Review Roundup: What Did the Critics Think of London Theatre Company's JULIUS CAESAR?
by Stephi Wild - January 31, 2018 Nicholas Hytner's production of Julius Caesar, the London Theatre Company's second production at the Bridge Theatre, runs from 20 January to 15 April 2018, with opening night on Tuesday 30 January 2018. Designs are by Bunny Christie, with costumes by Christina Cunningham, music by Nick Powell, light...
BWW Review: CFTA's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Will Have You Laughing All The Way Home
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 25, 2016 Patrick Kramer's commanding performance as Frederick Frankenstein (that's 'FRONKENsteen' for the uninitiated) in the Center for the Arts' production of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein is reason enough to buy a ticket (if you're lucky enough to score one - shows are playing to capacity crowds in Murfr...
BWW Review: LA STRADA, The Other Palace
by Gary Naylor - June 01, 2017 La Strada, adapted from the Fellini movie is a play with music that captures the style and ethics of a classic movie, indeed the Neo-Realism style....
BWW Review: Larry Shue's THE NERD at Chaffin's Barn
by Jeffrey Ellis - March 26, 2017 Larry Shue's The Nerd brings with it a fairly healthy and reasonably impressive theater pedigree: more than 400 performances on Broadway, critical acclaim and audience adulation for its West End run (in fact, it was the most successful American play running there in 1986), scores of regional and com...
Remy Bumppo Announces 2017-18 Season TRUTH BE TOLD
by BWW News Desk - March 06, 2017 Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will explore complex relationships with truth, lies, and everything in between in its 21st season, 'Truth Be Told.'...
BWW Review: GROOMED, Soho Theatre
by Charlie Wilks - June 16, 2017 How can a truth be told? How can a secret be spoken? The shame, guilt and fear of our childhood can haunt us into adulthood. A betrayed schoolboy, a Japanese soldier, and the inventor of the saxophone all have something in common - the desire to be heard. Raw, thought-provoking and never self-indulg...
CAMINO REAL by Tennessee Williams Opens in New Orleans at the Marigny Opera House This July
by A.A. Cristi - June 28, 2017 You've never seen Tennessee Williams like this before. From the characters to the setting, nothing compares to Camino Real. The play takes place in a mythic border town situated in the Southwest, or perhaps tucked just inside of Mexico, which sits in the shadow of a gargantuan border wall built to k...
BWW Review: Way Off Broadway Productions' Chilling and Stunning UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS...
by Jeffrey Ellis - August 26, 2018 On first consideration, Brad Fraser's 1989 play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love is a darkly comical look at a group of disaffected young Canadians hurtling toward their 30s with no real sense of purpose or identity guiding them on their way. But if you look more closely - even...
GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI for May 4, 2017
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 04, 2017 GOOD MORNING, THEATERATI! Welcome to Thursday, May 4, 2017 - can you believe it's already this far along in the year - and that it's another #TheatreThursday? Today, we're posing the musical question: Are all our artistic efforts worth it during these oh-so-trying times? The answer, most certainly, ...
BWW Review: STC's THREEPENNY OPERA: Weimar Germany Is Having A Moment
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 09, 2018 The selection of The Threepenny Opera to inaugurate Street's 2018 season is one of the year's most eagerly anticipated theatrical events in Music City - thanks in part to the fact that it may well be the first home-grown staging of Brecht and Weill's parody of operetta that, in turn, skewers capital...
Theatre De La Salle Presents Third Revival Of OLIVER!...With A Twist!
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2018 Consider Yourself in for a treat next April as Theatre De La Salle proudly presents Lionel Bart's OLIVER! Theatre De La Salle announces Oliver! as their musical theatre production for the 2017/2018 season....
BWW Review: Two Nights in Seville, Part 1 - with BARBIERE at the Met
by Richard Sasanow - January 23, 2017 It didn't strike me until the lights were going down for the start of CARMEN last Thursday that this was the second night in a row that Met audiences were being transported to the same town in sunny Spain. Truth be told, “sunny” is hardly an adjective I'd hardly use to describe Bizet's tragedy in th...
NJ's The HIt Men Release First Original Single and Music Video 'You Can't Fight Love'
by Caryn Robbins - September 29, 2017 After decades of helping deliver dozens of hits with the likes of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Rod Stewart, and Carly Simon, THE HIT MEN the music industry's youngest senior citizens have finally taken several large steps toward stardom on their own terms, with original music that bears no othe...
