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Review: SWEET CHARITY at Candlelight Music Theatre
What did our critic think As a 5 decade long advocate for Candlelight Dinner Theatre, first as actor and then as reviewer, it is immensely gratifying to witness that not only have they survived but prospered over these years. They pay their actors and creative crew only a stipend. To a man/woman, �...
BWW Review: OTHER WORLD at Delaware Theatre Company
Will the new musical OTHER WORLD continue in IRL after its premiere at Delaware Theatre Company? I sure hope so!...
BWW Review: BIG FISH at Candlelight Music Theatre
Aisle Say’s most recent review was at DE Theatre Co’s OTHER WORLD, the largest and most technically challenging production in their 45-year history. The budgets of that show versus the cost of Candlelight’s BIG FISH are as dissimilar as Mt. Kilimanjaro to Brandywine Park’s Monkey Hill....
BWW Review: OTHER WORLD at Delaware Theatre Company
In it’s 45+ years existence, Delaware Theatre Company has never mounted a production of this magnitude. Originally scheduled to open 2 years ago at Bucks County Playhouse, the world went topsy turvy....
BWW Review: MAMMA MIA at Candlelight Music Theatre
Mamma Mia must be one of the greatest juke box musicals of all time. When the film came out, a colleague mentioned that Pierce Brosnan had an atrocious voice, so I passed. He had star power. That is how two of the most horrendous miscastings of movie musicals were cast; Marlon Brando in Guys and Dol...
BWW Review: LE CAVALIER RESTAURANT at Hotel DuPont
I have been blessed with being involved in theatre for 64 years and have critiqued the arts for 35 years. Those of a certain age will remember News Journal theatre critics Phil Crossland and Otto Dekom of the 60’s through 90’s. Phil loved every show he ever saw and every actor on stage. We all w...
BWW Review: BEST OF CANDLELIGHT at Candlelight Music Theatre
Candlelight Theatre opens their third show of the season with an economical inhouse production of BEST OF CANDLELIGHT, a prudent decision with live theatre the world over attempting to gain financial stasis. This show has no ‘book’, saving licensing money. The show takes us down Broadway; a smor...
BWW Review: AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' THE FATS WALLER MUSICAL SHOW at Candlelight Music Theatre
Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Fats Waller Musical Show, is a different juke box show from Candlelight’s previous production of BEEHIVE. From the rock n’ roll of 60’s we time travel back 30- years to the American jazz pianist Waller. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork f...
BWW Review: THE WHITNEY PROJECT - A CELEBRATION OF BLACK JOY at Delaware Theatre Company
Like a family reunion, The Whitney Project - A Celebration of Black Joy brings together songs and stories, old and new, for a moment in time like no other....
BWW Review: BEEHIVE at Candlelight Music Theatre
A juke box collection of hits from the 60’s where pleasant memories were evocative from that less provocative era. The production was curated such that only ‘girl groups’ or female solo artists were featured. An ensemble of singers and dancers carefully cast by Director/Choreographer Jody Ande...
BWW Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Capitol City Theater (Nebraska)
While scrolling on Facebook one day, I came across a post from a theater offering a streamed production of Spring Awakening. As I am a hardcore fan of the show, my interest was piqued. Then, I saw a post from a person involved with the theater asking if anyone in the Philly area would provide a revi...
BWW Review: OUTSIDE MULLINGAR at Delaware Theatre Company
For those of us who have visited Ireland and basked in the bountiful love and generosity of its people, the plays of its most famous authors are striking in contrast. There are no strangers when one visits the Emerald Isle. However, the plays of Brian Friel, Sean O'Casey and John Millington Synge ar...
BWW Review: STARTER PISTOL at UD Rep Ensemble
For 11 years The Resident Ensemble Players of UD has produced plays of global renown. The majority of the actors have been there since the inception. Aisle Say has been privileged to attend most of them. Generally, the classics are performed; Shakespeare, Shaw, August Wilson, Alan Ayckbourn, Moliere...
