Peter Nason

An exceptionally tight production of the hit show where nearly everything goes right.

A brilliantly staged and sung production of a very flawed musical.

Grease at the Suncoast Broadway Dinner Theatre brought a new and exciting twist to the beloved show, spearheaded by a strong cast and immersive environment.

The brilliance of the script is that, although first written in the 1950s, it still has so much relevance to our world today. The audience at the performance I saw was one of the most robust, vocally supportive and emotional audiences I have ever seen. 

The Music Man  is one of those rare musicals that’s quite old fashioned and wears its stodgy heart on its sleeve like a badge of honor, but that also can crackle with entertainment and even innovation. 

I guess it’s hard to live in the present because we always seem to be looking backwards at past decades. It’s something we still do, escaping our current life especially when our world is in such destructive disarray.

A solid re-examining of the Crucible, set 10 years later, that starts Powerstories' 25th season on the right foot!

A hilarious spoof about a certain unnamed school for wizards featuring a stellar cast and astonishing special effects!

It's great when everything comes together--the acting, the singing, the staging, the set and the tech. What a show! It’s safe to say that Into the Woods is Stephen Sondheim’s most produced and most popular work. Schools, community theaters, and probably even psychiatric hospitals have taken a stab at it.  It offers something for everyone: For the kiddos, it’s a cool retelling of the classic stories and fairy tales that have been around for ages

Intense, frustrating, harrowing...and all based on true-life murders.

Pup Play: A Queer Pseudo-Lecture (Of Sorts), the award-winning brain child of the immeasurably talented Noah Pantano, is maybe the fringiest Fringe play I’ve seen. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll bark like a dog!

It runs the gamut from the kid-friendly CINDERELLA SECRET AGENT to the adults-only MY LIFE AS AN 'INSPIRATIONAL' PORN STAR.

Brian Wilson, musical genius and founder of the Beach Boys, died today (Wednesday, June 11, 2025), so in honor of him, here is an article of the 40 greatest Beach Boys songs that I wrote for Broadway World two years ago.  Love & Mercy, Brian!

Everyone has a favorite Elton John song.  Ask anyone and they probably won’t even hesitate to tell you their selection:  Maybe “Tiny Dancer,” a song impossible not to sing along with in your own version of carpool karaoke? 

Before seeing a stunning youth production of Hadestown at Corbett Prep’s Farish Speakeasy, I ran into a friend standing in line.  “Hadestown is my all-time favorite musical, “ she told me.

Ever since watching the 1989 animated film, The LIttle Mermaid, I have always had a problem with the character of Ariel.  To me, she is the weakest of all Disney princesses.  In Beauty and the Beast, Belle is book smart and strong-willed, denying the advances of the good-looking Gaston.

A truly lover-ly production! I know certain Broadway aficionados point to it as the tops of the top, the pinnacle, the one where the musical theatre gods were shining during its creation.

I thought everyone had heard of Evita, a show that I consider Andrew Lloyd Webber’s finest work.  But in the lobby of the Manatee Performing Arts Center, just before the Saturday night performance of Evita began, a middle-aged couple walked up to me.