Review: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN at Osceola Arts
by Joseph Harrison - Sep 20, 2022
There’s no arguing that musicals made from movies can be hit or miss. Broadway has had it’s share of them over the last few decades. Sometimes they work well (e.g., HAIRSPRAY, LEGALLY BLONDE, THE PRODUCERS) and sometimes not so much (e.g., CARRIE, KING KONG, DRACULA) but there is something particularly thrilling about seeing a fan favorite brought to life on stage. That is certainly the case for YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, the musical version of the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy film of the same name. And lucky for fans (of either the film or the musical) the current production at Osceola Arts in Kissimmee is absolutely fabulous – from the first bolt of lighting to the last thunderclap (and audience clap) – it’s a non-stop, rollicking good time.
Ross Valley Players Presents DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 1, 2018
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man - with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative comedy by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, author of the Ross Valley Players hit The Clean House. A work about how we memorialize the dead - and how that remembering changes us - it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
East Lynne Theater Company Opens SHERLOCK HOLMES, Today
by BWW
News Desk - Nov 2, 2012
'We're not getting all the evidence. I feel it in my bones. Unless some lucky chance comes our way, I fear that the Norwood Disappearance Case will not figure in that chronicle of our successes." Sherlock Holmes is speaking to his loyal friend Dr. Watson. They are trying desperately to prove that a young lawyer did not commit murder, while Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard is convinced of it.
East Lynne Theater Company Opens SHERLOCK HOLMES, 11/2
by Kelsey Denette - Oct 22, 2012
'We're not getting all the evidence. I feel it in my bones. Unless some lucky chance comes our way, I fear that the Norwood Disappearance Case will not figure in that chronicle of our successes." Sherlock Holmes is speaking to his loyal friend Dr. Watson. They are trying desperately to prove that a young lawyer did not commit murder, while Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard is convinced of it.
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Announces Detailed 2011 Season
by BWW
News Desk - Jul 25, 2011
From July 5 to 25, 2011, the 63rd season of Festival d'Aix-en-Provence will offer six new opera and musical theater productions including two world premieres; a concert series featuring symphonic works, chamber music and recitals; and the programs of the 14th Academie Europeenne de Musique.
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Announces Detailed 2011 Season
by Gabrielle Sierra - Mar 28, 2011
From July 5 to 25, 2011, the 63rd season of Festival d'Aix-en-Provence will offer six new opera and musical theater productions including two world premieres; a concert series featuring symphonic works, chamber music and recitals; and the programs of the 14th Academie Europeenne de Musique.
William Kentridge Makes Met Debut Directing Shostakovich’s THE NOSE
by BWW News Desk - Mar 1, 2010
Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose has its Metropolitan Opera premiere on March 5 at 8:00 pm, conducted by Valery Gergiev, in a visually arresting new production by artist William Kentridge that features original collage, film, sculpture, and massive projections of the artist's drawings and prints. Making his Met debut, baritone Paulo Szot performs the role of Kovalyov in the story of the Russian official who wakes one morning to discover his nose has disappeared (and taken on a higher bureaucratic rank). Based on the short story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol, the opera is what Kentridge has called an exploration of "learning from the absurd." In this production, visuals include renderings of Soviet workers, snatches of newspaper, and projections of propaganda - as well as the missing appendage in adventures ranging from delivering a speech to riding a horse.