The revival of Ohad Naharin’s “Black Milk” after more than 20 years isn’t a step backward. Rather, artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell projects confidence in the 47-year-old institution, as if to say, “Yeah, we still do that, too.”
You’ll see the whole story coming from the first minute you enter the forest in this new musical by Tina Landau and Kate Diaz.
On Feb. 13, 1996, the rock musical “Rent,” by Jonathan Larson, premiered off-Broadway less than three weeks after Larson’s death.
Many of the best moments in this new production of Sam Shepard’s play are thanks to the gutsy Caroline Neff as May.
The biographical jukebox musical about the songwriter gets a new outing at Drury Lane, and Samantha Gershman’s performance is worth seeing.
The Steppenwolf ensemble member says she relates to Sam Shepard’s characters much differently now than when she was younger.
Theo’s “Secret Garden” and Kokandy Productions’ “Into the Woods” tied for the most nominations for their off-Loop musicals.
Vanessa Severo’s solo show about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is most effective when it’s about Severo’s own journey to assume the role.
On Feb. 18, 1965, the famed Cambridge Union at Britain’s University of Cambridge held a debate between James Baldwin, the illustrious American author, orator and civil rights activist, and William F. Buckley, the suave conservative intellectual and founding editor of the National Review.
His short reviews in such publications as Newcity and the Chicago Reader could be withering, but only if he didn’t like your show. If he did, he was your champion.