The touring production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is akin to a cup of hot cocoa on a blustery winter day. It’s theatrical comfort food that stirs up memories of a seemingly simpler time and leaves its audience feeling all warm and cozy inside. Read Lauren Van Hemert’s review of the show.
There are only a few musicals I would classify as a masterpiece: Rent, Caroline or Change, and perhaps even Les Miserables. After processing the PlayMakers’ production of Ragtime, and there is a lot to process, I might guardedly add this… Read More ›
It was 75 years ago that the film Meet Me in St. Louis premiered starring Judy Garland. The movie musical introduced the world to such standards as “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “The Trolley Song,” and the title song…. Read More ›
When Company first came out in 1971, it was billed as Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking, concept musical. The show has been revived twice on Broadway and is scheduled for a third revival next year coinciding with Sondheim’s 90th birthday. If the… Read More ›
As adapted and directed by Bobby Callaway, Bare Theatre’s production of The Trojan Women, written by Euripedes in 415 BC, attempts to foreground the voices of the women who have become the spoils of war. The Greeks have invaded Troy,… Read More ›
Fortnight’s Terminal B just might be the perfect spot for a rhetorical trip through eight original short “bar” plays. Cary Playwrights’ Forum has become an incubator of sorts for aspiring North Carolina playwrights. Out of 36 plays submitted, a committee… Read More ›
Michelle Obama said, “When they go low, we go high.” That sentiment characterizes much of A. Elizabeth “Bessie” and Sarah “Sadie” Delany’s life, a portrait recounted in the North Carolina Theatre production of Emily Mann’s Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’… Read More ›
By Gus Allen, Guest Contributor A Bronx Tale has taken an interesting path to its current stage-musical form. It began as an autobiographical one-man stage show written by and starring actor/director Chazz Palminteri in the late 1980s. In 1993, Robert… Read More ›
Even if you don’t frequent the theater, you may have heard of the musical Be More Chill. After playing a limited engagement at the Two River Theater in New Jersey in 2015, and a year of obscurity, the Joe Iconis… Read More ›