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 ...
ASPECTS OF LOVE: Review Roundup
by Lauren Wolman - July 17, 2010 Trevor Nunn directs the first major London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart's Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory, previewing from 07 July with press night on 15 July and running until 26 September. Designs are by David Farley with choreography by Lynne Page, li...
The Barns at Wolf Trap Presents Announces A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians
by BWW News Desk - April 08, 2010 The Barns at Wolf Trap Features A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians, the First Lady of Celtic Music, the Season's Final Discovery Series Show, and a Local Area Favorite....
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: 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
BWW Reviews: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS at The Keeton Theatre
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 17, 2010 Truth be told, 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' is one of my all-time favorite holiday songs - sweetly sentimental, blending holiday hope with a certain melancholic sensibility that is perfect for the season. Thankfully, Casey Gilbert's rendition of the song (long associated with the unparal...
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: SHOUT! Grooves into CMPac
by Estelle Hallick - September 29, 2011 If you are looking to embrace your inner flower child, it's the perfect time to make a trip to CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale where Shout! The Mod Musical is making its Long Island premiere until October 9th....
BWW Reviews: DRIVING MISS DAISY from Mel O'Drama Theater
by Jeffrey Ellis - June 10, 2011 Alfred Uhry is a wonderful writer who perfectly captures the tone and cadence of the Southern accent, infusing his works for the theater with a pervasive appreciation and respect for his native region. Among contemporary Southern playwrights, he is in the upper echelons, creating compelling stories ...
BWW Reviews: IDINA MENZEL in concert with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra
by Jeffrey Ellis - June 08, 2011 Truth be told, the exit signs in Laura Turner Hall at Nashville's world-class Schermerhorn Symphony Center are always illuminated in green, but if Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel wants to think the color of the exit signs were a down-home homage to her Wickedly famous role on Broadway, then so be it....
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 ...
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 Special Feature: 99 and Under the Radar, A Look at Indie Theatre's Movers and Shakers
by Michael Roderick - November 06, 2009 Welcome to 99 AND UNDER THE RADAR: A LOOK AT INDIE THEATER'S MOVERS AND SHAKERS, BroadwayWorld's new weekly series that showcases standout productions and production companies from the independent theater scene in New York City. Each week, independent producer Michael Roderick will be discussing the...
BWW Reviews: EVERYBODY LOVES OPAL at Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre
by Jeffrey Ellis - June 25, 2011 Led by the charming Debbie Kraski, who commands the stage with grace and wit as the show's wacky protagonist, director Jenny Noel's talented cast delivers a pleasant and amusing summer diversion by way of John Patrick's Everybody Loves Opal, now onstage at Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre....
The Barns at Wolf Trap Presents Announces A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians
by BWW News Desk - April 09, 2010 The Barns at Wolf Trap Features A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians, the First Lady of Celtic Music, the Season's Final Discovery Series Show, and a Local Area Favorite....
BROADWAY RECALL: Looking Back With Marilyn Maye and Jerry Herman
by Michael Dale - November 12, 2011 With Marilyn Maye wrapping up her Jerry Herman tribute at Feinstein's, let's take a look back at both of them in the 1960s.... |