“Too Early for Birds” Returns to the Stage with Music Edition
Too Early For Birds, the popular Kenyan collective that stages historical stories, has announced...
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“There Will Be No Intermission”: Amanda Palmer Speaks Truth in Major Keys
Amanda Palmer has not come to entertain. Instead, she has written and designed what feels like an...
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#CzechVelvet Review: “Velvet Havel” At Rich Mix
“The great funeral of Havel, a grey-haired Casanova who smoked too much,” says Uncle...
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Acceptance, Representation, and Everlasting Season of Love: Kelsee Sweigard as Maureen Johnson in The 20th Anniversary Touring Production of “Rent”
It has been nearly 25 years since RENT opened on Broadway, redefining the landscape of American...
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Coming-of-age in 2019: “Spring Awakening” at TUTS
Teenagers dealing with sex, suicide, abusive parents, and queer love might not seem like typical...
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“Garry” at The White Bear Theatre
In the programme notes, director Graham Watts states, “there are hundreds of astonishing plays...
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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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“Penelope Sleeps” – Mette Edvardsen & Matteo Fargion
Penelope Sleeps begins in medias res. Three performers, lying as though dead onstage, and a small...
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La Cubana Has A Hit On Its Hands: “Farewell Arturo” On Tour Across Spain
La Cubana—one of Spain’s most important theatre companies—are back. They may have intimated back...
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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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Guilty Pleasures, Escapism, And The Greatest Hits Of ABBA Abound In TUTS’s “Mamma Mia!”
Confession. I love ABBA. For years I kept my Abba-session private. No one needed to know nor did I...
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New Musical “Pedro Pan” Speaks to the Plight of Immigrant Children
When one thinks of Latinx narratives within the landscape of musical theatre, West Side Story,...
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The “KPOP” Invasion in a New American Musical Part I
In the last few months of 2017, K-pop (Korean pop) has made it into U.S. news reports in two...
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Dallas Theater Center’s “Hair” Lets the Sunshine In
While I grew up around musical theatre, I certainly didn’t grow up around Hair. “Oh, What a...
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London: The Americans are coming!
Some of the best shows on the London stage hail from across the pond, and more American delights...
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Broadway’s First Steps Into Live Streaming and Digital Documentation
For the first time in Broadway history, on June 30th 2016, a musical was live streamed: Roundabout...
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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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