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BWW Review: BURIED CHILD Reinvented at Catastrophic Theatre
They have cast the show without regard to race, perceived sexual orientation or physical types, and in the process expanded the vision of what could be a narrow exercise into a universal one. Never has the play felt so broad and borderless, and the staging reveals interesting struggles inside both A...
BWW Review: AMERICAN INGENUITY Showcases Powerful Performances From Houston Ballet
BWW Review: AMERICAN INGENUITY Showcases Powerful Performances From Houston Ballet...
BWW Review: THE REVOLUTIONISTS Serve Girl Power at Main Street Theater
The author claims it is 'mostly a comedy', and it is certainly not a musical about a barricade with people singing the songs of angry men. No, this one is the words of enraged women as they struggle to be recognized as the vehicles of liberation....
BWW Review: The Alley Theatre's HAND TO GOD Is Funny (Hand to God)
Laugh out loud, tears-in-your-eyes, dangerously close to wetting your pants funny....
BWW Review: A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN Brings Down the House
Janis Joplin was a force of nature. She was a candle in the wind. She was brash, vulgar, hard-drinking, hard-drugging, hard-living and fatally flawed....
BWW Review: The Landing Theatre Company's GAMBRELS OF THE SKY Dwells in Possibility
Described as an 'urban biblical fairy tale,' GAMBRELS OF THE SKY, the Landing Theatre Company's current production, catches us up with Eve (I did say biblical, didn't I?), six thousand years removed from the garden. She now works in a high-rise, specializing in office-based hedonism, with Rose, the ...
BWW Review: After Fledgling Start PETE'S DRAGON Spreads Massive Wings & Soars!
PETE'S DRAGON is a movie for children, not adults, but grown-ups will still find themselves enchanted by Pete, an orphaned 11-year-old struggling to hold on to his best friend, a dragon named Elliott....
BWW Review: THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES: DREAM ON at Stages Repertory Theatre
You can feel the standing ovation building the second they start working their way through 30 hit songs that the audience sings along with gleefully. I saw the production the second weekend, and already audience members were proclaiming to others 'This is my THIRD time!'...
BWW Review: RFK: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY Campaigns at Main Street Theater
If you're wrestling with the current election, or wondering how we have gotten to this point in America's history, this is a powerful, informed piece. It incorporates the civil rights movement at the time when Martin Luther King was taken from his mission and asks hard questions about what all of th...
BWW Review: THE MAIDS Misses the Mark at Mildred's Umbrella
BWW Review: Mildred's Umbrella Present Jean Genet's THE MAIDS...
BWW Review: SHREK Brings Laughs Both Big and Small
The show is genuinely moving, entertaining, and a fast-paced, all around fun time for the entire family. Don't be quick to assume you can't take your date to see SHREK just because the production is part of Main Street Theater's Theatre for Youth program. The performance is open to the public, and t...
BWW Review: Gilbert and Sullivan's PRINCESS IDA - Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History
'Gilbert and Sullivan?', you might say. 'Who are they? What are their last names? Are they some kind of alternative rock band, or perhaps a rap duo?'...
BWW Review: A Tangled Web - SPIDER'S WEB at the Alley Theatre
Summer Chills at the Alley Theatre is all about entertainment. There are no axes to grind; no hidden depths to plumb, which is great, because it's too hot to do much besides sit in air-conditioned comfort and watch other people exert themselves....
BWW Reviews: WICKED National Tour Continues to Defy Belief at The Hobby Center
On October 30, 2003, the institution of what we call American Musical theatre would never be the same. This highly anticipated musical hit Broadway running with box office success and two stars top billed. The wickedly talented Idina Menzel (Elphaba) and Kristin Chenoweth (Galinda) were the talks of...
BWW Review: SHEAR MADNESS takes over Stages Repertory Theatre
Stages Repertory Theatre's creation of this SHEAR MADNESS is buoyed by an outstanding cast that handles comedy and improvisation with ease. The six actors onstage are quick on their feet, and so funny they can break each other up in many instances as the story unfolds....
BWW Review: THE GRAPES OF WRATH Skims Steinbeck at Houston Theatre Group
When the Houston Theatre Company chose to present the play in The University of St. Thomas Jones Hall, a small black box venue, they bit off a lot. I admire their grit, but I can't help wondering, if they had it to do over again, would they?...
BWW Review: TAMARIE FOR PRESIDENT Fillibusters the Funny at Catastrophic Theatre
This is so much fun, and something you don't want to miss this season. It's a time when we could all use a good laugh, and Tamarie is going for broke as she does every summer with her sardonic take aimed at elections....
BWW Review: The Landing Theatre Company's TEN WAYS ON A GUN, One of the Summer's Most Unique Offerings
Bolstered by the vision of director Jacey Little and a talented cast that seems to revel in the meta-irreverence of Lamb's work, TEN WAYS ON A GUN is guaranteed to be one of the most unique offerings this summer -- certainly one not to be missed....
BWW Review: A.D. Players' LITTLE WOMEN: THE MUSICAL Is the Theatrical Equivalent to Curling Up With a Good Book
LITTLE WOMEN: THE MUSICAL is quite the curiosity -- a musical that isn't particularly enhanced or defined by its music. But though the music may be mostly forgettable, the voices in the A.D. Players' production are not. Neither are the performances. It is the cast that ultimately elevates this admit...
BWW Review: THE DIVINE SISTER Offers Nun Control at Celebration Theatre
Right now the world needs a good chuckle at the pious and prissy, and this production answers that divine calling with ease. If you're a devout Catholic or easily offended, maybe this one isn't for you. But if you can appreciate gender bending joined with slapstick camp you've found your salvation....
BWW Review: SILENCE! slays the spoof at Standing Room Only Productions
From the bodily fluid throwing Miggs to the naked and tucked Buffalo Bill, expect to see everything you witnessed in the movie recreated live onstage by a company who at times don Lambchop hand puppets to narrate the action. It's fast, furious, and like being blasted by hits of nitrous oxide constan...
BWW Review: BORN YESTERDAY Still Sizzles Today At The Alley Theatre
Garson Kanin's BORN YESTERDAY premiered on Broadway in 1946, and seventy years later it still entertains and gently enlightens. Regardless of the time period, the play is far more relevant than you'd think. Directed by Jonathan Moscone, the play is about wealth, political corruption, education and o...
BWW Review: WORKING Reminds Us We Are More Than Our Jobs
WORKING is based on Studs Terkel's well-known book of interviews with U.S workers, which retells the accounts of men and women and presents the meaning that these jobs bring to their lives. This classic musical was first adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso and premiered at the Goodman Theatre ...
BWW Review: LIDLESS provides dark drama at Horse Head Theatre Co.
This is a production that should be sought out by theatre patrons wanting something a little more powerful than a simple musical or another romantic comedy. LIDLESS is a play that looks at the darkest and lightest parts of our culture and our souls....
BWW Review: Bedlam's SAINT JOAN Is Candid And Fresh At Stark Naked Theatre
BWW Review: George Bernard Shaw's SAINT JOAN Is Honest And Immersive...
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