Subject: Musicals

• Concert Review: Duncan Sheik at The Theater

  September 24, 2007

• Spoofs on Stage

  March 19, 2009

• Cagneylicious

  April 2, 2009

• Life Is a Broadway Play, Old Chum

  November 26, 1998

• Between Opera and a Rocky Place

  December 31, 1998

• Fair Play

  December 4, 1997

• Urban Contempo

  December 18, 1997

• Night & Day

  December 25, 1997

• Night & Day

  March 12, 1998

• He Wrote, She Wrote

  March 19, 1998

• Shaped Up, Shipped Out

  April 9, 1998

• Eviction Notice

  May 7, 1998

• Sweatin' to the Hackneyed

  July 9, 1998

• Getting a Kick Out of Cole

  July 16, 1998

• Stripped of Spirit

  January 7, 1999

• A Spider Without Bite

  February 25, 1999

• Bigger, Longer, and Almost as Funny

  July 1, 1999

• Best Production of a Play

  May 15, 2003

• Sarah Brightman

  November 13, 2008

• A Really Bad Hair Day

  May 8, 2008

• Macabre Meets Musical

  December 27, 2007

• Spoofs on Stage

  December 20, 2007

• A Soprano, Singing

  December 13, 2007

• A Marvelous Pity

  Another LRMB. WGAF? Well, we do, for a lot of the wrong reasons.

  August 2, 2007

• Capitol-izing on Ineptitude

  January 12, 2006

• Maximum Hold!

  Hairspray keeps its style – even in humidity!

  March 2, 2006

• Dream Works

  But it's not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it as a well-worn tale struggles to transcend the Ray model.

  December 21, 2006

• If It Ain't Got That Swing

  Florida Stage's Ella offers sweet memories, but there was only one real Fitzgerald.

  June 29, 2006

• Stephin Merritt

  Showtunes (Nonesuch)

  March 23, 2006

• Spent

  A Broadway schmaltzfest spawns a big-screen travesty

  November 24, 2005

• Stagebeat

  Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

  January 20, 2005

• Don't Rag on Them!

  Dreyfoos alum returns to direct

  March 11, 2004

• Jewish Wry

  They Jest surely, switch moods hesitantly

  January 22, 2004

• Right Show, Wrong Crowd

  A spooky musical about a man trapped in a cave is too much for the Actors Playhouse audience

  March 27, 2003

• Yule Love It

  A Royal Christmas combines carols, show tunes, and ballet

  December 19, 2002

• 'Tis the Tradition Season

  When the holidays roll around, old standbys tumble in

  December 5, 2002

• Out of the Chute

  The debut of Urban Cowboy is a rough ride indeed

  November 28, 2002

• Next Onstage ...

  What's the future look like? Only our theater critic knows for sure.

  August 22, 2002

• Royal Treatment

  The King & I is slightly dated, but ahh, the dance, the color, the song

  March 28, 2002

• Playing Favorites

  For this critic, the charms of My Favorite Year outweigh its many flaws

  December 6, 2001

• A Star Is Björk

  Lars von Trier delivers the Icelandic pop icon as a simple and tragic Dancer in the Dark

  October 5, 2000

• We Don't Aim to Please

  Four thespian kingpins reveal their most elaborately staged fantasies

  September 14, 2000

• Presidential Follies

  A love triangle in the White House. Is this dusty old satire or current events?

  August 31, 2000

• A Marriage of Opposites

  Festival Rep 2000

  June 29, 2000

• Two Colors of the Rainbow

  Finian's Rainbow

  November 11, 1999

• All His World's a Stage

  High Society

  September 16, 1999

• Harmony Tonight

  Side by Side by Sondheim

  September 9, 1999

• Cissy and Harry and Katie and Johnny

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  August 19, 1999

• By George

  Mister Abbott -- A Broadway Legacy

  August 12, 1999

• Lights, Camera, Cannibalism!

  August 20, 2009