Sunday, March 18, 2012
Conroe_COURIER_3-18-2012 It was a very special night for the Young Texas Artists Music Competition, and long in the planning by the Montgomery County Performing Arts Society. Perhaps in a …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:45AMFriday, March 16, 2012
I’m not much a one for making categorical statements, but let me make an exception. I’m prepared to state categorically that in fifteen years of reviewing local productions I have never …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:19AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
HereHouston.com_3-14-2012 If the title of Houston Ballet’s current production, ROCK, ROLL & TUTUS, seemed a bit silly, the dance artistry displayed on Opening Night certainly was not. …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:17PMThursday, March 8, 2012
[ CLICK PHOTOS ABOVE TO ENLARGE ] The hilarious show was called, OSCAR® IN THE BOX, and on a cool, clear Texas night, and under a growing moon, the crowd of customers assembling at The Musi…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:08AMFriday, March 2, 2012
COURIER_3-2-2012 There are times in a critic’s life when one can barely believe the good fortune of witnessing something so extraordinarily splendid on a stage. Last weekend’s Class Act …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:58AMThursday, March 1, 2012
It would not be until the 17th song of the evening that the audience would hear the Carl Perkins tune, “Party,” but in every other way the party for Million Dollar Quartet began the mome…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:34AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
ATTN: James Marino
James-- Once again this most recent review failed to deposit automatically at your site as in the past. Is there something I must do to correct this?
Thanks, D.D.BENTLEY…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:04PMSunday, February 26, 2012
Residents of the Conroe, Texas area may have been wondering about those peals of laughter rolling across North Main Street of late. Let me try to explain. On one side of the street at the Ow…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:51AMSaturday, February 4, 2012
In many ways the show begins in the elegantly decorated entryway of New York’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre. It seems a fitting tribute to the renowned artist and theatre caricaturist for whom th…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:03AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
I came late to the party, having just seen Harry Connick Jr. in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever this past weekend. But after reading a recent rather harsh New York column regarding that…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:01AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
HERE_Houston_12-14-2011 Many decades have passed since I had the pleasure of playing Henry Higgins in our high school production of George Bernard Shaw’s classic comedy, Pygmalion. I could…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:43AMMonday, December 12, 2011
It was a Friday evening that would begin with the unexpected at Houston’s Hobby Center for the opening weekend of this season’s staged edition of Irving Berlin’s classic, White Christm…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:13AMSaturday, December 10, 2011
There is Christmas joy aplenty in the current run of the Stage Right Players’ production of the Philip Grecian adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s charming, “A Christmas Story.” Many will …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:25PMFriday, December 9, 2011
Conroe_Courier_12-9-2011 It was a drizzly, gray Sunday afternoon in Conroe, Texas, but the reception of guests at the Owen Theatre was a warm and royal one. A handsome prince helped arrivi…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:38AMFriday, December 2, 2011
For those who have not yet had the pleasure of experiencing a John Cooper School musical production in its state-of-the-art JCS Performing Arts Center, keep your eyes peeled for the next opp…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:07AMWednesday, November 30, 2011
NUTCRACKER – Rhodes Elliott and Artists of Houston Ballet PHOTO- Amitava Sarkar [ NOTE: All included Opening Night photos by Amitava Sarkar.] From a dance company as renowned as the Ho…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:03AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Pinch me if I’m dreaming! It was, after all, a November night that was very much like a dream, as Houston’s Gexa Energy Broadway series presented “RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles.” Th…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:14PMFriday, November 11, 2011
Conroe_COURIER_11-11-11 For those readers who have not yet reserved tickets to the current Christian Youth Theatre production of TOM SAWYER at the Crighton Theatre, be advised that four of t…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:34AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Now back from Europe with summer adventures behind me, and with the fall season well underway, it seems an appropriate time to catch up on a highlight of Show Business from “across the pon…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:16AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
I imagine most of we theatergoers have traveled enough to realize that a bus, like many other modes of transportation, can sometimes be a helpful conveyance, while at other times it may expe…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:45PMSaturday, October 8, 2011
At long last it has finally dawned on me how appropriately Houston’s MUSIC BOX THEATRE has been named. I say that because while it casts itself…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:48PMThursday, October 6, 2011
Some months ago I began to hear reports that the Houston Family Arts Center had a cast of area youngsters being selected to participate in the eighth annual New York Musical Theatre Festiv…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:19AMSunday, September 25, 2011
In the hour before the Houston Symphony Orchestra began its recent final concert of the summer season at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Ira J. Black, member of the Performing Arts facu…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:16AMThursday, September 22, 2011
Attention Dear Readers: Have you been getting your recommended servings of fresh vegetables each day? If not, you may want to hurry over to the 59E59 Theaters for one of the final amusing pe…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:45PMSaturday, September 17, 2011
[NOTE: All photos by Nikie Brown of WishNik Photography] Attention all Montgomery County area fans of wacky, far-fetched and very silly comedy. Your time has come with the Stage Right Player…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:03AMThursday, September 15, 2011
No doubt about it, it was an evening of stunning dance as the Houston Ballet opened its season with, “Return of the Masters,” last Thursday night at the Brown Theatre of the Wortham Cent…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:07PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
At the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September began with a night of delightful Italian musical classics, and to be honest, the night would end with a cheering audience expressing its enth…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:14AMSunday, September 11, 2011
The case can certainly be made that a vibrant local theatre can be central to a vibrant community. That is perhaps never truer than in the ever-improving city of Conroe, Texas. With the Stag…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:40PMTuesday, August 30, 2011
Don’t let that title scare you, but SYLVIA is very much a real dog in Texas Repertory Theatre’s current production of A.R. Gurney’s quite unusual and thoroughly amusing play of the sam…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:37PMSunday, August 28, 2011
The program’s title was Let’s Get Away From It All, and the vacation atmosphere was set the moment a very local audience of family, friends, and music fans entered the Crighton Theatre f…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 10:06PMTuesday, August 23, 2011
Readers familiar with the Broadway and movie editions of the delightful musical, HAIRSPRAY, probably need no reminders from me as to what fun that show offers. But I would have to say that i…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:33PM 
