Stuonbroadway

I am not a country music fan, so I had a bit of trepidation when I entered Off-Broadway’s St. Luke’s Theater for the jukebox musical Music City.  Fortunately, whatever concerns I held were misplaced.  Music City is a buoyant, engaging, sometimes soap opera-ish, show that is chock-full of hook-laden songs composed by JT Harding. The songwriter has written hit tu...

Masquerade is an entertaining and enjoyable rebirth of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, which closed in 2023 as the longest-running musical in Broadway history.  This show is an immersive multi-floor version of the original, produced in a warehouse on West 57th Street just off Broadway.  This is a walk-through show – audiences ...

The musical Come From Away is an emotional rollercoaster.   While the show takes place on the fateful day of 9/11, the thrust of the show is not on heartache and tears (even though there is some of that), but on inspiration and humanity.

A sliver of American Revolutionary history, which took place right here in Connecticut, is the subject of the engrossing, immersive theatrical production, The Slippery Truth:  Prison Break at New-Gate.  The play is produced by Plays in Place. The organization “collaborates with diverse cultural institutions to develop and produce new site-specific plays. Ou...