Tuesday, October 11, 2016
It was a night to showcase the singers & songwriters of the Lone Star State, and the stars of Houston’s Music Box Theater were certainly up to the challenge with their latest productio…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:42AMThursday, October 6, 2016
There is a certain buzz of energy, excitement and enthusiasm before the curtain goes up on a high school theatrical production. I remember it well from my schooldays as a young actor in New …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:16AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
It would be a day full of exquisite music. In the afternoon I had the pleasure of viewing a telecast of the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, a presentation honoring bri…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:42PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
[Click any photo to enlarge] In 2008 a musical called IN THE HEIGHTS exploded on Broadway to begin what would become a three-year run on the Great White Way that has been followed with count…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:48PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
[Click any photo to enlarge] After a pleasant summer visiting family and friends in the generally cooler northeast regions of New York and New England, and despite the lingering summer heat …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:10PMMonday, June 13, 2016
When Christina Bianco (Missy), Diana Degarmo (Suzy), Jenna Leigh Green (Cindy Lou), and Sally Schwab (Betty Jean) come bouncing onto the stage of Off-Broadway’s intimate 100-seat Kirk Thea…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:25AMThursday, May 12, 2016
On a pleasant Conroe Saturday night last weekend a parade of young area talent was spotlighted at the Crighton Theatre in a show aptly titled, “Come Fly with Me.” Hosting the program was…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:20PMSunday, May 8, 2016
[Click any photo to enlarge] My recent trip to Houston’s Hobby Center to view the current national tour production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, “A Gentleman’s Guide to L…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:06PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
Yes, John Denver’s old country classic, “Country Roads,” is still buzzing around in my brain after last weekend’s pleasant opportunity to reacquaint myself with the popular Houston v…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:58PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
[Photos by David Clements-DWC Photography] Followers of the comic genius of playwright, Neil Simon, have another chance to sample his oft-times hilarious repertoire with the current Stage Ri…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 07:20AMWednesday, April 13, 2016
[All Photos by Christian Brown – Click any photo to enlarge] There is a pivotal moment in the Charles Dickens classic tale, “Oliver Twist,” when the hungry and naïve young orphan,…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:13AMSunday, March 27, 2016
All photos by Joan Marcus from the 2016 National Touring cast of Roundabout Theatre Company’s CABARET. [Click any photo to enlarge] It is the early 1930’s in Berlin and the powerful r…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:12AMThursday, March 24, 2016
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com [Click any photo to enlarge] For those seeking relief from the seemingly endless woes that newscasters assault us with on a daily basis, the…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:01AMSunday, March 20, 2016
[Click any photo to enlarge] There are those rare occasions in life when it seems the stars are fully in alignment. Such was the case on Saturday night last weekend in Conroe, Texas, when af…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:42AMThursday, March 17, 2016
[Click Any Photo to Enlarge] It was the opening week for the new Theatre Under the Stars production of the ever-popular Broadway musical, MARY POPPINS. Though it was a school night, there wa…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:05AMMonday, March 7, 2016
It was a night of dazzling music that will be long remembered by those fortunate enough to attend one of the three dazzling performances with which the Houston Symphony closed out “leap we…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:30AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
[Click any photo to enlarge] A glorious evening would begin on a briefly awkward note. Never in my two decades as a performing arts critic have I ever failed to arrive well in advance of cur…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:18PMWednesday, February 24, 2016
[Click any photo to enlarge] It is always a pleasure when a fine pit orchestra sets the tone for a delightful musical even before the curtain rises. Such is the case when gifted music direct…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:38AMThursday, February 18, 2016
[Click any photo to enlarge. All photos by Michael Pittman] By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III www.ThePeoplesCritic.com Old timers will remember early television’s Ed Sullivan and his long-running v…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:32AMSaturday, February 6, 2016
How appropriate that on this Super Bowl weekend the Houston Symphony has chosen to screen a super movie with 1952’s MGM musical classic, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, starring Hollywood l…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:34PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Those who say, “You can’t go home again,” have probably never enjoyed A Prairie Home Companion, and its weekly PBS radio journeys to host Garrison Keillor’s fabled hometown of Lake W…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:01AMThursday, December 17, 2015
For those of us fortunate enough to have become familiar with the brilliant musical talents of the Anderson Twins (via their previous successes with Le Jazz Hot and Those Fabulous Dorseys at…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:55PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
[Click any photo to enlarge.] For those lucky enough to have been part of last Sunday’s packed house at the PARAMOUNT Hudson Valley Theater in Peekskill, New York, the Christmas season got…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:16AMThursday, November 19, 2015
[ Click any photo to enlarge. ] As much as I enjoy my work reviewing professional performing arts productions of all kinds, there is something refreshing about now and then getting back to b…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:40PMMonday, November 16, 2015
I had a wonderful surprise last Saturday night at Conroe’s elegant Crighton Theatre. It had been just exactly one week since my reviewing a sensational Sinatra Centennial concert at Housto…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:26AMThursday, November 12, 2015
The consistent excellence of musical performances from Class Act Productions are well known here in Montgomery County and The Woodlands, Texas. Over at the Nancy Bock Center for the Performi…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:50AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
The Houston Symphony certainly started off this month of November with a sensational concert in Jones Hall. Titled, SINATRA’S CENTENNIAL, the program was a wonderful look back at the count…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:40PMFriday, October 30, 2015
I always enjoy it when my trips to Texas coincide with scheduled productions of the Texas Repertory Theatre. The company’s current cheerful offering of Joan Micklin Silver & Julianne B…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:18AMThursday, October 29, 2015
It was arguably the most dismal, rainy and dreary weekend in recent Montgomery County memory, but on the stage of the Crighton Theater in Conroe, Texas, the angelic voices and beaming faces …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:10PMThursday, October 22, 2015
Until the current BROADWAY at the Hobby Center offering, I had somehow never managed to actually see a production of the longtime hit musical, PIPPIN. I recall once reading a lengthy plot su…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:53AMLast Saturday it was Opening Night for the 37th season of the Montgomery County Performing Arts Society, and the five dazzling stars of the evening comprise the rhythm & blues singing gr…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:00AM 
