Tag Archives: Broadway

Just in time for the new Broadway revival of 'On the Town' comes a new book showing how the show, with music by Leonard Bernstein, was as groundbreaking socially and politically as it was artistically.

There are plenty of laughs in the show, and laughs have to be enough because there is little else.

Good performances and a solid production help to compensate for the show's rather weak score.

Not seen for 90 years, a zany Marx Brothers' 1924 Broadway musical is reconstructed for the stage.

Ken Ludwig's enduring farce receives a sparkling and laugh-filled production at the Grove Theatre Center in Burbank.

A must for the cognoscenti. For the rest of us, it may turn us on to what we've been missing.

Theatrical spectacle can derive both its meaning and its power from any number of forms of expression. But no one had tried using pure rap on a Broadway scale before.

Margulies’ new Broadway-bound comedy premieres at the Geffen Playhouse with the feel of a work in progress.

Broadway razzle-dazzle is alive and kicking, but would these production numbers, in and of themselves, have made me want to see the shows? Mostly not.

When pop stars get the Broadway bug, results are mixed. But results are going to be mixed no matter what, so why not?