Thursday, 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 02:26PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Perfectly timed to coincide with this month’s Hollywood excitement of the Academy Awards ceremony, the recent Houston Symphony concert titled The Oscars®: Best Original Songs was surely a…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 10:24PMSunday, March 4, 2018
PHOTOS: Courtesy of Class Act [Click any photo to enlarge] For over two decades Class Act Productions has astonished audiences in The Woodlands, Texas with the quality of its performa…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:47AMMonday, February 26, 2018
[ Click any photo to enlarge. ] All Photos by MELISSA TAYLOR Every so often a great musical comes along with an opening number that is so spell-binding it seems like it should be a grand fin…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:41AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
After a historically sad and troubling week for Americans aware of the tragic events in Florida, the abundant joy that is now being offered by the Stage Right Players production of HELLO DOL…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:28AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
[ Click any photo to enlarge. All photos by Russ Rowland. ] As a modest player myself, and a frequent fan of the major tennis championships, I’ve been currently suffering my annual frustra…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:23PMFriday, December 8, 2017
[Click any photo to enlarge] It is not at all unusual for something special to be going on at one of New York’s most sophisticated theatrical venues, the 59E59 Theatres. That tradition is …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:24AMTuesday, October 10, 2017
[CLICK ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE] For members of America’s oldest theatrical club, THE LAMBS (https://the-lambs.org/), the evening would be a highlight of the summer season as members gathered …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:48PMThursday, October 5, 2017
[Click any photo to enlarge] It was yet another recent weekly night of “Low Jinks” fun for America’s oldest theatrical club, The Lambs, established in 1874. (https://the-lambs.org/) It…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:24PMTuesday, September 19, 2017
It was my first visit to the elegant estate of CARAMOOR. This legacy of the original owners, Walter & Lucie Rosen, became what is now the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts near Kato…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:42AM 
