11 stories by "Geoffrey Melada"
Revenge is a dish served cold in this revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical.
The making of 'Sunday in the Park with George' was not a walk in the park.
In January a 35-year-old, single Londoner named Gagan Bhatnagar talked to The New York Times about the unique psychological challenge of enduring the coronavirus pandemic as a single person …
Broadway has been dark since March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the longest shutdown in its history. With theaters shuttered from Broadway to the Beltway, musical theater fans have an…
Four years ago, I walked into what was then the Barnes & Noble in downtown Bethesda and asked for a sales clerk's assistance locating one of Jimmy Buffett's greatest hits CDs. She was st…
You can't miss Betelgeuse. A star in the constellation Orion, this supergiant is red as flame and one of the 10 brightest stars in the night sky. At approximately 10 million years old, Betel…
Starting August 14, Stephen Sondheim's musical Passion will play at Arlington, Virginia’s Signature Theatre, starring Natascia Diaz (West Side Story) as Fosca and directed by Associate…
Last month marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I've been to the mountaintop" speech. As threats to his life mounted, King seemed resigned to his fate. "I’m not co…
Maybe you can go home again. Broadway's original Éponine from Les Miserables, Bethesda native Judy Kuhn, returns for a solo concert, A Broadway Cabaret With Judy Kuhn, 8 PM May 5 at Dumb…
How do you solve a problem like translating music into words? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? Music is a gossamer thing, difficult to pin down with language. As the critic Winthrop …
One sunny afternoon in 1984, Andrew Lloyd Webber (not yet "Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber" or "Baron Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton" as he is known today) paid 50 cents for a used copy of Gaston Leroux'…
