Rock theater

Hirschfeld Rocks

Al also recognized how rock music had changed. “The Seventies was also a time when rock theatricality was bigger than Broadway theatricality,” he said in 1999. “Those rolling lights-and-sound shows […]

Theater MOJO

I love getting my theater news from MOJO—The Music Magazine. It’s an important British rock mag, renowned for its mix of historical articles and reviews of current releases. Recent issues […]

Dolenz Does Connecticut

Ran an item recently about Connecticut-raised Simpsons scribe Mike Reiss going on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast and not mentioning that his new play Comedy is Hard was at the Ivoryton Playhouse. Well, […]

Cover Your Hedwig

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is in previews for its Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre. I have memories of the original Off Broadway production, and composer Stephen Trask was […]

More Theater Beatles

  These Papers Bullets! (at the Yale Repertory through April 5; see review here, more reviewy stuff here, preview here) is the latest, but far from the first Fab Four-fueled […]