It’s worth the trip to Falls Church, VA to see how Creative Cauldron has managed to fit Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s beloved Once on This Island into the tiny ArtsSpace. On…
In Part 5 of a series of interviews with the cast of Once on This Island, meet Avia Fields. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform before on o…
In Part 6 of a series of interviews with the cast of Once on This Island, meet Jade Jones. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform before on ou…
In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Once on This Island, meet Tiara N. Whaley. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform before …
Creative Cauldron's production of Once on this Island (book and lyrics by Lynn Aherns and music by Stephen Flaherty) starts off with a bang. Well, to be more precise, a thunderclap. What…
In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Once on This Island, meet Carl Williams.< Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perfor…
In Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast of Once on This Island, meet Ian Anthony Coleman. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform …
In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Once on This Island, meet Malcolm Lee. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform before on o…
In Playbill.com's latest feature series, we ask members of the theatre community to reflect on the contributions of other artists whose work has made a meaningful impact on their own cra…
Ahrens & Flaherty Interview: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Score The renowned songwriting duo, Lyricist Lynn Ahrens and Composer Stephen Flaherty, discuss the inspiration behind the percussive sc…
Helen Hayes Award winner Andrea Frierson, whose Broadway credits include Once on This Island, Marie Christine and Bring in 'Da Noise/Bring in 'Da Funk, will go it solo Nov. 5 at 54 B…
Playbill.com correspondent Ben Rimalower offers a collection of the top ten songs by the award-winning team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
Jerry Dixon, who returns to Broadway in the new musical If/Then, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
Once on this Island, the diverting Caribbean-themed musical running at Olney Theatre Center through May 4, is more than just a pastel-colored stroll through island culture to a calypso beat.…
A booming storm yet again rocks this vulnerable Caribbean island, which happens to be Haiti, "The Jewel of the Antilles."Â And in a matter of 90 minutes"the length of a typical wind-swept…
"Once on This Island" at the Olney Theatre Center is a burst of spring, a warm 90-minute fairy tale told to breezy Caribbean rhythms. This is the 1990 musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flah…
Some phone calls you never forget. For Alan Muraoka, it was a call he took this winter from Olney Theatre's artistic director Jason Loewith, who was interviewing him for the chance to direct…
Test the strength of love against the power of death and you will discover why they tell the story. The 'they' of Olney Theatre Center as they present Once On This Island; a brilliant musica…
WE ARE GIVING AWAY ONE PAIR OF TICKETS TOÂ ONCE ON THIS ISLAND FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT – APRIL 12TH AT 7 PM AT OLNEY THEATRE CENTERÂ 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD 20832…
Ahrens and Flaherty Talk Creative Process and Play From "Once on This Island," "Ragtime" and "Rocky" http://www.playbill.com/video Tony-winning songwriting tea…