Musical

‘Queens of Drama’ review: French lesbian musical takes no prisoners exploring patriarchy, pop culture, and feminine rage

April 14, 2025 By Chauncey K. Robinson

The result is a chaotic musical odyssey with dark humor and biting social commentary.

West Side Stories, including the latest Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner film

December 20, 2021 By Michael Kaplan

Recorded just days after West Side Story opened on Broadway in September 1957, Columbia Records producer Goddard Lieberson’s brilliant original Broadway cast recording was my first acquaintance with Leonard Bernstein’s musical score for the updated version...

‘Neil Simon’s Musical Fools’: Everybody plays one sometime, right?

October 16, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

It is so boisterously silly and good-hearted, and suitable for all audiences, that it is truly worth seeing in times that need a little comic relief.

Review: Donald Glover’s ‘Guava Island’: A musical romance opposing capitalist greed

April 15, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

"Guava Island" is a musical drama that uses vibrant scenery and art to tell an anti-capitalist fable that condemns systemic greed.

Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda,’ a feminist ode to teachers, dazzles as a musical

March 26, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The protagonist is a precocious 5-year-old girl with mystical psychic powers, a love of reading and a gift for wild, inventive storytelling, who overcomes the cruel fate of being born into a family of con-job masters...