I grew up in Detroit, immersed in the rhythms and soul of Motown, a force that felt unstoppable. Motown was more than music; it was a cultural movement. Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Martha Reeves, ...

Eddie Perfect wrote a Broadway smash in Beetlejuice, a critical hit (but financial disaster) about the leg-spinning legend, and would love to give another prominent Australian the song-and-dance ...

Bernstein’s timely musical and modern works from the Houston Symphony made for a dramatic weekend in Texas’ biggest city.

As the audience was filing out of WEST SIDE STORY Feb. 14 at the Ohio Theatre, few noticed a wall of brown boxes bearing the ...

What will a thin-skinned showman do with an institution central to Washington’s cultural life? One expectation is more ...

Do you remember the song “I Feel Pretty” written by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein? After seeing the movie “West Side ...

Almost the entire score was mentioned when discussing romantic numbers, but we’ve selected “One Second and a Million Miles” from Jason Robert Brown’s sweeping drama. The hesitancy and excitement of ...

LA Opera raises the curtain with WEST SIDE STORY—a show so beloved it has essentially become a cultural institution unto itself. Not many ...

Musical director Craig Bond says "West Side Story" is St. Helena Drama's most musically complex undertaking yet.

Music director James Conlon begins his 20th and final season in Los Angeles by conducting the company premiere of the Leonard ...

With no gang rivalry, four big players from Columbus' arts scene have pooled their talents to present a "one-of-a-kind" ...

Musicals have stood out as a landmark genre in cinema ever since the first film with sound, The Jazz Singer. Since then, ...