Taking classic texts and reinventing them into a musical form is old hat. From Kiss Me, Kate to West Side Story, works like these have stood the test of time. But one fellow who's plays haven't really had any musical reinventions is Anton Chekhov. His work is lauded and praised but not many have dared put music to his stories. In Songbird, Michael Kimmel and Lauren Pritchard ambitiously take Chekhov's The Seagull and…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:52PM on October 30, 2015