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Theater Review: COME FROM AWAY (North American Tour)
A TONIC FOR OUR TIMES Come from Away tells the story of how residents of the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, in Canada suddenly found themselves the host to 7,000 airline passengers grounded in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City. The show doesn’t deal wallow in the high drama of…
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Jazz: CONNIE HAN TRIO (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
Pianist and composer Connie Han takes on the pantheon of jazz piano ranging from Harlem stride to modal post-bop with her own fiery, contemporary style. Her performances are both powerful and elegant, putting a fresh spin on tradition. The New York Times calls her “the rare musician with fearsome technical chops and a breadth of…
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Opera Tour: FIDELIO (Heartbeat Opera in NYC, AZ & CA)
NYC’S HEARTBEAT OPERA PRESENTS ITS FIRST-EVER TOUR WITH FIDELIO Music by Ludwig van BeethovenOriginal libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich SonnleithnerAdapted & Directed by Ethan HeardArranged & Music Directed by Daniel SchlosbergNew English Dialogue Co-Written by Marcus Scott and Ethan HeardFIDELIO TOUR STOPS:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYThursday, February 10 at 7pmSaturday, February 12 at 7pmSunday, February…
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Theater Review: HAIRSPRAY (North American Tour)
YOU REALLY CAN’T STOP THE BEAT There was some major foot stomping, shoulder shimmying and hip swaying happening downtown last night, despite a major snowstorm that dumped half a foot of snow on Chicagoland. The national non-Equity tour of Hairspray the musical has hit the CIBC Theater. This show is so hot, it will melt…
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Theater Review: EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAIME (Ahmanson Theatre)
WHAT WILL YOU TALK ABOUT? Red high-heeled shoes? Professional drag queens? Repetitive pop music? Overcoming homophobia? Yeah, the new-ish musical Everybody’s Talking About Jaime sounds a lot like Kinky Boots, because it is. (There are so many ways to glitter and be gay in modern Musical Theater.) Jaime is a musical about a 16-year-old boy…
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Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (Broadway Playhouse)
THIS WRONG IS OH SO RIGHT Broadway in Chicago’s gamble is absolutely the right play at the right time. Staged in the intimate setting of the Broadway Playhouse Theatre, this Broadway and London romp is most welcome in a time that has audiences hungering for a sincere, hearty laugh. Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer…
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Tour Review: MICKEY’S SEARCH PARTY (Disney on Ice)
IT’S BACK, BIGGER AND BOLDER After an almost two-year pandemic hiatus, Feld Entertainment is back, bigger, brighter and bolder than ever before, lighting up the ice with an aspiring cornucopia of athleticism and artistry. Disney on Ice Presents Mickey’s Search Party combined family-friendly entertainment, an ever-familiar soundtrack and over three dozen loveable animated characters brought…
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Dance: THE EQUALITY OF NIGHT AND DAY: “First Glimpse” and “Upside Down” (Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE at Royce Hall)
CAP UCLA Presents The Equality of Night and Day: First Glimpse and Upside Down From Prolific Choreographer Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Saturday, March 5 at 8 p.m. Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Equality. Photo by Christopher George, courtesy of The Kennedy Center UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents award-winning choreographer Ronald K. Brown and his company EVIDENCE performing The Equality of Night…
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Off-Broadway Theater: JERSEY BOYS (1000th performance)
The Tony Award-Winning Musical Jersey Boys Celebrates 1000th Performance at New World Stages Today, Sunday, January 9 January 15, 2017 4,642 performances August Wilson Theatre January 9, 2022 1,000 performances (and counting) New World Stages The Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning musical Jersey Boys celebrates its 1000th performance at New York City’s New World Stages…
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Theater Review: THE BAND’S VISIT (National Tour)
LOST IN THE DESERT Winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical of 2018, Itamar Moses’s The Band’s Visit is one of the most highly-awarded shows in musical theater history. And yet, those expecting the razzmatazz of a Big Broadway Musical in The Band’s Visit’s “post-shutdown” North American Tour are likely to be at least somewhat…
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Theater Review: FROZEN (North American Tour)
THIS SHOW STAYS FROZEN The Walt Disney animated film Frozen grossed about $1.28 billion dollars during its international run, and when there is a commercial success like that, reworkings and adaptations cannot be far behind. The franchise has included an animated short in 2015, an animated featurette in 2017, and a feature-length sequel, Frozen II,…
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Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)
MY FAILED LADY Let’s make one thing clear. When a national touring company of a Broadway success comes to your city, proclaiming it is a duplicate of the original production, what is meant by “production” is that it is guaranteed to have the same sets and costumes and sound design. It will look great and…
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Theater Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (National Tour)
JESUS TRADES SOUL FOR A MAN BUN While the the 50th anniversary tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is still finding its footing in this truncated version (90 intermissionless minutes), Timothy Sheader’s 2016 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production was greeted warmly by patrons at Segerstrom Hall, the tour’s kickoff…
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Dance: THE HIP HOP NUTCRACKER (National Tour)
IT WILL HAVE YOU HIPHOPPING IN THE AISLES Everything old is new again. Tchaikovsky’s 129-year-old ballet is reimagined as a holiday dance spectacle in The Hip Hop Nutcracker. It is one of the most original takes on this oft-produced dance piece. Tchaikovsky and hip-hop turn out to be great partners. The 34-city tour kicks off…
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Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)
STILL THE FAIREST I’m rather certain one cannot visit enough productions of My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Henry Higgins, a puffed-up upper-class grammarian, and Eliza Doolittle, his lower-class, flower girl protégé whom Higgins turns into a lady by changing her speech. With one of the most…
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CD: CARELESS LOVE: ALBUM REISSUE AND TOUR DATES (Madeline Peyroux)
Special edition includes previously-unreleased 2005 set from Spain’s Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz The acclaimed jazz singer embarks on a global Careless Love Forever tour this fall Craft Recordings announces the deluxe reissue of Madeleine Peyroux’s best-selling 2004 album, Careless Love. Set for release now, the collection includes the acclaimed, original album, plus a previously-unreleased live set, captured…
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Opera: HEARTBEAT OPERA (2021-22 Season, NYC and Tour)
HEARTBEAT OPERA — the indie opera company whose re-imagined, re-orchestrated and stripped down stagings of classic operas have been called “a radical endeavor” by Alex Ross in The New Yorker — returns to the in-person stage for its eighth season this year. THE 2021-22 SEASON BREATHING FREE, a visual album September 18 at Pier 63,…
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Off-Broadway: STOMP (Re-opening on July 20 at the Orpheum)
REIGNITING THE RHYTHM STOMP, which I originally saw at New York’s 299-seat Orpheum Theatre in 1994, has performers using their bodies and both industrial and household objects as percussive musical instruments, and it was performance art nirvana. Years later, it still retains the original flair and comedy that makes it so enjoyable. The indefatigable, rhythmic,…
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Broadway: HADESTOWN (reopening at the Walter Kerr Theatre)
HELL-O AGAIN! Who knew a trip to the underworld could be so much fun? Epic, touching, poetic, and tragic — and winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical — this new twist on two classic Greek myths is a rousing adventure from start to finish. Now, Hadestown is returning to Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre…
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Off-Broadway Theater and North American Tour: FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY (The Jerry Orbach Theater)
FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE TOUR WITH A SUMMERTIME RUN IN NYC PREVIEWS BEGIN JULY 19, 2021 OFF-BROADWAY AT THE JERRY ORBACH THEATER Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Monica, Joey and Phoebe are coming back to the Big Apple. As friends across America begin to gather again, Friends! The Musical Parody, the hilarious unauthorized sendup of…
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