Album Review: Richard Rodgers Reimagined
Once upon a time, Broadway music was popular music. Classic American songs that have since been dismissed as mere “show tunes” were once kings of the airwaves, entire cast albums were
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Matt Cox
Matt Cox wears many hats. He’s an actor, does improv, sound design, and is a playwright. His current play is Puffs Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Alex Finke
Alex Finke is making a splash in one of the hottest tickets downtown: an immersive, crazy-brilliant new production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. The show – which we love every time
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Sweeney Todd Still Thrills
Lucille Lortel award-winning Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theater had a change of cast in April. So, two PC writers went to see the show again to discover what this
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To See or Not to See: Puffs
Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic is a wink-wink comedy of a certain famous story about a Wizard Who Shall Not Be
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To See or Not to See: Nell Gwynn
Gentle theatre-goers, lend me your ears (well, eyes) and heed my words true: get thee to a playhouse and catch the delightful, charming, and grin-inducing Nell Gwynn. First produced at the
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To See or Not to See: Speech & Debate
Stephen Karam‘s Speech & Debate is getting a winning U.K. premiere from the Defibrillator company at London’s Trafalgar Studios. Karam – whose play The Humans won a slew of Tony Awards in
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To See or Not to See: Art at the Old Vic
Yasmina Reza’s Art gets a sharp, triumphant revival at London’s Old Vic. Like her recent God of Carnage— which has earned a slew of international awards since its debut in 2009– Reza’s Art is equal
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To See or Not to See: Wild Women of Planet Wongo
On the far eastern stretch of Houston Street in Manhattan, the cozy back room of the Parkside Lounge plays host to the zany sci-fi musical comedy Wild Women of Planet
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Gelsey Bell
Gelsey Bell appears in one of the year’s hottest Broadway tickets: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. This joyous and astonishing new musical tells a particularly scandalous slice of Leo
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