A Wrinkle in Time
For half a century, Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time has been a beloved classic, read by generations and capturing the hearts and imaginations...
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Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman is the most famous (and perhaps only) musical ever written about a man-eating plant. The IPFW...
Beware of the Darkness
When Chelsea Clinton mentioned the classic novel A Wrinkle in Time at last summer’s Democratic National Convention, the beloved book, first published...
The Taming of the Shrew
One of the things I love about doing old plays (and since Shrew has been around 425 years, I’d call it an old play) is looking at the way societies...
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid is the third Disney princess musical I have directed in the past 18 months. And while I generally prefer to do a variety of musical...
Carnivorous Comedy
For many years the most popular and often performed musicals followed a fairly predictable pattern. The stories and songs of musical theater greats...
Immersive Romance
The success of the 2007 film Once, the simple story of a guy and a girl making music in Dublin, was probably pretty surprising even to those most intimately...
One Foot in the Gravy
One Foot in the Gravy by Howard Kingkade is a farce. There’s just no denying it – it’s a farce, I tell you.
And that’s a good...
Display of Creative Force
Gannery Htoo is about to have the experience of a lifetime. Htoo is a junior at South Side High School and a student dancer in the outreach program...
Getting Sara Married
What is it about a happily single person that makes people determined to find her a mate? Arena Dinner Theater has an entire evening devoted to that...