BROADWAY RECALL: Looking Back With Marilyn Maye and Jerry Herman
by Michael Dale - November 12, 2011 With Marilyn Maye wrapping up her Jerry Herman tribute at Feinstein's, let's take a look back at both of them in the 1960s....
Dennis Shinners' BOYS IN SUMMER Wins Pride Films and Plays' 2013 Great Gay Screenplay Contest
by Tyler Peterson - November 19, 2013 Pride Films and Plays has announced the winner of the 2013 Great Gay Screenplay contest is Boys In Summer by Dennis Shinners. The award was presented Sunday, November 17 at the conclusion of PFP's Gay Film Weekend in the Hoover-Leppen Theatre of Center on Halsted. The weekend included 'enhanced stag...
BWW Reviews: High-Flying, Adored Revival of EVITA Hits Hollywood
by Michael L. Quintos - November 05, 2013 In one of this season's most pleasantly stunning surprises, the latest Broadway iteration of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's grand stage musical EVITA has arrived in Southern California at the beautiful Pantages Theatre in Hollywood (its three-week L.A. tour stop concludes November 10). A faithfu...
BWW Reviews: Street Theater Company's Winning Streak Continues with Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 05, 2012 The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown's imaginative reminiscence/dissection of a crumbling, contemporary marriage, debuted at Street Theater Company last night (Friday, May 4), in a compelling production helmed by director Lauren Shouse and musical director Rollie Mains. Starring two relative newc...
BWW Reviews: Second City Alumni Hilariously Present A CHRISTMAS CAROL: TWIST YOUR DICKENS!
by Shari Barrett - December 13, 2013 L.A.'s Hottest New Holiday Tradition A CHRISTMAS CAROL: TWIST YOUR DICKENS! Returns to CTG's Kirk Douglas Theatre for a Limited Run through December 29, 2013....
SOUND OFF: GLEE's Fits, Fights & Feuds
by Pat Cerasaro - March 15, 2013 Elton John's 'The Bitch Is Back' to N Sync's 'Bye Bye Bye' to Nicki Minaj's 'Super Bass', last night's Glee was filled to the brim with attitude and - to crib a phrase from Stephen Sondheim in his score for GYPSY - 'fits, fights, feuds and egos.' And a whole lot more, amigos....
BWW Reviews: PRINCESS IDA Produced by Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin is Hysterical and Current
by Jeff Davis - June 16, 2013 There's certainly a reason why the works of Gilbert and Sullivan have remained a fixture in popular culture for nearly 150 years. Their operas are fun, frivolous, and tinted with social and political satire. Though Princess Ida, their eighth operatic collaboration, may not be as well-known as some...
Sugar Valley Theatricals Presents MUNCHED, 11/6-22
by Kelsey Denette - September 06, 2011 MUNCHED was produced in 2009 in Los Angeles by Buzzworks Theater Company where it won the LA Drama Critics Circle award, The LA WEEKLY award and the McDonald Award for Playwriting excellence. The East coast premier of MUNCHED will be directed by Petronia Paley (Multiple AUDELCO award winner and lege...
BWW Reviews: Boiler Room Theatre's STEEL MAGNOLIAS Worthy of Another Reunion
by Jeffrey Ellis - August 19, 2012 Director Lisa Gillespie is responsible for my most recent serving of Steel Magnolias (onstage at Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin through September 8), which like all richly decadent Southern delicacies, sates something within me that yearns for a memory-laden repast-serving up Harling's artful blend...
SOUND OFF: GLEE's Fits, Fights & Feuds
by Pat Cerasaro - March 15, 2013 Elton John's 'The Bitch Is Back' to N Sync's 'Bye Bye Bye' to Nicki Minaj's 'Super Bass', last night's Glee was filled to the brim with attitude and - to crib a phrase from Stephen Sondheim in his score for GYPSY - 'fits, fights, feuds and egos.' And a whole lot more, amigos....
BWW Reviews: Revamped Broadway-Bound JEKYLL & HYDE Makes Hollywood Debut
by Michael L. Quintos - February 20, 2013 Now in the final stretches of its 25-week national tour before ultimately making its sit-down Broadway transfer later this Spring, the brand-new, revamped revival of JEKYLL & HYDE - THE MUSICAL has finally returned to Southern California for the next few weeks, this time playing performances at the ...
BWW Blog: Adam Lendermon of Maltz Jupiter's A CHORUS LINE - Costume Junction, What's Your Malfunction?
by Guest Blogger: Adam Lendermon - January 27, 2014 The other night during the final kick line in the finale of the show, I completely blew out the crotch of my costume. There I was (just inches from center stage) doing 24 successive battements in Rockette fashion with a giant hole down there. Did I mention that the vast majority of our patronage con...
