The Best Alternative Holiday Shows
The Celebrity One: Cinderella This is the big one. Paul O’Grady plays the wicked stepmother and...
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Musical Theatre
A Dramaturg’s Process in NYMF’s NextLink Project
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.
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Manga Musicals and Takarazuka Revue: A Model of Theatre in Episodes
The adaptation of Japanese manga into musical theatre productions represents an interesting...
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Takarazuka Revue: Japanese All-Female Musical Theater Troupe
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.
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“Assisted Suicide”: A Musical That Asks Us to Think Critically About the Portrayal of Euthanasia
Earlier this month, Colorado voters approved a ballot that made it the fifth state to legalize...
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Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” Turned Into a Musical at Moscow Operetta Theater
The new show, staged at the Moscow Operetta Theater, benefits from a return to the classics in...
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The Original “Cats” Musical Is Coming to Hungary As Part of Their World Tour
original British Cats musical is coming to Hungary as part of their world tour. Trevor Nunn’s...
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Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Awards for Equity Theatre
The Tempest and Dreamgirls take top honors at the 48th Annual Jeff Awards October 17, 2016 –...
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Taylor Mac, Patriot: “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music”
Taylor Mac calls his extraordinary theatrical marathon, five years in the making, A 24-Decade...
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“A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer” Heading to the National Theatre
In 2001, at the age of 20, I was diagnosed with stage 3 metastatic testicular cancer. As a cancer...
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Commercial Theatre in India: “Mr. and Mrs. Murarilal” Comes to Delhi
With every story he tells and every play he does, producer-director Saif Hyder Hasan takes a risk....
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The Staged Lives and Times of Two Mining Towns – “Marikana the Musical”
I had the opportunity to watch a performance of Billy Elliot – The Musical in Bradford, UK...
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What is “Ketamine: The Musical?”
A “profound and numbing” play dedicated to the powerful psychedelic drug ketamine is due to open...
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Alex Nichols’ Critique of Smash Musical “Hamilton”
Hamilton won a number of Tonys and received glowing reviews. Alex Nichols from Current Affairs...
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“Leila Men Alf Leila” Revives Artistic Heritage Of Arabic Theatre
On the second day of Eid Al-Fitr, Egypt’s national theatre witnessed the opening of the second...
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Showcasing Filipino Pride in “Rak of Aegis” The Musical
Rak of Aegis is an original Filipino musical featuring timeless songs of the rock band, Aegis. Now...
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“Tell Me” Lays Bare One Woman’s Quest
The first thing Yojiro Ichikawa said when we sat down for our recent interview in a Tokyo...
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“Banquet of Secrets”: Australian Musical Theatre Comes of Age
Original Australian musical theatre seems to be a relatively well-kept secret. The existing...
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“The Experiment” Is A Musical Monodrama To Love, Hate, Or Both
Last night, The Experiment – of which I’m part – opened at the Melbourne Festival. The story of...
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The Threepenny Non-Opera
Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera is much more of a musical than an opera. But it decidedly...
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