Maleah Joi Moon and the company of Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Hell’s Kitchen By Deirdre Donovan The new Alicia Keys-scored musical Hell’s Kitchen is now heating up the boards at the Shubert Theatre. Inspired by the life of Alicia Keys—global megastar and winner of fifteen Grammy Awards—it focuses on several months in the…
Eddie Redmayne and the Ensemble. (Photo: Marc Brenner) Cabaret By Fern Siegel Cabaret has seen several revivals since its Broadway debut in 1966. The Kander-Ebb musical, set in early 1930s Weimar Berlin, was based on “I Am A Camera,” the 1951 play by John Van Druten, which in turn, was based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1939…
The Ensemble of Water for Elephants (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Water for Elephants By David Schultz A new theatrical adaption of Sarah Gruen’s popular 2006 novel, Water for Elephants, has set up its Big Top smack in Times Square. Wonder of wonders, it culls much from the novel and trims the excess to streamline the drama…
Joy Woods, Ryan Vasquez (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) The Notebook By Lydia Keidel Bring your tissues! The Notebook, Nicolas Sparks’ breakout romantic novel, which later became a blockbuster film, is now retold as a Broadway musical. This optimistic tearjerker is true to the book except it uses three pairs of actors portraying the same couple at…
The Cast of The Outsiders (Photo: Matthew Murphy) The Outsiders By Marc Miller If you were in high school in the late ’60s or early ’70s and had a streak of rebellious youth in you, chances are you got around to The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel. Hinton, who was Susan Eloise Hinton but felt…