Albert Gutierrez
Review: Encore Performing Arts Warms a FROZEN Heart at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
The selection of Frozen as the summer musical served multiple masters.
Review: SIX: THE MUSICAL at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
Four years after first seeing SIX, I still remain impressed by how well the musical continues to work.
Review: THE NOTEBOOK: THE MUSICAL at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
The stage production does make a lot of strides that strengthens the endurance and popularity of this love story.
Review: Make Farce Funny Again with POTUS at Theater West End
There’s a strange dichotomy that exists in live theater.
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
We learn that the suburban fantasy is not sustainable, primarily because such a fantasy can only ever be a dream.
Review: COMPANY: A MUSICAL COMEDY at Theater West End
Theater West End has once again delivered a hit with this production of COMPANY.
Review: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART TWO: PERESTROIKA at Theater West End
Theater West End was wise to split Angels in America in the season as two separate performances, each with their own block in the schedule.
Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
The reason the play works at all is because of the sheer strength of its production values and the commitment of its cast.
Review: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES at Theater West End
While much of the dramatic weight of Angels in America undeniably stems from the specter of AIDS, it would do the play a huge disservice to reduce it to a story about disease alone.
Review: & JULIET at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
If “& Juliet” works at all, it’s because it commits to the premise without apology: a Shakespearean remix told through the lens of pop music, meta-theatre, and a general belief that stories never really die, they just get re-written.
Review: THE OUTSIDERS at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
One of the most effective things the musical gains by moving from page to screen to stage is permission to reframe the story without betraying it.
Review: Play It Again, Orpheus! HADESTOWN at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
This new approach to the storytelling of Hadestown helped make me appreciate some of the compromises on the tour.
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
The 2024 production earned seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, which I feel is an earned acknowledgment that speaks more to the craftsmanship, the ambition, and the emotional journey present in the show.
Review: Ease on Down the Road to see THE WIZ at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
The benefit of a stage production means it will always be malleable to change, always willing to look at how a story written in the past can still be relevant in the present, and remain timeless for the future.
Review: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
Drag culture in La Cage aux Folles isn’t just the “bold face” of the gay community; it’s a celebration of visibility itself, a way of inviting even those on the periphery to understand more deeply what it means to live authentically, unbothered, and unashamed.
Review: SISTER ACT at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
At its heart, Sister Act: The Musical is a celebration of sisterhood and the unexpected bonds formed in the most unlikely places.
Review: Encore Performing Arts' THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
For anyone who’s seen Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a lot of the familiar story beats remain here.
Review: Go Ahead and Get SHUCKED at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
One would think a musical all about corn would be a one-trick pony with the same tired joke made again and again.
Review: THE LION KING Reigns Supreme at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
Life's greatest tragedy is the passage of time.
Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT Sizzles and Shakes at Dr. Phillips Center
When SOME LIKE IT HOT began on Broadway, it was celebrated for updating a classic film to modern audiences in ways and themes not readily apparent from the original source material.
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