Shakespeare Carolina takes a bold step in their adaptation of Dumas's swashbuckling MAN IN THE IRON MASK, casting two women as the twin brothers who claim the title of Louis XIV.... (more...)
Knight Theater and Abby Corrigan's darker, more vulnerable portrayal of Middle Allison make the big differences in the current touring version of FUN HOME.... (more...)
CHARLOTTE SQUAWKS 13: CHARLOTTE, WE HAVE A PROBLEM does a better job targeting statewide and national scoundrels than delivering on its promise to face local issues, but there are genuine nuggets among the worthless trinkets - and an absolutely sensational new cast member.... (more...)
Spoleto Festival USA has gone from last year's 40th anniversary geniality to its customary edginess, and Druid Theatre's WAITING FOR GODOT wonderfully keynotes that shift at Dock Street Theatre.... (more...)
Physical comedy upstages Chekhovian pathos in Peter Quilter's THE ACTRESS, now at Spirit Square in a well-acted Three Bone Theatre production.... (more...)
Under the direction of Corey Mitchell, Theatre Charlotte delivers one of their best productions in the past 30, with Joe McCourt delivering a Broadway-caliber performance as Huey Calhoun, the heart of MEMPHIS.... (more...)
Shame and repression hinder homoerotic love in 1958, but it's easy, nasty love that's the bugbear when we cut to 2008 in Alexi Kaye Campbell's THE PRIDE.... (more...)
With a brilliantly imagined final scene, Charlotte Ballet choreographer Sasha Janes captures the emotions, manias, and passions of WUTHERING HEIGHTS with surprising success.... (more...)
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.... (more...)
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.'... (more...)
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.... (more...)
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.... (more...)
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... (more...)
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.... (more...)
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.... (more...)
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. David Javerbaum's AN ACT OF GOD arrives in Charlotte with new ... (more...)
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.... (more...)
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. That was about the time when members of the quartet, except for the cellist sitting on a ris... (more...)
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.... (more...)
FIRST DATE Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by Austin Winsberg and music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. Based around the concept of a blind date, these first daters bring tons of baggage, which gets kicked around metaphorically onstage with truly funny and witty words and ... (more...)
BWW Review: ShakesCar Puts Women Behind THE IRON MASK
BWW Review: More Empathy for a Barbaric Monarch in the Touring KING AND I
BWW Review: FUN HOME Strikes a New Balance on Tour
BWW Review: CHORUS LINE at CPCC Remains as Fresh as Ever – in Spots
BWW Review: SQUAWKS Hasn't Sharpened Its Claws
BWW Review: WAITING FOR GODOT Tops Spoleto's Edgy Theatre Lineup
BWW Review: Physical Comedy Reigns Supreme in THE ACTRESS
BWW Review: There's Plenty of Broadway Bravura in Theatre Charlotte's MEMPHIS
BWW Review: Enjoying Is Easier Than Understanding THE PRIDE
BWW Review: WUTHERING HEIGHTS Dances Madly to the End of Love
BWW Review: STUPID F@#%ING BIRD Mashes Chekhov With Giddy Modernism
BWW Review: Art and Business Clash in MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
BWW Review: A New RAISIN IN THE SUN Is Set to Explode
BWW Review: BOOTYCANDY Sizzles With Satire and Seethes With Inner Turmoil
BWW Review: The Ghost of (I Hate) Hamlet Returns - With a Vengeance - in WOMEN PLAYING HAMLET
BWW Review: THE GREAT COMET Outshines HAMILTON in Perry T's Annual Broadway Roundup
BWW Review: Strong CP Cast Unleashes Newfound Power of RAGTIME
BWW Review: COTU Hits the Road With a Mind-Boggling HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE
BWW Review: AN ACT OF GOD Ordains Wedolowski as Divine Vessel
BWW Review: Henley's CRIMES OF THE HEART Still Delivers Southern-Fried Hilarity
BWW Review: EMERSON STRING QUARTET Rocks Halton Theater Again
BWW Review: GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE Brings New Balance to Love & Murder on Tour
BWW Review: FIRST DATE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Booth Playhouse
BWW Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ
BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL Strikes a Boomer Chord
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