Review Roundup: LA BETE
by Robert Diamond - October 14, 2010 American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, LA BÊTE, is a comic tour de force about Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theater, and Valere (Mark Rylance), a low-brow street clown who loves only himself. When the fickle princess (Joanna Luml...
Gen. McChrystal Talks Recent Controversy on NBC's TODAY
by Caryn Robbins - January 07, 2013 This morning on TODAY, Gen. Stanley McChrystal discussed the details about how he resigned after a controversial profile in Rolling Stone magazine in which he and his advisers were quoted making some disparaging comments about the President and key administration officials....
Review Roundup: Kathryn Bigelow's ZERO DARK THIRTY
by Caryn Robbins - November 26, 2012 ZERO DARK THIRTY has opened in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles. The action thriller is the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man. It follows the special operations forces mission to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Let's see what the critics had to say...
InDepth InterView: Rita Moreno Talks New Memoir, Broadway, Hollywood, Upcoming Projects & More
by Pat Cerasaro - May 05, 2013 Today we are talking to a legendary triple-threat performer who over the course of her unique career has become one of a select few in show business to have attained the entertainment quadruple crown - Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, that is; commonly referred to as the EGOT - the exceptionally gifted...
BWW Reviews: Carole J. Bufford Passionately Pours Her Heart and Mind into 'Body & Soul' at the Metropolitan Room
by Stephen Hanks - January 21, 2013 I don't know about other cabaret journalists, but I have to believe that a reviewer feels the biggest buzz (aside from when composing a really well-crafted show analysis) when he or she has been fortunate enough to observe a young performer's ascent into stardom. That's the way I felt last Wednesday...
BWW Exclusive Interview: Happy 90th Carol Channing!
by Joseph F. Panarello - January 31, 2011 The year 1921 was a busy one. Albert Einstein was lecturing in New York about his new Theory of Relativity, Charlie Chaplin's movie The Kid was released, Babe Ruth became the all time HR champ with #120, New York's Walter Kerr Theater opened, Turkey made peace with Armenia, President Harding dedicat...
BWW Reviews: DLU Theatre's HAIRSPRAY Delivers Exactly What You Want In Musical Theater
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 04, 2011 You can hardly swing a cat in Nashville without hitting someone in costume as Edna Turnblad or her dancing progeny Tracy, so popular has the show become with local theaterati. But, truth be told, if I never live to see another Hairspray, I can now die a happy man: Because I saw director/choreographe...
Ft. Lauderdale REVIEW: I Am My Own Wife - Grounds for Divorce
by Beau Higgins - February 03, 2006 Tonight's performance of I Am My Own Wife at the Parker had the highest drive away (those who get in their car and flee the theater at intermission) factor since the dismal, Disney's On The Record....
2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards Set for March 18, 2013
by BWW News Desk - September 14, 2012 The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced that its awards for qualifying year 2012 will be held on Monday evening, March 18, 2013, at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 South Spring St. in downtown Los Angeles. In addition, the Circle's invitation-only nominees' reception will be held at t...
Review - Broadway Originals & The Master Builder
by Kristin Salaky - October 27, 2008 Three years ago I named D'Jamin Bartlett's performance of 'The Miller's Son' at BroadwayWorld's Standing Ovations IV concert, thirty-two years after she introduced the song in A Little Night Music, as one of my most memorable theatre moments of 2005. I may have to put her back on the list for 2008....
The Boston Pops and Linda Eder Pay Tribute to Judy Garland For Season Opener
by Nancy Grossman - May 12, 2011 A sure sign of spring in Boston is the opening of the 126th season of the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall...
BWW Reviews: Carole J. Bufford Passionately Pours Her Heart and Mind into 'Body & Soul' at the Metropolitan Room
by Stephen Hanks - January 21, 2013 I don't know about other cabaret journalists, but I have to believe that a reviewer feels the biggest buzz (aside from when composing a really well-crafted show analysis) when he or she has been fortunate enough to observe a young performer's ascent into stardom. That's the way I felt last Wednesday...
