MUSIC THEATER REVIEWS

This recording checks our most important Broadway Album Box - one comes away from the first listening with a real sense of the show and its story....

The passion of her music and the soul of her work comes right out of the speakers to you (not AT you)....

This kind of music really does give us that old disco feeling and with Idina Menzel’s DRAMA QUEEN, we can all grab it together....

For those of us for whom she represents more than kitsch, this album is an essential....

Lucie’s singing voice is that of a Broadway belter, but more than that, Lucie Arnaz is an actor....

We loved this new single of an old song in a young voice, and though many of us have heard this one many times over many years, Ben Jones makes it worthwhile again....

Sara Bareilles, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul have composed a beautifully haunting song that you just can’t get out of your head....

What did our critic think of THE GIPSY KINGS at The San Diego Syphony's Rady Shell? The only empty seats at the Rady Shell's high-energy Gipsy Kings concert were the hundreds unoccupied while their associated booties were swaying in the aisles below waving arms. Nicolas Reyes sang 'Quiero Saber' to ...

Finally, what you have with Turner & Grusecki’s MID-CENTURY MODERN is new songs written in an old-fashioned way with old-fashioned sounds...

The longing of a woman who wants to give all to someone who has nothing but lies for her… but still she asks the title’s question… Is It A Crime?...

We loved this new single from one of the Broadway Theatre’s go-to song and dance guys, Clyde Alves, and his mom, Teresa Alves....

The Original West End Cast Recording of Bonnie & Clyde is a tense, cinematic treat....

What did our critic think of BEYONCE RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR at Huntington Bank Stadium?...

THE FLASHER is a time capsule of the psychedelic era of the funky electronic 70s...

Billy hasn't even broken a sweat yet!...

In the aftermath of hearing LADY G!’S BRALESS SECLUSION, we had no choice but to drop that metaphysical needle back at the beginning and listen to it again, immediately....

That Brìghde Chaimbeul is a very fine piper goes without saying....

For this album, Nicole Zuraitis has used deep imagery in the marriage of her words and music. Sometimes swirling, sometimes flowing, sometimes rushing like the rapids....

We FULLY intend to investigate more of this Jewell we have discovered....

With Benny Benack at the head of the project, there is a reasonable expectation of good jazz, good music, good entertainment because he has been at this for a minute, and he really is one of the best....

NEW YORK, NEW YORK ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING is a 2023 release on the Wine and Peaches Label, available on streaming platforms, with discs and vinyl to come!...

We hope that all those who love the musical theatre will pick up this new rendition of CAMELOT with all new and wondrous vocal performances by the cast....

What did our critic think of TAYLOR SWIFT - THE ERAS TOUR at U.S. Bank Stadium?...

We loved this album, DARA STARR TUCKER, and find it as essential as the lady's informative, and entertaining, and knowledgeable, and hilarious Social Media content...

The resilient Transcendence Theatre was not deterred when litigation between the California Park Rangers Association and the California Department of Parks and Recreation (State Parks) threatened use of their usual performance space at Jack London State Historic Park.  After performing for over a ...