Director Dale Albright brings us back to ourselves in this well-crafted production about how characters come together after the death of a gay dancer.

A good friend often asks why I subject myself to the same musical over and over again. That’s a fair question, especially when the show in question is as silly a bit of fluff as Little Shop of Horrors. Watching the same show done by different companies trains the...

Nathaniel Hackmann is a standout. He plays Gaston with a likable swagger. At full-on bravado, he struts, flexes, and prunes as a harem swoons.

Written before World War II, it harkens to a simpler America.

Last night was easily the most trouble-prone opening night I've ever witnessed.

"I saw an old man and the old man was me."

There was quite a bit of skilled tapping and dancing throughout the show and some of the performers such as Donisha Brown have a great skill at taking a beat and transforming it into an all out musical outburst of energy.

We take our Wagner seriously in this town. Despite the 135 years since this was first performed as a cycle in Bayreuth Germany in 1876, the Ring is always new, always worth plumbing – and accordingly, we treat it with a combination of gravitas and hype not seen elsewhere.

It’s immediately evident from the grim set that one is about to witness a decidedly bleak version of the Kander and Ebb classic.

It astounds what can be done with red felt, and old garden hose. A steamer trunk, all 9 cubic feet of it? Pure gold.