BWW Review: Circle Players' CHILDREN OF EDEN
by Jeffrey Ellis - March 19, 2016 It would have taken a miracle to save the opening night of Circle Players' Children of Eden - one of the most eagerly anticipated productions of the season in Music City - from the wrath of God: in this case an abysmal sound design that prevented the audience from hearing Lauren Frances Jones' exqui...
BWW Review: CFTA's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Will Have You Laughing All The Way Home
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 25, 2016 Patrick Kramer's commanding performance as Frederick Frankenstein (that's 'FRONKENsteen' for the uninitiated) in the Center for the Arts' production of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein is reason enough to buy a ticket (if you're lucky enough to score one - shows are playing to capacity crowds in Murfr...
BWW Review: LA STRADA, The Other Palace
by Gary Naylor - June 01, 2017 La Strada, adapted from the Fellini movie is a play with music that captures the style and ethics of a classic movie, indeed the Neo-Realism style....
Remy Bumppo Announces 2017-18 Season TRUTH BE TOLD
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2017 Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will explore complex relationships with truth, lies, and everything in between in its 21st season, 'Truth Be Told.'...
BWW Review: A True King Rises with KING LEAR at Elements Theatre
by Kristen Morale - August 17, 2016 The truth be told, I have neither read nor seen performed Shakespeare's King Lear, and was therefore as unfamiliar with the plot and its characters as basically anyone can possibly be; I suppose it wasn't mandatory reading when I went to school, for what reason I cannot possibly imagine. Although, I...
CAMINO REAL by Tennessee Williams Opens in New Orleans at the Marigny Opera House This July
by A.A. Cristi - June 28, 2017 You've never seen Tennessee Williams like this before. From the characters to the setting, nothing compares to Camino Real. The play takes place in a mythic border town situated in the Southwest, or perhaps tucked just inside of Mexico, which sits in the shadow of a gargantuan border wall built to k...
GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI for May 4, 2017
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 04, 2017 GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI! Welcome to Thursday, May 4, 2017 - can you believe it's already this far along in the year - and that it's another #TheatreThursday? Today, we're posing the musical question: Are all our artistic efforts worth it during these oh-so-trying times? The answer, most certainly, ...
BWW Interview: BWW Interviews David Johnson, Who Plays Max Bialystock in THE PRODUCERS, Coming to Riverside's Fox PAC on Valentine's Day (Corrected)
by Audrey Liebross - January 26, 2016 THE PRODUCERS touring company will play two performances at Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 14, 2016. BWW interviewed David Johnson, who plays Max Bialystock....
Windy City Playhouse Announces Cast of THIS
by Tyler Peterson - May 04, 2016 Windy City Playhouse, Chicago's most sophisticated new theater, presents the off-Broadway hit This, a tart 'melanchomedy' centering on four educated, artistically inclined thirtysomething New Yorkers whose longtime friendship is tested by an act of infidelity. Writer, director and playwright Carl Me...
BWW Review: TRUMPAGEDDON, King's Head Theatre, 8 November 2016
by Gary Naylor - November 09, 2016 Gary Naylor sees a show about, and I can hardly believe what I'm writing here, the 45th President of the United States of America....
Season 6 Champion of THE VOICE Josh Kaufman Releases New Self-Titled EP
by Caryn Robbins - June 23, 2016 The first self-titled EP from Josh Kaufman, Season 6 Champion of NBC's "The Voice," is now available on all music platforms....
BWW Review: Houston Grand Opera's FAUST Pulls Out All the Stops
by Gary Laird - November 02, 2016 HGO's production of Gounod's FAUST puts the 'grand' in grand opera. The current production has all the bells and whistles - a timeless story, a top-notch cast, the costumes, sets and lighting of an all-out extravaganza. In short, it has everything the word 'opera' conjures up. And it's at the Wortha...
BWW Review: THE GREATER GAME, Southwark Playhouse, 19 September 2016
by Gary Naylor - September 21, 2016 Gary Naylor sees a fine tribute to the men of Clapton Orient who went into battle for King and Country 100 years ago....
