Was ever a message musical wrapped in such a luxurious bounty of romance? Those love songs! Seventy years later, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific still floors us with its lyricism.
Archives for September 10, 2018
Review: Gloria, a very Woolly play – “sometimes shocking, frequently hilarious”
While a very popular musical currently running at the Kennedy Center is asking audiences, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” across town at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria is positing different, and perhaps timelier, questions: “Who owns a tragedy? And how much can you get for it?”
Review: Engaging Shaw, an engaging romantic comedy
Engaging Shaw is a fun-loving romp of a parlor comedy that hits its mark at Best Medicine. The script by John Morogiello imagines one of the truly most gifted social writers in history confronted with the embodiment of everything he has railed against, in the form of a woman who seems tailor made to fit […]