Why I won’t see The Book of Mormon

By Mark Paredes
Published on September 9, 2012

Actor feeds off ‘Mormon’s’ racy humor

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on September 5, 2012

‘Rock Of Ages’ Review

By Joan Alperin-Schwartz
Published on June 15, 2012

Adam Shankman melds worry with chutzpah in ‘Rock of Ages’

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 13, 2012

Prolific Israeli producer-director tries Hollywood

By Tom Tugend
Published on July 16, 2008

Israeli producer-director Uri Paster has four movie and theater projects planned this year

Order Up—One ‘Dreamcoat,’ Extra Cheeze

By Gaby Friedman
Published on June 15, 2006

When Dallet Norris signed on to direct Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" for the fourth time in his career, he decided that the classic Bible tale turned classic musical needed some updating. So, for the new touring production, which opens at the Pantages Theater on June 20, he cast an "American Idol" finalist (Amy Adams from Season Three) as the narrator, gave the characters computers and turned hedonistic Egypt into a South-Beach style party town replete with a sun-glasses-clad Sphinx backdrop -- and the brothers use cell phones to call their father, Jacob, and to deliver the news of Joseph's fake demise.

Hello Jacobowsky!

By Susan Josephs
Published on November 3, 2005

Jerry Herman doesn't play favorites with his musicals. Ask him to rank "Mame," "Hello, Dolly!" or "La Cage aux Folles" and he'll tell you, "I love them all."

Heart to Hart

By Tom Teicholz
Published on June 30, 2005

A few weeks ago, the Getty Playhouse showcased a memorable special event: "Here's to Life," Kitty Carlisle Hart's cabaret-style one-woman show, accompanied by her musical director, David Lewis.

Hart, 94, performed for a little over an hour, reminiscing and singing songs from some of her late friends such as Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Cole Porter, presenting in one evening a short history of the American musical theater.

7 Days In Arts

Published on June 27, 2002

7 Days In The arts

the Spectator     With Reprise, Marcia Seligson banks on the public’s desire for the return of the

By Diane Arieff
Published on May 15, 1997

Marcia Seligson is the prime mover and shaker behind Reprise, a new theater organization determined to mount local, first-class revival productions of Broadway musicals.