The Once and Future Queen

The Once and Future Queen

Ever heard of Gormlaith? That's not a monster in the Beowulf mold, or some ancient villain—Gormlaith was in fact the wife of one of the most famous men in Irish history, High King of Ireland Brian Boru, whose harp still graces Irish money. In The Last High...
Pop Will Eat Itself

Pop Will Eat Itself

From its humble beginnings in a nightclub on New York's Upper West Side to its current reign as the city's longest-running musical comedy revue, Forbidden Broadway has left audiences rolling in the aisles since 1982. The production of the Tony Award-winning...

Summer Seasoning

Ah, summer! The season of long evenings spent… sitting indoors in the dark. While most normal people are stirring the charcoal in the warm dusk, and even discriminating theatergoers are selecting just one or two shows a week from the summer theater cornucopia,...
Oh, To Be In England

Oh, To Be In England

I fully expected to headline this article “A Brolly Good Time.” Outdoor theater, in the spring, in England? I must have been mad to plan a theater-going trip around that quixotic notion. But instead, I was outrageously lucky. The sun shone out of a...
Singing Along

Singing Along

These girls just want to have fun, but they also cry and sing. Part chick flick and all girl-power, Girls' Night: The Musical is the story of five female 30-something friends on a girls' night out at a karaoke bar. First produced in 2000 at a community...