Tag Archives: musical theater

Call me naive, my taste insipid. I loved the new Broadway musical 'King Kong.'

I cannot imagine any writer but Conor McPherson effectively providing such a dramatic flight path to Bob Dylan’s repertoire. The playwright’s eerie, atmospheric writing effectively implies connections between the material at hand and otherworldly realms. Dylan’s titular song is part of the hybrid McPherson musical Girl from the North Country, …

Director Mark Lamos is to be congratulated on imbuing this show with new life and purpose in these trying times. The final moments of this 'Man of La Mancha' present a stark tableau of some of the challenges facing us, including the red-hooded specter of intolerance, images of the falsely imprisoned, and the continued abuse and subjugation of women.

Brace yourself. Andrew Lippa’s dark and lurid, award-winning musical 'Wild Party' is now showing at Brookfield Theatre for the Arts.

This is a professional, Broadway-quality production in every respect.

The Gallery Players' sterling new production reminds us that 'A Chorus Line' is not only loaded with some of the greatest show music ever, but one of the best pieces of meta-theater ever devised.

As the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of 'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever' explores past-life regression, it beautifully, seamlessly renders the illusive with authenticity.

Solid performances don't rescue this sequence of disconnected musical numbers sung by characters suffering from fanciful ailments.

With an excellent cast and sharp direction and choreography, this sci-fi homage is a happy marriage of clever nostalgia, shiny new music, and sheer fun for just about any age.

Rather than rehashing what's wrong with 'Chess,' I'll describe why it's still possible to enjoy the Gallery Players' production. The music is perhaps the most advanced artistic evolution of glossy '80s pop. And while I'm sure there are some curmudgeons out there who weren't fans of ABBA's sunny sound, Andersson and Ulvaeus were brilliant songwriters, master craftsmen not only of shiny dance tunes but also of lovely songs of love and loss.