The Gallery Players production of Assassins  is unfortunately not up to its usual standards. I admire the ambition of attempting Assassins ,...

In 2018, I saw 74 shows. Only nine of them were on Broadway; those prices, even when discounted, keep scaring me away. However, I've l...

It takes a lot of ambition to decide to do A Chorus Line  at a small Off-Off-Broadway theatre. And it takes a lot of skill to pull it off. L...

I have identified the problem with the musical Chess.  It's bad. You've got Florence, who loves bad boy chess player Freddie and h...

While watching the Gallery Players' highly entertaining production of William Finn's odd but engaging musical, A New Brain , I found...

Dr. Seuss, renowned children's author, managed to tuck away some pretty radical thoughts in his accessible, funny, tightly rhymed, and s...

Next to Normal is a superb musical. Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's depiction of a woman derailed by mental illness and loss, and of the pe...