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BWW Review: POTTED POTTER Quickly Swoops into The Paramount Theatre in Austin, Tx
Filing into the Paramount for POTTED POTTER, the passion and love for the wizarding world buzzed in the air. Proud members of Gryffindor and Slytherin alike, adorned themselves with scarves, robes and faintly drawn scars, showcasing their Potter items with pride. If there is any place to let your Po...
BWW Review: MEN ON BOATS at Mary Moody Northen is Must-See Theatre
MEN ON BOATS is hands down, must-see theatre! This production accomplishes what all plays aspire to, but few achieve - all-around excellence. The crew's journey, described by Sides as 'an apt metaphor for the peril faced by many in our society on a daily basis, ' is fraught with important meaning wh...
BWW Review: Austin Opera Festively Reimagines Verdi's OTELLO in Austin, TX
Continuing Austin Opera's relationship with Italian Operas, Giuseppe Verdi's OTELLO opened at The Long Center last Saturday. To a packed house and a full stage, Verdi's adapted story of Shakespeare's classic tragedy OTHELLO, struck a chord with the audience. Moving from the familiar OTHELLO, Verdi t...
BWW Review: DOUBT: A Parable at City Theatre Austin
It has been said many times that the difference between an adequate play and a truly great play is that great plays force one to think. They stay with you, you are compelled to discuss them with your play-going companions, you reflect upon them. While DOUBT: A Parable certainly made this reviewer th...
BWW Review: Theatre en Bloc's UNTIL THE FLOOD: A rich and intense 90 minutes of what theatre does best.
UNTIL THE FLOOD is a rich and intense 90 minutes of what theatre does best....
BWW Review: Penfold Remount of Doctuh Mistuh's NEVERMORE Still Wows
NEVERMORE: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a Canadian musical that was written and composed by Jonathan Christenson which follows the rather dismal life and internal struggles of Edgar Allan Poe that later on inspired his work as an author. The script contains reference...
BWW Review: MACBETH Highlights The Might of Women and Folly of Man
All in all, MACBETH presented by Something For Nothing Theatre is an enjoyable evening of accessible theatre. Although the play falters in act two, the show itself is mostly well done. The talent of the women in this production is the undeniable force driving the show. While by no means are their ch...
BWW Review: TRYOUTS Examines Art and the Female Experience in Austin, TX
Now playing at The Dougherty Arts Center in Downtown Austin, TRYOUTS brings to life an examination of Leonardo da Vinci's painting, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne. Painted in 1503, this work has been analyzed by many historians to decipher Leonardo's relationship to both religion and female expr...
BWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is Brilliant Slapstick Comedy
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is a comedy by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company that won Best New Comedy at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards. Mischief Theatre Company have also written Peter Pan Goes Wrong which opened at London's Apollo Theatre in December 2015 st...
BWW Review: Great Performances Abound in THE ADDAMS FAMILY
The characters in The Addams Family were created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. The characters traditionally include Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, close family members Uncle Fester and Grandmama, their butler Lurch, the disembodied hand Thing, and Gomez's C...
BWW Review: Texarts + THE UNEXPECTED GUEST = Good Theatre
The weather and season are perfect for an evening or afternoon cooped up with a bunch of murder suspects in an English manor. You won't be disappointed in THE UNEXPECTED GUEST....
BWW Review: Theatre Synesthesia's THE FAULT is a shining little light in the miserable midst of poverty and addiction.
Theatre Synesthesia's THE FAULT is a shining little light in the miserable midst of poverty and addiction....
BWW Review: YOUR MOTHER'S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA at The Museum of Human Achievement
YOUR MOTHER'S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA begins rather sneakily, with Amber Quick singing in an informal hootenanny with Michael Ferstenfeld, Howard Burkett and San Patrevito who function as a sort of house band for the play. They sing a collection of 80's and 90's songs in the old warehouse venue known...
BWW Review: NEIL SIMON'S RUMORS at Georgetown Palace Playhouse
For over four decades Neil Simon delighted theatre audiences with intelligent and witty dialogue in Broadway shows and movies. His many stories, including THE ODD COUPLE, BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, and SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES tossed relatable characters together into ridiculous yet delicious circumstances...
