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Album Review: Concord Theatricals Recordings Releases The Studio Cast Recording of 17 Photo Album Review: Concord Theatricals Recordings Releases The Studio Cast Recording of 17 AGAIN
by Bobby Patrick - February 21, 2024

The album and its producers get major points because the show as a whole is very well represented throughout...
Review: New Tampa Players Production of DREAMGIRLS at the New Tampa Performing Arts C Photo Review: New Tampa Players Production of DREAMGIRLS at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center
by Peter Nason - February 04, 2024

It's a dream of a musical with nightmarish sound issues....
Music Review: Julie Benko & Mykal Kilgore Make Us Glad They're Having A Christmas Wit Photo Music Review: Julie Benko & Mykal Kilgore Make Us Glad They're Having A Christmas With Each Other With (I NEVER HAD A) CHRISTMAS WITH YOU
by Bobby Patrick - October 14, 2023

To have two such fine actor/singer/songwriter/STORYTELLERS sing the blues about Christmas turned out to be a real pleasure....
Review: Encores & Coronaries - Charles Busch Sings Them All In MY FOOLISH HEART at 54 Photo Review: Encores & Coronaries - Charles Busch Sings Them All In MY FOOLISH HEART at 54 Below
by Bobby Patrick - April 22, 2023

The Busch is top drawer, and as an entertainer/storyteller, this Divine Sister is a Times Square Angel. In any case, CHARLES BUSCH: MY FOOLISH HEART is worth the time and money one spends on enjoying it...
Streaming Review: All The Cool Kids Are Watching GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES On P Photo Streaming Review: All The Cool Kids Are Watching GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES On Paramount+
by Bobby Patrick - April 21, 2023

This show has kicked off with a bang in Bobby’s books and we can’t recommend it highly enough to everyone GREASE fan or newbie alike...
Kate Baldwin & Aaron Lazar, Linda Eder, and More to Play 54 Below This Month Photo Kate Baldwin & Aaron Lazar, Linda Eder, and More to Play 54 Below This Month
by Blair Ingenthron - April 01, 2023

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. A recipient of the 2022 Tony Awards Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, 54 Below celebrates Broadway musicals and writers of the past and present,...
Music Review: Brandi Burkhardt Captures That Feeling Of Falling Hopelessly In Love Wi Photo Music Review: Brandi Burkhardt Captures That Feeling Of Falling Hopelessly In Love With Her New Single DAYDREAM
by Bobby Patrick - September 29, 2023

Dance to it or make whoopie to it, for Brandi’s DAYDREAM is a truly nice place to visit....
Oxford Film Festival 2023 Announces 20th Anniversary Lineup For Next Month's Fest Photo Oxford Film Festival 2023 Announces 20th Anniversary Lineup For Next Month's Fest
by Blair Ingenthron - February 18, 2023

The 2023 Oxford Film Festival (March 1-5) has announced the lineup of official selections and events for the 20th Anniversary annual edition of the popular film festival. Lisa Cortes' documentary Little Richard: I am Everything is the Opening Night selection, and Michael Stevantoni and Strack Azar's...
Interview: How KIMBERLY AKIMBO Orchestrator John Clancy Went From Rock Drummer To Bro Photo Interview: How KIMBERLY AKIMBO Orchestrator John Clancy Went From Rock Drummer To Broadway Pro
by A.A. Cristi - April 09, 2023

Meet John Clancy, the Tony-nominated orchestrator behind this season's heartfelt hit musical, Kimberly Akimbo!...
LITTLE FEAT To Release First New Studio Album In 12 Years in May Photo LITTLE FEAT To Release First New Studio Album In 12 Years in May
by Michael Major - March 07, 2024

It marks the band's first new studio album in 12 years, first-ever blues album and the first one to feature linchpin conga player Sam Clayton on lead vocals on every song. This joyously blues-soaked party gets started now with the album's first single/video “You'll Be Mine,” a cover of the Willie Di...
Review: THE BOOK OF WILL at A Noise Within Photo Review: THE BOOK OF WILL at A Noise Within
by Evan Henerson - May 28, 2023

Gunderson’s storytelling and her love of Shakespeare is another. It’s also icing on a most tasty cake that may not be for all palates. If you get the running gag of a character’s passion for PERICLES, this one’s for you....
Album Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT & Indeed We Do. Hit Songs From A Hit Show Make A Hit O Photo Album Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT & Indeed We Do. Hit Songs From A Hit Show Make A Hit OBC
by Bobby Patrick - March 30, 2023

The score with just the few touches of dialogue included makes it very clear what is happening from start to finish and it delivers the show to the imagination so wonderfully....
Feature: Ilana Lucas Picks The Top Toronto Theatre of 2023 Photo Feature: Ilana Lucas Picks The Top Toronto Theatre of 2023
by Ilana Lucas - January 02, 2024