BWW Review: 'Merry Christmas!' from Chaffin's Barn
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 29, 2016 While there are always rumors of closings and real estate transactions happening willy-nilly, Chaffin's Barn continues to thrive and to entertain and to give both audiences and theater folk an opportunity to get to know one another better and to be transported and transformed via the magic of live t...
The Metropolitan Room Present LEE SQUARED: AN EVENING WITH LIBERACE AND MISS PEGGY LEE 9/2
by Ashlee Latimer - August 20, 2016 Liberace lived a life of flamboyance, sparkle, and lavish costumes. In this funny and touching tribute, the virtuoso musician gets one last chance to glitter and shine as he tickles the ivories through his favorite songs. Miss Peggy Lee is beyond description. New York City favorites David Maiocco...
Summer Stages: Long Island Spring/Summer 2016 Preview
by Melissa Giordano - March 23, 2016 One of my favorite things about writing for BroadwayWorld is continuing my travels around Long Island throughout the Spring and Summer. And to bring you the latest on the Long Island theatre scene is just the icing and sprinkles and cherries and... well, you get it... on the cake. And from the looks...
FAVOURITE SONGS: 'Hello, Dolly!', HELLO, DOLLY!
by Gary Naylor - May 22, 2017 Continuing our series of favourite musical theatre songs is Carol Channing's version of 'Hello, Dolly!'...
BWW Review: THE GREATER GAME, Southwark Playhouse, 19 September 2016
by Gary Naylor - September 21, 2016 Gary Naylor sees a fine tribute to the men of Clapton Orient who went into battle for King and Country 100 years ago....
GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI for June 6, 2017
by Jeffrey Ellis - June 06, 2017 GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI! It's Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - and we know what you're thinking: Where the hell was my favorite early morning theater news and gossip yesterday? Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, we were unable to raise ourselves up from the bed and make our way to our d...
BWW Review: PUNKPLAY, Southwark Playhouse, 10 September 2016
by Gary Naylor - September 11, 2016 Gary Naylor sees a play that examines suburban alienation in 80's America and the salvation Punk offered - on rollerskates!...
BWW Review: Actors Bridge's Astonishing HAND TO GOD Caps A Remarkable 2016 Season
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 10, 2016 Hand to God is a ballsy, brassy and in-your-face consideration of life in a Southern church and its impact on the lives of its congregants, exposing the hypocrisy of small-town convention and social mores that continue to evolve at a glacial pace. You'll be singing hosannas in the show's aftermath, ...
Season 6 Champion of THE VOICE Josh Kaufman Releases New Self-Titled EP
by Caryn Robbins - June 23, 2016 The first self-titled EP from Josh Kaufman, Season 6 Champion of NBC's "The Voice," is now available on all music platforms....
BWW Review: Two Nights in Seville, Part 2 - a New Gypsy in Town for Met's CARMEN
by Richard Sasanow - January 24, 2017 It's that time of the year again, when the flu season gives artistic administrators big headaches, trying to fill in the blanks when a headliner calls in sick. CARMEN's been a particular headache, with mezzo Sophie Koch out of action in the title role after rehearsals had started. Luckily, Clementin...
BWW Review: Real Housewives of Sneden's Landing: RUMORS
by Jeffrey Ellis - April 29, 2016 Neil Simon's Rumors - one of the most popular stage farces of the late 20th century - is given its due with the fourth production at Nashville's iconic and I daresay historic Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre. Directed with panache by stage veteran Lydia Bushfield (who, herself, has starred in one of th...
BWW Review: Larry Shue's THE NERD at Chaffin's Barn
by Jeffrey Ellis - March 26, 2017 Larry Shue's The Nerd brings with it a fairly healthy and reasonably impressive theater pedigree: more than 400 performances on Broadway, critical acclaim and audience adulation for its West End run (in fact, it was the most successful American play running there in 1986), scores of regional and com... |
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