By Sandi Durell   You might be wondering what the music of the 1980s girl group the Go-Go’s has to do with Shakespearean iambic pentameter styling from Sir Philip Sidney’s 1580 English pastoral poem Arcadia! This fairytale jukebox musical, helmed by Michael Mayer (American Idiot,...

  A brilliant, intimate look at a giant of modern pop songwriting.   By Joel Benjamin   Anyone attending Scott Siegel’s thorough-going tribute to Billy Joel—even those who formerly either took him for granted or disliked the songs—had to leave 54 Sings Billy Joel with an...

      By Elizabeth Ahlfors   Those of us who remember going to a Broadway musical back in the good old days know that singers like John Raitt and Patricia Morison performed without amplification.  Their pure voices reached the back of the house.  Scott Siegel’s annual...

      By: Sandi Durell     Cirque du Soleil has gone Broadway – big and bold, even the playbill! The circus aspect isn’t in-your-face but peppered throughout a Hollywood theme flashback “The Golden Age of Hollywood,” featuring Broadway’s Jeremy Kushnier (Footloose,...

    By Jordan Cohen The NYC premiere of a decades old hit.   The whodunit comedy Shear Madness has enjoyed unprecedented runs in several cities across the world – most notably, 36 years in Boston, 28 years in Washington, D.C., and 18 years in Chicago. For creators Bruce Jordan...

                                                            By Elizabeth Ahlfors   Outside Town Hall there was a heat wave and inside the...