When Israeli actor Yehezkel Lazarov as Tevye intones the iconic line about villagers “trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune” without breaking one’s neck, our gaze takes in the …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“The Sound of Music” is, above all, a coming-of-age story.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis one-act opera highlights a remarkable and largely-forgotten chapter of history: Blacks fighting in the Revolutionary War in exchange for their freedom.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“Moulin Rouge” is eye-popping. There are constant wows.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe six wives of Henry VIII all performing together in a song and dance line on one stage and competing against one another.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMary Rodgers, late daughter of composer Richard Rodgers, thought “The King and I” was the best of the Rodgers and Hammerstein collaborations.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFormer nun Mrs. Mary Margaret O’Brien is hosting bingo and quizzing and informing us about Easter traditions and trivia along the way.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe grand journey of the musical “Paradise Square” reached its culminating destination of a full-scale Broadway opening Sunday night.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis is an enjoyable production with a good cast of show voices.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis is a sumptuous and traditional production of “Tosca” visually with every inch of the cavernous stage filled with a three-dimensional, captivating set.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” is a multi-genre work and the first opera in the Metropolitan Opera in New York’s history written by an African-American composer, jazz trumpeter and compose…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWhat Anaïs Mitchell has concocted is something quite remarkable.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIts diverse audience knows exactly what “Hairspray” is and savors every familiar spritz.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMuch of what has been said about Sondheim seems to only scratch the surface.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIt's been eighty years since Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” first came sweepin’ down the plain, but this staging sweeps those plains clean and restores a sense of the innovati…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe 2014 musical “Holiday Inn” offers a stage version of the 1942 film, deleting some numbers and adding other better-known Irving Berlin songs.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe kingdom where “Becoming Santa Claus” is set is far north. TThe sumptuous orchestral score is unabashed romanticism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWe watch Scrooge go through his familiar redemptive and restorative ritual with renewed interest.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA conversation with Garth Drabinsky on his new show “Paradise Square" a musical about a pre-Civil War Irish/African-American neighborhood that existed in New York prior to the 1863 Draft …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWith its carefree and sunny demeanor, “Elixir” could not be more different than Verdi’s “Macbeth,” which opened the season the week before.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"This is a partnership which we hope will have an indefinite future. For this house to be able to offer the city a regular diet of opera and ballet changes the feel of what the opera house r…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"The piece is so rich that the most important thing for me to say is 'Once Upon a Time.'"
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMWhen Renée Fleming was announced as Lyric Opera’s creative consultant in December of 2010, she related that the company would have an “annual commitment to American musical theater” b…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:48PMRECOMMENDED There is a lot of Richard Rodgers being heard around town this spring, from the rarely heard Rodgers and Hart “Pal Joey” at Porchlight and the first-ever Rodgers and Hammerst…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:57PMRECOMMENDED One of the problems with being the new impresario in town who conducts, directs and simultaneously runs another opera company on the West Coast is catching your breath long enoug…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:42PMRECOMMENDED Heavily promoted as two words you don’t hear together very often, i.e., a “mariachi opera,” “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna” [“To cross the face of the moon”] is actuall…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:38PMThey come without warning, those occasional Non-Equity shows that Broadway In Chicago manages to slip into its lineup. They are usually classics or revivals popular enough to be relatively…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:28PMBy Dennis Polkow Andrew Lippa, the composer of “Big Fish,” has been very busy readying the show for its pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago. “‘Big Fish’ is a joyful celebration …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED One of the great difficulties in bringing an iconic contemporary play to the opera house is securing permission from the playwright, without which, an opera is not possible. In t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:40PMRECOMMENDED The touring version of the Broadway production of the Australian jukebox musical based on the 1994 Australian film has landed at the Auditorium Theatre. The film “The Adven…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:37AMRECOMMENDED The early works of Andrew Lloyd Webber incorporated rock and pop idioms into the Broadway musical that, taken with the punchy lyrics of his early partner Tim Rice and a through-c…
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