Tag: musical

It’s not very often that local Philadelphia theatre companies have the opportunity to produce Broadway shows while they are currently running on Broadway. However, the…

Chris McCarrell made his Broadway debut in 2014, playing Marius in the revival of “Les Misérables.” Since then he opened the new show “The Lightning…

This weekend I saw the Kimmel Center’s production of “Love Never Dies,” the sequel to “Phantom of the Opera.” I had never seen the original…

Have you ever wanted to defy gravity? Or maybe just to be more popular? Well, you’re not alone. In fact, there was once a young…

“Come to the Fun Home / That’s the Bechdel Funeral Home, baby!” This is how our main character, at this point a very young Alison…

Nothing has the power to unite people quite like the power of music. This is one of the central themes of “Motown: The Musical,” a…

It’s 2016 and I thought that musicals on the silver screen were dead and gone, coordinated songs and dances instead relegated to stages on Broadway…

Opening in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is the four-time Tony Award-winning musical “An American in Paris,” which boasts of an…

A revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical “South Pacific” is a success at the Walnut Street Theatre. Set during World War II, a U.S.…

It would be fair to assume that almost everybody who claims to be a “90’s kid” in America could not have missed certain major historical…