Broadway audiences didn’t know what they had in their midst when a new rock and roll musical, dealing with high school angst, drama, and romance, opened at the Eden Theatre in 1972. Six years later, the iconic film was released, a subsequent sequel, and two more Broadway revivals. When Grease gets done nowadays, it takes a strong vision and harnessing of nostalgia (and assumed nostalgia) for the title and the material to seem urgent, relevant, and applicable. Now, with respec

"Oh, the thinks you can think!" This oft-repeated phrase in Seussical: the Musical is a motivating, inspiring message that securely...

There’s something to be said when a musical knows exactly what it is. Such is the case for the premiere of the new musical, Dysfunction ,...

Selma Arts Center is well in its run of a raucously fun, Evil Dead, the Musical which I had the pleasure of seeing this past weekend....

Jersey Boys is not a show one approaches lightly, even with it being a jukebox musical. What elevates a jukebox musical is ensuring the...

Jukebox musicals have become a staple of the musical theatre landscape because people will pay whatever it costs for a two-hour hit of...

I do believe Roald Dahl would be happy with the stage musical adaptation of one of his most treasured stories. Dennis Kelly’s book does...

There is something to be said about a musical which successfully portrays its central figure in a streamlined, engaging way that honors...

In Laramie Dawn Woolsey’s director’s note, she writes, “My hope is that our audiences find pieces of themselves reflected in this show…”...

An epically enjoyable campaign is happening at Selma Arts Center in the form of Qui Nguyen’s poignant and entertaining play, She Kills...

Anyone who follows my blog regularly, or who knows me in general, has been made aware that I am not a fan of The SpongeBob Musical. I...