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BWW Review: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER at Media Theatre
From a short 1976 New York Magazine article by Brit ex pat Nik Cohn (which he later admitted was fictional) was spawned a block buster film that made John Travolta a household name....
BWW Review: LEND ME A TENOR at Candlelight Theatre
I understand why actors have a passive-aggressive relationship with critics. Over 30+ years of reviewing regional theatre, some don't make eye contact with me when they feel I have slighted or criticized them unfairly in a previous review…or worse yet…never mentioned them!...
BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Kent County Theatre Guild
A musical that is both charming and heartbreaking told by two actors in a very unique way....
BWW Review: AIDA - ELTON JOHN & TIM RICE at Wilmington Drama League
A Nubian Princess and an Egyptian war hero Captain fall in love at the risk of their lives and the heartbreak of others....
BWW Review: FENCES at UD Rep Ensemble
Bono, friend to Troy the protagonist in UD Rep Ensemble's FENCES, comments 'Some people build fences to keep people out, some people build fences to keep people in'....
BWW Review: MAURITIUS at UD Rep Ensemble
While UD Rep Ensemble's general modus operandi is classic plays from the likes of Moliere, Shakespeare and Thornton Wilder, their mission statement includes production of contemporary classics as well. Artistic Director Sandy Robbins is smitten by Theresa Rebeck, a prolific and award-winning America...
BWW Review: HONK! at Delaware Theatre Company
HONK! Is a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson story of "The Ugly Duckling". It embodies a message of tolerance and bullying…and as Director Bud Martin suggests in his program notes…'the discourse in our country today is full of bullying, name-calling, racism and anti-immigration"....
BWW Review: GUYS AND DOLLS at Candlelight Theatre
GUYS AND DOLLS, at Candlelight through February 24, opened on Broadway in 1950 and is front and center in the pantheon of American musical theatre. I had forgotten how much I treasure this show....
BWW Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Wilmington Drama League
The parallel musical storytelling of Jamie and Cathy. One of Jason Robert Brown's best works....
BWW Review: SHE LOVES ME at Candlelight Music Theatre
There's a reason that the vast majority of parishioners to musical theatre had not seen SHE LOVES ME prior, including Aisle Say. The show, while billed as charming and seasonal with carolers singing "12 Days of Christmas", has as much gravitas as tweets from Tweeter in Chief...
BWW Review: WOMAN IN MIND at UD Rep Enemble
In his liner notes, Artistic Director Sandy Robbins comments that Alan Ackybourne's WOMAN IN MIND (December Bee) was on his short list since the inception of UD Rep ten glorious years back....
BWW Review: SANCTIONS at Delaware Theatre Co.
Aisle Say is prescient. He can determine where SANCTIONS, the terse and taut production now at DE Theatre Company, will NOT be staged: U of Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State, to name a few. There are hundreds more....
BWW Review: BRIGADOON at Candlelight Music Theatre
I'm a bit surprised that the News Journal did not report a run on Scottish plaid leading up to Candlelight's opening of BRIGADOON. The tartans from the various clans made for a colorful array by Costumer Tara Bowers and surely enriched the production....
BWW Review: HOLIDAY INN at The Walnut Theatre
The Walnut Theater opens its 210th season with HOLIDAY INN with music by America's songwriter, Irving Berlin. One is invariably impressed by the institution's lavish sets (Robert Andrew Kovach) and the quality and attention to detail of their entire Creative Crew....
BWW Review: FUN HOME at Wilmington Drama League - Welcome to the house on Maple Avenue
Let's start with a basic misconception - FUN HOME is not a comedy. The word 'fun' is an abbreviation for funeral. FUN HOME is the shortened, more enjoyable characterization of the Bechdel Funeral Home. Even though the young Bechdel children play inside caskets, and make-up silly commercials for the ...
BWW Review: DO BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHOES REFLECT UP at Candlelight Music Theatre
Candlelight's DO BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHOES REALLY REFLECT UP was a revelation to me. I am serious! I began my public-school education in the mid-fifties. Some of my friends went to Catholic school. Now I know why some of them are screwed up....
BWW Review: EVIL DEAD, THE MUSICAL at Bootless Stage Works
One wonders what Director Rosanne DellAversano and Music Director James Fuerst talk about at home. Is dinner conversation taken up with zombies, flesh eaters, how to maximize blood flow on the brave guests who sit in the "Splatter Zone" of their present production of EVIL DEAD, THE MUSICAL?...
BWW Review: TWELFE NIGHT at Arden Shakespeare Gild
Shakespearean stars were aligned this season with not one but two TWELFTH NIGHTS, staged earlier in the year at UD Rep Ensemble and presently in the sylvan fields of Arden....
BWW Review: BOEING BOEING at Candlelight Music Theatre
In this #METOO world of Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer and Donald Trump, one might look a bit circumspect at the staging of a 'bedroom' farce. As explained in the program notes, flight attendants in the '60's has to be single, between the ages of 21 and 27 and have a 'neatly proportioned figure' and '...
BWW Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Bootless Stageworks
This year, Bootless Stageworks is using its new home at St. Stephen's Church on Broom Street to re-present shows they had performed in earlier venues. In case you are unfamiliar with it, 'next to normal' is about a suburban family dealing with the effects of mental illness, told through a largely ro...
BWW Review: MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL at The Playhouse
I always felt that the Beatles' songS of peace and love had as much to do with the fall of communism as much as Pres. Reagan's 1987 Berlin prouncement, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"....
BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT at Rep Ensemble
Nine years running, excellence in all aspects of theatre - cast and creative crew - continue to substantiate UD Rep Ensemble as the most professional troupe in Delaware....
BWW Review: ELLA: FIRST LADY OF SONG at DE Theatre Company
Tapper/Singer/Director Maurice Hines and brother Gregory first performed with Ella Fitzgerald at The Flamingo in Vegas. He knew he was in the presence of greatness. Maurice called her 'the greatest singer I have ever heard'....
BWW Review: DIRTY DANCING at The Playhouse
If memory serves, way back in 1987 the movie DIRTY DANCING sizzled with sexual energy, engendered by the super charged chemistry between the poster boy of charisma, Patrick Swayze and the naive Baby, who liquifies under his charms as quickly as a Rita's water ice in July....
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Mean Girls Clear Space Theatre Company (6/26-8/29) |
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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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