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“Gutenberg! The Musical!”, a bare-bones comedy musical is Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, is a no-frills musical about a no-chance musical. Two giddy, goofy friends have taken all the money they ...
Shaina Taub’s historical musical “Suffs” lives up to its Tony-winning hype on its first national tour, currently playing at The Bushnell in Hartford, a hotbed of suffragist activity just over a ...
Will Brill plays a bitter middle school teacher who secretly stages a musical about 9/11 in Giselle Bonilla's very irreverent — but only sometimes funny — debut feature. In that light, it doesn’t seem ...
First, don’t be put off by the title. Run Amok, premiering Monday in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, is not a Chevy Chase comedy from the ’80s. If this sells, that name is ...
Uneven but often hilarious, Giselle Bonilla's debut follows a nebbishy educator as he turns a wholesome production of 'West Side Story' into an act of collegial sabotage. Expanded from a short film ...
Before Tyler Tafolla’s musical “Dead Moose” even begins, a group of bible verses from the Old Testament’s Book of Job are projected onstage about the battle between God and Satan for Job’s soul.
First things first: “The Musical” is indeed about a musical. Your next question will then likely be, “Well, what kind of musical is it?” Well, and this must be established up front, it’s a 9/11 ...
Woke jokes, drama jokes and 9/11 jokes commingle in Giselle Bonilla’s movie about romance and revenge among faculty at a high school. By Richard Lawson It begins with a most Sundance-y premise: A ...
Living inside a creative mind responsible for a work of art that never existed is a vexing proposition. This is the case with George Seurat, who doesn’t paint as much as he jabs, harnessing his ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The problem with musicals spun from popular books and movies is that too often all they’re trying to do is ...
It takes an icon to have an audience scream in anticipation for something as simple as putting on a single glove. “MJ,” the jukebox musical, opened at the Landmark Theatre Tuesday night. The show, ...