BWW Reviews: Gelsey Kirkland Presents THE NUTCRACKER
by Rose Marija - December 23, 2014 'Tis the season. On December 11, 2014 my first viewing of The Nutcracker this season was the opening night of Gelsey Kirkland Ballet's delightful version, choreographed and directed by Michael Chernov, co-artistic director, after Vasili Vainonen, assisted by Gelsey Kirkland and Alexandra Lawler. Wha...
BWW Reviews: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Trevor Worden - July 27, 2015 Great theater happening Maine! Check out the Review on broadwayworld.com...
BWW Preview: WHAT THEY DID FOR LOVE Opening at Quality Hill Playhouse in Kansas City
by Steve Wilson - April 14, 2015 A season dedicated to the film music of the 1960s and 1970s cinema continues at the Quality Hill Playhouse at 303 W. 10 on April 17. The tunes of Marvin Hamlisch and Burt Bacharach come alive in What They Did for Love: The Music of Marvin Hamlisch and Burt Bacharach. The intimate cabaret revue ru...
BWW Reviews: ONE DAY: THE MUSICAL Brims with Teenage Angst, Pop-Rock Intensity
by Rachel Weinberg - February 20, 2015 "One Day: The Musical" exudes an angry, pop-rock sensibility and has teenage angst in spades. Though the show takes the journal entries of real teenagers as its basis, it sometimes feels like a mouthpiece for adolescent issues rather than a show about living, breathing humans. In striving to be a un...
BWW Reviews: CONTACT.COM, Park Theatre, January 15 2015
by Laura Jones - January 17, 2015 Contact.com at the Park Theatre follows fortysomething married couple Matthew (Jason Durr) and his wife Naomi (Tanya Franks) as they prepare to open their home to young couple Ryan (Ralph Aiken) and Kelly (Charlie Brooks) whom they met after replying to their online advertisement. Both couples are s...
BWW Reviews: Haunting Season Finale at Mad Horse Theatre
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - June 02, 2014 South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre Company ended its season with a poignant and ambitious production of the Tony-award-winning musical, Grey Gardens. A musical is a bit of a departure for the small theatre company and its tiny black box space, but they acquitted themselves with both substance and ap...
BWW Reviews: Madhorse Theatre Mounts Edgy Lindsay-Abaire Comedy
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - February 07, 2015 South Portland's Madhorse Theatre Company has chosen to mount Kimberly Akimbo, an edgy, quirky, wrenching comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire, as their second offering of the season. The five-character tale of a teenager's coming to terms with a strange disease that has caused her to age prematurely, wit...
BWW Reviews: Theo Ubique's Crazy Good Hamlisch Songbook
by Misha Davenport - June 09, 2015 Hits keep coming at Theo Ubique's latest revue honoring the late composer Marvin Hamlisch...
BWW Reviews: CHEROKEE Sends Woolly on a Spirit Journey
by Itai Yasur - February 19, 2015 Woolly Mammoth's beautiful theater in which every seat has an intimate view of the expansive stage and the company's diehard dedication to new plays has found another win in Lisa D'Amour's follow up to 2013's DETROIT. Upon entering audiences are immediately greeted with recordings of tribal music an...
BWW Reviews: SOUTH PACIFIC at Westchester Broadway Theatre
by Kathryn Kitt - October 15, 2014 Westchester Broadway Theatre dusted off the original version of Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. The show is based on the Pulitzer Prize- winning book "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener. This is not a revival of the production done a few years ago at Lincoln Center Theater....
STAGE TUBE: Protesters Pay Tribute to Mike Brown During Orchestra Concert
by Sally Henry Fuller - October 05, 2014 ...
BWW Reviews: A COMEDY OF ERRORS is a Hit
by Kelly Thompson - December 02, 2014 The Cincinnati Shakespeare production of A Comedy of Errors was a delightful show. I find that Cincy Shakes really excels at comedies and they had all their strong comedic actors in this one and their presence was very much felt. A Comedy of Errors is about 2 sets of twins that were separated and ...
BWW Reviews: Circuit Invites the Audience into THE LYONS Den
by Joseph Baker - June 02, 2014 There's a moment in the first act of Nicky Silver's THE LYONS when dying patriarch 'Ben' is asked whether he is in pain; his response, a monosyllabic 'Yes,' hardly ranks with any of the brilliantly barbed lines scattered throughout the play, but as intoned by veteran actor Ron Gephart, it acquires a...
BWW Reviews: American Ballet Theatre Presents GISELLE
by Marjorie Liebert - June 25, 2014 I was privileged to see American Ballet Theatre performing Giselle twice this season....
BWW Reviews: The Secrets of THE WHO & THE WHAT are Revealed on the Copaken Stage
by Steve Wilson - October 25, 2014 From zero to sixty like a fast luxury car is how The Who & The What transitions from a comedy to an intense look at faith, relationships, gender roles, and culture. So sit back it is a delightfully entertaining ride. The Who & The What opened on Friday October 24 at the Copaken Stage in downtown K...
Review Roundup: World Premiere of Broadway-Bound WAITRESS Starring Jessie Mueller at A.R.T.
by Christina Mancuso - August 21, 2015 The world premiere, Broadway-bound musicalWaitress, based on the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly, with a book by Jessie Nelson, music & lyrics by Sara Bareilles, direction by Diane Paulus, and choreography by Chase Brock, officially opened last night, August 20th, at American Repertory The...
BWW Reviews: Public Theatre Revives Gurney's COCKTAIL HOUR
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - October 20, 2014 Lewiston's Public Theatre opened its 2014-2015 season with the excellent choice of A.R. Gurney's comedy of manners, The Cocktail Hour. Assembling a fine, experienced cast and creating a tasteful production, this performance reminds us of what an American treasure Gurney is as a playwright....
BWW Reviews: The Hypocrites' INTO THE WOODS Turns a Masterpiece Into Child's Play
by Elee Schrock - February 13, 2014 BroadwayWorld reviews The Hypocrites' production of 'Into the Woods'....
STAGE TUBE: On This Day 2/6- PRIVATE LIVES
by Nicole Rosky - February 06, 2014 Today in 1975, Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rogers Theatre), where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noel Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in...
Stories on Stage Presents OLD FRIENDS This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - April 11, 2015 Wise and witty tales of life's second act - its joys, its challenges, and the wonderful friends we make along the way....
BWW Reviews: Michael Pink's NUTCRACKER Perfects Visions of Sugarplums
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - December 24, 2013 While 'visions of sugarplums' may appear fantastical, Artistic Director Michael Pink presents these marvelous performance delights for the city this December. Under Pink's direction and choreography, The Milwaukee Ballet presents Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker for another holiday season. ...
BWW Reviews: RICHARD III Stabs Through Expectations at Folger Theater
by G. Blaise Hoeler - February 06, 2014 According to the news, on the same day that a giant horde of sea hawks from Seattle, Washington, pulverized an equally as large but not quite as majestic army of broncos from Colorado in East Rutherford, New Jersey, another battle was being waged in the Folger Shakespeare Theatre. This battle, howev...
CMT to Debut INSTANT JAM: FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, 10/18
by Caryn Robbins - September 03, 2014 Last night, superstar duo Florida Georgia Line surprised a small group of fans with a pop-up concert at Nashville's Exit/In as part of CMT's INSTANT JAM: FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, premiering Saturday, October 18.... |
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