How many musicals in Spanish can you think of? If the answer is zero, you might be onto something. Broadway musicals often get translated into several languages, including Spanish, but the number of original musicals in the language of Cervantes amou …Read more

Neil LaBute’s All the Ways to Say I Love You is not an especially good play, in fact it can be rather trite at times, its central “issue” is so dated, that one wonders if having it be an issue at all is part of one of the playwright’s perverse jokes, …Read more

The universe proved it has a wicked sense of humor by having the opening night of Paper Mill Playhouse’s The Producers occur on the very day The New York Times released a piece which revealed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump had used a tax law …Read more

Jérôme Bel’s provocative work has been taking the dance world by storm since he made his debut two decades ago. Working on the fringe of the field, he constantly challenges preconceptions on what exactly makes a dance piece “a dance piece”, by using …Read more

“My wife is always telling me ‘don’t act silly’” says composer Robert Waldman when we speak on the phone, but as proved in his classic musical The Robber Bridegroom, there’s nothing wrong with his unique brand of silliness. “I get up very early in th …Read more

“Stranger than fiction” doesn’t even come close to describing the surreal elements of the premise for Come From Away (reviewed here), a musical which chronicles how in the days after 9/11, thousands of airplane passengers whose flights were diverted …Read more

Even the most liberal of teachers would cringe at the didactic method used to teach children about slavery in Underground Railroad Game, which sees two idealistic instructors give the Civil War the immersive experience. The show opens in a classroom …Read more

On October 14th, Colin Donnell will be joining The New York Pops on their season opener, The Musical World of Lerner and Loewe, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of My Fair Lady. I had a chance to speak to Donnell about reuniting with the Pops, a …Read more

 I’m always nervous before attending an immersive theatre performance. For someone who has absolutely no training as an actor, the idea of potentially being put right in the spotlight gives me what I can only describe as stage fright. Entering the Br …Read more

It’s almost impossible to sit through Ava DuVernay’s 13TH without wanting to set the world on fire. Her chronicle of the way in which African American males have been criminalized, and are in fact still under the constant threat of legal slavery in A …Read more