Review Roundup: THE OTHER PLACE Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
by Review Roundups - January 10, 2013 The Other Place opens tonight, January 10, 2013, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The Other Place stars Laurie Metcalf ('Roseanne,' November), Daniel Stern ('The Wonder Years,' Diner), Zoe Perry (Broadway debut), and John Schiappa (Assassins, Take Me Out...
Former AMERICAN IDOL Contestant Melinda Doolittle Plays The Columbia Club, 7/27-28
by BWW News Desk - July 24, 2012 Melinda Doolittle: Love 101 will play The Columbia Club in Indianapolis on July 27 and 28 at 8:00 PM....
Ft. Lauderdale REVIEW: I Am My Own Wife - Grounds for Divorce
by Beau Higgins - February 04, 2006 Tonight's performance of I Am My Own Wife at the Parker had the highest drive away (those who get in their car and flee the theater at intermission) factor since the dismal, Disney's On The Record. ...
Review - South Pacific: Why Do The Wrong People Travel?
by Michael Dale - April 20, 2008 With all due respect to Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot, director Bartlett Sher and even Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan, the real star of the Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific is orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett, whose sublime work from the original 1949 production is now e...
My Name Is Rachel Corrie: Off-Stage Drama
by Michael Dale - October 15, 2006 After all the controversy, the accusations of censorship and the petitions and letters of protest, Britain's Royal Court Theatre production has finally made it to New York. Sadly, the off-stage drama far exceeds anything taking place on stage at the Minetta Lane Theatre...
Bret Michaels' Representatives Issue Statement Regarding Tony Award Injury
by Charlie Piane - June 10, 2009 Representatives for POISON singer, and reality tv star, Bret Michaels have issued a statement regarding the on-going story of his collision with a piece scenery at the 2009 Tony Awards....
Bret Michaels 'Got Bell Rung', But Won't Sue Tony Awards
by Eddie Varley - June 18, 2009 People Magazine reports that POISON singer, and reality tv star, Bret Michaels will not sue the Tony Awards in relation to his opening number mishap on the CBS telecast of the ceremony....
Bret Michaels' Issues His Own Response To Tony Award Injury
by Charlie Piane - June 13, 2009 POISON singer, and reality tv star, Bret Michaels has issued his own response regarding his Tony Awards accident....
SPOTLIGHT ON The Public: Mona Mansour & URGE FOR GOING
by Robert Diamond - March 24, 2011 Today we are continuing our series of coverage of the offerings this Spring at The Public Theater with the playwright of the new LAB production, URGE FOR GOING, Mona Mansour. With topics ranging from the Palestinian crisis to Patty Hearst and the play, ME AND THE SLA, that it inspired; her Lebanese ...
Review - Cirque du Soleil's 'Quidam' Pops Into Brooklyn
by Michael Dale - July 27, 2013 The skills and strengths of Cirque du Soleil's balancing, contorting and hand/eye coordinating artists are still awe-inspiring and gasp-inducing....
Review: AFTER MIDNIGHT Shimmers with Harlem Elegance
by Michael Dale - November 03, 2013 The new song and dance review features an all-star jazz orchestra and a dazzling company saluting the music and styles of Duke Ellington and The Harlem Renaissance....
Michael Dale's Martini Talk: Spain & Crossing Brooklyn
by Michael Dale - November 01, 2007 Transport Group's heart-tugging musical 'Crossing Brooklyn' deals with post 9/11 stress while MCC's 'Spain' is a whimsical tale of a modern day woman and a Spanish conquistador...
BWW Reviews: SYLVIA at American Ballet Theatre
by Barnett Serchuk - July 01, 2013 To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure if I liked Frederick Ashton's Sylvia at the Metropolitan Opera House on Wednesday evening, June 26, or not. It had lots of things in its favor, but where was the spark? What's special about this ballet, and how did it get from Paris 1876 to New York City 2013? Is... |
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