Star Wars sequel, The Last Jedi, is leaving some moviegoers confused. Due to the confusion, some movie theaters have begun posting advanced warnings about the effect, to better inform eager fans about the effect....
BWW Review: An Involving FOREVER BOUND Rivets You to the Edge of Your Seat
by Gil Kaan - May 14, 2018 The world premiere of playwright Steve Apostolina's FOREVER BOUND artfully produces scores of suspenseful 'will he/won't he' moments performed by the talented cast of four. What starts out as a day in the life of a depressed book scout about to be evicted takes welcomed twists and turns to its very ...
BWW Review: Prime Productions Mounts MARJORIE PRIME at Park Square
by Karen Bovard - April 30, 2019 Playwriting can be a form of thinking, and plays can be thought-experiments. That's true of Jordan Harrison's four actor, 80 minute play MARJORIE PRIME (a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize), set in 2062 and beyond. He's investigating whether advances in artificial intelligence might enable new ...
BWW Review: A NUMBER at Writers Theatre
by Emily McClanathan - April 02, 2019 In true science fiction fashion, British playwright Caryl Churchill's gripping two-hander, A NUMBER, raises more questions than it answers. Set in the near future and structured as a series of tense encounters between a father and his grown son(s), the play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 20...
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BWW Review: A MERCHANT OF VENICE Undersells Shakespeare's Comedy in Austin, TX.
by Amy Tarver - November 27, 2018 Tackling the roles in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, proved to be no easy task for the students at The University of Texas. The heart of the show is a story of prejudice, social standing and ultimately redemption. A young Venetian, Bassanio needs money desperately to woo wealthy heiress Portia into marriag...
BASIC BITCH OF THE RESISTANCE: A New Comedic Play Comes to The PIT Loft
by Julie Musbach - September 18, 2018 Basic Bitch of the Resistance: If Legally Blonde tackled her white privilege and set out to destroy the patriarchy. It's everything you love about Clueless with an epic dance routine that could rival Bring It On meets the political landscape of 2018, racial inequality and all. In this comedic play, ...
VIDEO: Public Theatre Presents THE MIDVALE HIGH SCHOOL 50TH REUNION
by A.A. Cristi - April 28, 2018 Revisiting the past changes the future when a high school reunion unexpectedly turns an old classmate into a new love. Don't miss the Maine premiere of this charming and thought-provoking romantic comedy that reminds us it's never too late to find the love we've only imagined....
BWW Review: DEATHTRAP, Richmond Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - November 15, 2017 The British appetite for thrillers is seemingly unquenchable. Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has now been running for 65 years in London and detective and murder mystery stories are standard Sunday night television fare. Adam Penfold's revival of Ira Levin's 1978 Broadway hit Deathtrap is obviously...
BWW Review: Prime Productions presents TWO DEGREES at Guthrie's Dowling Studio
by Karen Bovard - October 14, 2018 Tira Palmquist's TWO DEGREES could not be more timely. Written in 2014, it centers on a woman paleoclimatologist, Emma, as she is called to Washington to testify before a hostile Senate committee about climate change-a committee that, she is told, is "easily bored by facts." She's been invited by ...
VIDEO: Kirsten Dunst Coached Claire Danes as Kids on the Little Women Set
by Stephi Wild - April 19, 2018 On last night's Tonight Show, Claire Danes remembers how an 11-year-old Kirsten Dunst helped her through her first film, Little Women, and tries to discuss the final two episodes of Homeland Season 7 without spoilers. Watch the clip below!...
BWW Review: Sobering and Resonant Regional Premiere of THE CHILDREN at Jungle Theater
by Karen Bovard - January 20, 2019 Under Sarah Rasmussen as Artistic Director, the 150 seat Jungle Theater in Minneapolis punches above its weight frequently, mounting finely tuned productions of important new works. They've done it again with the current show: a play for grownups called THE CHILDREN, the first production in the US ...
BWW Review: THE MAJORITY, National Theatre
by Emma Watkins - August 14, 2017 Rob Drummond's new show is less a play and more a piece of storytelling with added participatory morality. The use of live technology gives it the feeling of a morality test for the social media age....
BWW Review: DERREN BROWN- UNDERGROUND, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 06, 2018 Direct from the West End, the multi-award winning master of mind-control and psychological illusion returns to amaze, astonish and enthral audiences with his latest smash hit show. Bringing together a collection of the very best of his work, Derren Brown: Underground promises a jaw-dropping experi...
BWW Review: STATIC AN EVENING CASEY WIMPEE TRANSMISSIONS - A Work of Stunning Lyrical Genius
by Lynn Beaver - June 12, 2018 Theatre Synesthesia scores again with three short pieces by playwright Casey Wimpee. Directed by America Archer, and acted by a talented quartet of actors the evening of theatre is filled with a poetic rhythm that is awe inspiring and compelling....
BWW Review: CREDITORS at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
by Barry Lenny - July 26, 2018 Make the most of this opportunity to see this powerful and thought-provoking play....
BWW Review: The Welders' HELLO, MY NAME IS Immerses Audiences in Intimate Adoptee Stories
by Barbara Johnson - October 25, 2017 Upon arriving at Rhizome DC, the homelike site of the Welders' theatrical event HELLO, MY NAME IS..., I was handed a name tag before being ushered into a living room. Many members of the fifteen-person audience had already arrived. From that point, it was a fully immersive experience as we witnessed...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek - Nat Geo WILD's SAVAGE KINGDOM: UPRISING Returns Today
by BWW News Desk - November 24, 2017 Nat Geo WILD's Savage Kingdom returns with SAVAGE KINGDOM: UPRISING, a four-part global miniseries series event that tells an unvarnished tale of survival on the African plains....
BWW Review: New #TCTheater Company SOS Theater Impresses with Funny and Poignant New Play ROLLER DERBY QUEEN
by Jill Schafer - November 14, 2017 A new #TCTheater company is debuting a new play by a first time playwright in a new St. Paul theater space that just opened this summer. What's more exciting than that?! The good news is that ROLLER DERBY QUEEN is a great play - smart, funny, and well-written, with quirky but real characters played ... |