Tag Archives: musical theater

Uneven pacing and lengthy diversions derail this loving musical tribute from the multitalented Legere to the cross-dressing lesbian oil heiress and speedboat champion.

The scrappy Secret Theatre, whose snazzy production of 'Cabaret' was an Off-Off-Broadway highlight last year, has done well by another classic big musical with a sinewy 'Gypsy.'

With a history dating back more than 100 years, this venerable edifice is the city's largest and most productive professional live theater and its only Equity Theater. The new moniker reflects the organization's vision to serve the needs of the region.

Kyle Jarrow has conceived a story that puts the show's appealing characters into a doomsday scenario encrusted, sea anemone-style, with a surprisingly persistent if easy to take sociopolitical edge.

The comical plot of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' radiates hilarity and melodic, witty grace in this glorious musical. Clever, comedic twists run rampant, and this high farce, set to an illustrative musical score, both appealing and profound, delivers moment-to-moment joyous excitement.

The Woodlawn's Halloween season offering is a rollicking revival of the 1982 musical based on Roger Corman's famously no-budget film.

A unique show, loosely about Edgar Allan Poe's boarding-school adventure in England, is running at the Soho Playhouse.

A bravura star turn by newcomer Amy Londyn stands out against prosaic lyrics and sketchily drawn characters in a new musical about the dawn of the Nazi era.

The triumph of love in unifying nations and dispelling racism, discrimination, and hatred is the key theme of this incredible musical. How worthy, how wise, how current for our times.

Walls that divide are walls that should be torn down.