Thursday, March 5, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It seems that each year at this time I am confronted with the daunting task of trying to summarize the countless delights of the MUSI…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:03PMSunday, March 1, 2020
By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” Of the countless hit recordings left to us by legendary vocalist, NAT KING COLE, the song “Unforgettable” would certainly rank hi…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:36AMMonday, February 24, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click any photo to enlarge] I don’t usually assign my readers “homework” in advance of seeing a show, but it seems appropr…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:42AMFriday, February 21, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click any photo to enlarge] It was not your normal Saturday night at the beautiful Cr…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:42AMSaturday, November 16, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [All photos by ThePeoplesCritic.com. Click any photo to enlarge] No, it wasn’t a Christmas show. Not yet. That treat is just around…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:36AMFriday, November 1, 2019
By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” [All Photos by ThePeoplesCritic.com. Click any photo to enlarge] For the many Montgomery County supporters of the annual Young Te…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 07:42AMThursday, October 24, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Conroe’s wonderful Crighton Theatre has, for many years, continued to send me personal invitations to the shows mounted by the mu…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:18PMSaturday, October 19, 2019
It was like an exquisite fairytale tour of the continent for lucky audiences at last weekend’s Houston Symphony concert titled, “Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey.” A full …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:06AMThursday, October 17, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Let’s be clear right out of the box. The current offering from Houston’s Theater Under the Stars is NOT your grandma’s Broadway…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:24AMThursday, September 26, 2019
[All Photos by ThePeoplesCritic.com. Click any photo to enlarge] By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” If The Music Box Theater was revisiting some familiar territory duri…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:36AMThursday, September 19, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Who among us has not noticed the explosion, in recent years, of the growing industry of storage facilities designed to relieve us of …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:33AMMonday, September 16, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [All photos of this current TUTS production of A Chorus Line by MELISSA TAYOR] ***Click Any Photo to Enlarge*** By way of f…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:36AMSaturday, September 14, 2019
[All photos courtesy of Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Click any photo to enlarge.] By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Aptly titled A SYMPHONY OF HEROES, the Hous…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 10:03PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
BY DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It seems to be becoming an annual musical celebration of the end summer as brilliant jazz musicians, Peter and Will Anderson, hold …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:03PMMonday, July 29, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III – “The People’s Critic” [All photos property of ThePeoplesCritic.com Click any photo to enlarge] As the full-house crowd at Madison Square Garden eagerly a…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:18PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It’s that time again. Time to get out and enjoy the nightlife in Houston. The cheerful delights continue as the familiar troupe at the …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:06AMFriday, May 10, 2019
By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” Miraculously, after several days of violent storms across much of Texas and the Houston area, it was a perfectly beautiful and pl…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 10:24AMFriday, May 3, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Photos: Chris Gray/Cirque de la Symphonie [Click any photo to enlarge] The fun at Houston Symphony’s Jones Hall began as soon as muc…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:54PMSunday, April 28, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It is hard to believe it is the better part of two decades since I first had the pleasure of hearing talented soprano, Kelli Este…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:52AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [All Photos by Melissa Taylor. Click any photo to enlarge] I recall back when I first became curious about the musical, RAGTIME, …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:05AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click any photo to enlarge] The wonderful Stage Right Players, resident company of the exquisite Crighton Theatre in Conroe, Texas, …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:07AMThursday, April 11, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” They say that “seeing is believing,” but there are magical times when that old saying seems dramatically challenged. Such was…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:27AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click any photo to enlarge] Longtime readers of this column may recall my report of the last visit of conductor, Keith Lockhart …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:44AMThursday, March 14, 2019
By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” [Click any photo to enlarge] In the book of Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV), scripture reminds us, “To every thing there is a season…” a…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:43AMThursday, March 7, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” The Texas-sized excitement of our city’s annual Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo was just minutes away, but over at the nearby Mu…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:35PMThursday, February 28, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [All Photos by Melissa Taylor. Click any photo to enlarge.] Regular readers of this column may recall that when it comes to revie…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:58PMThursday, February 21, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” I don’t remember the exact details of the performance, but sometime in the late 1970’s or early 80’s, I recall viewing one …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:05AMThursday, February 14, 2019
[All Photos by David W. Clements / DWC Photography. Click any photo to enlarge] Even if you have not yet been a lucky audience member for Stage Right’s new production of the legendary Broa…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:42AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com For weeks Americans across this land have been virtually paralyzed with a sense of desperation and hopeless despair as they watc…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:42PMThursday, November 8, 2018
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III Regular customers of The Music Box Theatre (and there are plenty of them filling the house at each performance), are very familiar with the way each month-long produ…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:12AMSunday, November 4, 2018
By David Dow Bentley III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com [Click any photo to enlarge] And speaking of a “match,” the wonderful “BROADWAY LIGHTS” production Miss Estes’ L…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:36AM 
