Tuesday, March 22, 2022
It was a concert long in the planning, but who could have known the added significance Mozart’s “REQUIEM” would take on amid the swirl of cataclysmic world events that would surround S…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:42AMMonday, November 29, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic“ As the world mourns the recent loss of legendary musical genius, Stephen Sondheim, I was moved to look back over the many times in the la…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:36AMMonday, November 8, 2021
Anderson Twins + Vince Giordano & Friends = Return of Musical Joy By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It had been nearly two Pandemic years since I had the pleas…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:12AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” They say that “timing is everything,” but after a pandemic year-and-a-half of being unable to fly back east from Texas to visit t…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:12PMFriday, April 2, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Last weekend, after a year of repeated pandemic-related concert rescheduling, the Crighton Theatre’s much anticipated, and lo…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:12AMFriday, March 19, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [All photos by Trevor Hall Photography. Click any photo to enlarge.] It seems to be happening bit by bit. The pre-pandemic world we…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 07:32AMThursday, February 18, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [PHOTOS BY: Michael Pittman. Click any photo to enlarge.] Perhaps William Shakespeare was not predicting our approaching Texas pandemic w…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:33PMWednesday, January 20, 2021
Saturday, December 5, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Peter Pan, the classic 1954 musical now playing at the historic Crighton Theatre in Conroe, Texas, is my first childhood memory of be…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:54AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
WHO CAN HELP?As we are all aware the problem of hunger in the country is becoming extremely serious and this is a perfect time to take some steps to alleviate that. Below is a link to an e…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 07:06PMMonday, November 2, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It was back in another century and another world when I first became aware of a rising talent named LIZA MINNELLI. It was a simpler time …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:48AMSunday, July 26, 2020
My sources tell me that this YouTube video of the classic 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” will be available (in support of www.TheActorsFund.org/Cinderella), just today,…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:12AMThursday, June 25, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click Any Photo to Enlarge] Is there musical theater after Covid-19? You betcha! And Houston’s MUSIC BOX THEATER is prepared t…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:06PMFriday, May 8, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” On this National Day of Prayer, please allow me to answer one prayer of my own, that this pandemic crisis currently circling the …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:48AMThursday, March 12, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” I’m sure I am not alone in recalling the childhood wonder of curling up with a beautifully illustrated book of Grimm’s Fairyt…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:24AMThursday, 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 01:06AM 
