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
The Roxy on Broadway embraces the musical history of South Broadway with live music every day, rotating food menus and nostalgia.
This just might be the can’t miss musical of the spring.
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.
Sturgill Simpson, Post Malone, Tyler, the Creator, Killers, Postal Service, Grace Jones, Slowdive to perform at 2024 Outside Lands in San Francisco.
Directed and choreographed by Justin Peck, the show previously played an
After weeks of scrutiny and speculation, the Outside Lands lineup is here. The three-day festival, which takes place in Golden Gate Park from August 9 to 11, announced the full lineup on Tuesday. Headliners include rapper Tyler, the Creator, who recently performed a (literally) explosive Coachella set, and 2000s rock darlings the Killers, who penned the infectious “Mr. Brightside.” There’s also a significant country streak to the headliners with the booking of Sturgill Simpson, as well as Post...
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...
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St. Clair College performing arts students hope to inspire audiences to support the Windsor-Essex County Humane Society as they put a modern twist on the perennial stage musical CATS. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic masterpiece, based on T.S. Eliot’s poetry collection titled Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, delves into themes of acceptance, love, forgiveness and […]
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