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BWW Reviews: The Santa Fe Playhouse BENCHWARMERS Turns 14
BENCHWARMERS is Santa Fe's longest running, one act play festival. Created and produced by the Santa Fe Playhouse and now in its 14th year, the event features local playwrights, actors and directors, in a collection of 15 minute playlets with just one thing in common - a bench. With no stage set...
BWW Reviews: THE HAT Delivers an Engaging Piece of Theatrical Faction
THE HAT, which opened at the Santa Fe Playhouse on March 12, is a personal and highly original tale, dealing with some of the lesser known human stories of world war II. Written by Santa Fe playwright, Dianna Lewis, the play is grounded in historical fact. While the details of this particular story ...
BWW Reviews: Independent Film BILLY SHAKESPEARE Highlights the Writer's Dilemma
BILLY SHAKESPEARE is a spicy little independent film by Deborah Voorhees that imagines what might happen if William Shakespeare tried to make it as a writer in today's Hollywood rather than Elizabethan England. Quirky characters, compromising situations, and the kind of deadpan humor made famous in ...
BWW Reviews: The 2014 FIESTA MELODRAMA Delivers Good, Old-Fashioned Fun
The Santa Fe Playhouse is the oldest, continuously running community theater west of the Mississippi and summer would not be complete without its production of the FIESTA MELODRAMA. First performed in 1919 and reinvented each year by an anonymous group of local writers, the melodrama has establishe...
BWW Reviews: These BROADWAY BABES are the Real McCoy!
Before there were cell phones, before there was Facebook, before there was even email... there were the BROADWAY BABES, Kaye Ballard, Liliane Montevecchi and Donna McKechnie. Now legends in their own lifetimes, these three stars are still strutting their stuff and doing it better than most performer...
BWW Reviews: Worlds Collide in Fusion Theatre's Theatrical Sampler,THE SEVEN
Since its launch in 2003, Fusion Theatre Company's festival of short works, THE SEVEN, has established itself as one of the premier theatrical events of its kind in the country and even beyond. Playwrights from around the world are invited to submit a mini play, about 15 minutes in length, based on ...
BWW Reviews: THE GOOD BODY is Girl Talk with a Message
THE GOOD BODY, performed for one night only at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, is Eve Ensler's younger, less well-known companion piece to THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. It follows a similar format - a series of monologues told by a cast of women from a representative cross section of races, backgrounds ...
BWW Reviews: LUMA - Bringing Living Light Into the Darkness
LUMA, which lit up the Lensic stage on April 6, is a unique theatrical experience. A symphony of light, music, words and movement, is performed against a background of complete darkness. Using the dark as a canvas, the brilliant, colored light displays produce ever-changing kinetic art forms that ar...
BWW Reviews: THE LYONS Puts the Fun in Dysfunctional
THE LYONS, which opened at the Santa Fe Playhouse on March 27, is aptly described by director, Janet Davidson, as a 'dramedy.' The subject matter is definitely the stuff of drama, but playwright Nicky Silver delivers it with fast-paced wit and no-holds-barred humor. This is a black comedy that keep...
BWW Reviews: RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN is Not Just for Feminists
The career versus marriage debate has been going on ever since women's lib first appeared on the scene and made it an issue. And if you think there can be nothing new to be said on the subject, then RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN, by Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright, Gina Gionfriddo, is sure to make you ...
BWW Reviews: Colin Quinn - Fast, Furious and Funny
In an age of 30 second sound bites and attention deficit disorder, keeping an audience engaged and entertained for a non-stop 70 minutes is quite an achievement, And when a subject as dry as the US Constitution provokes regular gales of laughter throughout, the performer is clearly not your average,...
BWW Reviews: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a Great Big Hit!
Who would have thought that a cheap, black and white horror movie, shot in 1960 by Roger Corman in just two days, would resurface some 20 years later, to become an off-Broadway musical comedy smash hit? The show, in its new incarnation (created by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken) ran for over four yea...
BWW Reviews: It's Alive! And Still Monstrously Funny! YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Never Grows Old...
It was Mel Brooks' runaway success with his musical version of THE PRODUCERS,' that inspired him to do the same thing with YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Fans of the classic, black and white horror spoof, will no doubt recall the story. Frankenstein's grandson, a brain specialist and American college professo...
