The Secret Life of Bees continues at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theatre, New York until 7 July 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Based on the celebrated 2001 novel by Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, the Off-Broadway musical being given its world premiere at Atlantic Theater […]
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Summer: The Donna Summer Musical – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical continues at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Donna Summer, who reigned as the “Queen of Disco”, died in 2012 of cancer. And Summer: The Donna Summer Musical makes for a scintillating memorial. Of course, this Broadway outing isn’t your ordinary memorial. […]
Broadway Musical Theatre Preview 2018 – from Frozen to Summer
With heroines including a queen who can freeze you, a guttersnipe who can charm you, and a diva who’ll make you want to dance, a half-dozen new musical productions are slated for the last half of the 2017-2018 Broadway season, writes Ron Cohen. The openings include the usual crowding up in April, as new shows […]
Cabin in the Sky – Encores! – New York City Center
Cabin in the Sky, an Encores! production, at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For reasons perhaps now known only to the musical theatre gods, Cabin in the Sky, when it opened in 1940, was only a moderate success. The critics pretty much liked it, and its African-American […]