BWW Review: SOME HUMANS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS SHOW a Sharp Satire With a Deep Message
SOME HUMANS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS SHOW is a difficult show to describe as it is all over the map...and that is in no way a bad thing. This new work, by C.B. Goodman, was inspired by the 1903 public execution of Topsy, the elephant, and although there are clear echoes from the beginning, ...
BWW Review: STARMITES at MacTheatre Austin, TX
McCallum Fine Arts Academy has mounted a major musical of inter-stellar proportions worthy of a good run with packed houses....
BWW Review: CONFESSIONS OF A MEXPATRIATE at Hyde Park Theatre
Samuel is a typical American yuppie who is honestly grateful for the creature comforts his career affords but something is lacking. Incarceration in a corporate-office cubicle structure stifles his growth and eats away at his soul. Petty torments at the hands of his fellow inmates exasperate the sit...
BWW Review: STELLA AND LOU A Sweet Tale That Speaks To Those With Life Experience
STELLA AND LOU is a 2015 play by Bruce Graham. It's set in Lou's Bar, the kind of joint where daylight is about as welcome as a penniless alcoholic who wants to run a tab. On one quiet night, two long time friends navigate small talk that begins with how things change with time and soon deepens as t...
BWW Review: BLACK DOG Battles Abusers in South Austin, TX
Performing at The BARn off Brodie Lane in South Austin, BLACK DOG presented by the Bottle Alley Theatre Company is an immersive theatrical experience, not designed for the faint of heart. Reflecting on the anger and frustration abuse survivors experience, this piece ventures deep into the female cha...
BWW Review: THE WHO'S TOMMY Inspiring Story of Hope and Healing
THE WHO'S TOMMY is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Pete Townshend and book by Townshend and Des McAnuff, based on The Who's 1969 rock opera Tommy. There are several plot differences between the album, the film, and the stage production, though the general storyline is largely the same. The b...
BWW Review: SIGNIFICANT OTHER - Jarrott Productions Marvelous Season Opener
Theatre at its best holds up a mirror to society, showing us our triumphs and failures in equal measure. But once in a great while there comes a production that holds up that mirror and sees into our very soul. SIGNIFICANT OTHER by Joshua Harmon and performed by a stellar cast at Trinity Street Thea...
BWW Review: ATLANTIS: A PUPPET OPERA is a Mesmerizing Experience.
ATLANTIS: A PUPPET OPERA, is a mesmerizing experience for the senses. Running just at an hour long, the production transports audiences into a world of myth, madness, and magic. In a culture of reboots and revivals, this original work is truly a rare gem and is an event that Austin theatre lovers sh...
BWW Review: MONROE A Work of Great Heart With An Important Message
MONROE, a world premiere production, directed by Lara Toner Haddock, is the latest play by Lisa B. Thompson. The script is a heart warming and funny look at a Southern family. What makes it a remarkable evening of theatre is that it also shows how racial terror affects the minds and lives of these A...
BWW Review: There's Much To Learn from Shrewd Productions THE MADRES
It is a perfect time in our own country's history to learn from the courageous and resilient MADRES....
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Musical Rocks at Georgetown Palace
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is a jukebox musical that uses the recording of an impromptu jam session that involed Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash as its basis. The recording was discovered in the vaults at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee in 1981. The recording i...
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Stage Blood by Charles Ludlam The VORTEX (6/26-7/11) |
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Guns N’ Roses Globe Life Field (9/09-9/09) |
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Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic Bastrop Opera House (5/22-5/31) |
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Jesus Christ Superstar Georgetown Palace Theatre (5/29-7/05) |
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Swan Lake by International Ballet Stars in Austin, TX Bass Concert Hall (4/03-4/03) |
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Anything Goes Bastrop Opera House (7/17-8/02) |
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Destination by George Ayres Trinity Street Playhouse (5/14-5/31) |
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Boogie Down Broadway Empire Garage (6/27-6/27) |
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& Juliet Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas in Austin (7/14-7/19) |
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Seared Austin Playhouse (6/05-6/28) |
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