Thursday, June 1, 2023
[All photos by SPRY ART PHOTOGRAPHY. Click any photo to enlarge.] By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It was exactly one quarter-century ago when I had the first of …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:18PMTuesday, May 30, 2023
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click any photo to enlarge.] A brief transportation delay in reaching the new location may have caused me to miss the first mome…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 10:48PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
[All Photos by Melissa Taylor. Click any photo to enlarge.] By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It was bold. It was brassy. It was rowdy. It was brazen. It was “in-your-fa…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:18PMFriday, May 12, 2023
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Photo by Spry Art Photography] It was Thomas Wolfe who famously wrote, “You Can’t Go Home Again.” But I’m thinking that …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:42AMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Only rarely do I venture into the realm of film criticism, preferring as I do, reviewing live performances of all kinds, from theatre to symphony, ballet to opera, and assorted concerts as w…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:36AMSunday, April 2, 2023
By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” It was an electrifying way to start the Fall Season at Peekskill’s magnificent 1920’s movie palace, The Paramount. The main event wou…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:36PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
[Click any photo to enlarge] By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” It was an electrifying way to start the Fall Season at Peekskill’s magnificent 1920’s movie palace, The …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:55AMSunday, September 18, 2022
A VERY WONDERFUL SEASON… …of very wonderful American Jazz music, has recently gotten under way from New York’s renowned jazz virtuosos, Peter & Will Anderson. I had the pleasure…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 07:49AMSunday, April 10, 2022
The month began with a miserable April Fool’s Day on Friday, and wintry weather had been delaying spring’s arrival for too long. But 24 hours later, Saturday began to warm things up with…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 03:03AMTuesday, March 22, 2022
It was a concert long in the planning, but who could have known the added significance Mozart’s “REQUIEM” would take on amid the swirl of cataclysmic world events that would surround S…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:42AMMonday, November 29, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic“ As the world mourns the recent loss of legendary musical genius, Stephen Sondheim, I was moved to look back over the many times in the la…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:36AMMonday, November 8, 2021
Anderson Twins + Vince Giordano & Friends = Return of Musical Joy By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It had been nearly two Pandemic years since I had the pleas…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:12AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” They say that “timing is everything,” but after a pandemic year-and-a-half of being unable to fly back east from Texas to visit t…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:12PMFriday, April 2, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Last weekend, after a year of repeated pandemic-related concert rescheduling, the Crighton Theatre’s much anticipated, and lo…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 06:12AMFriday, March 19, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [All photos by Trevor Hall Photography. Click any photo to enlarge.] It seems to be happening bit by bit. The pre-pandemic world we…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 07:32AMThursday, February 18, 2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [PHOTOS BY: Michael Pittman. Click any photo to enlarge.] Perhaps William Shakespeare was not predicting our approaching Texas pandemic w…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:33PMWednesday, January 20, 2021
Saturday, December 5, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Peter Pan, the classic 1954 musical now playing at the historic Crighton Theatre in Conroe, Texas, is my first childhood memory of be…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:54AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
WHO CAN HELP?As we are all aware the problem of hunger in the country is becoming extremely serious and this is a perfect time to take some steps to alleviate that. Below is a link to an e…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 07:06PMMonday, November 2, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It was back in another century and another world when I first became aware of a rising talent named LIZA MINNELLI. It was a simpler time …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:48AMSunday, July 26, 2020
My sources tell me that this YouTube video of the classic 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” will be available (in support of www.TheActorsFund.org/Cinderella), just today,…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:12AMThursday, June 25, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click Any Photo to Enlarge] Is there musical theater after Covid-19? You betcha! And Houston’s MUSIC BOX THEATER is prepared t…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:06PMFriday, May 8, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” On this National Day of Prayer, please allow me to answer one prayer of my own, that this pandemic crisis currently circling the …
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:48AMThursday, March 12, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” I’m sure I am not alone in recalling the childhood wonder of curling up with a beautifully illustrated book of Grimm’s Fairyt…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:24AMThursday, March 5, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” It seems that each year at this time I am confronted with the daunting task of trying to summarize the countless delights of the MUSI…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 12:03PMSunday, March 1, 2020
By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” Of the countless hit recordings left to us by legendary vocalist, NAT KING COLE, the song “Unforgettable” would certainly rank hi…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:36AMMonday, February 24, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click any photo to enlarge] I don’t usually assign my readers “homework” in advance of seeing a show, but it seems appropr…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:42AMFriday, February 21, 2020
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [Click any photo to enlarge] It was not your normal Saturday night at the beautiful Cr…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:42AMSaturday, November 16, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” [All photos by ThePeoplesCritic.com. Click any photo to enlarge] No, it wasn’t a Christmas show. Not yet. That treat is just around…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:36AMFriday, November 1, 2019
By David Dow Bentley III “The People’s Critic” [All Photos by ThePeoplesCritic.com. Click any photo to enlarge] For the many Montgomery County supporters of the annual Young Te…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 07:42AMThursday, October 24, 2019
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III “The People’s Critic” Conroe’s wonderful Crighton Theatre has, for many years, continued to send me personal invitations to the shows mounted by the mu…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:18PM 
