9 stories by "Theculturalcritic"
Bess Wohl’s new play Liberation had as great of a 2026 as you could imagine. After its limited Broadway run closed in February, it went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as …
When the beloved 2004 film The Notebook was announced for a musical adaptation composed by pop star Ingrid Michaelson, everyone assumed it would be a hit. Unfortunately, the Broadway product…
Dear Evan Hansen burst onto the scene in 2016 and became a cultural phenomenon, dealing with themes such as mental illness, loneliness, and social media. When I saw it on Broadway back then,…
The 2024 Best Musical Tony winner is now on Broad Street, with all the marvelous staging aspects that led it to being one of the biggest hits on Broadway. The Outsiders is playing at Ensembl…
Come From Away is, in my opinion, one of the greatest musicals of all-time. This Tony Award-winning musical tells the true story of 7,000 airline passengers stranded in Newfoundland after th…
New York City Center is becoming increasingly appreciated as a place not just to revive underappreciated musicals, but to put them on with all-star casts. From Parade to Ragtime, they've had…
The world premiere of an ambitious new musical is being produced at Theatre Horizon, and it's not to be missed. Wishing to Grow Up Brightly is a brand new musical created by some of th…
Rent is a piece of American musical history, a gift left behind by creator Jonathan Larson, and the Arden Theatre Company has re-tooled it for Philadelphia. The Arden is an brilliant regiona…
Some art entertains, some art educates, and occasionally you get a fantastic confluence where a show does both tremendously well. Suffs, the new Broadway musical about the history of the …
