BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC As patrons somberly filed out of the Peace Center after the opening of “Fun Home,” there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. That’s because this musical is exquisite, emotional, enthralling, endearing and unorthodox in...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC A blockbuster romantic thriller as source material and a score encompassing practically the full canon of Whitney Houston’s number one and top ten hits. What’s not to love about “The Bodyguard: The Musical”? I wish...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Since its premiere in 1951, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s “The King and I” has been indelibly linked to Russian-born Swiss actor Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut on and off for some 34 years...
Interview with Anthony Chan of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘The King and I’ opening Tuesday at the Peace Center BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER His full name is Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poraminthra Maha Chulalongkorn Phra Chunla Chom Klao Chao Yu...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Peter Pan has been flying around the planet and inspiring audiences for well over a century. Since J.M. Barrie’s original “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” in 1904, countless adaptations have graced...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC As a burnt orange sun rises on the backdrop of a sapphire sky and a single lone soaring voice gleeful cry echoes across the stage in Swahili, one can look side to side to watch...
