When writing your best friend's eulogy, it's only natural that you'd look to the past.  That's exactly what successful author Thomas Weaver does in the recent Broadway musical, THE STORY OF MY LIFE.  But in his quest to find the perfect story to ...

Say the term "metatheatre," and most people will think of Bertolt Brecht.  Brecht's shows, such as The Threepenny Opera, were groundbreaking for their use of metatheatre to provide social commentary.  By having the characters in the play be aware ...

Perhaps you've been debating whether or not to stage Billy Elliot at your theater. After all, how will a British musical set almost a third of a century ago in Northeast England play in your neck of the woods? Can your average theatergoer whose ...

So why would the new musical Loving Repeating - called "a play within a lecture" - make me think of the slam-bang, razz-ma-tazz musical Mame?Well, for one thing, in Jerry Herman's 1966 smash-hit, he had Vera Charles tell Mame Dennis Burnside ...

Honor thy great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother. Not by visiting their graves, although that would be nice. Not by commissioning a plaque and attaching it to the wall of the still-standing building that was their first residence in ...