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Theater Review (Staten Island, NY): ‘West Side Story’ by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents at Harbor Lights Theater Company
With Broadway-class talent and Jerome Robbins's original choreography, this is a production to please newbies and old hands alike.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War’ by Carol J. Oja
Just in time for the new Broadway revival of 'On the Town' comes a new book showing how the show, with music by Leonard Bernstein, was as groundbreaking socially and politically as it was artistically.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘The Rocky Horror Show’
The audience-participation stalwart gets an imaginative revisualization in its annual staging at the Woodlawn Theatre.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘All That Jazz’ – The Criterion Collection
Even people who generally dislike musicals might find a lot to enjoy in this study of work-induced self-destruction.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Bedbugs!!!’ the Musical by Paul Leschen and Fred Sauter
This deliciously campy show has so much frenzied, blood-sucking energy the small ArcLight theater can hardly contain it.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Rock of Ages’
This weird 1980s jukebox musical is exciting and fun, and the humourous acting along with recognizable rock songs make it one you shouldn't miss.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story’ Off-Broadway
Glorious music overshadows some rickety storytelling in this joyful jukebox musical about "one of the great untold stories of rock and roll."
Read More »Music Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ (Original Cast Recording)
While there is much that works well in the adaptation, for the most part its music is uneven.
Read More »Theater Review (LA): ‘The Werewolves of Hollywood Blvd.’ and ‘The Wake’ at the Hollywood Fringe
A rock musical with bite and a jet-black one-man show are two more productions making their debut at the Fringe.
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