Ladies—dig out your hat boxes, Crowns is back in town!  The production at Creative Cauldron is captivating and beautifully relays the meaning, messages, stories and significance of church ladies and their hats. The African ancestry underlying the adornment is highlighted with centerstage attention from the very opening sequence and the soulful rendition hits the mark […]

In an old house in Paris, covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. And at Creative Cauldron, for their Christmas thing, the twelve little girls get up and sing. Oh, all right, I’m sorry, that was horrible — it’s just that it’s the holiday, and Madeline’s Christmas is a musical loaded […]

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is the quintessential coming-of-age story: Mowgli, a human infant, is found alone in the jungle by the Wolf Pack- and adopted by the animals. As he matures, he begins to understand that though the wolves are family, humans are family, too. Torn between them, he must battle Sher Khan, […]

All the charm in Creative Cauldron’s Disenchanted! is homespun, from madcap performances to powerful voices and kitschy props. But the script lobs too much hate at the House of Mouse (while staying just this side of copyright) to buoy or sustain the funny. Which is unfortunate, cause it has enough dirty wit and wink wink moments to […]

Creative Cauldron doesn’t shy away from the big and bold, and producing the Broadway version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast embodies that to the hilt. Amidst its small modest space, the Disney masterpiece that launched a thousand ships becomes an intimate, authentic telling. It’s splendid. Surely, we all know the story: long, long ago […]

As we’ve see from their incredible collaborations over the years, the dynamic writing team Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith can musicalize any story. Here they help us discover radio trailblazers Frank and Flora Conrad, credited with numerous experiments and patents for the technology that led to the first commercial radio station, which they launched […]

Filled with down home moaning blues sprinkled with glittering magical realism, Thunder Knocking on the Door is packing the house at Creative Cauldron.  In a small southern Alabama town, a mysterious guitar player who calls himself Marvell Thunder shows up on the doorstep of an unassuming musical family bringing a challenge, wreaking havoc and possible […]

There’s something magical about Madeline  – the child who can handle every obstacle, can rectify any situation, and is adored by legions.  Creative Cauldron brings one of the beloved stories to life with the perfectly holiday themed Madeline’s Christmas. What’s known in this umpteenth tale of the legendary Madeline is her celebrated “esprit de corps” […]

How fitting that Creative Cauldron has chosen to revive an early success that fits perfectly with the darker aspects of the Halloween season. That brooding poet and spinner of fantastic tales Edgar Allan Poe is back, taking center stage in the chamber musical Nevermore. 

Charlotte’s Web, the beloved children’s book by E.B. White, is an emotionally taut tale that plays well with music by Charles Strause, who’s next musical was Annie. Here, Creative Cauldron has brought it lovingly to life by children, for children, with the same warmth and spirit that has had generations cheering for a runty piglet […]