Upon entering the theatre we were treated to a gaudy display featuring a staircase, statues, and several glowing orbs and half-orbs. A miniature revolve downstage center adds to the excitement. It is ...

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The song “Black and Blue” has always been powerful. But as staged in Orlando Shakes’ production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” it carries a particularly somber weight. “Remember,” the number seems to say to ...

It was a time when the cool cats of the coolest of cities, New York, would routinely head each night to the Cotton Club to get their fill of the coolest new beat, swing. It was the time when Thomas ...

Long Beach theatregoers are in for a double treat this October as two sensational productions take the stage, each bringing a unique flavor of theatrical magic. First up, International City Theatre ...

A classic song-and-dance show that’s often dismissed as a frothy revue shows its full force as a carefully constructed piece of deeply affecting musical theater in director/choreographer Jeffrey L.

It's almost impossible to stop smiling and grooving in your seat during Lyric Theatre's tantalizing production of "Ain't Misbehavin'," a flashback musical revue with plenty of jump, jive and wail to ...

The first Chicago-area production of the Fats Waller revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’” I saw was in 2008 at the Goodman Theatre, co-starring the inimitable E. Faye Butler. By then, Butler had already earned ...

A decade after doing his first show with The Drama Group, Cordaro Johnson directs “Ain’t Misbehavin’” from Feb. 16 to 25 at Chicago Heights’ Milord Studio Theatre. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16-17 ...

PITTSFIELD, MASS. – It would be a logical guess that the toughest problem for Richard Maltby, Jr, when he was creating “Ain’t Misbehavin’”was deciding which of the over 400 songs Fats Waller wrote ...

Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the passing of Harlem Renaissance jazz pianist and composer Thomas “Fats” Waller. So it’s understandable if today’s audiences aren’t familiar with some of ...