BWW Review: STUPID F@#%ING BIRD Mashes Chekhov With Giddy Modernism
If you can find STUPID F@#%ING BIRD at Queens University, you'll find that this mash-up of Chekhov's 'The Seagull' is a goofy lark.
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BWW Review: Art and Business Clash in MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
The ugly spectacle of art being turned into money is very much at the heart of MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, but there's also an upstairs-downstairs conflict brewing.
BWW Review: A New RAISIN IN THE SUN Is Set to Explode
Theatre Charlotte's vivid new staging of A RAISIN IN THE SUN reminds us that Lorraine Hansberry's drama was written to show us all the things, good and bad, that can happen to 'a dream deferred.
BWW Review: BOOTYCANDY Sizzles With Satire and Seethes With Inner Turmoil
Robert O'Hara's BOOTYCANDY has a merry old time lampooning trashy black mammas and a grandiloquent Sunday preacher, but the turbulence lurking within his gay anti-hero is indicative of the the playwright's ambivalence toward white people and his inner self-doubts.
BWW Review: The Ghost of (I Hate) Hamlet Returns - With a Vengeance - in WOMEN PLAYING HAMLET
Shamelessly borrowing his concept from Paul Rudnick's 'I Hate Hamlet,' William Missouri Downs's WOMEN PLAYING HAMLET hilariously flips the script, giving all the principal parts and scene-stealing cameos to women.
BWW Review: THE GREAT COMET Outshines HAMILTON in Perry T's Annual Broadway Roundup
Perry T's latest New York Roundup includes six Broadway shows; NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET, HAMILTON, A BRONX TALE, IN TRANSIT, PARAMOUR, and ON YOUR FEET! plus three off-Broadway shows; PRUDENCIA HART, SPAMILTON, and CAGNEY
BWW Review: Strong CP Cast Unleashes Newfound Power of RAGTIME
The current CPCC Theatre production of RAGTIME THE MUSICAL is not only timely, but thanks to one of the best casts ever assembled on the Halton Theater stage, it's also newly powerful.
BWW Review: COTU Hits the Road With a Mind-Boggling HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE
Closing with THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY at the Unknown Brewing Company, their most lavish production since they adapted The Princess Bride in 2011, Citizens of the Universe is going out with a big bang.
BWW Review: AN ACT OF GOD Ordains Wedolowski as Divine Vessel
After gracing Broadway's Studio 54 with his presence in the body of Jim Parsons, God has chosen Duke Energy Theatre at Spirit Square for his newest abode and the body of Queen City Theatre Company's Kristian Wedolowski as his instrument.
BWW Review: Henley's CRIMES OF THE HEART Still Delivers Southern-Fried Hilarity
Theatre Charlotte's revival of CRIMES OF THE HEART affirms how vividly Beth Henley's deftly differentiated Magrath Sisters stick in a theatergoer's memory.
BWW Review: EMERSON STRING QUARTET Rocks Halton Theater Again
Now celebrating their 40th anniversary season, the Emerson String Quartet was already a marquee attraction when I first encountered them in live concert during the summer of 2002 at the Aspen Music Festival.
BWW Review: GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE Brings New Balance to Love & Murder on Tour
With such a fine set of frontliners behind him, John Rapson may not be a dominant as Jefferson Mays was on Broadway, but the touring show comes off as more balanced, the LOVE and MURDER more equally weighted.
BWW Review: FIRST DATE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Booth Playhouse
FIRST DATE Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by Austin Winsberg and music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.
BWW Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ
THE WIZARD OF OZ is a must see!
BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL Strikes a Boomer Chord
With two Broadway-calibre voices hitting the hits out of the park, BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL is pure gold
BWW Review: BE A LION By Rory D. Sheriff
'Be A Lion', inspired by the Broadway musical and film, 'The Wiz', opens its third season at The Duke Energy Theater, at Spirit Square in Charlotte, NC
BWW Review: CABARET, Ramirez Made Sally Bowles Her Own!
This weekend I visited a little gem filled with history, tucked away within a short drive from Charlotte, the Meroney Theater in Salisbury, NC.
BWW Review: THE REALISH WIVES OF CHARLOTTE Serves Up Skits, Improv, and Spoofery
REALISH HOUSEWIVES OF CHARLOTTE takes aim at Bravo reality TV, with a disgraced local mayor as a sidedish
BWW Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON Returns With Missionary Zeal
BOOK OF MORMON, the musical that exorcised Charlotte's Angels in America stigma, returns more energetically than ever
BWW Review: WICKED!
We all know of Dorothy, Toto, and the Wizard of Oz.
BWW Review: RAGTIME the Performances are Incredible
Director and Choreographer, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, brings a realism to RAGTIME that I have never seen before in musicals.
BWW Review: TWO ROOMS Presents Two Portraits of Hostage Torment – and Two Portraits of Manipulation
TWO ROOMS is more topically urgent than Lee Blessing's more familiar works, dealing with terrorism and hostage situations that still plague us 25 years after it was written, questioning the roles that our government and our press corps should play when terrorists use their captives as political pawn
BWW Review: Soulful Singer Chante Moore
Soulful Singer Chante Moore was better than 'Alright'.
BWW Review: BAD JEWS Venerates and Perverts a Family Icon
Who's really good and bad in Joshua Harmon's BAD JEWS is a far more complex issue than which of the warring Feygenbaum grandchildren thinks they are
BWW Reviews: BREAKIN' CONVENTION: A Sadler's Wells Project
BREAKIN' CONVENTION is not just a show or a festival, it's an experience.
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Her Name Was Frankie: A Frankie Silver Story Parkway Playhouse (10/02-10/11) |
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Purpose Three Bone Theatre (8/06-8/22) |
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Here There Are Blueberries Three Bone Theatre (1/28-1/31) |
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Terminus Theatre Charlotte (3/05-3/21) |
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Coal Country Three Bone Theatre (3/05-3/21) |
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Liberation Three Bone Theatre (11/06-11/22) |
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Masterworks: Splendid Tchaikovsky P.E. Monroe Auditorium (3/13-3/13) |
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Home for the Holidays: A Joyful Noise Mountain Theatre Company (12/11-12/28) |
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Sister Act Flat Rock Playhouse (10/02-10/25) |
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The Reservoir Three Bone Theatre (5/07-5/23) |
