Falling in Love With Nashville, Jessica Grové Stars in Studio Tenn's THE SOUND OF MUSIC
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 22, 2012 For Jessica Grove, playing Maria Rainer in Studio Tenn's production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music is, quite simply, a part of the natural evolution of theater. After all, she's already played Marta, Brigitta and Liesl-so playing the young novitiate who comes into ...
BWW Reviews: MAS Nashville Shakes Off the Malaise with CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY HANGOVER
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 29, 2011 Each one a force of nature in her own right, the five women of MAS Nashville unleashed their superpowers and talents upon a Nashville audience for the third time this week with their Christmas Holiday Hangover, a fast-paced (if over-long) tribute to the holiday season that allowed each of the women ...
BWW Reviews: Revamped Broadway-Bound JEKYLL & HYDE Makes Hollywood Debut
by Michael L. Quintos - February 20, 2013 Now in the final stretches of its 25-week national tour before ultimately making its sit-down Broadway transfer later this Spring, the brand-new, revamped revival of JEKYLL & HYDE - THE MUSICAL has finally returned to Southern California for the next few weeks, this time playing performances at the ...
BWW REVIEWS: Why We Love The '80s: THE WEDDING SINGER at The Roxy Regional Theatre
by Jeffrey Ellis - June 21, 2012 There are so many starmaking turns-and some wonderfully engaging and endearing antics-onstage at Clarksville's Roxy Regional Theater in the company's revival of The Wedding Singer, that you cannot help but become a fan of the show, even if you've never seen the movie that inspired the onstage musica...
BWW Reviews: Nashville Ballet's Lush and Romantic CINDERELLA Opens Its 26th Season
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 29, 2011 With new and expressive choreography by Paul Vasterling - set to Prokofiev's timelessly beautiful 1944 score - Nashville Ballet opens its 26th season with a sumptuous remounting of Cinderella which captures, once more, the sheer artistry of the company's dancers while giving audiences exactly what t...
BWW Reviews: INTO THE DARKNESS Proves Halloween and Horror Can Be Charming and Funny
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 12, 2012 Write this down in your journals, post it on your Facebook, tweet it to your tens of followers, theaterati: Kevin Thornton and Enoch Porch are ridiculously talented! And there's no better way to celebrate the festive Halloween season than with these two-and their gorgeous and versatile cohort/partne...
Regional Theater of the Week: Mesa Encore Theatre in Mesa, AZ
by BWW Features - August 07, 2013 BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week! Each week, BWW will introduce its readers to a regional theater located in one of our (over 130!) coverage cities. By ...
BWW Reviews: Charmingly Flawed CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Lands in L.A.
by Michael L. Quintos - March 22, 2013 While certainly a fun, buoyant little show---featuring some enjoyable music from HAIRSPRAY composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, as well as a very likable, extremely talented young actor, Stephen Anthony, at the center of its semi-autobiographical tale of successful grifting---CATCH ME IF YOU CA...
BWW Reviews: THE ARCHITECTS, Shunt at the Biscuit Factory, December 4 2012
by Gary Naylor - December 05, 2012 Gary Naylor sees a extraordinary space used for an occasionally extraordinary piece of theatre...
DID YOU KNOW...The Most Interesting Message Board Topics of the Week, September 24-30
by BWW - September 30, 2011 These days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message boards (main and local), weighing in on the latest news, rumors, reviews, stars and more. Each week, we find a few ...
Photo Coverage: Jennifer Aniston's GLAMOUR Cover
by Jennifer Diamond - July 30, 2013 With a new movie (We're the Millers) hitting theaters on August 7 and a wedding on the way, Jennifer Aniston is hotter than ever. And now, she's on the September cover of Glamour magazine with an inside story where she opens up about her major hang-ups, hopes and more....
BWW Reviews: Nashville Ballet Revives 'The NUTCRACKER Of Your Dreams' through 12/18
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 11, 2011 If there is an onstage moment more breathtaking, more purely theatrical, than the one during Nashville's Nutcracker when the green upstage curtain falls at the end of the exquisitely danced "Waltz of the Flowers," I simply cannot recall it nor would I want to-for it is during that brief respite from...
BWW Reviews: UT-Austin's INTIMATE APPAREL is an Expertly Stitched Drama
by Jeff Davis - March 07, 2013 Truth be told, I'm a bit unsure how to start this review. When I see something as astonishing and extraordinary as Intimate Apparel, I try to come up with something clever, witty, or poetic to kick off my critique, but I am so wonderfully flustered by this beautifully acted and well-crafted product...
