840 stories by "Chris Luner"
On Saturday January 7th, the Once Upon A Time Players held two major events that would help raise money to benefit their upcoming 2012 Summer Season. From A Cinderella Breakfast in the morni…
Game Over! The new Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones may be all about the girls not giving it up to the boys but it looks as though the new the Broadway show is about to give it up to the Br…
Bonnie & Clyde, the new Frank Wildhorn musical, that met a premature death on Broadway late last week headed into the recording studio’s yesterday to preserve the show’s incr…
Happy New Year Everyone! Another year is blooming on Broadway and its looking like its going to be another epic year of theatre in New York City as love stories, death, revolution and cla…
2011 – what a year. And what a year at theatre for that. If the world events of 2011 didn’t keep you on the edge of your seat, the theatre scene and Broadway business sure as hel…
Theatre will return to the Philadelphia suburbs in a new life later this year at The Bucks County Playhouse which had been sitting abandoned since late last year after it was forced into clo…
Original Musical Theatre. Something that appears so rarely anymore, or is that what we’re just being led to think? This is a discussion I’ve been meaning to bring up for a while …
What’s the buzz!? Apparently Jesus Christ Superstar is all the buzz! With an upcoming Broadway revival of the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber  musical, thats not stopping plans now for an u…
Go, Go Joe! Go, Go, Joe! Upper Darby High School may be on Winter break but their upcoming spring musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, is getting into full swing for the up…
There are only 35 days left till tickets go on sale for the much anticipated upcoming Disney production of Newsies of Broadway! And with much buzz already taking place about this upcoming pr…
Its so easy for critics and theatre-goers in today’s world to claim original musical theatre is dead. But have no fear Broadway, original musical theatre is not only alive but alive an…
Changes are ahead for the Tony nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! That is, the production’s main man Daniel Radcliffe, who currently stars as J. Pie…
“Its nice work if you can get it and you can get it if you try” – That lyric comes from the famous Gershwin song Nice Work If You Can Get It which also happens to be the na…
In a season of limited new original musicals on Broadway, the sun is shinning bright at Athens University with the new Broadway musical, Lysistrata Jones! Loosely based on the ancient Greek …
Broadway is about to become a little less rough as two of history’s most infamous outlaws are set to vanish as a new year approaches on Broadway. Today, in an odd turn of events, the p…
It may be winter break at Wagner College but that isn’t stopping Completely Student Productions from already beginning their plans for Spring 2012 productions on campus. And while Comp…
Hello Everyone! Luner on Theatre is BACK! We have been swamped in theatre work for the past week but here we are! Back and bringing you your theatre news you need to know! We’re contin…
I found myself fortunate this Thanksgiving break to be able to check out The Players Club of Swarthmore’s production of Crazy For You. I attended opening night this past Friday to a so…
One of Broadway’s hottest revivals, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, is getting a makeover! The tony nominated production come January 1st will be saying goodbye to th…
Gobble Gobble Gobble! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! And welcome back as we here at Luner on Theatre are wishing you a happy holiday in a “Luner on Theatre Fashion” of course as we…
Hello Everyone! Off the Record, our new series profiling the student production of High Fidelity form beginning to end, continues today on the blog! Promising to bring you the real deal behi…
Get Me To The Church On Time! And by that we mean the theatre! Wagner College Theatre is at it again and this time they are on to the classics! From rocking out with Jesus Christ Superstar t…
Could Broadway Get Any Better? That question has been answered. In a hot theatre season filled with revivals and a few new works planned, the 2011-2012 season got ten times better last ni…
There is a buzz in the air and clear excitement about as I attend Student Run Musical Theatre’s production of Next to Normal this past Friday night at The Performance Center at Wagner …
Broadway’s Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark has remained relatively quiet since a major overhaul and revamping of the show late last year. Some began to think the production had finally go…