REVIEW: Riverdance: The 20th Anniversary World Tour (State Theatre) Arts Dance Music by Bev Wolfe - March 26, 2016April 8, 2016 The cast of Riverdance, led by Anna Livia. Photo by Rob McDogall. Tall and straight my mother taught me, This is how we dance. Tall and straight my father taught me, This is how we dance. These words by Irish poet Theo Dorgan are used in Riverdance: The 20th Anniversary World Tour and sum
PREVIEW: A Night with Janis Joplin (Ordway) Arts Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - March 24, 2016March 25, 2016 The original Broadway Cast of A Night with Janis Joplin performing at the Lyceum Theater in New York. Photo by Joan Marcus. Next week, the Ordway Center presents A Night with Janis Joplin, a biographical musical show on the eponymous singer. Janis Joplin, a self-described social misfit from Texas, became a rock blues
REVIEW: Nina Simone: Four Women Transcends Bio Status (Park Square Theatre) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - March 13, 2016March 13, 2016 Regina Marie Williams in Nina Simone: Four Women. Photo by Tom Wallace. The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was the site of one of the most horrific multiple murders during the Civil Rights era. It is also the focal point of Park Square Theatre’s production of Christina Ham’s play Nina Simone:
REVIEW: Ruby! The Story of Ruby Bridges (Steppingstone Theatre) Arts Theatre by Bev Wolfe - February 27, 2016February 27, 2016 The history of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is the story of individuals who, at great personal sacrifice, challenged the racial segregation practices in this country. Steppingstone Theatre’s production of Ruby! The Story of Ruby Bridges spotlights the quiet courage of one such individual: a six-year