Review: THE CAROLE KING AND JAMES TAYLOR STORY at BroadStage
by Shari Barrett - May 8, 2026
While harmonizing to perfection, Katis rules the piano with the sensitivity necessary to realistically perform King’s songs of self-awareness and the longing to find your place in the world, while Clews’ finger-picking expertise on guitar adds a real sense of introspective musical magic to Taylor’s.
Review: A Literary Work Becomes a Phenomenon With THE OUTSIDERS: A NEW MUSICAL at the Straz Center
by Drew Eberhard - Jan 3, 2026
The year, 1967, the place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its central narrative came from the scrawlings of a 16-year-old named Susan Eloise Hinton, and the rest as we know it is solidified into literary history. History so much, that it has sparked a re-birth with a new generation and with the new stage adaptation of Hinton’s subliminal novel, a pandemonium and cultural phenomenon was created.
Review: THE OUTSIDERS at Broadway At The Hobby Center
by Jonathan Netek - Nov 19, 2025
Adapted from S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's iconic 1983 film, this Tony-award winning musical features a book by Adam Rapp and Justin Levine, music and lyrics by folk band Jamestown Revival’s Jonathan Clay & Zach Chance.
Review: Cynthia Erivo Brings Her Star Power to OPENING NIGHT AT POPS
by R. Scott Reedy - May 13, 2025
Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops set the mood for the recent Opening Night at Pops, featuring the luminous Cynthia Erivo, with a rhythmic “The Club” from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” and the rousing “Gotta Dance” medley from “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.”
Review: Norm Lewis Brings a Touch of Broadway to 54 Below
by Sharon Ellman - Jun 7, 2024
This reviewer left the theater this night with the phenomenal music still humming in my head. The show continues its run on June 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13 at 54 Below with different guests each night, including Marc Shaiman, Alice Ripley, Will Swenson, Seth Rudetsky, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Nova Payton and Kimberly Akimbo’s Olivia Hardy.
Review Roundup: THE OUTSIDERS Opens On Broadway
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 11, 2024
S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders has made the jump from page to stage and is now open on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The critics stopped by to see what the musical take on the literary classic has in store for audiences! Read all of the reviews!
Review: FUNNY GIRL National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
by Jeffrey Kare - Nov 8, 2023
Funny Girl is a semi-biographical musical that follows real-life actress, singer, and comedian Fanny Brice. The story explores her humble beginnings as a struggling stage performer who dreams of making it big with the famed Ziegfeld Follies as well as her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein. Through it all, Fanny defies the odds and becomes one of the greatest stars of her generation. Following out-of-town tryouts in Boston and Philadelphia, the original production starring Barbra Streisand opened on March 26th, 1964 at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.