Something about tap dance feels thrillingly existential. As one intensely unplanned moment follows another, the synergy of dance and music seems beyond control, like a wind that blows strong…
The all-female Japanese theater company that is putting on Kander and Ebb's "Chicago" as part of the Lincoln Center Festival through Sunday, was founded in 1913 in Takarazuka, Japan by the p…
A FAR FROM COSMETIC MUSICAL MAKEOVER In the late James Kirkwood's Legends!, two feuding divas–played on a 1986 national tour by theatrical goddesses Carol Channing and Mary Martin…
Whenever I'd hear critics describe musical theater as one of the few truly American art forms, I would think, well, at least one of those words is right. It's a form. I suppose it is also, a…
"It is a public park for public recreation," said the angry Chicagoan at the meeting, "where people can get out of the city and into the country, and where there shall be grass and trees and…
It was over forty years ago when Broadway great Chita Rivera first emerged from beneath the 46th Street Theatre to thrill audiences with 'All That Jazz.'
Lincoln Center Festival, New YorkThe Kander and Ebb musical gets a new lease of life and a kitsch encore thanks to a delightfully playful production by Japan's single-sex troupe Chicago, the…
By HowlRound TV. The Neo-Futurists presents the The Neo-Futurist Kitchen (a micro-festival on art & performance) livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV net…
At today's Ham4Ham, Rory O'Malley introduced the Chicago production of Hamilton's leading man, Miguel Cevantes, akaHamilvantes In preparation for his Chicago debut as Alexander Hamilton, Cer…
Late last month, a headline writer for McClatchy DC was not alone in getting caught in a linguistic, oxymoronic knot when they announced, "Minority babies outnumber whites among US infants."…
"Something Rotten!" has been added to Broadway in Chicago's next season, it was announced Wednesday. Originally directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, the musical comedy abou…
Takarazuka, Japan's famous all-female musical theater troupe, makes its first appearance in New York in over 25 years withTakarazuka CHICAGOat Lincoln Center Festival July 20-24 only at the …