The Halloween decorations are just starting to come down, the first leaves have just began to fall, when suddenly there it is in every store, corner and radio station: Christmas music. With businesses highlighting the season’s consumerism by bombardi …Read more

There is probably not a single musical theater lover unfamiliar with the 1987 production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The James Lapine-directed show became the ultimate how-to-make a musical guidebook once it was broadcast on PBS in 1991 (wi …Read more

Dropping a mere two weeks after the broadcast, Peter Pan LIVE! (Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event) was released on December 16, and surprisingly it’s among the best cast recordings released in 2014. Once we’re able to “see” past Allison …Read more

Editor’s Note: As we look back at 2014, we are highlighting some of the best shows, performances, theater-related products and experiences the year gave us; for we will surely be talking about them for many years to come. West Side Story is such a Ne …Read more

Editor’s Note: As we look back at 2014, we are highlighting some of the best shows, performances, theater-related products and experiences the year gave us; for we will surely be talking about them for many years to come. Jory (Karen Pittman) has jus …Read more

If your kind of Messiah is less Handel and more ha-ha, the holidays will never be the same for you once you’ve heard Victoria Clark ask William Ferguson to stop playing with himself because “we have tickets to the stoning”. At the New York City premi …Read more

Tobly McSmith, Co-Writer, Director and Producer of Bayside! The Musical! (And Showgirls! The Musical) took some time out of his busy schedule (decorating the homeless like Christmas trees) to answer some questions we had about the show’s Christmas sp …Read more

Director Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night takes place over the course of the day before Ilkka (Jari Virman) begins his prison sentence. Worried about her younger son Simo (Johannes Brotherus), their mother (Anneli Karppinen) asks Ilkka to spend his l …Read more

As Netflix becomes one of the world’s greatest creators of groundbreaking television, it was about time they got in the business of making period epics to compete with other networks’ offerings like Outlander and Game of Thrones, and with Marco Polo …Read more

While the name Chuck Workman might not ring a bell from the get-go, chances are you have seen his work without being aware of who made it. His 1986 Oscar winning short film, Precious Images, comprised of almost 500 half-second-long splices of some of …Read more