Saturday, 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 06:36AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com It was just before curtain time when Dan Knechtges, the very enthusiastic Artistic Director of Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars, step…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:06AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
The music of Broadway composer, Stephen Sondheim, is unusually complex and sophisticated, but sometimes considerably dark as well. It would never be confused with the cheerful Rodgers & …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:24AMThursday, October 18, 2018
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com [All photos by Tracy Robinson/spryART. Click any photo to enlarge.] It would be another terrific musical offering from Montgomery Co…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:32PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com It was a night of music that I dare say will not be soon forgotten by those of us blessed to be in the Jones Hall audience for the Houst…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:54PMFriday, September 28, 2018
By David Dow Bentley III http://www.ThePeoplesCritic.com With a one-night performance in Houston Symphony’s Jones Hall, it was more than a concert. It was truly a blockbuster event whe…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:18AMMonday, September 24, 2018
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com The talented cast on stage at Houston’s popular nightclub, THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE, included most of “the usual suspects,” m…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:18PMThursday, September 20, 2018
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com It’s hard to believe that STAGE RIGHT PRODUCTIONS has just completed its first decade as the resident company in Montgomery County’s cro…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:36AMFriday, September 14, 2018
[ All Photos by MELISSA TAYLOR. Click any photo to enlarge ] There is bittersweet irony in the fact that the supremely joyful current OKLAHOMA! production from Theatre Under the Stars bega…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:48PMSaturday, August 18, 2018
[Click any photo to enlarge] For the ever-growing Big Apple fan base of the musically gifted young Anderson Twins (Peter & Will), it will come as no surprise that they are now in the mid…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:06AMSaturday, June 23, 2018
It was yet another coup for the magnificently restored 1930 Paramount Theater in the quaint Hudson Valley town of Peekskill, and it graced that stage on the recent afternoon of Father’s D…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:36AMMonday, April 30, 2018
Earlier this season the Houston Symphony returned from it first major European tour in two decades. There had been triumphant performances in such cities as Brussels, Warsaw, Vienna, …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:42AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Fans of the historic Crighton Theatre in Conroe, Texas, are well-acquainted with the high quality work of its resident company, STAGE RIGHT PRODUCTIONS, all under the guidance of producers, …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:36AMSunday, March 25, 2018
Yes, it’s happily that time again. Spring is here, and Houston’s evermore popular MUSIC BOX cabaret is presenting its 2018 edition of “Broadway at the Box.” This litt…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:38PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
With claims of being “inspired by real events,” and with fine direction from Walter Bobbie, the current Theatre Under the Stars production of the Broadway musical, BRIGHT STAR, has no sh…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:46AMSaturday, March 17, 2018
[Click any photo to enlarge. All Photos courtesy of Young Texas Artists and Susan Love Fitts Communications.] The title of Thomas Wolfe’s well-known novel declares, “You Can’t Go Home …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:26PM 
