Michael Arden

Maybe Happy Ending at the Hippodrome Theatre

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In the grand scope of all things theatrical, 2026 has been flat-out disappointing. From a lackluster Broadway season capped by an underwhelming Tony Awards to the neighboring catastrophe as our current administration persists in using the fate of the Kennedy Canter as a political weapon for his egomaniacal nonsense, very little enthusiasm can be drummed … Read more

Parade at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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In 1999, a new Harold Prince musical composed by newcomer Jason Robert Brown that debuted at The Vivien Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center gained critical if not popular praise in its telling of the story of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn Jewish transplant to Atlanta working as factory manager for the National Pencil Company who, in … Read more