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High-Flying ‘Peter Pan’ at Moonlight, a Charmer that Won’t Grow Up
Robert J. Townsend as the wonderfully vain Captain Hook hooks the audience with his lacy garb and curly wig in the first few seconds…
Read MoreJazz Music From a Groundbreaking Artist
North Coast Repertory Theatre has produced several revues in the last few years. Side by Side by Sondheim and Words by: Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook honor timeless musical artists.
Read More‘Ruthless’ Is (at Moxie)
It’s inspired silliness, with lots of cute theatre references thrown in. You’re gonna love it…
Read MoreA Polished Musical Turn at the Old Globe With Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s powers of enchanting the ordinary haven’t faded over two centuries and increasingly attract the attention of the music theatre. Paul Gordon, who offered the Old Globe an adorable ‘Emma’ just five years ago is back now, via Chicago, with an equally buoyant ‘Sense and Sensibility.’
Read MoreHershey Bars: Felder Shines in Mildly One-Sided ‘Maestro’
We haven’t seen the likes of Leonard Bernstein’s modern impact on music before him or since — Lenny could do it all, and he had no qualms about heralding music’s place in the human experience. ‘Maestro,’ currently on tap at San Diego Repertory Theatre, is local favorite Hershey Felder’s nod to the big man — even amid its topheavy qualities, it’s certainly a piece for the mind and heart.
Read MoreBeautiful Color and Atonal Songs in “Sunday”
Seurat was a peculiar artist and so is Sondheim’s atonal music…
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