295 stories by "David Dow Bentley III"
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III " "The People's Critic" [All photos property of ThePeoplesCritic.com Click any photo to enlarge] As the full-house crowd at Madison Square Garden eagerly awaited…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III "The People's Critic" It's that time again. Time to get out and enjoy the nightlife in Houston. The cheerful delights continue as the familiar troupe at the Music Bo…
By David Dow Bentley IIIÂ Â Â Â "The People's Critic" Miraculously, after several days of violent storms across much of Texas and the Houston area, it was a perfectly beautiful and …
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY III "The People's Critic" Photos: Chris Gray/Cirque de la Symphonie [Click any photo to enlarge] Â The fun at Houston Symphony's Jones Hall began as soon as much-love…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "The People's Critic" It is hard to believe it is the better part of two decades since I first had the pleasure of hearing talented soprano, Kelli Es…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "The People's Critic" [All Photos by Melissa Taylor. Click any photo to enlarge] I recall back when I first became curious about the musical, RAGTIME…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â "The People's Critic" [Click any photo to enlarge] The wonderful Stage Right Players, resident company of the exquisite Crighton Theatre in Conroe, Texas, is…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "The People's Critic" They say that "seeing is believing," but there are magical times when that old saying seems dramatically challenged. Such was t…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "The People's Critic" [Click any photo to enlarge] Longtime readers of this column may recall my report of the last visit of conductor, Keith Lockhar…
By David Dow Bentley IIIÂ Â "The People's Critic" [Click any photo to enlarge] In the book of Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV), scripture reminds us, "To every thing there is a season…" and wha…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â "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 Music …
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "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 rev…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â "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 of t…
[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 Broadw…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â Â Â www.ThePeoplesCritic.com For weeks Americans across this land have been virtually paralyzed with a sense of desperation and hopeless despair …
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…
By David Dow Bentley III    www.ThePeoplesCritic.com     [Click any photo to enlarge] And speaking of a "match," the wonderful "BROADWAY LIGHTS" production Miss …
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â www.ThePeoplesCritic.com It was just before curtain time when Dan Knechtges, the very enthusiastic Artistic Director of Houston's Theatre Under the Stars, st…
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 & …
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â www.ThePeoplesCritic.com [All photos by Tracy Robinson/spryART. Click any photo to enlarge.] It would be another terrific musical offering from Montg…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â 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 H…
By David Dow Bentley IIIÂ Â 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 w…
By DAVID DOW BENTLEY IIIÂ Â Â Â Â Â www.ThePeoplesCritic.com The talented cast on stage at Houston's popular nightclub, THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE, included most of "the usual suspec…
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 crown j…
[ All Photos by MELISSA TAYLOR. Â Click any photo to enlarge ] There is bittersweet irony in the fact that the supremely joyful current OKLAHOMA! production from Theatre Under the Stars be…
