Bleeding Love
Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes life imitates art. And sometimes the two combine in an eerily prescient performance that both inspires and unsettles.
Such is the case with Bleeding Love, the self-described post-apocalyptic musical podcast that serves as a both a fanciful escape and a cautionary tale.
Cyrano
“A great nose may be an index of a great soul,” Edmund Rostand wrote in Cyrano de Bergerac. When considering the latest adaptation of this popular tale of love and tragedy, which pointedly lacks a notable physical element of the title character, perhaps the same could be said of the theater as well.
Owning Her Power: Reneé Rapp, Regina George, and Compassionate Strength
No one can accuse Reneé Rapp, the emerging star of Broadway’s Mean Girls, who brings the scheming Queen Bee Regina George to life onstage, of method acting.
This Ain't No Disco
Despite a top-notch creative team and an undeniably talented cast, viewing this musical requires a protective sheen for one’s vision.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
There’s a reason why some shows have never succeeded. As much as fans might love them in spite of — or because of — their flaws, their creators simply cannot make them work.
Desperate Measures
The unabashedly old-fashioned musical (the book is written entirely in rhyming couplets) is an undeniably all-too-relevant production.
Dear Evan Hansen
This new musical, with a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson, follows the titular character, a painfully shy and anxious teenager who finds himself skyrocketing to popularity and online fame.
Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn, which was written by Chad Hodge and Gordon Greenberg, follows a song-and-dance team who part ways when Jim, determined to escape showbiz, buys a farm in Connecticut.
Tuck Everlasting
Adapted by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, with a score by Chris Miller (music) and Nathan Tysen (lyrics), it’s clear from the opening number thatTuck Everlasting is a whole-heartedly old-fashioned musical.
‘Cuff Me:’ The Fifty Shades of Grey Musical Parody
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” book series.
Kinky Boots
With a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots, which is filled to the brim with glitter and glitz, has strutted confidently into its place as the feel-good musical of the season.
