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Friday, October 10, 2014

Playwright Catherine Butterfield on Abingdon’s “It Has to Be You” by Rebecca Kaplan

In Catherine Butterfield’s new play It Has to Be You, which opens October 12 at the Abingdon’s Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, three children visit their mother, suspecting she has Alz…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:17PM
Friday, September 19, 2014

Album Review: Grind by Rebecca Kaplan

The soundtrack to Grind, a dark, funny new movie about Grindr, the gay hookup app, is finally available online. Lyricist Selda Sahin and composer Derek Gregor deftly capture the essence of G…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:53PM
Friday, August 1, 2014

Artist Spotlight: Cheryl Faraone, Director of PTP/NYC’s Pentecost by Rebecca Kaplan

PTP/NYC, a theater company celebrating their 28th anniversary, recently brought a revival of David Edgar’s 1998 play Pentecost to New York City’s Atlantic Theater. The New York p…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:43PM

Album Review: Forbidden Broadway: Comes Out Swinging! by Rebecca Kaplan

Forbidden Broadway is back with another lampoon of this year in Broadway. The show is something like the enchanted mirror of Snow White’s stepmother. This year, it asks, what is the fu…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:59PM
Friday, July 25, 2014

Top 5 Songs from the New “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Album by Rebecca Kaplan

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a cult 1998 punk rock musical written by and starring John Cameron Mitchell, with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, is back onstage. The gritty rock musical has s…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:13PM
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Album Review: Violet by Rebecca Kaplan

The new Broadway cast recording of “Violet,” starring Sutton Foster as the title character, is like a present you’ll want to unwrap slowly and carefully. On the surface, the show …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:07PM
Friday, May 2, 2014

Album Review: The Bridges of Madison County by Rebecca Kaplan

“Bridges of Madison County,” Jason Robert Brown’s latest work, is up for a Tony award for best original score, and rightfully so: with Brown’s rich melodies and a star performance by…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:59AM
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Review: “Fun Home” Soundtrack by Rebecca Kaplan

While Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, and Alexandra Socha are great actors, Jeanine Tesori’s score is the real star of “Fun Home”, the off-Broadway musical based on Alison Bec…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:06PM

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