It’s been a strong year for Toronto theatre. I saw 145 shows this year in Toronto and beyond, and am happy to report that theatre is alive and well. I’ve laughed, sobbed, coughed (discreetly into a mask), and cheered my way through our stages in 2023. Here are some local highlights....
24 Theater Books for Your Spring 2024 Reading List Photo 24 Theater Books for Your Spring 2024 Reading List
by Nicole Rosky - March 23, 2024

Need a great book to spring into the new season? This spring, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 24 new Broadway books for every thea...
Album Review: Willy Wonka Wuns Wild On The New Movie Soundtrack WONKA Photo Album Review: Willy Wonka Wuns Wild On The New Movie Soundtrack WONKA
by Bobby Patrick - January 12, 2024

They have created a score in 2023 that marries to its 1971 progenitor wonderfully and made this rainbow boy tear up a bit and really want to go see WONKA...
Album Review: Dear Mr. Jones Sends Us A Dear John Album & We Still Swoon For Him With Photo Album Review: Dear Mr. Jones Sends Us A Dear John Album & We Still Swoon For Him With I THINK WE SHOULD SEE OTHER PEOPLE
by Bobby Patrick - October 02, 2023

I THINK WE SHOULD SEE OTHER PEOPLE is one of the albums out this year that we will be going back to again and again....
Album Review: Concord Theatricals Recordings Releases The Studio Cast Recording of 17 Photo Album Review: Concord Theatricals Recordings Releases The Studio Cast Recording of 17 AGAIN
by Bobby Patrick - February 21, 2024

The album and its producers get major points because the show as a whole is very well represented throughout...
Blind Boys Of Alabama Announced At Pepperdine With Special Guest Charlie Musselwhite Photo Blind Boys Of Alabama Announced At Pepperdine With Special Guest Charlie Musselwhite
by A.A. Cristi - December 16, 2022

Five-time GRAMMY Award winners and living legends, the Blind Boys of Alabama and American electric blues harmonica master and GRAMMY award winner, Charlie Musselwhite will perform in Smothers Theatre at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17 at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts....
Interview: Colin Hanlon is Bringing SPELLING BEE Into 2023 at George Street Playhouse Photo Interview: Colin Hanlon is Bringing SPELLING BEE Into 2023 at George Street Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 03, 2023

Read BroadwayWorld's interview with Colin Hanlon as he discusses directing THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE at George Street Playhouse....
See HANDS ON A HARDBODY Reunion Concert, Jenn Colella, Shaun Cassidy & More at 54 Bel Photo See HANDS ON A HARDBODY Reunion Concert, Jenn Colella, Shaun Cassidy & More at 54 Below in June
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 01, 2023

This month, 54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond....
Full Cast Announced For SWEENEY TODD Starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford Photo Full Cast Announced For SWEENEY TODD Starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford
by Stephi Wild - January 05, 2023

The full cast has been announced for the upcoming Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tony and Grammy-nominated multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) and Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford (Sunday in the Park...
Review: THE BEST OF EVERYTHING Lives Up To Its Title At Main Street Theater Photo Review: THE BEST OF EVERYTHING Lives Up To Its Title At Main Street Theater
by Brett Cullum - May 22, 2023

SEX AND THE CITY certainly owes quite a bit to the source material for this play. Main Street Theater’s production of this work is adapted by Julie Kramer, and pushes THE BEST OF EVERYTHING into a satirical statement on the world then contrasted with the world now....
Review: ASSES.MASSES at The Theatre Centre Photo Review: ASSES.MASSES at The Theatre Centre
by Ilana Lucas - September 27, 2023

Choosing to attend asses.masses at The Theatre Centre is a big commitment to an intriguing premise. The show, a collaboratively-played video game with a sweeping narrative about a donkey revolution, takes at bare minimum seven hours. It's a long ass show. But despite its outward silliness, with its ...
Interview: Matthew Stocke Talks PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL at Wharton Center, And Why Photo Interview: Matthew Stocke Talks PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL at Wharton Center, And Why the Love Story Continues to Enthrall Audiences
by Stefani Chudnow - December 06, 2022

From December 13th to 18th, you won't want to be anywhere other than Wharton Center while the national tour of Pretty Woman: The Musical makes its East Lansing debut....
Album Review: Willy Wonka Wuns Wild On The New Movie Soundtrack WONKA Photo Album Review: Willy Wonka Wuns Wild On The New Movie Soundtrack WONKA
by Bobby Patrick - January 12, 2024

They have created a score in 2023 that marries to its 1971 progenitor wonderfully and made this rainbow boy tear up a bit and really want to go see WONKA...




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