UCF Theatre Presents From Sun to Sun

On Friday, January 22, 2010, I had the opportunity to see the University of Central Florida’s Theatre Department present From Sun to Sun: A Day in a Railroad Camp, an adaption by N.Y. Nathiri and Thomas Wilson of the concert originally by Zora Neale Hurson. The production was presented as part of...

January 24th, 2010 | Editorials, Theatre | Read More

Rent Stands Up To Expectations

You’ve heard of it, you’ve listened to that girl in your math class sing the songs and you may have even see the movie a few years ago. But now, Rent has made its way to Orlando and is running at the Bob Carr theater through Sunday, December 6. The show is fantastic. First of all, it’s...

December 4th, 2009 | News, Theatre | Read More

Pirates Invade UCF Conservatory Theatre

This week, the UCF Theatre Department opened its first musical of the season, The Pirates of the Penzance, on its main stage theatre. I had the opportunity to see it this Friday, October 23. Pirates is an older musical, first being performed in 1879. It is about a young man who, in his twenty-first...

October 25th, 2009 | Theatre | Read More

‘CATS’ Broadway Show in Orlando

CATS, the longest continuously touring Broadway musical in history, has finally arrived in Orlando and will be here through Sunday at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. The show is so well constructed. I went to see it last night and was thoroughly impressed with every aspect of it from the acting...

October 22nd, 2009 | Culture, Theatre | Read More

Orlando Ballet’s “Cinderella” Review

As the clock strikes 12 and Cinderella runs from the ball, she leaves behind not a glass slipper, but her sparkly pointe shoe instead. On October 16, 2009, I went to the Orlando Ballet’s performance of Cinderella at the Bob Carr in downtown Orlando. Everyone who has seen the Disney movie or visited...

October 17th, 2009 | Culture, Theatre | Read More

Fiddler on the Roof Stuns Orlando

On Saturday, October 3, I went to the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre to see Topol in Fiddler on the Roof. The show is about Tevye, a poor Jewish dairy farmer who lives in a small Russian village where tradition is strictly enforced. When three of Tevye’s daughters choose to marry against tradition,...

October 7th, 2009 | Culture, News, Theatre | Read More

Blue Man Group Blue Us Away

KnightNews.com staff recently went to see the Blue Man Group at Universal Studio’s Sharp Aquos Theater. The show was incredible, and a short explanation wouldn’t do justice to the stellar performance that was so all-encompassing: it made us laugh, it made us cry and, most importantly, it made...

October 4th, 2009 | Knight Deals, Music, Theatre, Videos | Read More

Fiddler on the Roof Comes to Orlando

The Broadway classic Fiddler on the Roof is coming to the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center in Downtown Orlando from September 29 to October 4. The musical, which was created in 1964 by writer Joseph Stein and director/choreographer Jerome Robbins, won numerous awards when it first opened, including...

September 24th, 2009 | Culture, Theatre | Read More

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