“How To Succeed” at Playhouse is sheer, total, unadulterated, sparkling, ambitious entertainment
It's not enough to write that Playhouse on the Square’s production of “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying” under the...
2011 Tony Nominations Announced - The Scottsboro Boys receive 12 nominations!
BY ANDREW GANS, Playbill.com Tony winners Matthew Broderick and Anika Noni Rose announced the nominations for the 65th Annual Tony Awards...
Humble Review - ‘High School Musical’ at the Springer Opera House
My my my, was this a surprise or what? I never thought I’d see the day that I’d enjoy ‘High School Musical’ in some form. Well, ladies...
‘The Scottsboro Boys’ is Powerful, Provocative
BY MARK KENNEDY, The Associated Press, ABC News John Kander and Fred Ebb have managed to turn some of the darkest themes into brilliant...
The Scottsboro Boys’ theatre review
BY THOM GEIER, Entertainment Weekly The appearance of a new musical by John Kander and Frank Ebb, the famed composer/lyricist team behind...
Great ‘Scot’! A classic
BY ELISABETH VINCENTELLI, The New York Post John Kander and Fred Ebb have given American musical theater a pair of un disputable, stone-...
‘Scottsboro Boys’ Tell Their Own Story on Broadway
BY JEFF LUNDEN, National Public Radio A new musical called “The Scottsboro Boys” just opened on Broadway, and though it boasts a score by...
‘The Scottsboro Boys’ on Broadway: Minstrels, cruelty and longing
The Chicago Tribune A few minutes into the last musical bearing the names of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, just as the shrewdly...
‘Chicago’ Team Zaps ‘Scottsboro’ Tale With Song, Dance
BY JEREMY GERARD, Bloomberg News When a slinky prostitute recants the testimony that has helped send nine innocent young black men to...
The Brilliant, Blunt Force of ‘The Scottsboro Boys’
BY SCOTT BROWN, New York Magazine Sometimes, there’s nothing more dangerous than a little old-fashioned entertainment—and entertainment...