381 stories by "Rob Lester"
I just caught two new musicals about red-headed female scientists and their partners. One is in town for a brief stay in its world premiere in the Fringe Festival. One was never seen before …
It's rare to find a kids' show that's this good. Here are 2 that are new, written by Jamey Hood.
She scores with both, tho' it's her first time. And, in fact, non-distractingly, she writes …
A 2014 Off-Broadway musical called Fly by Night has key moments with its people seeking solace in the stars of the nighttime sky and being plunged into darkness because of a power failure. N…
Summer means the annual summer musical theatre festival, and this summer, Summer Valley Fair is one of the highlights and a uniquely creative style and approach make it compelling. It's pla…
Fellow outsiders, come inside PTC Performance Space and hug a buffalo who's feeling low. For those of us who like musicals, the annual NYMF series of new ones for three weeks in July feels l…
In the swirling whirlwind of musical offerings busy invading Manhattan through July 27 comes that increasingly endangered species: the old-fashioned revue. A mix of songs and skits and bits …
Their roads to the Broadway season were long, but their runs were short. Here are two recently closed musicals whose action takes place in Europe, with scores written by major league songwri…
Musical theatre's Marin Mazzie does double duty in this spring's CD releases: serving in the title role of a long-gestating/morphing musical's premiere recording with Misia featuring melodie…
The missing slices from the juicy score to 1954's The Golden Apple are on disc at last. So there is reason to rejoice for lovers of adventurous musical theatre scores ...
Our mix this time contains the high-profile big Broadway hit, a low-profile 2012 show, and a fellow profiling some Sinatra standbys.
It's a treat to listen to these recordings, made from the 1950s to the 1980s, either with the hindsight of history or wondering how it must have been to perform them or hear them fresh, with…
Sluths and private detectives seeking long-lost gems from Broadway's past, stolen away by time and the fates and proven-wrong theories and assumptions that befall shows that failed on Broadw…
