It is Dead Lady Singers Week in the Southland. Tracie Bennett opens Wednesday night as Judy Garland in “End of the Rainbow” at the Ahmanson. And Mary Bridget Davies essays the la…
Given the blessings of the Janis Joplin estate to create a musical tribute show, Randy Johnson devised a plan to honor her alongside the women singers who influenced her -- and to avoid the …
One Night with Janis Joplin, a popular attraction at Arena Stage in fall 2012, will return for a summer 2013 engagement, June 21-Aug. 11. Mary Bridget Davies, a 2013 Helen Hayes Award nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01am on February 15, 2013☆⚑
Additional Performance of One Night With Janis Joplin added Sunday, November 4th at 1:00 PM and First Preview of My Fair Lady on Friday, November 2nd is Cancelled. Due to Hurrica…
I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing when I attended One Night with Janis Joplin last week at Arena Stage. Mary Bridget Davis gives one of the most amazing performances I had…
Janis Joplin's brother Michael Joplin and sister Laura Joplin were among the special guests for the opening of the Arena Stage production of One Night with Janis Joplin on Thursday, October …
Creator, author, and director Randy Johnson worked with Joplin's surviving family to craft this tribute to a musical innovator and trailblazer who, four decades after her death, is still an …
If "One Night With Janis Joplin" glosses over some of our more sordid memories of a rock-and-roll legend silenced at 27 by a heroin overdose, the Arena Stage tribute show that has oldsters' …
It was fitting to watch One Night with Janis Joplin last night at The Kreeger Theater at Arena Stage, because 42 years ago to the day the legendary blues rocker died of an overdose at the ag…
The irony of the evening could not have been thicker. Sitting in Arena's fabulously revamped Kreeger Theatre waiting for One Night with Janis Joplin to begin, I surveyed the crowd. Janis Jop…
We are at The Fillmore, and the night is full of sex and danger (set and fabulous lighting by Justin Townsend). The great Aretha Franklin (the magnificent Sabrina Elayne Carten) has just tak…
When Mary Bridget Davies first takes the stage as the title character in One Night with Janis Joplin at Arena Stage, the audience is almost immediately transported back to the 1960s and pres…
Mary Bridget Davies plays Joplin. She has the Joplin sound-rough, ragged, energetic and emotional-and evokes Joplin with help from the costumes and wigs.
Arena Stage is set to present One Night with Janis Joplin, September 28-November 4 in the Kreeger Theater. Writer Randy Johnson directs.
Produced in partnership with Cleveland Play House i…
Joplin was famous for her ruined rasp, a growl that started like a whisper then built to a wail, her sound the embodiment of a generation unleashed. Davies can match the superstar's power an…
Donning Joplin's beads and bangles will be Stephani's understudy, Lakewood native Mary Bridget Davies, who is no stranger to the vocal stylings of the legendary Pearl.
