Freddie Highmore may be best known as the Good Doctor today, but way back in 2005, he was the face of Charlie Bucket in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. With the ‘Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience’ going viral last month, Jimmy Kimmel Live has decided to have a dig
The Roxy on Broadway embraces the musical history of South Broadway with live music every day, rotating food menus and nostalgia.
IPSWICH, SUFFOLK – Willy Wanker – The company behind the disastrous Willy’s Chocolate Experience in Glasgow has now brought their unique brand of “immersive” entertainment to the streets of Ipswich. Norfolk Reporter: Ian Bred Promising an adult adventure into the realms of sensuality and eroticism. The ‘Adult Pleasure Zone’ has opened its doors to eager […]
Although “Stereophonic” is not a musical, it’s easy to get swept up by the terrific original rock songs that throb through it. And as writer David Adjmi’s play, which opened Friday night at the John Golden Theatre, is set during the mid 1970s, Will Butler’s music sounds authentically of that edgier era. Almost eerily so.
What “Lempicka,” the mystifying new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, needs more than anything else is turpentine.
Forget East Egg and West Egg. The creators of the new musical “The Great Gatsby,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, have laid an egg. This song-and-dance version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s enduring 1925 novel about, among other things, American excess in the aftermath of World War I, is excessive all right. The gaudy barrage
Time for some DS nostalgia
Jack Antonoff is doing the music for a new Romeo And Juliet adaptation that will premiere on Broadway this fall. As The Wrap reports, it’s billed as a reimagining of the Shakespeare play “with the modern political environment in mind.” It’s called Romeo + Juliet, though it apparently has no relation to Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 reimagining with the same title.
Directed and choreographed by Justin Peck, the show previously played an
The world of graphic design offers a list of apps and tools for various tasks and personal preferences. If you have ever crafted a design, you know those resources. However, […]
Golden Theatre, New YorkThe tale of a fictional British-American rock band trying to make an album makes for compelling and incisive dramaBeyoncé Knowles memorably said: “People don’t make albums any more. They just try to sell a bunch of little quick singles.” More than a decade ago, she spoke with startling accuracy on the wash-rinse-and-repeat cycle of music-making. The nameless record executives who want ditties in the key of TikTok. Success itself is an underwhelming boom-bust.Stereophonic,...
Of the hundreds of students Diane Phillips taught in her 39 years as a school vocal music director, one determined 16-year-old stands out in her memory. Shaina Taub, then a senior at Harwood Union Middle & High School in Moretown, asked for permission to stage a cabaret at the school. With Phillips' blessing, she selected show tunes, stitched them together with a story, assembled a pit band, and cast herself and seven theater friends. More than a chance to perform, the cabaret would...