This epic national touring production has a diverse cast that sing their heart out"even the kids. Each and every member of the cast and entire ensemble are always singing, dancing and acting…
Operatic Baritone Will Liverman wanted to reboot Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" to a contemporary South Side Black barbershop with himself as the barber with a hip-hop soundscape.
The setting is updated to post-World War II with hunger as the theme. Sir Andrew Davis is back for his first opera as newly-announced Music Director Emeritus.
Flashy lawyer Billy Flynn, cell matron Mama Morton, headline grabbers Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly all need to grab our attention and not let go.
Chicago Opera Theater began as a handful of vocal students of company founder Alan Stone. It was formed by Stone to give his students actual performance practice and experience. Stone's dec…
The forces needed for "White Christmas" are large. "There are six main characters," says Roger Bingaman, "but there's an ensemble of twenty-nine. There is tap dancing galore."
It's not like any other musical you are likely to see. Its clever and well-crafted songs are upbeat, life-affirming and move the action forward. The characters, however, inhabit a dark, post…
Most of the evening is devoted to circus-style acts performed to Christmas music.
Northlight speculates how the beloved characters in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" spend Christmastime, 1815.
Coming in to the stage space at the Chopin Theatre this year, it feels like a retro holiday living room, complete with illuminated 1940s-style Christmas trees.
In the case of Disney's "The Lion King," designer/director Julie Taymor's revolutionary stage production continues to have a life of its own across a twenty-five-year existence.
A clever and whimsical take on the story of a Crusades-era count, who uses the opening of men off to war to woo a countess. The disguises and means to which he will go and the hijinks that e…
Lyric Opera is performing Verdi's longest and most complex opera.
What happens when you present "Rent" as a standard piece of musical theater rather than the "rock opera" its late creator Jonathan Larson intended?
A best-selling 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and a popular 2004 film with a cult following, "The Notebook" has finally been unveiled as a long-anticipated Broadway-bound musical.
"Wicked" is above all, an experience, and most that have it want to repeat it.
The real magic of this show are the songs by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. Terrence McNally (book), Flaherty and Ahrens are the same triptych that gave us "Ragtime," an…
Homemade soup is given to ailing neighbors. And homemade poisoned wine is given to elderly gentlemen with no families who come looking for a room.
The fiftieth anniversary tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar" takes very seriously the notion that the work belongs to the Passion genre.
"It's been really moving and important and central to all of us that at the heart of 'The Devil Wears Prada' is a young person trying to figure out how to live."
In this Lincoln Center production making its long-awaited national tour stopover at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Eliza is in as much control as Higgins.
The current Music Theater Works' production offers a rare opportunity to see the show professionally staged.
There are over thirty songs here that include anthems, arias, dances, choruses, duets and trios. The variety is eclectic and run the gamut with a well-assembled and powerful cast and ensembl…
When Israeli actor Yehezkel Lazarov as Tevye intones the iconic line about villagers "trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune" without breaking one's neck, our gaze takes in the presen…
"The Sound of Music" is, above all, a coming-of-age story.