840 stories by "Chris Luner"
Let the games begin! And by games, we clearly are talking about the theatre awards season now officially underway in New York! Earlier this morning, Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams prou…
The Encores! Off-Center production of Violet has transferred to Broadway this spring after a critically acclaimed run this past summer! Sutton Foster stars as Violet, a young and bitter girl…
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together! Will Taylor Swift soon be saying those words to the music world? More than likely not. However, that is not hindering the country star icon from look…
Encores! is at it again as another stellar production heads to the stage this week! The Most Happy Fella, which features a book, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, is based on the play…
Fantasy versus reality for two families in the same neighborhood who not only have identical homes but last names as well. The Realistic Joneses, a new comedy written by Will Eno, tells the …
Ready or not New York, here comes theatre awards season! While it may only be the first couple days of April, awards season for the New York theatre community is upon us! Yesterday, the O…
The French Riviera has never looked better! The UK premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which features music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane, is now officia…
The Bucks County Playhouse is coming back bigger and better than ever before! The regional playhouse, located in New Hope, Pennsylvania, was at one point in time one of the most beloved regi…
55 years ago, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun debuted on Broadway and the changed the theatre world forever. It was the first work of theatre written by an African-American…
If you follow one road, then where does the other lead? The idea of choices, where they lead us in life and person they make us are explored in the brand new original Broadway musical If/The…
The time of year has come again for Wagner College Theatre to celebrate another class about to step into the world. The Class of 2014 will celebrate their achievements tonight and just how f…
Close Every Door? No! Open them and send in the brand new national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat! The iconic musical tells the…
It’s September 1989 and Westerberg High School is being terrorized by a Heather, Heather and Heather, otherwise known as the Heathers. Heathers: The Musical, which features a boo…
London’s West End was rocked late last year during the holiday season as a collapse at one of its theatres brought the show to a stand still and sent dozens of people to local hospital…
 The Three Penny Opera, based off of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, has returned to Manhattan! Written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, the musical tells the stor…
While cabarets and concerts are not something we usually do not cover here on Luner on Theatre, there are always exceptions to the rules. Melanie Brook is a close friend of ours and a force …
What does it mean to be alive? On a journey to save his best friend Agnes, 16 year-old Jasper wanders into the afterlife and discovers a world unknown to the living. As he works to sav…
While another academic school year is coming to an end for those at Wagner College, the nationally recognized Wagner College Theatre program is ending their season on a high note. After prod…
Do You Hear The People Sing? The world’s most beloved musical has finally come home to Broadway. After a highly acclaimed and sold out national tour across the United States, Les Miser…
Two Can Keep A Secret If One Of Them Is Dead. Tales From Red Vienna, the new play by David Grimm, tells the story of a woman named Heléna. Heléna lost her husband in World War I and …
While the Broadway spring theatre season truly get’s underway in New York, London’s West End season is wrapping up theirs for another year! So what exactly does that mean? Believ…
An island in New Jersey? It’s possible! Just use your imagination as one of America’s favorite musicals is set to hit the stage at one of the nation’s favorite regional pla…
Hand To God, a new play by Robert Askins, has returned Off-Broadway after a highly acclaimed run! The students of the Christian Puppet Ministry in Cypress, Texas know they must obey th…
Things are about to get a whole lot quieter in London as one of the longest running musicals in West End history has officially set a closing date. While jukebox musicals are something many …
The World Is Changing . Are you with it or against it? Mothers and Sons is Terrance McNally’s newest drama to come to Broadway and mark’s his 12th or 13th show to hit the stage o…
