Posts Tagged ‘musical’
No Business Like Show Business in North Coast Rep’s ‘Forbidden Broadway’
The most poignant number dealt with theatre as a business…
Read MoreAbsent Lead Disrupts ‘Into the Woods’ Opening Night
Words are of consummate import in anything by Stephen Sondheim, and if one can’t hear the words all is lost…
Read More‘Catch Me If You Can’ Inaugurates SDMT’s New Performance Space
Catch Me If You Can runs through March 13. See it if you can…
Read MoreNorth Coast’s ‘Desperate Measures’ Plays with Shakespeare, and Maybe, Molière
In Peter Kellogg and David Friedman’s musical, Desperate Measures, a West Coast premiere playing through February 12 at North Coast Repertory Theatre, a Shakespeare “problem play” (Measure for Measure) is converted into a tuneful farce that perhaps has more in common with Molière than with its purported source. Even so, what better way is there to chase away winter doldrums than with a musical romp?
Read MoreInspired by but Not About: The Old Globe’s ‘Gardens of Anuncia’
Michael John LaChiusa’s musical is not about Graciela Daniele per se. Rather, it sketches a small-scale vision of big themes.
Read MoreWelcome Live Theatre with Cygnet’s Delayed ‘La Cage’
In March 2020, Cygnet Theatre, reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic, closed down its scheduled production of the musical version of La Cage Aux Folles. It’s been eighteen months before local theatre companies felt comfortable asking audiences to attend indoor theatre again…It’s been worth the wait.
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