Tag: Cinderella
Review: ‘Cinderella’ at The Kennedy Center Opera House
Don’t walk into the Kennedy Center Opera House expecting a Disney-esque, happily-ever-after retelling of the evergreen fairytale Cinderella. British director/choreographer Matthew Bourne has spent...
Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Imagination Stage
Full disclosure: I love fairy tales. All of them. I always have, despite also being a girl who asked myself one day why Rapunzel...
New Records: Listening to ‘Bandstand’ and the Music of Alan Menken
This report on New Records includes three Alan Menken shows that recently received fresh recordings, plus a Broadway show from this year that unfortunately...
Review: ‘The New World’ at Bucks County Playhouse
A Thanksgiving musical? We can think of musicals that sometimes involve that observance, but an entire show about how the holiday evolved? Bucks County...
Review: ‘Disney’s The Little Mermaid’ at Steel River Playhouse
Memorial Day Weekend usually means a trip to the shore, but Steel River Playhouse brought the ocean to Pottstown, with its glorious rendition of...
Akeem Davis, Alex Keiper, and Matteo Scammell: An Interview with the...
Theatre Exile closes its 2016-17 season with Tracey Scott Wilson’s searing drama Buzzer, which examines issues of race, class, and gender through the lens...
Review: ‘Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella’ at the Hippodrome Theatre at the...
It’s anyone’s guess what the late Oscar Hammerstein would make of it, but we are now getting our first close look at Oscar’s modest...
Review: ‘Cinderella’ With the San Francisco Ballet at The Kennedy Center
There are no pumpkins to be found in this Cinderella. The San Francisco Ballet’s version, created by Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and librettist Craig Lucas,...
Seven Days in Italy with Playbill’s ‘Broadway on the High Seas...
I took me a busman's holiday from September 20 to 30, 2016, by joining Playbill on its seventh cruise featuring Broadway stars and Broadway...
Review: ‘Into The Woods’ at Upper Room Theatre Ministry
Once Upon a time, in the city of Manassas, there was a theatre group that was in their 15th year of producing Broadway quality musicals....
2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Ain’t That Rich’
In Ain’t that Rich, California-based writer and comedian Kate Robards delivers a dazzling solo performance, one as mesmerizing and powerful as it is funny....
Review: ‘Some Enchanted Evening: The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein and...
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II pioneered a flair that was all their own in the golden age of musical theater. From 1940 to...
Meet the Cast of Rockville Little Theatre’s ‘Our Town’: Part 2:...
In part two of a series of interviews with the cast of Rockville Little Theatre's Our Town, meet Allison Howlett.
Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell...
Santino Fontana Discusses ‘The 2016 Oscar Hammerstein Festival’ at the Bucks...
The 2016 Oscar Hammerstein Festival, being held this weekend at the Bucks County Playhouse, brings together a wide array of musical theatre artists, scholars, and...
Review: ‘Into the Woods’ at Catholic University’s Benjamin T. Rome School...
Decades before Angelina Jolie played Maleficent or Idina Menzel defied gravity in Wicked, lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim was fracturing a whole slew of...
Review: ‘A Grand Night for Singing’ at Montgomery Playhouse and Arts...
Question: Where can you hear more than 30 wonderful songs from the legendary team of Rodgers and Hammerstein performed by talented local artists? Answer: The...
Meet the Cast of The Montgomery Playhouse’s ‘A Grand Night for...
In Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast of A Grand Night for Singing at Montgomery Playhouse, meet Jennifer Georgia.
Joel: Please introduce...
Dance Preview: Misako Ballet Celebrates Cultural Diversity
Classical ballet director Misako Aoki began her dance training in her native Japan where she later received a scholarship to study at the Royal...
Review: American Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at The Kennedy Center
Alexei Ratmansky’s newest staging of the great classical ballet The Sleeping Beauty feels like that moment in the classic MGM film The Wizard of...
Review: ‘Into the Woods, Jr.’ at Aldersgate Church Community Theater
Aldersgate Church Community Theater presents Into the Woods Jr., a condensed version of the Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book...