Tag: Dean Benner

Review by Ron Fassler . . .  Robert W. Schneider is a director, writer, producer,...

By Stuart Miller… Despite a strong cast and some powerful scenes, the play won’t stick in your memory.

By Alix CohenPlaywright Brian Dykstra has a habit of sneaking up on one with narratives so...

By Eyal Solomon, Publisher, Theater Pizzazz… This revival emerges as a tender and hilarious portrait of childhood, capturing its insecurities, longings, and hard-won small triumphs.

by Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography Linda Eder (Jekyll & Hyde) and...

By Alix CohenThere’s little rhyme or reason to Ann Kittredge’s choice of songs this evening except...

Okieriete Onaodowan and Aigner Mizzelle are mesmerizing in this deceptively simple play about lost connections and an arduous path towards reconciliation.

A vibrant tale of terror and woe.

by Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography The Who’s Who of cabaret turned up...

Piano player, composer, arranger, musical director, orchestrator, conductor, and uber-fan Marc...

Fusing opera with funk, Constance Hauman offers a gimmick-free approach organic in nature and orgasmic in execution.

By Alix Cohen”CO＿LAB Theater Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing...

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by  Melissa Griegel Photography     Avenue Q...

The pot is kept boiling throughout its tension-filled 85 minutes.

“A soothing balm in these troubled times.”

A production that feels half-baked.

By Alix CohenWhen Frenchwoman Margot Sergent appeared at the doors of Berklee School of Music 12...

By Alix Cohen“No one could have predicted this is an ironic moment for traditional patriotism…I...

By Alix Cohen”First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes...

By Alix CohenPeter Calo has worked with such diverse artists as Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah,...

By Eyal Solomon, Publisher & Editor, Theater Pizzazz… Ms. Dean discusses her career and her involvement with the hit musical, from its early Broadway success to its current revival

The Phantoms of Masquerade

By Alix CohenWhile fearful about AI’s ability to create fake information, its replacing humans at...

By Alix CohenChristopher Domig was an increasingly self-produced actor when asked to become...

By Alix CohenProtest songs proliferated in the 1960s. Writer/adapters like Pete Seeger made way...

By Alix CohenJanuary 2017: Fifty-something Carey (Janet Zaresh) has always had unerring instinct...

By Alix CohenOklahoma! redefined the American musical by fully integrating songs, dances, and...

By Alix CohenComposer Burt Bacharach’s harmonically adventurous pop songs reshaped popular music...

By Alix CohenGenre-defying Happenstance Theater offers an arsenal influences, inventiveness, and...

By Samuel L. Leiter… This unusual reimagining deftly expresses the play’s inherent drama even as its historic visual and aural attractions have been replaced or pared away.

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography Matthew Morrison (Hairspray, The Light...

By Alix Cohen40ish Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a low end motel room on an interstate...

By Ron Fassler . . . A cabaret show that’s the perfect way to start the New Year off with optimism and heart.