Scott Simon speaks with Friends University student Caitlyn Fox about the recital she was not allowed to perform on campus. It was comprised of songs that were banned from musical theater.
I few syllables about British-American character actress Queenie Leonard (Pearl Walker, 1905-2002). She's Travalanche's third Queenie, by my count, following on the heels of Queenie Vassar a…
Jenn Colella is known for her Tony-nominated performance in Come From Away, which she reprised for Apple TV+'s film adaptation. Prior to performing the show-stopping number "Me and the Sky" …
"MJ" is propelled by remarkable dancing and the galvanizing breakout performance of Myles Frost.
This pom-pom filled musical might be slight in story, but it certainly has much to enjoy thanks to Fabian Aloise's choreography.
Julian Bird was a psychiatrist when he was diagnosed with bladder cancer " and began daydreaming about being an actor. Seventeen years later, he is playing the lead at a London theatre When …
Scott Simon talks with Carla Stickler, a former understudy for the Broadway smash "Wicked." She was called back to perform on short notice after much of the current cast succumbed to COVID-1…
Fabian Aloise's banging choreography spikes, basket-tosses and split-lifts this cracking production of Bring It On " the Musical.
It's been ten years since Bring It On was first made into a musical. These days it has an interest as a piece of Lin-Manuel Miranda juvenilia, pre-Hamilton and co-created with others.
(Amanda Morris's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/15/21; via Pam Green; Photo:Â Michael Phelan as Winthrop Paroo and Rebecca Luker as Marian Paroo in a 2000 revival of "The Musi…
The Broadway vet never imagined she'd play 16 again, then Kimberly Akimbo came along --- Known for her performances in Broadway musicals, including a resplendent fairy godmother in Cinderell…
A London production starring Eddie Redmayne pulls the audience into a hedonistic milieu. Then things get dark.
At the urging of producers, Meredith Willson cut a boy in a wheelchair from the early scripts for his 1957 musical. A look back shows what was lost.
Without the brand name of well-known IP, Broadway musicals are increasingly finding that releasing albums early is a route to the stage, and to fans' hearts.
Before indulging in your Thanksgiving feast, do you like to get up and get active? You're in luck! Seattle's Turkey Trot returns for its 15th year, along with other Puget Sound area 5K races…
Four years after first playing Caroline, or Change's title role, Olivier winner Sharon D Clarke finally brings her powerhouse performance to Broadway.
Linbury theatre, LondonThe company celebrates 20 years of challenging, creative work with an eclectic double bill including a thrilling new piece from one of its own dancers Ballet Black, fo…
Following on from the brilliant Emilia, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's new play Mum is a powerfully bracing experience at the Soho Theatre "Motherhood's not for everyone" Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Mu…
Lloyd Suh's play, which will be the most-produced of the coming season, speaks directly both to our tangled past and our complicated present.
The first thing audiences see at the new Broadway revival of "Caroline, or Change" is a statue of a Confederate soldier that, early on in the show, gets torn down in an act of protest. It's …
Two actors with a shared connection to the Broadway musical discuss the timely return of the show. L
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Sadie Crow directs And Then There Were None, the theatrical adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel, at the Little Lake Theatre in Canonsburg. This Broadway and West End three act smash is a…
"The pandemic sped up the process," Baltimore native Jessica Pinkett says of her decidion to leave Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to become a filmmaker.
A scavenger hunt of sorts, FOUND encourages you to wander down Philadelphia side streets"or navigate an interactive Google map from home"to discover a world of the fey. Jill Ivey reviews.