295 stories by "David Dow Bentley III"
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â Â "The People's Critic" Last weekend, after a year of repeated pandemic-related concert rescheduling, the Crighton Theatre's much anticipated, and …
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â "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…
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 winter …
The Capitol
INAUGURATION DAY
2021
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â "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 bein…
 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…
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 in Ame…
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, Sat…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "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…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "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 th…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "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 Fairytal…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â "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 MUSIC …
By David Dow Bentley IIIÂ Â "The People's Critic" Of the countless hit recordings left to us by legendary vocalist, NAT KING COLE, the song "Unforgettable" would certainly rank high on …
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "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 appropriate…
                     By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III    "The People's Critic" [Click any photo to enlarge] It was not yo…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â "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 the…
By David Dow Bentley IIIÂ Â Â Â "The People's Critic" [All Photos by ThePeoplesCritic.com. Click any photo to enlarge] For the many Montgomery County supporters of the annual Young …
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â "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 much…
 It was like an exquisite fairytale tour of the continent for lucky audiences at last weekend's Houston Symphony concert titled, "Rick Steves' Europe: A Symphonic Journey." A full house …
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â "The People's Critic" Let's be clear right out of the box. The current offering from Houston's Theater Under the Stars is NOT your grandma's Broadway musical…
[All Photos by ThePeoplesCritic.com. Click any photo to enlarge] By David Dow Bentley IIIÂ Â "The People's Critic" If The Music Box Theater was revisiting some familiar territory during…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â "The People's Critic" Who among us has not noticed the explosion, in recent years, of the growing industry of storage facilities designed to relieve us of th…
  By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III    "The People's Critic" [All photos of this current TUTS production of A Chorus Line by MELISSA TAYOR] ***Click Any Photo to Enlarge*** By wa…
[All photos courtesy of Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Click any photo to enlarge.] By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "The People's Critic" Aptly titled A SYMPHONY OF HEROES, the Ho…
BY DAVID DOW BENTLEY III Â Â Â "The People's Critic" It seems to be becoming an annual musical celebration of the end summer as brilliant jazz musicians, Peter and Will Anderson, hold …
