As I was waiting to be shown to my seat at Girl Crazy, the first of the Encores concerts at City Center this season, I overheard a conversation behind me. Man: "Oh, look at all the empty seats up in the balcony." Woman: "That's because this show...

Can a production be greater than the sum of its parts? That's the question that my fellow blogger Isaac Butler of Parabasis asks regarding the touring production of Dreamgirls, which is currently playing at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. Isaac...

I wasn't a fan of the musical Fela when I saw it Off Broadway at the 37 Arts theater complex. Although I found the story captivating, the dance energetic, and the music vibrant, I thought the storytelling was primitive, and the direction loose and...

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending A Life in the Theater - An Evening With Stephen Sondheim, which took place at the lovely Sanders Theater in Cambridge, Mass. The event comprised a conversation, of sorts, between Stephen Sondheim, looking...

What exactly is a "modern classic"? I mean, it's a contradiction in terms, right? An oxymoron if ever there was one. People who use this phrase tend to be either morons themselves or marketers, the latter of whom seem forever bent on destroying the...