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....
IDOL WATCH: And the Season 10 Finalists Are…
by Nicole Rosky - May 19, 2011 In just one week America will have crowned its next Idol. Months of Ford music videos, cheesy group mash-ups, slow country ballads, and Steven Tyler high notes have all lead to this moment, and though the final three contestants wowed me in last night's semi-finals, I'm not sure that Scotty, Lauren,...
'Eddie From Ohio' Lead Singer Wells Plays The Barns At Wolf Trap 4/10
by BWW News Desk - April 10, 2010 The Barns at Wolf Trap Features A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians....
REVIEW: Filthy Rich Premieres at Chaffin's Barn
by Jeffrey Ellis - September 10, 2009 Eppler's richly textured script might best be described as a send-up of Anastasia meets Grey Gardens, with some Sleeping Beauty, Annie, You Can't Take it With You and The Grifters (and an affectionate nod to Fiddler on the Roof) thrown in for good measure, all presented in a farcical manner that wor...
Truth Be Told Set to Air On FOX
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 16, 2011 'Truth Be Told,' a new made-for-TV family movie, starring Candace Cameron Bure, David James Elliott and Ronny Cox will premiere on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 8/7c on FOX....
'Modern Family' Season 1 is Released on Blu-Ray/DVD, 9/21
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2010 One of the highest rated new television shows of the year, the engaging, honest and hilarious 'mockumentary' view of today's non-traditional households, 'Modern Family' The Complete First Season debuts on Blu-ray and DVD September 21 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Come join the famil...
Take Wing and Soar Presents ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, 3/17-27
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2011 He is a Roman general, handsome & brave. She is the Queen of Egypt, beautiful & proud. Together they will defy the power of an Emperor. Together they will destroy that which they strive to uphold. Join us as the AUDELCO Award-winning Take Wing And Soar Productions presents Shakespeare's ANTONY & CLE...
REVIEW: 'My First Time' from Actors Bridge
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 09, 2009 Thanks to director Jessika Malone and her cast of talented actors, you'll find oh-so-much to identify with and relate to in Nashville's own version of My First Time, onstage at Darkhorse Theatre through this Saturday night. It's a funny, poignant, laugh-out-loud hour that flies by as Malone's six th...
Take Wing and Soar Presents ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, 3/17-27
by Nicole Rosky - March 02, 2011 He is a Roman general, handsome & brave. She is the Queen of Egypt, beautiful & proud. Together they will defy the power of an Emperor. Together they will destroy that which they strive to uphold. Join us as the AUDELCO Award-winning Take Wing And Soar Productions presents Shakespeare's ANTONY & CLE...
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...
THE VOICE Over: The Quarter-Finals!
by Nicole Rosky - June 07, 2011 ‘American Idol' may be done for the year, but there's no need to panic America! Singing reality show season isn't quite over yet, as NBC's ‘The Voice' is filling the void (at least for the rest of the month) with a fresh new take on the typical reality competition format. Even more exciting- tonight...
BWW Reviews: Circle Players & SCA's TITANIC THE MUSICAL
by Jeffrey Ellis - April 25, 2010 A revival of Circle Players' 2008 production, which was staged at the company's then-home at the Z. Alexander Looby Theatre, this 'new and improved' mounting (a collaboration between Circle and SCA) is astounding in its sheer chutzpah. Who'd have ever thought a community theatre could take on such a...
'Modern Family' Season 1 is Released on Blu-Ray/DVD, 9/21
by Nicolas Coburn - July 07, 2010 One of the highest rated new television shows of the year, the engaging, honest and hilarious 'mockumentary' view of today's non-traditional households, 'Modern Family' The Complete First Season debuts on Blu-ray and DVD September 21 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Come join the famil...
The Barns at Wolf Trap Presents Announces A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians
by BWW News Desk - April 07, 2010 The Barns at Wolf Trap Features A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians, the First Lady of Celtic Music, the Season's Final Discovery Series Show, and a Local Area Favorite....
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 ...
ASPECTS OF LOVE: Review Roundup
by Lauren Wolman - July 17, 2010 Trevor Nunn directs the first major London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart's Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory, previewing from 07 July with press night on 15 July and running until 26 September. Designs are by David Farley with choreography by Lynne Page, li...
The Barns at Wolf Trap Presents Announces A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians
by BWW News Desk - April 08, 2010 The Barns at Wolf Trap Features A Line up of Platinum-Selling Musicians, the First Lady of Celtic Music, the Season's Final Discovery Series Show, and a Local Area Favorite....
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 ...
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...
DID YOU KNOW...The Most Interesting Message Board Topics of the Week, September 24-30
by BWW - September 30, 2011 These days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message boards (main and local), weighing in on the latest news, rumors, reviews, stars and more. Each week, we find a few ...
BWW Reviews: Nashville Ballet Revives 'The NUTCRACKER Of Your Dreams' through 12/18
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 11, 2011 If there is an onstage moment more breathtaking, more purely theatrical, than the one during Nashville's Nutcracker when the green upstage curtain falls at the end of the exquisitely danced "Waltz of the Flowers," I simply cannot recall it nor would I want to-for it is during that brief respite from...
BWW Reviews: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS at The Keeton Theatre
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 17, 2010 Truth be told, 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' is one of my all-time favorite holiday songs - sweetly sentimental, blending holiday hope with a certain melancholic sensibility that is perfect for the season. Thankfully, Casey Gilbert's rendition of the song (long associated with the unparal...
BWW Reviews: ACT 1's 'Stunning, Poetic and Profane' AMERICAN BUFFALO Takes Over The Darkhorse
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 03, 2011 Poetic and profane, David Mamet's 1975 play American Buffalo is brought to the stage of Nashville's Darkkhorse Theatre in a stunningly raw and beautifully realized production directed by Ryan Williams for ACT 1. As one of the city's most enduring community theatre groups, ACT 1 consistently has prov...
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... |