Review: Theatre Raleigh's ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
by Jeffrey Kare - Nov 14, 2025
Based on Rosa Guy’s 1985 novel, My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl, a Caribbean-set retelling of the original fairy tale of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen.
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Comes to Theatre Raleigh
by Stephi Wild - Oct 8, 2025
Theatre Raleigh will continue its 2025 season with 'Once on This Island,' the Tony Award-winning Caribbean adaptation of the popular fairy tale 'The Little Mermaid' in November
Review: Tony Award-Winning Musical HAMILTON Returns to OC's Segerstrom Center
by Michael Quintos - Apr 28, 2025
Now ten years old, HAMILTON—which was birthed during a more welcoming time when such a creative, innovative endeavor felt like a step in necessary progress—still lives up to its initial hype, but also now feels more groundbreaking and particularly poignant than ever before.
Review: HAMILTON at the Eccles Theater is Stunningly Intricate
by Tyler Hinton - Aug 2, 2024
Returning to the Eccles Theater is the national tour of the smash hit HAMILTON – an intricate piece of historical, theatrical storytelling that tautly weaves together complex language and stunning stage pictures with contemporary momentum.
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Round House Theatre
by David Friscic - Feb 1, 2024
The painful slow journey for understanding as to what normalcy or perceived sanity is --when a family member is suffering from bipolar illness--- is explored with heartbreaking poignancy, almost brutal honesty and with deadpan caustic humor in the musical Next to Normal. Now playing at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre, this almost totally sung-through musical caught me up in its oddly satisfying emotional pulse. I fell into its compelling pull as the trauma of a family experiencing the highs and lows of bipolar illness unfolded.