Adolescent angst and sexual exploration — with music by Duncan Sheik, and book and lyrics by Steven Sater, Spring Awakening is a feisty rock musical adaptation of a controversial German play. Written in 1892 by Frank...
Category - Musical
Pauline Adamek
“Man of La Mancha” – Squabbalogic’s creative production, Seymour Center – Sydney Theatre review
Squabbalogic’s reimagining of Dale Wasserman’s fusty old musical, Man of La Mancha (music by Mitch Leigh, lyrics by Joe Darion), is breathtaking in its across-the-board creativity and astonishing collaboration of...
“Billy Elliot The Musical” – Los Angeles musical theater review
Based on the Stephen Daldry/Lee Hall 2000 film (which starred Jamie Bell), this 2008 musical version, Billy Elliot The Musical (music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall), earned its three young actors who played...
Ash Revell
On the silver screen – “Into the Woods” – Los Angeles movie review
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony award-winning musical comes to the screen in a lavish and beautifully mounted version. Sondheim purists always wince when a film adaptation of one of his musicals is...
Kurt Gardner
“Into the Woods” – Los Angeles theater review
Steven Sondheim’s masterpiece of intelligent writing (music and lyrics), Into The Woods, has been given a substantial production by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and imported to the Wallis Complex in Beverly Hills...