BWW Review: CABARET at Candlelight Theatre
Candlelight's stunning production on CABARET forces Aisle Say to ponder if he has ever seen a more polished and thoroughly professional production at this venerable Arden barn....
BWW Review: PASSING STRANGE at City-Theater Co
Founded in 1993 - and now under the artistic and musical leadership of Kerry Kristine and Joe Trainor a?" City-Theatre says close to its roots to take risks and eschew redundancy in staging PASSING STRANGE at Opera Delaware's Black Box on the Riverfront....
BWW Review: INTO THE WOODS at Resident Theatre Co
Resident Theatre Company of West Chester, in its 2nd year under the direction of Kristin McLaughlin Mitchell, staged a vibrant, harmonious and poignant rendition of one of Sondheim's most difficult to stage, INTO THE WOODS....
BWW Review: CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT at Candlelight Theatre
Candlelight welcomes in the season with CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT, showcasing a variety of familiar 'chestnuts' and some not frequently heard. It is a nostalgic look at Christmas, focusing on family, friendship, community, children, and loved ones who are especially missed during the holidays....
BWW Review: SHREK, THE MUSICAL at Walnut Street Theatre
SHREK, THE MUSICAL may not be the (self-described) greatest fairy tale ever told, but it is one of the most joyous, cheerful and animated musicals I've seen in years. (I say animated for it is taken from the DreamWorks film SHREK). The cast, the costumes, the sets and the music make this #1 in my ye...
BWW Review: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at UD Rep Ensemble
What has Sandy Robbins accomplished in two decades at UD? Our state has a theatre group equal to The Guthrie in Minneapolis, the Arena Stage in DC and the McCarter Stage in Princeton, among others; venues renown as the greatest of American performance stages....
BWW Review: DE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME at The Baby Grand
Paula and George Wolkind's dream of a Delaware Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is now a bonafied institution. A sellout crowd at the baby grand on September 22 welcomed not only musical legends but also historians, DJ's and promoters who have had and continue to have a profound influence on the music scene...
BWW Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Candlelight Theatre
Based on the hit film and the incredible true story, Candlelight's CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is the high-flying musical comedy about chasing your dreams and not getting caught. If you're gonna fake, fake til you make it!...
BWW Review: HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES at Delaware Theatre Company
Delaware Theatre Co opens its season with THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. For Arthur Conan Doyle adherents, this is pipedreams away from Benedict Cumberbatch OR in my case, Basil Rathbone (my favorite all time baddest of bad guys in the movies of the 50's)....
BWW Review: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: THE MUSICAL at Walnut Street Theatre
The Walnut Street Theatre opens its 211th season (no typo) with an uproarious YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. This venerable theatre has seen the likes of all the Barrymores, Katherine Hepburn and Edwin Booth, to name a few. (Although his brother's legacy probably tanked his career)....
BWW Review: JEKYLL & HYDE at Wilmington Drama League
Leslie Bricusse's book follows the basic outline of the often told tale. The good Dr. Henry Jekyll is a man with a mission - develop a serum that will separate mankind's innate dichotomy of good and evil to cure mental illness (mainly, his father). Dr. Jekyll's desire to test his formula is aggressi...
BWW Review: SOUTH PACIFIC at Candlelight Theatre
Such a serendipitous time to stage SOUTH PACIFIC at Candlelight; 1949 legendary musical theatre consciously plotted to speak to racial animosity; brown skins vs white skins. And now, 78 years later, we reside in a country riven by a racist president....
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Between The Lines A New Musical Griffin Theatre (6/05-6/14) |
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The Cher Show Clear Space Theatre Company (6/23-7/27) |
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Pretty Woman Clear Space Theatre Company (7/01-8/25) |
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch Milton Theatre (10/21-11/01) |
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Mean Girls Clear Space Theatre Company (6/26-8/29) |
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Grease: The Musical Milton Theatre (7/09-8/02) |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Milton Theatre (9/24-10/11) |
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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Possum Point Players (9/11-9/20) |
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Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Second Street Players (8/21-8/30) |
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