Wednesday, 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 12:00AMThursday, October 8, 2015
[ Click Any Photo to Enlarge ] In these half dozen years since its World Premiere in La Jolla, California, composer Frank Wildhorn’s ambitious musical, BONNIE & CLYDE, has had numerou…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:15AMThursday, October 1, 2015
Last week at Houston’s Wortham Theatre Center I had the privilege of attending Thursday’s Opening Night of Houston Ballet’s FALL MIXED REPERTORY, presented in advance of the company’…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:42AMThursday, September 24, 2015
[Click any photo to enlarge ] As I put pen to paper for this review, I am reminded of that wise old expression: “Better late than never.” As a critic, I have never been fond of reviewing…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:25AMThursday, September 17, 2015
[ Editor’s Note: Click any photo to enlarge ] There was a special kind of warmth and intimacy coming across the footlights when director, Jim Walker, stepped out on the Crighton Theatr…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:25AMSaturday, September 12, 2015
For those of us fortunate to have homes in The Woodlands, Texas, there have been countless opportunities through the years to enjoy the wonderful concerts of the Houston Symphony Orchestra a…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:32PMSunday, September 6, 2015
As I close in on completion of two decades of work as a critic, I feel compelled to weigh in on what is surely destined to be one of the great New York City engineering projects of our gener…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 10:38PMMonday, July 20, 2015
[Click any photo to enlarge] There are rare times in the world of the theatre that all the elements just seem to come together perfectly. The current Goodspeed Opera House production of La C…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:04PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
[ Click on any photo to enlarge ] It doesn’t get much better than this for residents of the once Sandy-ravaged Rockaway Beach. The pleasantly warm summer weather and low humidity have the …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:10AM 
