Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE: PART II at Beck Center
by Roy Berko - June 11, 2024
Western culture was struck by numerous changes in the late twentieth century. Many monarchs fell, Socialism, Communism and Democracy made in-roads, the social sciences developed the concepts of psychology and sociology, the industrial revolution changed manufacturing, and the way the middle class w...
Review: COMPANY at Connor Palace
by Roy Berko - May 03, 2024
What did our critic think of COMPANY at Connor Palace? Stephen Sondheim is generally considered the most important composer/lyricist of the 20th century American musical theater. Many consider him to be the person who reinvented the genre.
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Review: ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE at Great Lakes Theater
by Roy Berko - April 29, 2024
Juke box musicals are stage theatrical presentations in which a majority of the compositions were written before the presentation was conceived, rather than being original music conceived for that show. They tend to be long on songs and short on a well-conceived plot.
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