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BWW Review: THE GREEN BOOK at Bunbury Theatre
No, it's not the movie. Nor is it the basis of the movie. But if the movie prompts you to check out this play, then everybody wins....
BWW Review: HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
It is difficult to fully appreciate the volume and quality of songs written by Irving Berlin in your head at one moment. Most of us over a certain age know several, but we might not always connect each one to Berlin. We always know he was responsible for 'White Christmas', of course, and 'God Bless ...
BWW Review: ALMOST, MAINE at Commonwealth Theatre Center
In his program notes for this production, director Charlie Sexton states, 'Sometimes we need a night of theatre where pretense, deep subtext and the desire to change the world is stripped away...' While I can understand how John Cariani's play fits the bill, I think there is still a few moments that...
Broadway Beyond Louisville Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at Aronoff Center
Tradition is on tour!...
BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN at Kentucky Center For The Arts
Louisville is going back to the Renaissance!...
BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Broadway In Louisville
Something Rotten! roared into town this week. And judging from the high-energy opening night, audiences won't be lifting their noses at this hybrid Shakespeare/Musical production. The title itself is a quotation from one of Shakespeare's best-known plays and includes the ubiquitous use of exclamatio...
BWW Review: DADA WOOF PAPA HOT at Pandora Productions
Marriages fail for many reasons, or perhaps, more often than not, it boils down to the fear that you have sacrificed something for that commitment, and you want another chance to get it back. And if you have children, the weight is much greater....
BWW Review: PIPELINE at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
If Actors Theatre were to make an annual tradition of producing the latest Dominique Morisseau play every January, it would be a reason to rejoice. One year after the indelible Skeleton Crew, director Steve H. Broadnax III, and actor Patrese D. McClain have returned with Pipeline, an even stronger p...
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS STORY THE MUSICAL at Broadway In Louisville
This week's Broadway Series production ushers in the holiday season with the stage adaptation of the 1983 movie, A Christmas Story. It took almost three decades for the musical to come into being, hitting Broadway November 2012. The perennial television favorite is a nostalgic stroll through small-t...
BWW Review: THE SANTALAND DIARIES at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
If you have been even remotely close to a mall and/or department store during the Holiday season, you know well the Scene. Often found within the center of the shopping hub-bub and cleverly placed near the toys, an onslaught of seasonal scenery is in sight: adorable gingerbread houses, cotton-candy ...
BWW Review: HOLIDAY INN at Derby Dinner Playhouse
As a kid, I remember watching White Christmas (1954) every year with my family. When I got a little older I came across Holiday Inn, the 1941 precursor that also starred Bing Crosby, but paired with Fred Astaire, and introducing the song 'White Christmas'. There was a widely held opinion among some ...
BWW Review: CREATURE: A FRANKENSTEIN PUPPET ADAPTATION at Suspend
This review includes a longer than usual list of credits in the header, and that may point to a deficiency in the posting of other reviews, but the exception made here is to indicate the particularly balanced collaboration among the team members....
BWW Review: THE EFFECT at The Liminal PLayhouse
Poets have been seeking the truth about love for centuries. As elusive as the breeze and as prolific as the butterfly....
BWW Review: FRANKENSTEIN at StageOne Family Theatre
I'm not sure how many have read Mary Shelley's classic novel, so familiar is the creature from countless generations of the story that have moved further and further from the source. It seems likely that there might be a good number of people who have never read or seen any of these, and only know t...
BWW Review: A JEWISH JOKE at Bunbury Theater
Walking to my car after seeing Bunbury Theatre's current show at The Henry Clay, I had to return a phone call to my sister....
BWW Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
After 15 years, Nora is back, and she's got a lot to say....
BWW Review: Disney's ALADDIN at The Kentucky Center For The Arts
As many theatre fans know, Disney isn't short of staged adaptions based on their beloved family films. Starting in the 90s with Beauty and the Beast, Disney has gone on to produce shows such as The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Mary Poppins, Frozen, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Freaky F...
BWW Review: THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Commonwealth Theatre Center
I think I speak for the majority of liberal America when I say that the times we live in are exhausting. More than that, they are disheartening in a way that embitters us to the victories and further dampens the tragedies of our nation's storied past. It is difficult to believe that there will ever ...
BWW Review: DISNEY'S ALADDIN at Broadway In Louisville
After the disappointment of canceling Waitress following the June 13 fire at the Kentucky Center, Broadway in Louisville kicks off the current season in spectacular style. The 2014 Broadway production of Disney's Aladdin flew into Louisville this week for an extended run....
BWW Review: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS at Kentucky Shakespeare
On October 30, 1938, just before 8:00 pm, Americans gathered around the radio to listen to Mercury Theatre On The Air, an anthology series produced and hosted by Orson Welles. That evening's program, scripted by Howard Koch, was a modern-day adaptation of H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds, one of th...
BWW Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2 at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House Part 2 opens with a knock on a door. Reid Thompson's haunting set design stretches across the Victor Jory Theatre with purpose, making the smallest ATL performance space feel somehow like the largest, and in in the center stands a door, tall, purple, and foreboding. The ...
BWW Review: BLUE STOCKINGS at Commonwealth Theatre Center
If you were fortunate to be in the opening night audience of Commonwealth Theater Company's (CTC) production of Blue Stockings, you had the privilege to witness not only a brilliant performance but also a pre-show panel discussion entitled 'Leadership, Representation, and the Impact of Women in High...
BWW Review: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
Not so many years ago, a person diagnosed with a behavioral and/or learning disability would have been sent to a 'special' school or home where, most of the time, just their basic needs were met, with little human interaction or development....
BWW Review: CABARET - 1998 REVIVAL VERSION OF KANDER & EBB'S CLASSIC at Pandora Productions
'In here, life is beautiful...' a phrase repeated by the Emcee of the Kit-Kat Club in Berlin. This emcee invites his audience to forget and ignore their troubles and hardship and indulge in a world full of dancing girls, flirtations, and decadence. Gritty, powerful and raw, Pandora Productions curre...
BWW Review: THE ELECTRIC HARVEST at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
Nineteenth-century mansions always put me in a good mood on a cool September night. If there is a good story to go along with said mansion, all the better. Actors Theatre of Louisville kicks off the fall and its New Play Project with A. Rey Pamatmat's The Electric Harvest, a site-specific one-act se...
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97.5 WAMZ Acoustic Jam The Louisville Palace (12/09-12/09) |
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Hamilton Whitney Hall (6/30-7/12) |
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