Nicholas Barasch, Kyle Scatliffe and Charlie Franklin starred in the City Center Encores! production of Big River from February 8 through February 12. Take a look at the pics from the closin…
The musical was directed by Lear deBessonet.
The Tony-winning musical, based on Mark Twain’s classic American novel, was revived at New York City Center for a limited engagement.
Red-haired, animated and engagingly boyish, 18-year-old Nicholas Barasch is sensational as Huckleberry Finn. Mr. Barasch is onstage virtually the entire time and winningly carries the show.…
Roger Miller's score remains catchy, William Hauptman's script is still packed with adventures and the feeling remains pure Americana.
One would assume that Mark Twain would have been amused that his 1884 novel condemning America's history of enslavement of Africans, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' has occasionally been c…
The Encores! production of "Big River" is a pleasant enough confection but with a bitter aftertaste. To understand why, it helps to know that, when he was 11 years old, Samuel Clemens discov…
Many people have special affection for "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." This was the first (and only) musical score by the late country singer-songwriter Roger Miller, who wo…
The Tony-winning musical, based on Mark Twain’s classic American novel, is revived at New York City Center for a limited engagement.
Encores! delivers a revival of 'Big River,' the 1985 Tony Award-winning musical based on Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' featuring a score by the late Roger Miller. read m…
The Tony-winning musical, based on Mark Twain’s classic American novel, plays New York City Center for a limited engagement.
The scenic backdrop for the City Center Encores! concert of Big River, which is playing through this weekend, is a black-and-white photo of the Mississippi River that's about as expansive an…
Librettist William Hauptman shares memories of his Big River collaborator.
On this week's podcast, we talk about how the nation's and the world's political tumult is affecting theatres (and how they're responding), about the departure of critic Charles Isherwood fr…
by Brian Scott Lipton For veteran theatergoers considering seeing City Center Encores' current production of "Big River," the question on their minds may be: can the thi…
First up in Encores 2017 season is Big River The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Tony Award-winning musical based onMark Twain's classic American novel. Big River will starNicholas Baras…
At City Center, an irresistible Huckleberry Finn but no new insights into the questions of race and responsibility that his story always raises.
The tradition of New York playwrights biting the Hollywood hand that feeds them is as tried as the fizzy comedies of Kaufman & Hart (Light Up The Sky) and true as the biting satires of T…
It might be possible to enjoy the musical Big River by squinting. It is, after all, based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, whose main events " Huck's escape from his Pap, …
First up in Encores 2017 season is Big River The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Tony Award-winning musical based on Mark Twain's classic American novel. Big River will star Nicholas Bar…
Huckleberry Finn sings at New York City Center Encores!
Charlie Franklin takes over the BroadwayBox Instagram for the opening night of Encores! Big River.
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