Review Roundup: THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA Opens Off-Broadway
by Review Roundups - November 21, 2013 Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA by Amanda Peet, directed by MTC's award-winning artistic director Lynne Meadow opens tonight at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). Let's see what the critics had to say......
Falling in Love With Nashville, Jessica Grové Stars in Studio Tenn's THE SOUND OF MUSIC
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 22, 2012 For Jessica Grove, playing Maria Rainer in Studio Tenn's production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music is, quite simply, a part of the natural evolution of theater. After all, she's already played Marta, Brigitta and Liesl-so playing the young novitiate who comes into ...
Susan Cain Receives 2013 Toastmasters Golden Gavel Award
by Christina Mancuso - August 30, 2013 Susan Cain received Toastmasters' 2013 Golden Gavel award Friday, August 23, at Toastmasters' annual International Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio....
BWW Reviews: MAS Nashville Shakes Off the Malaise with CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY HANGOVER
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 29, 2011 Each one a force of nature in her own right, the five women of MAS Nashville unleashed their superpowers and talents upon a Nashville audience for the third time this week with their Christmas Holiday Hangover, a fast-paced (if over-long) tribute to the holiday season that allowed each of the women ...
ABC Family Announces May 2012 Programming Highlights
by Caryn Robbins - April 23, 2012 ABC Family announces its May 2012 Programming Highlights including Mother's day 'Mamalicious Week' celebration....
BWW Reviews: Revamped Broadway-Bound JEKYLL & HYDE Makes Hollywood Debut
by Michael L. Quintos - February 20, 2013 Now in the final stretches of its 25-week national tour before ultimately making its sit-down Broadway transfer later this Spring, the brand-new, revamped revival of JEKYLL & HYDE - THE MUSICAL has finally returned to Southern California for the next few weeks, this time playing performances at the ...
Sugar Valley Theatricals Presents MUNCHED Reading to Benefit WORTH, 9/9
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2012 Sugar Valley Theatricals, Bryan Webster, artistic director, in association with Isaac H. Suggs, Jr., presents a special staged reading performance of MUNCHED by Kim Porter, directed by Petronia Paley, as a benefit for Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH)....
BWW Reviews: DLU Theatre's HAIRSPRAY Delivers Exactly What You Want In Musical Theater
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 04, 2011 You can hardly swing a cat in Nashville without hitting someone in costume as Edna Turnblad or her dancing progeny Tracy, so popular has the show become with local theaterati. But, truth be told, if I never live to see another Hairspray, I can now die a happy man: Because I saw director/choreographe...
BWW Reviews: Nashville Ballet's Lush and Romantic CINDERELLA Opens Its 26th Season
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 29, 2011 With new and expressive choreography by Paul Vasterling - set to Prokofiev's timelessly beautiful 1944 score - Nashville Ballet opens its 26th season with a sumptuous remounting of Cinderella which captures, once more, the sheer artistry of the company's dancers while giving audiences exactly what t...
BWW REVIEWS: Why We Love The '80s: THE WEDDING SINGER at The Roxy Regional Theatre
by Jeffrey Ellis - June 21, 2012 There are so many starmaking turns-and some wonderfully engaging and endearing antics-onstage at Clarksville's Roxy Regional Theater in the company's revival of The Wedding Singer, that you cannot help but become a fan of the show, even if you've never seen the movie that inspired the onstage musica...
X FACTOR RECAP: The Top 12 Becomes the Top 13; All the Performances!
by Kelsey Denette - November 07, 2012 'We have some very important news,' Mario Lopez says at the top of tonight's episode of The X Factor. What is this news? The top twelve has just become the top thirteen, with an act returning after being eliminated last week. Who is it? Read on to find out!...
BWW Reviews: INTO THE DARKNESS Proves Halloween and Horror Can Be Charming and Funny
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 12, 2012 Write this down in your journals, post it on your Facebook, tweet it to your tens of followers, theaterati: Kevin Thornton and Enoch Porch are ridiculously talented! And there's no better way to celebrate the festive Halloween season than with these two-and their gorgeous and versatile cohort/partne...
BWW Reviews: Charmingly Flawed CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Lands in L.A.
by Michael L. Quintos - March 22, 2013 While certainly a fun, buoyant little show---featuring some enjoyable music from HAIRSPRAY composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, as well as a very likable, extremely talented young actor, Stephen Anthony, at the center of its semi-autobiographical tale of successful grifting---CATCH ME IF YOU CA... |
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