The title of Lucas Hnath’s 2013 play is unwieldy. In fact, if it weren’t in italics, we weren’t sure whether it was a play title or a press release…
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Long before Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys put the pop into pop musicals, a tuneful score by songsmiths Burt Bacharach and Hal David was inserted into a stage adaptation…
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Halloween is once again upon us and with that, you can expect another visit from the creepy, kooky, and ooky Addams clan, in the 2010 Broadway musical The Addams…
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Prodigal Daughter Returns Home: Jonalyn Saxer Stars in 5-Star’s “Newsies”
07/03/2022
When we first saw Jonalyn Saxer, it was 2010. Jonalyn was an eighteen-year-old senior, playing Maria von Trapp in Oak Park High School’s performance of The Sound of Music.…
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Summer is here and what better way to spend the week of the Fourth with a production of The Music Man, Meredith Willson’s tribute to small-town America in the…
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If you were a five-year-old girl going to see her first musical, Agoura High School’s recent semester-ending production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella would be the one to see.…