
Letter from New York: Broadway gets (some of) its mojo back
As the Tony Awards approach, Misha Berson takes a long deep look at the shows that are getting Broadway back on its feet.
As the Tony Awards approach, Misha Berson takes a long deep look at the shows that are getting Broadway back on its feet.
As the jukebox musical “Ain’t Too Proud” rolls into town, Misha Berson revels in memories of sweet sounds from the transistor radio as she was growing up near Detroit.
From the nouveau-cirque of Teatro ZinZanni to Jane Austen, Mr. Dickens, and some holiday noir, the city’s theater scene is flying high again.
After a long Covid layoff the Great White Way is bursting with energy, from “Hadestown” to “Six” to “A Strange Loop” and more.
“One also sees the beauty in the organic, in the actual,
the particular”: At the Seattle Art Museum, an eloquent look at the great West Coast photographer.
The Emerald City is tiptoeing back into live performances. It’s still spotty – but Shakespeare’s in the parks.
Seattle stages offer a variety of Christmas treats, but the big gifts are Broadway-aspiring musicals such as “Shout Sister Shout!”
In Seattle, Yussef El-Guindi sets off an uncivil war in his new play “People of the Book.”
The hit Broadway musical — visiting Portland this week — adds to a pop-culture tradition of shows about making your way in the world table by table.
NEW YORK – Staged with nonstop brio by Tina Landau, and adorned with a phantasmagorical set and Technicolor costumes, deliriously energetic performers and a peppy but largely forgettable pop music score by hitmakers ranging from Aerosmith to John Legend to Lady Antebellum,
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