BWW Review: TRUMPAGEDDON, King's Head Theatre, 8 November 2016
by Gary Naylor - November 09, 2016 Gary Naylor sees a show about, and I can hardly believe what I'm writing here, the 45th President of the United States of America....
BWW Review: Angelic Voices Brings the Sunrise to ROMEO AND JULIET at OPERA BIRMINGHAM
by David Edward Perry - March 27, 2018 There is a real pleasure in enjoying amazing voices telling a story in a language you do not know, and be able to understand the emotion conveyed by singers of exceptional skill. Opera Birmingham provided such wonder in 'Romeo and Juliet.'...
Photo Flash: The Media Theatre Presents ROMEO AND JULIET'
by A.A. Cristi - January 26, 2017 'Romeo and Juliet' is a timeless story of young love which has been imitated in countless ways over the decades, even catapulted into the musical theatre stratosphere with 'West Side Story'. ...
BWW Review: Two Nights in Seville, Part 1 - with BARBIERE at the Met
by Richard Sasanow - January 23, 2017 It didn't strike me until the lights were going down for the start of CARMEN last Thursday that this was the second night in a row that Met audiences were being transported to the same town in sunny Spain. Truth be told, “sunny” is hardly an adjective I'd hardly use to describe Bizet's tragedy in th...
BWW Review: Houston Grand Opera's FAUST Pulls Out All the Stops
by Gary Laird - November 02, 2016 HGO's production of Gounod's FAUST puts the 'grand' in grand opera. The current production has all the bells and whistles - a timeless story, a top-notch cast, the costumes, sets and lighting of an all-out extravaganza. In short, it has everything the word 'opera' conjures up. And it's at the Wortha...
Broken Witt Rebels and Bad Touch ROADSTARS Tour Kicks off in Leeds Tonight
by BWW News Desk - March 16, 2017 Birmingham's award winning Broken Witt Rebels and Norfolk's Southern rock band Bad Touch - two of the most exciting new prospects in the UK blues rock music scene - start their 13-date co-headlining ROADSTARS tour, tonight in Leeds at Brudenell Social Club....
@BWW_Twitter Held Hostage, Day 5: Lipscomb University's HUNTER MARTIN
by Jeffrey Ellis - April 26, 2017 Before you know it, all of these talented college and high school seniors are going to be graduating and heading off to lord-knows-where! We're feeling a bit sentimental, truth be told, but until such time comes, we're going to continue our end-of-the-academic revelry and tomorrow, Lipscomb Universi...
BWW Review: Circle Players' 2017-18 Season Continues With STEEL MAGNOLIAS
by Jeffrey Ellis - March 29, 2018 We Southerners take our literary history seriously, whether it's a book, a poem, a novel or a play - no matter the genre, we are proud to read about our way of life and the things that we believe make us so very special. Such is the case with Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, which debuted in 1987 t...
THEY. Usher In a 'Nu Religion: Hyena'; Video + Tour
by Caryn Robbins - February 03, 2017 Dante Jones and Drew Love - better known as THEY. - will release their anticipated debut album Nü Religion: Hyena on February 24th via Mind of a Genius / Warner Bros. Records....
BOB'S BURGERS to Feature Fan Art in Season 8 Premiere
by TV News Desk - September 29, 2017 According to TV Guide, the season 8 premiere of FOX's Bob's Burgers will comprise completely of fan animation. The creative team of the animated sitcom asked 62 super fans with backgrounds in animation to submit their own designs to be used in the premiere coming this Sunday....
'Bad Touch' Support 'The Kentucky Headhunters' on October UK Tour
by Caryn Robbins - May 22, 2017 Following their recent UK tour supporting King King, and their Planet Rock Roadstars UK tour with Broken Witt Rebels, Bad Touch are pleased to announce they will support the Kentucky Headhunters on their October 2017 On Safari UK Tour....
BWW Review: CoPlayers Theatre Hits One Out of the Park With YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
by Jeffrey Ellis - April 10, 2018 Filled to overflowing with youthful energy and plenty of showbiz razzle-dazzle, CoPlayers Theatre's production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - directed and choreographed by the peripatetic Tosha Pendergrast, easily the busiest musical theater choreographer in Middle Tennessee - does what so ma... |