BWW Review: Circle Players' CHILDREN OF EDEN
by Jeffrey Ellis - March 19, 2016 It would have taken a miracle to save the opening night of Circle Players' Children of Eden - one of the most eagerly anticipated productions of the season in Music City - from the wrath of God: in this case an abysmal sound design that prevented the audience from hearing Lauren Frances Jones' exqui...
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...
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: 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...
BWW Review: A True King Rises with KING LEAR at Elements Theatre
by Kristen Morale - August 17, 2016 The truth be told, I have neither read nor seen performed Shakespeare's King Lear, and was therefore as unfamiliar with the plot and its characters as basically anyone can possibly be; I suppose it wasn't mandatory reading when I went to school, for what reason I cannot possibly imagine. Although, I...
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 Interview: BWW Interviews David Johnson, Who Plays Max Bialystock in THE PRODUCERS, Coming to Riverside's Fox PAC on Valentine's Day (Corrected)
by Audrey Liebross - January 26, 2016 THE PRODUCERS touring company will play two performances at Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 14, 2016. BWW interviewed David Johnson, who plays Max Bialystock....
Windy City Playhouse Announces Cast of THIS
by Tyler Peterson - May 04, 2016 Windy City Playhouse, Chicago's most sophisticated new theater, presents the off-Broadway hit This, a tart 'melanchomedy' centering on four educated, artistically inclined thirtysomething New Yorkers whose longtime friendship is tested by an act of infidelity. Writer, director and playwright Carl Me...
BWW Review: THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE, Lyric Hammersmith, 16 September 2016
by Gary Naylor - September 17, 2016 Gary Naylor sees a play with plenty of emotional torment on display but a dubious political message that sits ill with its venue....
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: 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: 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...
Season 6 Champion of THE VOICE Josh Kaufman Releases New Self-Titled EP
by Caryn Robbins - June 23, 2016 The first self-titled EP from Josh Kaufman, Season 6 Champion of NBC's "The Voice," is now available on all music platforms....
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'. ...
THE WIZ LIVE's Derek McLane Among Nominees for 20th Art Directors Guild Awards; Full List
by Caryn Robbins - January 05, 2016 In the television category of Awards or Event Special, Tony Award winner Derek McLane received two nominations, including his work as production designer for the 2015 OSCARS and NBC's THE WIZ LIVE....
Thomas Hobson to Star in Falcon Theatre's THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED)
by BWW News Desk - February 03, 2016 The Falcon Theatre is proud to present its third production of the 2015-2016 Season, THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED), written by Adam Long, Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor and directed by Jerry Kernion....
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 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...
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....
@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: THE GREATER GAME, Southwark Playhouse, 19 September 2016
by Gary Naylor - September 21, 2016 Gary Naylor sees a fine tribute to the men of Clapton Orient who went into battle for King and Country 100 years ago....
'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: 'Merry Christmas!' from Chaffin's Barn
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 29, 2016 While there are always rumors of closings and real estate transactions happening willy-nilly, Chaffin's Barn continues to thrive and to entertain and to give both audiences and theater folk an opportunity to get to know one another better and to be transported and transformed via the magic of live t...
Nashville Children's Theatre's SCOT COPELAND Dies
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 25, 2016 Scot Copeland, longtime producing artistic director of Nashville Children's Theatre and one of the world's leading proponents of theater for younger audiences, died during the overnight hours of February 25 from an apparent heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Rene Dunshee Copeland, producing a...
The Metropolitan Room Present LEE SQUARED: AN EVENING WITH LIBERACE AND MISS PEGGY LEE 9/2
by Ashlee Latimer - August 20, 2016 Liberace lived a life of flamboyance, sparkle, and lavish costumes. In this funny and touching tribute, the virtuoso musician gets one last chance to glitter and shine as he tickles the ivories through his favorite songs. Miss Peggy Lee is beyond description. New York City favorites David Maiocco... |
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