On one hand it feels very strange to be sent out to review a performance by middle and high school students, even at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, a professional theater where Equity-certified actors usually tread, and even if the show, “Follie Holidays,” can already be called a hit with audiences clamoring for every possible seat.
Werner Trieschmann
Posted inAE Feature
Harvest time
Wildwood’s Harvest Festival Saturday and Sunday looks to use the whole of the park — the natural setting as well as the indoor stage — for a very lively mixture of food, music and fun.
Posted inTheater Reviews
‘Mamma Mia!’
It’s best not to think too hard or too long about “Mamma Mia!,” which played to a nearly packed house at Robinson Center Music Hall last Tuesday night.
Posted inTheater Reviews
‘Always … Patsy Cline’
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 50 years since country singer Patsy Cline died at the age of 30 in a plane crash in a Tennessee forest.
Posted inCover Stories
Mass appeal
An American economy held together by Popsicle sticks and gum has left everybody shaky and the theater companies, which struggle even in robust times, are understandably looking to put sure-fire crowd pleasers on the boards.
Posted inAE Feature
Forever and always
The jukebox musical has brought to theatrical stages the songs of Frank Sinatra, Janis Joplin and even Appalachian coal miners.