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BWW Reviews: Shaw Festival's LIGHT UP THE SKY: Aging Script Not So Bright
The Shaw Festival is known for dusting off old chestnuts and breathing new life into them. Unfortunately, its new production of Moss Hart's LIGHT UP THE SKY is a chestnut better left in the attic to continue gathering dust. Compared to his successful plays, like THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (wi...
BWW Reviews: Carefree PETER PAN Soars at ARTPARK
Whether you grew up with Mary Martin , Sandy Duncan or Cathy Rigby flying on your TV screen or on a stage near you, children and adults alike still love escaping with the boy who never grew up. Neverland and it's inhabitants of Lost Boys, Indians and Pirates is usually a sure fire chance for a light...
BWW Reviews: SWEET CHARITY at SHAW FESTIVAL
Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields iconic 1960's musical SWEET CHARITY is playing on the stage of the Festival Theatre as this year's musical offering at the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. Visually stunning and often energetically infectious, this musical, with book by Neil Simon, comes a...
BWW Reviews: THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE at IRISH CLASSICAL THEATRE
Dark and disturbing is the best way to sum up Irish Classical Theatre's polished new production of THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE....
BWW Reviews: CAROUSEL at MusicalFare
Sparse CAROUSEL Takes to the Stage...
BWW Reviews: Fiery Operatic Drama Unfolds in New Production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Shea's Buffalo Theatre
2015 brings a lavish new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'The Phantom of The Opera' that opened at Shea's Buffalo Theatre on Wednesday and it has received glorious new sets by Paul Brown, while retaining most of Maria Bjornson's Tony Award winning costume designs....
BWW Reviews: AFTER MISS JULIE at Irish Classical Theatre
A battle of the classes is playing out in The Irish Classical Theatre's brilliant new production of 'After Miss Julie,' that opened last night. Based on Strindberg's 1888 psycho-drama 'Miss Julie,' this version by Patrick Marber updates the action to a 1945 English Manor house on the eve of the Brit...
BWW Reviews: MYSTERY OF THE SILVER CHALICE at 710 MAIN THEATRE
As with any good laboratory, hypothesis and conjecture are needed to lead to breakthroughs and new discoveries. Buffalo Laboratory Theatre's production of MYSTERY OF THE SILVER CHALICE currently playing at 710 Main Street often succeeds in finding humor in new found audience driven technology, while...
BWW Reviews: MOTOWN:THE MUSICAL at Shea's Performing Arts Center
When brainstorming concepts for new shows, the idea of making a musical about Berry Gordy--not necessarily a household name, may have seemed like an odd choice. So let's look at Plan B....a musical about the careers of Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye. Well, essentiall...
BWW Reviews: THE LION IN WINTER at Irish Classical Theatre - Familial Dysfunction Reigns Supreme
Just when you thought your family had issues with each other and holidays were unbearable.. or when you thought the dining room scene in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY was the epitome of family dysfunction, meet Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and their three sons....
BWW Reviews: Solving THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD at the Kavinoky Theatre
When you hear the name Charles Dickens, you almost automatically put in your mind an image of that cute little orphan boy roaming the streets of London picking pockets, or maybe the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future guiding Scrooge on a walk down memory lane. You probably don't think of ...
BWW Reviews: Re-imagining the Classic MUSIC MAN at MusicalFare Theatre
The intimate MusicalFare Theatre on the Daemen College campus is one of Buffalo's premier theatres. MusicalFare never ceases to amaze with the way that they adapt notoriously big productions into their space. Chris Kelly's re-imagined production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man is no exception to...
BWW Reviews: Looking through a Different Lens in ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Buffalo Laboratory Theatre
A review of Buffalo Laboratory Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD,running through 9/29....
BWW Reviews: Arresting, Emotionally Charged NEXT TO NORMAL at Classical Theatre Company
From the opening piano riff, a driving and intense, yet somehow melodic, progression, the Irish Classical Theatre Company's production of Next to Normal is arresting, poignant, and emotionally charged....
BWW Review: MEMPHIS Lives in Buffalo!
Anyone who knows me knows that I adore MEMPHIS. Back in 2011, I had the opportunity to see the show on Broadway and I met the fantastical Chad Kimball. Later that year, I went to see the Direct from Broadway showings at my local movie theater (yes, I went 3 times). You could say I'm a bit obsessed. ...
BWW Reviews: Blackfriars Theatre Presents A NEW BRAIN
The plot of William Finn's semi-autobiographical musical, A New Brain, is not typical fare for the genre: the story of composer Gordon Michael Schwinn and his simultaneous battle with a brain injury and artistic creativity. Though its synopsis is gloomy and a little hard to comprehend out of context...
BWW Reviews: GEVA Theatre Center Presents TWO TRAINS RUNNING
It seems only appropriate that Rochester's Geva Theatre Center would transition from Arthur Miller's The Price to August Wilson's Two Trains Running; comparatively speaking, however, Wilson has given Miller a run for his money. Ron OJ Parson's exhilarating production of Two Trains Running, the fourt...
BWW Reviews: Irish Players of Rochester Present THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN
Ireland mustn't be such a bad place, so - but it certainly isn't devoid of faults or wickedness. This is made entirely clear in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Martin McDonagh's darkly comic and touching work about a physically challenged young man's dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. The spritely produ...
BWW Reviews: Geva Theatre Center's PRICE Too Taxing
Given the current economic climate, Rochester's Geva Theatre Center's production of Arthur Miller's The Price, a drama incited by two brothers selling their deceased father's possessions, would appear to be perfectly timed. The heavy ties between identity and the struggle to live a purposeful, conte...
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