BWW Reviews: VANYA AND SONIA - A Wild Romp That Turns Chekhov On His Head
Think Chekhov and the last thing that comes to mind is comedy. So to be inspired by Chekhov to come up with a play that's laugh-out-loud funny is, to say the least, quite an achievement....
BWW Reviews: Monty Python Meets the Bard - This Is Not Your Grandmother's Shakespeare!
The three comics who were inspired to condense all of Shakespeare's 37 plays into 97 minutes - and then went ahead and did it - had no idea where that whacky idea would lead. First performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1987, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) by Adam Lo...
BWW Reviews: Kaye Ballard and Liliane Montevecchi - Still Around and Still on Top Form!
No single word can adequately sum up Kaye Ballard and Liliane Montevecchi's one night appearance at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on August 8th.Their performance was engaging, entertaining, inspiring and uplifting, with a pace that never faltered and an array of talents guaranteed to keep the au...
BWW Reviews: Fusion Theatre's THE SEVEN Delivers a Satisfying Theatrical Sampler
Since it began in 2003, Fusion Theatre Company's festival of short works, THE SEVEN, has acquired a reputation as one of the most notable events of its kind in the nation, and even beyond. . ....
BWW Reviews: FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS Offers a Different Take on Girl Talk
Duke City Rep is celebrating its first appearance at the Cell Theatre with a feisty production of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, a comedy by award- winning playwright, Alan Ball (American Beauty.)
Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, the play features five, very different bridesmaids, all reluctant par...
BWW Reviews: Fusion Theatre Co. Presents HUMBLE BOY
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the Fusion Theatre Company. Their productions are highly professional, well produced and consistently deliver good, solid theatrical entertainment. So it pains me considerably to have to say that HUMBLE BOY, which opened at the Cell Theatre on April ...
BWW Reviews: LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE - More Than Just a Theatrical Chick Flick
LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE, now playing at Aux Dog Theatre, deals with far more meaningful topics than the title may suggest. Written by Nora Ephron (WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE…) and sister, Delia Ephron, this is definitely a theatrical experience by, for and about, women....
BWW Reviews: IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES at Teatro Paraguas Showcases Mirabal Sisters
2 More Week-ends to see new play 'In the Time of the Butterflies'...
BWW Reviews: CLYBOURNE PARK Launches Fusion Theatre's 2013 Season With a Punch
CLYBOURNE PARK is not an easy play on which to slap a label. Part drama, part social history, part cultural commentary, woven together with humor that, in turn, inspires laughter, makes you wince, or leaves you squirming uncomfortably in your seat, this is not your usual theatrical fare. Also well-c...
BWW Reviews: ALL MY SONS Delivers Classic Arthur Miller
ALL MY SONS is a classic Arthur Miller psychological drama about a family torn apart by the unraveling of its own dark secrets. First produced in 1947 and based on a true story, the play (which became Miller's first Broadway success) is a timely reminder of the devastating impact that misguided pers...
BWW Reviews: DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN takes a lighthearted look at relationships through the ages.
DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN, comedian Rob Becker's one-man show about the age-old battle of the sexes, first appeared in San Francisco in 1991. It went on to become the longest running solo show on Broadway and, since then, has been translated into 16 different languages and been produced in over 35 diffe...
BWW Movie Reviews: BARRYMORE - A Great Actor Embodies a Great Actor
A Great Actor Plays a Great Actor...Plummer as Barrymore in the screen version of the stage play...
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THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER Adobe Theater (12/04-12/20) |
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THESE SHINING LIVES Adobe Theater (7/17-8/09) |
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Company Santa Fe Playhouse (11/19-12/20) |
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At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen Santa Fe Playhouse (5/07-5/31) |
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THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL Adobe Theater (5/29-6/21) |
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SHIRLEY VALENTINE North Fourth Theatre (5/29-6/14) |
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CLUE Adobe Theater (10/16-11/08) |
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Lili Elbe Santa Fe Opera (8/01-8/27) |
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Waiting for Godot Vortex Theatre (5/29-6/21) |
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Cabaret Santa Fe Playhouse (7/02-7/19) |
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