Michael Feinstein, vocalist and pianist, is a music revivalist and archivist of the Great American Songbook. He is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Pasadena Orchestra and the Artistic Dir…
"Sister Act" is a musical adapted from the popular 1992 film of the same name, with new music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, and book by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, with additional…
Henrik Ibsen's three-act play, "A Doll's House," was published in 1879 in Copenhagen and sold 13,500 copies within the first three months. The world premiere at the Royal Theatre in Copenhag…
The pre-Broadway national tour of "The Wiz" kicks off in Baltimore at the Hippodrome Theater from September 23-30, 2023, with a limited Broadway engagement planned for spring of 2024. The or…
This production was not what I expected"a play about the story of the two musicians, Chuck and Eva, and how their unusual friendship led to the development of an album of songs from the Grea…
Directed by Signature Theatre's Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner, with the Wolf Trap Orchestra conducted by Jon Kalbfleisch, Signature's resident music director, "Broadway in the Park" was…
Disney Theatrical Productions faced a challenge when it decided to produce a musical stage version of their successful film. "Frozen" is based on the beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy ta…
Written by Mary Chase in 1944, "Harvey" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the following year. The original Broadway production ran for over four years (1,775 performances) and was directed by…
 The musical "Grease" (music, lyrics, and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, with additional songs by John Farrar) has remarkably survived over 50 years of Broadway and West End produc…
Leslie Odom, Jr. (actor/singer/composer) has accomplished a lot in the first 25 years of a diversified career spanning many performance genres. He has appeared in leading roles on film and s…
Aretha Franklin (composer-singer-pianist), the "Queen of Soul," had an astonishing six-decade career (1954-2017) during which she received 18 Grammy Awards and 44 nominations. She was the fi…
John Dunton was the first known advice columnist. He answered questions sent to his British periodical "The Athenian Mercury" in 1690, with the assistance of experts in science, history, and…
"The Sound Inside" by Adam Rapp (novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician, and film director) is directed by Everyman Theatre's founder and artistic director, Vincent M. Lancisi, and fea…
 Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist Lorenz (Larry) Hart (1895-1943) collaborated on 28 musical shows during the period 1919-1943. Upon Hart's death in 1943, Rodgers formed…
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), an Austro-Bohemian conductor-composer, once said, "As soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial banishes without a tra…
Oscar Wilde once said, "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." My experience of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and his music began by m…
An interviewer once asked John Lennon how the Beatles named their songs. John said he was getting a haircut at a salon when he heard one of the stylists ask a customer how she liked her hair…
"My Fair Lady," with music by Frederick Loewe and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, is based on the 1913 play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw refused to give permission for a musi…