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BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS STORY, US Tour (DPAC)
by Nicole Ackman - December 29, 2021

If you’re looking for something festive to do with the family, the national tour of A CHRISTMAS STORY is a fun option. The musical brings the beloved 1983 film to life onstage with music by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. While the musical exposes the weakness of the plot of the film, the talented cast ...

BWW Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
by Jeffrey Kare - December 11, 2021

Ain't Too Proud follows the journey of The Temptations from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. With their signature dance moves and unmistakable harmonies, they rose to the top of the charts creating an amazing 42 Top Ten Hits with 14 reaching number one. ...

BWW Review: THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH a production of PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill
by Paul Bolton - November 15, 2021

Pulitzer Prize winning Drama now on stage live in Chapel Hill a production of PlayMaker Repertory Company now thru Nov 28th...

BWW Review: Escape to Margaritaville, National Tour (DPAC)
by Nicole Ackman - November 10, 2021

ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE surely features the most Hawaiian print clothing that has ever graced the stage of DPAC. Especially as the weather has turned colder recently, it is just what it promises: an escape to a warm climate full of singing, dancing, and tequila. ...

BWW Review: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, North Carolina Theatre
by Nicole Ackman - November 06, 2021

“Singing has always been the best part of living for me,” Billie Holiday tells the audience in North Carolina Theatre’s new production of LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL. Angela Robinson plays singer Billie Holiday and Nygel Robsinon plays her pianist Jimmy Powers at NCT, under the direction of ...

BWW Review: TOOTSIE National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
by Jeffrey Kare - October 20, 2021

Based on Sydney Pollack's 1982 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, Tootsie follows Michael Dorsey, a skilled actor with a talent for not keeping a job. Desperate and out-of-work, Michael makes a last-ditch effort at making his dreams come true...by disguising himself as actress Dorothy Mich...

BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre's 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL
by Jeffrey Kare - October 13, 2021

Based on Colin Higgins' 1980 Academy Award nominated film of the same name, 9 to 5 follows three female coworkers in the late 1970s. Pushed to the boiling point, they team up to concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious tu...

BWW Review: THE BAND'S VISIT National Tour
by Nicole Ackman - October 06, 2021

THE BAND’S VISIT is an incredibly gentle, but very human musical about a band of Egyptian musicians who end up stranded in a small Israeli town. It’s a show about unlikely connections as we see the Arab musicians bond with those in the small town....

BWW Review: Theatre Raleigh's PEACE OF CLAY
by Jeffrey Kare - October 03, 2021

Peace of Clay explores the pressures, hopes, and aspirations of a young man coming of age in a southern city in the 1980s. Raised by a devoted mother in the projects, Clay tries to pursue his path in the midst of obstacles large and small while also discovering his own power and strength....

BWW Review: Fun Home, Theatre Raleigh
by Nicole Ackman - August 28, 2021

“Am I just like you?” Alison Bechdel questions, looking back on her father after his death in Theatre Raleigh’s latest show, FUN HOME. The musical has music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron. It’s based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and Bechdel herself is the main character...

BWW Review: Raleigh Little Theatre's BEEHIVE: THE 60S MUSICAL
by Jeffrey Kare - August 13, 2021

Beehive: The 60s Musical is a revue that celebrates the powerful female voices of the 1960s with such timeless hits as 'My Boyfriend's Back', 'Be My Baby', 'Son of a Preacher Man', and 'Me and Bobby McGee'. Told from the perspective of six young women who come of age in this enigmatic decade, Beehiv...

BWW Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, North Carolina Theatre
by Nicole Ackman - July 27, 2021

“A new world calls across the ocean,” is the first line of Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. It’s a familiar feeling in 2021, as we all try to navigate what our world looks like now as we move out of quarantine and into a new stage of the pandemic....

BWW Review: Burning Coal Theatre Company's GIRLS AND BOYS
by Jeffrey Kare - June 28, 2021

Loosely based on Euripides' Medea, Girls and Boys tells the harrowing tale of a young upwardly mobile lady who is a business woman, a wife, and a mother of two young children. In short, she has it all. But can she keep it? This one-woman play written by Dennis Kelly originally premiered at The Royal...

BWW Review: Burning Coal Theatre Company's NINE LIVES
by Jeffrey Kare - June 25, 2021

Nine Lives follows the journey of a young gay African man who is seeking asylum in the U.K. The young man, Ishmael, lives out of a suitcase. As he struggles to convince the government of his need for asylum, he comes to see the U.K. as a cold, aloof, and heartless place. Until he meets a young woman...

BWW Review: 2021 Triangle Rising Star Awards
by Jeffrey Kare - May 21, 2021

In 2016 and 2017, I had the great pleasure of attending the Triangle Rising Star Awards at the Durham Performing Arts Center. In 2018 and 2019, I wasn't able to do so due to other commitments I had when they were being held. Last year, the 10th annual show was set to take place on May 28th with form...