I haven’t had such a good, silly time at the theater since “Spamalot” or maybe “The Producers” as I did last night Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)
Broadway hits have a kind of white-hot energy: Everything from story to song clicks into place, the actors are firing on all cylinders " and the audience knows it's watching...
Though it features a twerking Bard and a song called I Hate Shakespeare, this new comedy about his rival playwrights is too nice to be truly iconoclastic Continue reading...
Christian Borle and Brian d'Arcy James co-star as theatrical adversaries in the new Broadway musical Something Rotten!, which officially opened April 22 at the St. James Theatre.
Broadway newbies offer a tuneful myth about the Shakespearean origins of musical theater.
Whatever their nominal subjects, musical comedies today are usually about musical comedies. Consider three of the funniest of the last ten years: Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone, and The Book…
A musical NOT borrowing from a book or movie, though it does borrow unapologetically from Shakespeare
A new musical about Shakespeare and a rival named Nick arrives on Broadway.
Unchecked enthusiasm and puns abound in this Broadway-does-the-Renaissance frolic, which namechecks pretty much every musical you've ever heard of.
NEW YORK " For the first half hour of "Something Rotten!" " the wacky new Broadway musical set among insecure creative types in an ersatz version of Elizabethan London where Shakespeare is a…
The supremely silly "Something Rotten!" is the musical love child of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and 'Forbidden Broadway.'
Set in 1595, when playwrights were like rock stars, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom (Brian d'Arcy James and John Cariani) are determined to have a hit.
More than reviews or word of mouth or the cheeky ads and poster art, what’s really going to sell “Something Rotten!” is “A Musical,” the production number from …
The new musical comedy Something Rotten, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, with music and lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick and a book…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first sign that things might go a little nutty at "Something Rotten!" is in the second song when William Shakespeare is called, well, a "little turd."...
There is a musical number early in Something Rotten that thoroughly delivers what the show's title, cast, creative team, and poster art have promised — Monty Python subversive sillines…
Iain reviews Something Rotten (Broadway) 3/29/2015 From: IainLovesTheatre Views: 44 4 ratings Time: 01:25 More in Entertainment
Embrace the exclamation point. Trust it. Give yourself over to it. Something Rotten!, the intoxicating new musical at the St. James Theatre, revels in its silliness so engagingly that exclam…
By the end of the show, despite the cleverness of its concept, Something Rotten as executed simply hasn't added up to a completely satisfying musical. Its choreography seems too repetitive, …
Tired of the spoofsical? Who can blame you?
Christian Borle and Brian d'Arcy James co-star as theatrical adversaries in the new Broadway musical Something Rotten!, which officially opened April 22 at the St. James Theatre.
Brian d'Arcy James plays a struggling theater artist going up against Christian Borle's rock-star Shakespeare in this cheeky musical comedy set in Elizabethan England.read more
"Something Rotten!" arrives on Broadway with Hit! plastered all over it -- and I am not here to doubt it. As much as this corner attempts to be a buzz-free zone before official openings, the…
The completely original new musical comedy Something Rotten, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, with music and lyrics by Grammy Award…