Pop Culturalist Chats with Georgina Pazcoguin
Georgina Pazcoguin is no stranger to the stage. She has been a ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet since 2003. In 2013, she was promoted to a soloist. In
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Dream Casting: The Music Man
Today we’re launching a new series: Dream Casting, or Why Producers and Casting Directors Should Listen to Us and Mount These Sure-to-be Successful Productions of Beloved Musicals or Books with Stars
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To See or Not to See: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Encores! Off-Center” has done it again: it breathes new life into the relatively unknown and unsung Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, which opened last night at New York City Center.
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Man Crush Monday: Ramin Karimloo
Ramin Karimloo is a musical theater rockstar. Though he made his Broadway debut in 2014 as Jean Valjean in the popular Les Misérables reboot, Karimloo has long been known to theater fans for
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Pop Culturalist Catches Up with Laura Benanti
Fellow musical theater nerds, rejoice: our queen, Laura Benanti, will be debuting a new show in San Francisco next week, “Tales from Soprano Isle.” Taking its name from Benanti’s joke that
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Ones to Watch: Derek Klena
Derek Klena has just finished playing your cartoon boyfriend Dmitry in Hartford Stage‘s pre-Broadway run of Anastasia. If you missed it, don’t worry: producers announced this week that Klena is set
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What to See Instead of Hamilton
It is a truth universally acknowledged that you will need to sell one (1) arm, one (1) leg, and one (1) kidney to afford a ticket to Hamilton. Just before the show
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To See or Not to See: Anastasia
Fans of the animated film Anastasia have something to rejoice: a Broadway-bound musical adaptation of the film just opened at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut. Helmed by the film’s original songwriters
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To See or Not to See: Shuffle Along
Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed is a perfectly imperfect addition to this Broadway season. Though burdened with an uneven book,
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To See or Not to See: Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting is a story read in many elementary and middle school classrooms across the country to broach the subject of the circle of life. Natalie Babbitt wrote Tuck Everlasting back
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