What if Shakespeare wrote about today’s royals, rather than kings from the sixteenth century and earlier? That’s the premise posited by King Charles III, a five-act play in iambic penta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40PMFiddler on the Roof has been produced by countless schools and community theatres since it premiered in 1964, and it’s currently appearing in its fifth revival on Broadway – so you m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:50PMSchool of Rock, the stage musical, shouldn’t work as well as it does. The creative forces behind the show are all so disparate that it seems more like someone was playing the Broadway vers…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:40PMThe King and I is everything a classic musical should be. In director Bartlett Sher’s beautiful production, now playing at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater at the Lincoln Center, the f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54PMWhat if Benedick and his pals from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing were actually the Beatles, and Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day wrote all their music? That’s the question pose…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18PMAt this point, it seems as if everyone and their grandmother has seen Spring Awakening. The musical about repressed teens in 1890s Germany premiered on Broadway almost a decade ago, and has …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:08PMImmersive settings are the hottest trend in theatre right now. Every other production is set in a converted loft, warehouse, or whatever. Now owners of more traditional spaces are trying to …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45PMJason Robert Brown can do much better than Honeymoon in Vegas. Brown, the composer of shows like Parade, The Last Five Years and The Bridges of Madison County, is capable of great artistry …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:14PMImage of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Kevin Berne Note: This list is by no means representative of all of American theatre during the past year, but instead a compilation of some remarkab…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:47AMThe world première of Little Dancer, now playing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., could benefit from more dancing. That’s an odd thing to say about a musical about the painter E…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:56AMFrom the 56 eligible shows I saw this year (shows that were professionally produced and which I saw for the first time in 2012), I now present the best theater I saw this year.
SOURCE: www.neontommy.com at 03:02PMAfter watching her effervescent acceptance speech for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design, it’s impossible not to be charmed by Paloma Young. This impression is furthered by picking her…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:47AMFrom the moment the audience walks into the Soho Playhouse in lower Manhattan, it is immediately clear that "Triassic Parq," playing through August 5 off-Broadway, is a play that doesn't tak…
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