Matt Lauer Announces New Deal to Remain on TODAY Show
by Caryn Robbins - April 06, 2012 It's official! Matt Lauer announced live on this morning's TODAY show that he has signed a new long-term contract with NBC News to stay on as anchor of the popular morning news show. ...
Kenyetta Lethridge’s INNOCENT FLESH Opens in NY, 3/15
by Harmony Wheeler - February 17, 2012 Following a sold out run in Los Angeles, NAACP Award winner Kenyetta Lethridge's critically acclaimed social drama, Innocent Flesh, exposing the stark realities of the sexual exploitation, forced teen prostitution & trafficking of young children all across America, will bow in New York at Actors Tem...
BWW Reviews: ACT 1's 'Stunning, Poetic and Profane' AMERICAN BUFFALO Takes Over The Darkhorse
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 03, 2011 Poetic and profane, David Mamet's 1975 play American Buffalo is brought to the stage of Nashville's Darkkhorse Theatre in a stunningly raw and beautifully realized production directed by Ryan Williams for ACT 1. As one of the city's most enduring community theatre groups, ACT 1 consistently has prov...
Kenyetta Lethridge’s INNOCENT FLESH Opens in NY, 3/15
by BWW News Desk - March 01, 2012 Following a sold out run in Los Angeles, NAACP Award winner Kenyetta Lethridge's critically acclaimed social drama, Innocent Flesh, exposing the stark realities of the sexual exploitation, forced teen prostitution & trafficking of young children all across America, will bow in New York at Actors Tem...
Sara Gettelfinger On Bringing Morticia To Life On Tour With THE ADDAMS FAMILY
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 02, 2012 Sara Gettelfinger may have a resume that other actresses covet-now starring as the mysterious, intriguing, maybe even a little bit frightening Morticia Addams in the national tour of The Addams Family, she's been on Broadway in A Free Man of Color, Seussical the Musical, The Boys from Syracuse, Nine...
BWW Reviews: Circle Players and TSU Theatre's THE COLOR PURPLE Inspires and Enthralls
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 27, 2012 Under the clear and focused direction of Tim Larson and Clay Hillwig, who heretofore separately have provided Nashville audiences with a number of impressive theatrical adventures, this evocation of The Color Purple is made all the more appealing by its trio of leading ladies....
BWW Reviews: NCT's Rambunctious JUNIE B. Welcomes The Holiday Season in Fine Fashion
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 12, 2011 Truth be told, seeing Henry Haggard and Jeff Boyet playing first graders may be enough to ensure that you get yourself to Nashville Children's Theatre for the company's wonderfully entertaining production of Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells. But the production holds so many delightful riches ...
BWW Reviews: NAKED BOYS SINGING Delivers “Gratuitous Nudity” and Little More at The Palm Canyon Theatre
by David Green - March 29, 2013 Everyone is familiar with the old adage 'You Get What You Pay For'. Never was it more true than with NAKED BOYS SINGING, now playing for a limited engagement at The Palm Canyon Theatre in Palm Springs. You get exactly what you pay for - six naked boys singing. So who could complain? They don't promi...
Standing O/Standing No: Has The Standing Ovation Lost Its Impact? Nashville Weighs In
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 24, 2012 Audiences throughout the country have fallen into the habit of standing up because they think it's expected, as if it's part of their unwritten contract with the people creating art in darkened theaters night after night. Rather than rewarding a cast and crew for a job truly well done, many people s...
Sara Gettelfinger On Bringing Morticia To Life On Tour With THE ADDAMS FAMILY
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 02, 2012 Sara Gettelfinger may have a resume that other actresses covet-now starring as the mysterious, intriguing, maybe even a little bit frightening Morticia Addams in the national tour of The Addams Family, she's been on Broadway in A Free Man of Color, Seussical the Musical, The Boys from Syracuse, Nine...
Sugar Valley Theatricals Presents MUNCHED, 11/6-22
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2011 MUNCHED was produced in 2009 in Los Angeles by Buzzworks Theater Company where it won the LA Drama Critics Circle award, The LA WEEKLY award and the McDonald Award for Playwriting excellence. The East coast premier of MUNCHED will be directed by Petronia Paley (Multiple AUDELCO award winner and lege...
BWW Reviews: SUMMERTIME: AN EVENING OF GERSHWIN, Kenwood House, September 1 2013
by Gary Naylor - September 02, 2013 Gary Naylor enjoys a splendid farewell to an unexpectedly lovely summer.... |
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