Category Archives: musical
Review: Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
What can you say? The man is almost supernaturally good-looking, has the charisma of a sun god, can sing and dance like Gene Kelly – so much so that he has become this generation’s definition of a song and dance … Continue reading
CD Review: Follies
Stephen Sondheim’s Follies is revered in the theater community, and I think rightly so. It contains some of the best musical comedy songs ever written – funny and poignant, often at the same time. Thank goodness, then, that the new … Continue reading
Review: Godspell
The principal joy of Godspell is the richly tuneful score by Stephen Schwartz, featuring the huge hit “Day by Day”. Godspell was his first hit, and really put him on the musical theatre map. This new Broadway revival certainly does … Continue reading
Review: Rent
When Rent first opened I was freshly transplanted to the East Village from the Midwest. I arrived weeks before it opened, and was mildly curious about this edgy little musical playing at the New York Theatre Workshop. I didn’t go, … Continue reading
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News: Performances Begin Tonight for “Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws”
I am proud to announce that the New York premiere of Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws by Tennessee Williams and directed by yours truly Jonathan Warman, will begin performances tonight Thursday, October 27, at 10pm, at The Club at La MaMa, … Continue reading
CD Review: Death Takes A Holiday
Death Takes a Holiday (music and lyrics by Maury Yeston) draws on Albert Casella’s 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza about the Grim Reaper (Kevin Early) taking human form to spend a weekend at a lakeside villa where he … Continue reading
Photos from the Provincetown run of “Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws”
Tickets for the New York run can be purchased at lamama.org
