To See or Not to See: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
Donna Summer was a music legend. Not only is she credited as being the “Disco Queen,” but she’s also a mother, daughter, wife, and saavy business woman. It’s no surprise
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Pop Culturalist Chats With SpongeBob SquarePants’ Walter Trarbach and Mike Dobson
If you’ve seen SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway, you’ll know that it is chockful of sounds–not just musically, but also sound effects. The masters behind all the sound mixing and making
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Ariana Debose
Ariana DeBose is a triple threat: actress, dancer, and singer. She burst onto the scene when she competed on So You Think You Can Dance before moving into acting. Some
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Once on This Island Set Designer Dane Laffrey
Dane Laffrey took a Broadway stage and turned it into an island. There is sand. There are live animals. There is a small body of water. There is a truck.
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Mean Girls’ Kerry Butler
Kerry Butler was born to be an actress. A native New Yorker, she’s been acting since she was a child, and all her hard work has garnered her tons of
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Pop Culturalist Chats With Andy Murray
Andy Murray is a force to be reckoned with in The Seafarer at the Irish Repertory Theatre. His performance as Sharky, in what is essentially an ensemble piece, is magnetic.
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To See or Not to See: Replay
Loss, forgiveness, and love are the centerpieces of the brilliantly-done one-woman play Replay. Written and performed by Nicola Wren and directed by George Chilcott, Replay‘s U.S. premiere is at the
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To See or Not to See: Escape to Margaritaville
Escape to Margaritaville was made purely for entertainment. It’s the kind of feel-good, fluffy piece that not only Jimmy Buffett fans will love, but also all those out-of-towners looking for
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To See or Not to See: Children of a Lesser God
There is a moment, in this revival, where one of the main characters describes deafness as a “silence filled with sound.” The struggle for a hearing person to understand that sentiment (and
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To See or Not to See: Mean Girls
The now cult-classic Tina Fey-written film, Mean Girls, has landed on Broadway…and it’s just as you’d expect a film-to-stage musical to be: funny, a little campy, high energy, and with
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