Harriet Harris shines as Chris Durang's nutty nun, while Robert E. Sherwood's vintage melodrama just shines, period. The post Petrified Forest, Sister Mary Ignatius: Revivals Under the Berks…
★★★★ 100th birthday tributes to Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins yield a familiar but affecting take on timeless material. The post West Side Story: Reproducing a…
★★ An ambitious but unfocused musical gives a great, underappreciated 20th century female artist too much of a brush-off The post Lempicka: Art for Art’s Ache in the 20th C…
★★★ Matthew Broderick shines in Douglas Carter Beane's uneven comic vision of a post-bigotry, Freak Flags Flying modern America The post The Closet: A Gay Deceiver for a Ne…
A rare photo among the plates in Harold Prince's Sense of Occasion features a smiling Richard Rodgers, Ethel Merman, and the director posing for an ultimately spiked TV Guide cover that was…
Surveys of musicals, if they do nothing else, inevitably incite arguments between the author and the reader. There's plenty of grist for the argument mill in Dietz's tome.