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“Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical” Is A Deeply Satisfying Tribute To Australia’s Most-Loved Dag

Posted by Leigh Boucher | 30th Nov 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review

Muriel Heslop occupies a precious position in Australian cultural life. She is, perhaps, our...

Cleansed Through Chaos: “God Bless Iceland” at The Reykjavik City Theatre

Posted by Sigríður Jónsdóttir | 16th Nov 2017 | Iceland, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics

The economic crisis in Iceland was messy, merciless and brought an entire nation completely...

“One The Bear” (La Boite) New Transmedia Storytelling

Posted by Meredith Walker | 9th Nov 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Gender, Transmedia

In true international award-winning Black Honey Company style, One The Bear bursts on the...

Dramaturgical Leadership And The Politics Of Appeal In Commercial Theatre

Posted by Ken Cerniglia | 8th Nov 2017 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Musical Theatre, New York, Producing, United States of America

In an early scene of Rick Elice’s irreverent Peter Pan prequel, Peter And The Starcatcher, the...

Life In The West End’s Second Best Historical Musical “The End of History”

Posted by Iain Hollingshead | 30th Oct 2017 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Last month, 1,601 people were left disappointed by the news that Hamilton, the American musical...

“Bright Star” Shines It’s Light on The Ahmanson, Los Angeles

Posted by Christine Deitner | 28th Oct 2017 | Los Angeles, Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

With the opening of Bright Star at The Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los...

“Assassinating Katie Hopkins” May Be Bad Taste But Theatre-Goers May Just Love It

Posted by Len Collin | 24th Oct 2017 | Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Katie Hopkins, the controversial British media commentator, has become the subject of a new stage...

Taylor Mac Makes History At Melbourne Festival Opening With “The Inauguration”

Posted by Sarah Balkin | 23rd Oct 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Taylor Mac described The Inauguration, which helped launch the 2017 Melbourne Festival, as “a...

Dallas Theater Center’s “Hair” Lets the Sunshine In

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 12th Oct 2017 | Dallas, Musical Theatre, United States of America

While I grew up around musical theatre, I certainly didn’t grow up around Hair. “Oh, What a...

“King Kong”: Legendary South African Musical Returns To A Fragmented Country

Posted by Gavin Robert Walker | 11th Oct 2017 | Musical Theatre, South Africa, Theatre and Politics

After an absence of over half a century, the courageous musical King Kong has smashed its way back...

All-black South African Cast Explosive in the Rewarding “King Kong” Revival at Joburg Mandela Theatre

Posted by Diane de Beer | 11th Oct 2017 | Musical Theatre, South Africa

It’s about time but perhaps that’s what was needed to do justice to such an iconic show. What King...

“Onegin:” 21st Century Sensibility Moves Musical Theatre Far Beyond The Box

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 20th Sep 2017 | Canada, Musical Theatre

First of all, do not read Pushkin’s Onegin before seeing The Musical Stage Company and NAC English...

Martial Law Musicals: Theatre of a New War?

Posted by Maria Lorena Santo | 17th Sep 2017 | Musical Theatre, Philippines, Theatre and Politics

“Philippine theater has, through three eras of political struggle—Filipino-American, Japanese,...

Billy Harrigan Tighe Brings Life to The Man Behind Peter Pan in The Play “Finding Neverland”

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 13th Sep 2017 | Japan, Musical Theatre

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” In those few words the Scottish...

High Flying, Adored? When “Evita” Gets Whitewashed

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 8th Sep 2017 | Musical Theatre, United States of America

How many major Latinx or Latin American characters can you name from mainstream musical theatre...

“Shout Sister Shout!” at The Pasadena Playhouse

Posted by Christine Deitner | 11th Aug 2017 | Los Angeles, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

First founded in 1917 as the Pasadena Community Playhouse by Gilmor Brown, who began his career as a producer in a renovated burlesque theatre, The Pasadena Playhouse was named the official state theatre of California in 1937 after Brown and his company successfully produced the entire Shakespeare canon on a single stage (a unique feat […]