Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, where there was no streaming TV, or on-demand, or DVDs or even VHS tapes, a generation of children grew up watching Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard in an annually rerun taped-for-TV event preserving their Tony-Award winning performances in Peter Pan. Their children experienced it … Read more
“The only thing that lives forever is the music,” says founder Otis Williams in the musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, currently playing at the Kennedy Center Opera House. But thanks to this lively and infectious touring musical, that will no longer be true, Author Dominique Morisseau and Director Des … Read more
FULL DISCLOSURE: There are those of you who may think that me reviewing The Cher Show would render a review as impartial as me reviewing my daughter’s Broadway debut. There are others who know that The Cher Show in New York was maybe my most perfect day of theatre in my life, when my daughter … Read more
In 1993, Robin Williams made what would become his legacy movie to the world, a hilarious gender-bending romp about an unemployed actor going through a bitter divorce who in desperation disguises himself as an elderly Scottish housekeeper to become his children’s afterschool nanny when the court system fails him and denies him joint custody. Williams … Read more