I have no words, really, but I couldn't see us continue posting without acknowledging the great loss to musical theatre. (For a much more...

Part 1 I have joked many times that Little Shop of Horrors was my introduction to capitalism (“I can finish him with simple...

One text exercise I often do is list out the simple generalizations characters make about the world and the way it works. It's something...

In Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz, a retrospective of the John Kander and...

Les Miserables is a whopper of a musical and it is chock-full of contrasting points of views posited by an enormous cast of characters....

Joseph Pulitzer: That man is a socialist. Mr. Seitz, editor of the World: Teddy Roosevelt is no socialist. He’s an American hero. --...

I was raised in a very religious, Christian home; in this context, there are often frequent conversations between teenagers and their...