PQ 2019: A Dove is a Pigeon
One of my guiding principles in life is that the list of things I find beautiful should always be...
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Musical Theatre
Revisiting Broadway’s Forgotten Genius, John Latouche
Born into poverty in Richmond, Virginia, John Latouche (1914-1956) even as a youth established...
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“Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”: Vibrant Musical Numbers But It Avoids the Dicey Sexual and Racial Politics That Underly the Show
Orpheus Musical Theatre Society have brought to the stage another light-hearted musical, doing...
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“The View Upstairs:” A Slice of Gay, Kitschy, Bar Life
Pushing through the colored streamers that shield the doorway of the Plaza Theatre at the Boston...
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“Hairspray” at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
John Waters called Hairspray “the only radical movie I ever made” (from Dawn Monique Williams’s...
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The Hollywood Fringe Festival – “The Bully Problem”
It’s Hollywood Fringe Festival time here in Los Angeles, and for those of you who are not...
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“Amour” at Charing Cross Theatre
In Amour at Charing Cross Theatre, Post-World War II Paris is putting itself back together. People...
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“Pacific Overtures:” Solid, Safe, Sondheim
Pacific Overtures, currently running through June 16th at The Lyric Stage in Boston, is one of...
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“We Live in Cairo:” Fully Committed, Still in Beta-Testing
We Live in Cairo, a new musical written by brothers Daniel Lazour & Patrick Lazour, directed...
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Wounds Of Tradition In Huntington’s “Indecent”
The Huntington Theatre Company has given the city of Boston a priceless gift by remounting the...
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“The Pigeon King” At The NAC Is A Perfect Country Musical About Pigeon Scams, The Modern Family Farm, Hope, And Loss And That Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction
The National Arts Centre’s latest acquisition, The Pigeon King originally from Blyth Festival and...
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Duchampian Theater: “Paul Swan is Dead and Gone”
Let Paul Swan seduce you. Why wouldn’t you? He is, after all, the most beautiful man in the world....
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Necromancers of the Public Domain: Art Both Free and Liberating
In 1919, following the devastation of the First World War, a movement arose to aid in the...
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On Broadway, “Ain’t Too Proud” Runs Away with The Temptations
The jukebox musical isn’t so named merely for its carousel of beloved pop tunes. It also puts to...
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Indian Musical Theatre: From Librettos To Grungy Indie
The term ‘musical theatre’ might conjure up visuals of the Broadway-style extravaganza and its...
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“Come From Away”–New Canadian Musical On Broadway
Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...
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Popular Culture And Political Theatre In PETA’s “Charot!, The Musical”
“CHAROT” is gay slang, one of the many fluid terms generated by popular lingo, often used as an...
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Interview With Olivier Py’s American Actors
The four American actors (Alex, Nadia, Whit, and Ben) of Olivier Py’s musical The Young Girl, The...
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On Broadway, “Kiss Me, Kate” Is True To Fashion, For Better Or Worse
Anyone who tells you that Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate isn’t, or can’t be, a kick in the teeth to...
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“Be More Chill” Brings Broadway Viral, Rewiring The High School Musical
The high school musical’s calling card has always been the “be yourself” thematic. A nerdy,...
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