Stephen Sondheim. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying he was a brilliant composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. His frequent collaborations with Harold Prince, who originally produced and directed Company on Broadway, addressed complex themes ranging […]
Written by Robert Leleux and directed by Eric Swanson, Murray & Peter present Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue. St. Olaf’s sassiest seniors return for one more hurrah, allowing faithful audiences of the beloved TV series to relive the heartfelt hilarity of four zany ladies who never stop being the best of friends. It’s 2023, and […]
The Community Players present The Prom, based on an original concept by Jack Viertel, with book by Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, and music by Matthew Sklar. The musical is directed by Christopher Margadonna, with musical direction by Joe Carvalho, and choreography by Julia Gillis (the daughter of two production leads). […]
If you’re 35 this year, you are in good company: Taylor Swift was famously born in 1989. Nina Dobrev of Vampire Diaries fame is 35; so is Daniel Radcliffe, Jason Derulo, Alyson Michalka, Rory McIlroy, the list goes on. But if you’re 35 this year, you might feel a lurking sense of pressure to have […]
Trinity Repertory Company presents August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Fences, directed by Christopher Windom. August Wilson was a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright, best known for his 10-play American Century Cycle, which explores the heritage and experiences of African Americans throughout the 20th century decade by decade. Fences, the sixth play in the Cycle, is […]
Burbage Theatre Co. continues their 12th season with the RI premiere of Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties by playwright Jen Silverman, directed by resident artist Allison Crews. Their clever metaphor to describe the play puts it bluntly: “Do you remember when you were in middle school and you read about Shackleton and how […]
There’s a tendency of late for directors to re-envision Shakespeare’s masterworks by staging them in a different time and territory, and with a more modern temperament, as if today’s audiences needed an assist in finding the plays’ relevancy. This misguided movement was recently touched on by satirical digital news source The Onion in a mock […]
Wilbury Theatre Group presents Wolf Play, by Hansol Jung and directed by Marcel A. Mascaró. When an online adoption process goes sideways, the young boy caught in the middle launches himself into a lone wolf’s journey to find a pack he can call his own. South Korean playwright Jung has been hailed as one of […]
Okee dokee folks… I attended the first night of a three night run of The Cher Show, a jukebox musical about the life and times of Cher, at The Boch Wang Center in Boston. Growing up with the music of Sonny and Cher, their weekly TV variety show, and having seen them in concert in […]
The Future is NOW! proclaims the marquee at Providence Performing Arts Center’s (PPAC) grand entrance where a retrofitted DMC DeLorean is parked in celebration of the 2024-2025 Broadway season reveal. Following a performance by Frozen’s Katie Mariko Murray, PPAC President and CEO J.L. “Lynn” Singleton along with Joseph W. Walsh, Esq, Chairman, PPAC Board of […]