Category Archives: Musicals
DOUBLE TIME slated for Alabama Shakes
Playbill.com | Kenneth Jones Double Time, a new musical about a young white playwright trying to create a new musical comedy about the life of Alabama native Leonard Harper, an African-American Broadway star, will be heard in concert as part of Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writers’ Project Festival of New Plays, May 13-15. ASF playwright-in-residence [...]
Review: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
The Columbus Dispatch | Jennifer Farrar NEW YORK – Does a tree still grow in Brooklyn? A poignant revival of a musical about struggling upward from poverty reminds us that, yes, it does. [...] The delightful revival by the Peccadillo Theater Company revival, staged off-Broadway in the Theatre at St. Clement’s, has been refined by [...]
Larsen & Elliott Named 2011 Larson Grant Recipients
The American Theatre Wing announced today that the recipients of the 2011 Jonathan Larson® Grants are Danny Larsen (Composer/Co-Lyricist) & Michelle Elliott (Bookwriter/Co-Lyricist), Cloaked; Marisa Michelson (Composer) & Joshua H. Cohen (Bookwriter/Lyricist), Tamar and the River; and Andy Monroe (Composer), Jack Lechner (Lyricist) & Michael Zam (Bookwriter), The Kid. The prestigious grants, totaling $10,000, will [...]
Joan Cushing’s “brilliant musical adaptation of Harry Allard’s book…”
Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 11-17 By LAUREL GRAEBER Published: February 10, 2011 | NYTimes ArtsBeat If you go to the latest Atlantic for Kids production, prepare to duck. Paper flies everywhere, most often in the shape of airplanes seemingly zooming straight for someone’s head. Be glad those missiles aren’t spitballs. While the surroundings [...]
