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February 28, 2022

Cabaret at 50: Spectacle can’t hide horror forever

Bob Fosse's adaptation of the dying days of Weimar musical remains both gorgeous and haunting a half century on.
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December 28, 2021

Cyrano struggles to stay on key

Joe Wright's newest interprets the classic tale as a musical with uneven results.
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December 27, 2021

David Newman on keeping Bernstein’s music alive for Spielberg’s West Side Story

The legendary composer talks about keeping the spirit of Leonard Bernstein's score alive in Steve Spielberg's musical adaptation.
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December 2, 2021

Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story is a staggering showcase for Sondheim

Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner adapt the classic Stephen Sondheim musical into a vivid, gripping tale that builds on what the Robert Wise version did right.
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November 17, 2021

Andrew Garfield is a supernova in tick tick BOOM!

Lin-Manuel Miranda's adaptation of RENT creator Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiography boasts fantastic tunes, solid direction, frustrating storytelling, and one of the year's finest lead performances.
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October 15, 2021

Diana: the Musical takes a big ol’ dump on a tragic icon

At last, a Broadway show that dares to ask “What if the People’s Princess was a hopeless twit?”
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September 24, 2021

Boosting the signal of 2001’s cult space Western musical The American Astronaut

Twenty years on, Cory McAbee's singular cult film is nearly as impossible to find as it is to look away from.
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September 12, 2021

Come from Away’s warmth is undermined by key creative choices

Come from Away, a musical true story about a town that took in 38 planes in the wake of 9/11, undercuts its warmth with its creative choices.
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September 11, 2021

TIFF: Dear Evan Hansen is a confounding adaptation of the stage musical

Ben Platt's age is the least of our problems in Stephen Chbosky's misguided adaptation of the already-misguided musical Dear Evan Hansen.
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September 1, 2021

Amazon’s Cinderella is bippity-boppity-blah

The songs are bad and the social commentary is even worse in this new take on the classic fairy tale.