By Jessica Neu Before Jonathan wrote Tick, Tick…Boom and Rent, and before Lin-Manuel Miranda gave us In the Heights and Hamilton, there was Stephen Sondheim. Hailing from the era of the big Broadway musical alongside the likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, and… Read More ›
In a land before Land Before Time, before O.J. Simpson led the LAPD on a sluggishly slow chase in a white bronco and instead ran headfirst into Towering Infernos as they burst into flame and collapsed, disaster films dominated a… Read More ›
By Eva Phillips Maybe Sweeney Todd isn’t being egregiously hyperbolic when he says there is a place in the world full of shit called London. The plague looms heavy; perfidious law-makers and judges prey upon the innocent with impunity; cats… Read More ›
By Eva Phillips It is unsurprising that Goethe makes an appearance, in the beautiful yet eviscerating coming-of-age musical Spring Awakening. After all, the inimitable musical, with music by Duncan Sheik and book by Steven Sater, was adapted from an 1891… Read More ›