Musical Theatre Archives - Page 14 of 15

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 […]

“Fiddler On The Roof” at The Chichester Festival Theatre

Posted by Bernadette McNulty | 22nd Jul 2017 | Festivals, Musical Theatre, United Kingdom

If the choice of a female Doctor Who still has the power to shock and challenge, then we have not...

Why International Bias Has Caused Few Opportunities For Australian Musical Theatre Creators And Performers

Posted by Trevor Jones | 4th Jul 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre

Last week’s nominations for the Helpmann Awards, which recognize the performing arts in Australia,...

Earthy Nautanki Meets Classical Baithak in “Bandish 20-20000 Hz”

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 25th Jun 2017 | India, Musical Theatre

Playwright Purva Naresh has a prolific year ahead, starting with the premiere of Bandish 20-20000...

“Only Heaven Knows” Brings 1940s Queer Sydney Roaring Back to Life

Posted by Leigh Boucher | 7th Jun 2017 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Melbourne, Musical Theatre

Only Heaven Knows, a musical about a young Melbourne man who discovers the queer delights of...

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” on Broadway

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 5th May 2017 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, United States of America

My companion at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new Broadway musical adaptation of Roald...

“Fela! On Broadway” Transcends Shores With Afrobeats

Posted by Tobi Adebowale | 20th Apr 2017 | Musical Theatre, Nigeria

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti probably belonged to a class of the society – the poor and those who...

#Not Pho Your Entertainment

Posted by May Tran | 10th Apr 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Politics, Vietnam

Over the past year and a half, May Tran (writer, student and professional procrastinator of...

“Singin’ in the Rain” Returns to a Tokyo Stage

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 3rd Apr 2017 | Japan, Musical Theatre

When Adam Cooper launched into the first verse of Singin’ in the Rain on the stage of Tokyu...

“Come From Away” – New Canadian Musical on Broadway

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Mar 2017 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review

Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...

PETA’s “The Care Divas” and The Ethics of Care

Posted by Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco | 11th Mar 2017 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, Musical Theatre, Philippines

First staged in 2010 at the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) Theater Center in...

La La Land: Musicals, Nostalgia, and Escaping Reality

Posted by Nigel Ward | 21st Feb 2017 | Musical Theatre, United States of America

The death of the film musical has regularly been announced, for almost as long as there have been...

“Bat Out of Hell”—The Musical Opens in Manchester. Interview With Director Jay Scheib

Posted by Marcina Zaccaria | 2nd Feb 2017 | Directing, Interview, Musical Theatre, United Kingdom

Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell – The Musical is opening with a burst of energy at the...

Dramaturgy of the Duels in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton”

Posted by Meron Langsner | 15th Jan 2017 | Dramaturgy, Musical Theatre, New York, Stage Combat, United States of America

Pistol Dueling in the Early United States as Presented on the Broadway Stage Two men face off in...

The Best Alternative Holiday Shows

Posted by Alice Jones | 25th Dec 2016 | Immersive Theatre, Musical Theatre, News, United Kingdom

The Celebrity One: Cinderella This is the big one. Paul O’Grady plays the wicked stepmother and...

A Dramaturg’s Process in NYMF’s NextLink Project

Posted by Anne Hamilton | 21st Dec 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Musical Theatre, New York, United States of America

It is much more challenging to dramaturg a musical than a straight play because there are so many more elements to consider, assess, and attempt to balance out. I examine each song in the score in terms of style, tempo, tone, melody, and length.

Manga Musicals and Takarazuka Revue: A Model of Theatre in Episodes

Posted by Armando Rotondi | 19th Dec 2016 | Adaptation, Essay, Japan, Musical Theatre

The adaptation of Japanese manga into musical theatre productions represents an interesting...

Takarazuka Revue: Japanese All-Female Musical Theater Troupe

Posted by Lauren Deutsch | 7th Dec 2016 | Essay, Japan, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Gender

Nothing’s clear-cut at Japan’s Takarazuka Revue, arguably one of the world’s largest all-female musical theatre groups. The women who portray male roles in the Revue’s repertoire must maintain a semblance of “maleness” off-stage as well, the “off” boundaries being far away from the theatre environs.