Finding Neverland at the National Theatre

*This review originally published on TheatreBloom.com Literally finding Neverland entails locating the second star to the right and continuing straight till morning. Fortunately, a significantly easier path to Finding Neverland entails only a brief 75-minute jaunt to the National Theatre in Washington, DC where the current NETworks national tour is camped out for a swashbuckling week of … Read more

2019 Oscar Predictions

Sorry it’s really last minute this year but there’s lots to discuss. Popular movies and popular performers are filling all the major categories, but it wouldn’t be the Oscars without a little controversy over the unfathomable inclusion across the board of Roma, the little foreigin indie film on Netflix that tied for the most nominations of the … Read more

Rock of Ages at the Hippodrome

*This review originally published on TheatreBloom.com First and foremost, there is no freaking monkey. It is important to know right off the top that this national tour of the 2009 Broadway smash hit, written by Chris D’Arienzo, paying homage to the big hair bands of 80’s pop/rock radio is nothing like the horrendous, bloated travesty of a … Read more

The Music Man at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

*This review originally published on TheatreBloom.com What started out as a bold new idea last year has realized itself as an exciting new staple of the Baltimore/DC theatrical scene. The Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage concert series, which features top notch Broadway and Hollywood talent in quickly-assembled one week runs to add special event variety … Read more