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“I recommend biting off more than you can chew” is one Alanis Morissette lyric that the team behind Jagged Little Pill appears to have taken far too literally.
When the musical—clobbered together from Morissette’s catalogue of hits—premiered ...
How did it feel walking in the doors of the Colonial and seeing this incredible building for the first time?
It’s a very amazing looking place. As I was saying to some of the theater people, I bet there are people that come to see a show here just to be in this place.
When you think about ...
In the spirit of total transparency, it must be said that I would pay money to sit and watch Faye Dunaway do just about anything. Or, for that matter, absolutely nothing. My love for her runs deep. So it was very much with that same sense of adoration and ...
By now, we should all know to never underestimate Cher.
The same can easily be said for The Cher Show, the relentlessly entertaining and blindingly infectious new musical that opened Monday evening at The Neil Simon Theatre.
But while ...
In my review of the 2015 world premiere of Waitress at the American Repertory Theater, I wrote that the show lacked depth and emotional texture and that there was nothing beyond the show’s light and airy meringue.
While I do promise to avoid bad pie ...
“Why can’t the past just die?” pleads Christina Daaé near the end of The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eternally unstoppable megahit. If only she knew how especially potent that plea would be 10 years later.
That’s where ...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time isn’t just one of the biggest nonmusical Broadway hits in recent memory, but rather of the last decade. Running for almost 800 performances and winning five Tony ...
By the time that Fun Home opened on Broadway in 2015, the Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron musical had been—in some form or another—in gestation and steadily picking up steam ...
Squeezed between a pizza joint and a bar, the place looks like your typical Chinese takeout spot from the outside.
On her crossover success, touring, the role that got away, and what Broadway classic she has her eye on.
