Michael Porter News

Today, USA Network revealed the 21 artists competing in its new music showcase series REAL COUNTRY and the prizing they will be vying for. Set to premiere November 13 at 10/9, each contestant was hand-selected by the show's permanent panel of artists – five-time GRAMMY Award®-winning trailblazer Shania Twain, platinum-selling singer-songwriter Jake Owen and GRAMMY Award®-winning music legend Travis Tritt.

As a character piece, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance is an absolute triumph. The emotional work that Paterson and his co-director Simon Godwin have invested into this piece is exquisite.

Phoebe Legere's dynamic performance is to put through its paces in this haphazardly arranged show.

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is deconstructed and reinvented in The Dream Project. Yonder Window Theatre Company's multilingual, interdisciplinary piece speaks to the current climate of North America. The production is a collaboration between artists from Mexico, United States, and Canada and includes Spanish, French, and English text.

Vangeline seemed to convulse as if she were peering through a scrying pool at something of mind-blasting awesomeness.

That's the beauty of this play - well before the misdeeds of Weinstein, Lauer, Spacey, and Rose detonated in our laps, it was showing the poison of sexual violence in quiet spaces.

This remarkable feat is the sort of thing that old school actors and worshipers of the craft fetishize over for hours. Galinsky's accomplishment as an actor and writer are such that one regrets that the production is less than exciting.

Somewhere within this exhausting exercise of cliches there is a joke about mustiness overtaking MUST.

Though these freedom fighters stand diametrically opposed to what I believe in, I recognized that they could have been members of my own family.

When Eliza McKelway picks up her guitar to sing one last song at the opening of the Vietnam War Memorial, a well spring of hope is unleashed.

NIGHT WITCH's tour de force physical production made use of evocative physical theatre effects, minimal production elements, and wonderful staging by Kathleen Anne Hefferon but failed to overcome its soggy script.

At curtain call I joined the entire audience in standing to applaud these excellent performers. I could have stood clapping all night.

Whether you have a child or are a child at heart, THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR SHOW is a fabulous work of art that should be experienced by all.

Following a by-the-numbers formula, FERGUSON rolls out like the sketch of a LAW & ORDER episode during which the results are foretold without bothering to connect the dots.

ESPN's men's college basketball schedule will provide fans with more than 840 matchups across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, SEC Network and Longhorn Network this season.

Set in modern-day Red Bank, Tennessee, PETIE is essentially a Greek tragedy and like the heroes of those classics, Bonnie is a sad portrait of proud thoughtlessness that corrodes over self-inflicted loathing.

My jaw sat agape as tears of laughter rolled down my face for the full 5 minutes of UncleDave's Fight-House's gut busting fight choreography. Complete with Raul Abrego's gorgeous interactive set - the cloud by itself deserves awards - NEIGHBORS stands as the most fully realized production I have seen on or off-off-Broadway this year.

Somewhere in the second act of BLOOD BOUNDARY there is an interesting play to be found with alert performances and a powerful storyline that seamlessly resolves. Of course one has to sit through the long slog of act one's 'exposition mountain' to get to there.

Though effectively retired from performing since 1996, Darshan Singh Bhuller recently started taking classes at Gibney Dance and rehearsing Mark Morris Dance Center in NYC. The reason? He is dancing at the upcoming gala celebration honouring Nadine Senior, the founding principal of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance who passed in January 2016.