BY DR. KATE ROARKDRAMA CRITIC There’s a line near the beginning of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, about the best Broadway songs being like short plays. Of course, Carole King didn’t write her songs for Broadway, but this line...
Required Viewing for all Miranda Die-Hards! BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC SPAMILTON: An American Parody is an audacious send-up of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative process and Hamilton fever…and the Broadway musicals affected by the success of the box office phenomenon. Hamilton...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Part-fairy tale and part-surreal, Once on This Island is making waves at the Peace Center all week long. This national tour of the 2018 Tiny winner for Best Revival is one mesmerizing show with a...
BY SANDY STAGGSARTS WRITER The Peace Center will be transformed into a tropical paradise this week with audience members traipsing and frolicking on the sandy beach stage for a fairy tale retelling with some powerful statements about class relations. The...
BY DR. KATE ROARKDRAMA CRITIC Have you ever lied to a grieving person to make them feel better? The Tony-winnning Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen follows the titular high school boy’s well-intentioned lies as they snowball out of control. Without...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Channing. Streisand. Midler. And now Buckley. These are the icons we associate with that indelible, vivacious matriarch and matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi over the decades since Thornton Wilder’s farce was turned into a musical play that...
