Sometimes you can judge the quality of a play just by listening to the audience. From the reactions throughout the Alley Theatre to Stephen Karam's Tony Award-winning family drama, The Humans (2015, off-Broadway world premiere), you know you're in...

Why do all the cast members in the touring production of Anastasia (2017), playing through March 10 at the Hobby via Micher Neurosciences Broadway at the Hobby, sing like they're auditioning for a tour of Les Miz? They belt, wail, and emote, haloe...

Forgive me, but isn't ABBA, the phenom '80s Swedish pop group, known for sunshine, lollipops, and roses? Isn't their synthesized music fodder for elevators and background music in pharmacies? Isn't the quartet famous for its international successe...

The Fab 5 who rule over the Music Box Theater are Houston musical theater treasures. Consummate entertainers, they sing, act, and dance in sparkling intimate cabaret revues that glorify their prodigious talents, their warm camaraderie among each o...

As far as I know, María de Buenos Aires (1968), smoldering in a stunning, exhilarating production at Opera in the Heights, may be the first and only tango operetta. Composed by the universally acknowledged “King of Tango,” Astos Piazzolla, and wri...

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