There are flutes “with trumpets blaring in . . . What a clashing, what a clanging,/ What a drumming, what a piping.” Thus reads one of Heinrich Heine’s poems, set to music with 15 other shor... Read more
“Peanuts,” the classic comic strip featuring “good ol’ Charlie Brown,” spawned a 1967 musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” with book, music, and lyrics by Clark Gesner. Thi... Read more
“This is not a Zoom play.” From the ides of March to late July, the theater world has endured enough and evolved enough to have both developed and then tired of a whole new forma... Read more
Theatre aficionados are accustomed to the phrase “Dinner and a Show” to mean an enjoyable evening at a dinner theatre. For our purposes now, “Dinner and a Show” is the title of Big Finish... Read more
“How sad that Mozart, passionate as he was, keenly alive to all the beauties of the world, and full of the highest aspirations, never knew peace and contentment, in spite of all that he enjo... Read more
In Voltaire’s picaresque and satirical 1759 novel “Candide,” Candide and company make their way to El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. In 1849, at the peak of the California Gold Rush, Ba... Read more
Salvation can come from unexpected sources. In this play, set in a flat in Ladbroke Grove in West London in 1952, salvation comes from an ex-doctor in the form of a nascent friendship. It w... Read more
This summer’s bargain may well be a subscription for one month for the new Disney+ streaming service. The 2016 Broadway production of “Hamilton” with the original cast is available on demand... Read more
This filmed play is an enhanced archive recording from 2016 and features the original English cast. This is an incredibly thoughtful and anguished work and brilliantly produced. . . . It is... Read more
Charles Dickens is known as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, yet his interest in the theatrical is less widely known. During his later years, Dickens would take to the... Read more
