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BWW Review: ANYTHING GOES at Goodspeed Opera House
Some musicals make you think, some make you cry, while others just give you a permanent smile on your face for the duration of the show. The latter was the state of this reviewer as we set sail on the S.S. American for a rollicking "Bon Voyage" in Goodspeed Musicals' opening show of the 2016 season,...
BWW Review: LEWISTON in New Haven
What a difference a day makes in Samuel D. Hunter's play, Lewiston, which is having its world premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre....
BWW Review: HAVING OUR SAY at Hartford Stage Company
HAVING OUR SAY is the theatrical adaptation by Emily Mann of the joint memoir of the same title published in 1993 by Dr. Bessie Delany and Miss Sadie Delany, who were then both over 100 years old. The evening is a delight as well as a fine history lesson. This co-production (with Long Wharf Theate...
BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Music Theatre Of Connecticut
If you want to know the 'cut to the chase' review, it's: Go. See. This. Show. You can skip to the end to find the details about dates, times and ticket acquisition....
BWW Review: SEX WITH STRANGERS at TheaterWorks
Laura Eason's contemporary play is more than just an economical choice for small theaters (just two actors) about a hot topic. It asks provocative questions, too: How far to bend toward commercialism, as an ambitious artist with high aspirations? Can two people from different sides of a digital divi...
BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Hartford Stage Company
Director Darko Tresnjak directed 24 other Shakespeare productions before mounting his first ROMEO AND JULIET, currently on the boards at Hartford Stage where he is Artistic Director. His hesitation arose from his belief that, despite the play's popularity, it is a problematic piece by a young play...
BWW Review: HAVING OUR SAY in New Haven
If you miss it in New Haven, see it in Hartford....
BWW Review: I HATE HAMLET at Playhouse On Park
If you ask the average theater-goer their opinion of Shakespeare, you are bound to get a variety of answers. Some will immediately begin gushing about which of the bard's plays they have seen, which they like the best, or which they don't care for. Others will pretend to be fans, but make excuses an...
BWW Review: BUYER & CELLAR at TheaterWorks
Let's admit it: Theater is sanctioned voyeurism, offering us a glimpse into lives we might not otherwise see. Often the payoff is in empathy, all bound up with the guilty pleasure of sitting in the dark watching other people in conflict. In BUYER & CELLAR at TheaterWorks in Hartford, empathy...
BWW Review: ROCK OF AGES at the Warner Theatre
When considering musical theatre, one often immediately thinks of the classics - those shows that tell an age old story with soaring and lyrical songs peppered with engaging dance numbers and beautiful costumes. Those plays certainly have their place in the world, but in the past decade or so, a new...
BWW Review: ONCE Enchants New Haven
Guy meets girl. They make some music. And they either end up together or apart, delighting or devastating their respective audiences. It's just as typical a story as the romance of the Broadway musical (and usually has a similar effect). Well, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's Once is hailed for da...
BWW Review: THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN at Hartford Stage Company
Dan O'Brien's play THE BODY OF AMERICAN turns on a friendship built on a bond of differing traumas. It's a true story, and an on-going one. We watch two edgy, damaged, highly verbal men trying to understand themselves through the other and forge a friendship without pretense. ...
BWW Review: THE LION in New Haven
Must see Benjamin Scheuer's show to find out. @BenjaminScheuer...
BWW Review: JUNGLE BOOK in Bridgeport
The Jungle Book is best seen live in Bridgeport....
BWW Review: PASSING STRANGE at Playhouse On Park
How does one find "the real"? That is the question that "Youth" the protagonist in PASSING STRANGE asks himself as he takes the audience along on his long journey of self-discovery. In this the second production of their seventh season, Playhouse on Park in West Hartford has taken a chance on a less...
BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT at Connecticut Repertory Theater
Fast-paced and funny is what the production of TWELFTH NIGHT at UConn's Connecticut Repertory Theater is going for, it seems. The text has been significantly cut so that running time is just barely two hours, and the antic clowning in the show works well. What's missing is the heart, and since thi...
BWW Review: CHRISTMAS ON THE ROCKS at TheaterWorks
What is Clara of NUTCRACKER fame like as a grownup? Or Tiny Tim, or Charlie Brown, or Cindy Lou Who from HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS? Answers await in Hartford's TheaterWorks basement space, transformed into a cozy but dated local bar on Christmas Eve, in a lonely corner of the cosmos with a st...
BWW Review: MAN OF LA MANCHA at the Broad Brook Opera House
It's always a thrill to make your first visit to see a new theatre company. A lack of context creates a blank slate with limitless possibilities. That was my experience when I attend my first production by the Opera House Players at the lovely Broad Brook Opera House in Broad Brook, CT. Situated a b...
BWW Reviews: MASS APPEAL at Square One Theatre
Square One Theatre opens season with MASS APPEAL...
BWW Review: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Between the dancing, singing and joking, this fun-hearted musical is a pleasant surprised and one to be seen....
BWW Review: A New REAR WINDOW Premieres at Hartford Stage Company
Hartford Stage's new adaptation of REAR WINDOW is an exercise in style as well as being a significant reworking of a famous story for our time. And it offers a celebrity sighting: Kevin Bacon in the role made famous by Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's thriller, based on the same source material. So the ...
BWW Review: DISGRACED at Long Wharf Theatre
How do we costume ourselves for public representation? For friends and lovers? What's essential to identity and what can be shed? Can we take on aspects of cultural heritages other than our own without exploitation? DISGRACED, which won the Pulitzer in 2013, takes up the dynamics of cultura...
BWW Review: EVITA is a Feast for the Eyes in Music Theatre of Connecticut's Snug Space
What a time for Music Theatre of Connecticut to revive this musical, bringing the 'circus' that is how we the people view seemingly larger-than-life characters into its snug Norwalk space....
BWW Review: A WONDERFUL LIFE at Goodspeed Opera House
It's a tricky thing when a popular film is adapted for the musical stage. Sometimes it works and sometimes it simply falls flat. For A WONDERFUL LIFE, presented by Goodspeed Musicals, it falls somewhere in-between. To be fair, It's A Wonderful Life is not just a "popular film", it's practically an A...
BWW Review: THIRD at TheaterWorks
The title character of THIRD is male: Woodson Bull III, called 'Third' for short. He's a blonde, blue-eyed athlete, with the kind of name that suggests he's a scion of a powerful upper class family-but looks can be deceiving. Unfortunately, the central character in the play, Professor Laurie Jam...
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