By ERIKA MILVY DEC. 1, 2019 3:54 PM PT When Yanna McIntosh takes the stage Sunday for opening night at the Curran theater in San Francisco, she becomes the eighth black actress to play Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” And, as was just
ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS ‘Mean Girls’ was a movie before Twitter even existed. How did creators update it to be a modern musical? “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park),
ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park), left, Regina (Tony nominee Taylor Louderman) and Karen (Kate Rockwell). (Joan Marcus) BY ERIKA MILVY MAY 2, 2018 5 AM
A Sinclair Lewis novel about the rise of a dictator has been adapted for the stage, seeking to cast new light on the age of Trump – but it’s more agitprop than satire Source: It Can’t Happen Here: a demagogue rises, but the parallels aren’t
Novelist Gregory Maguire discusses the political inspiration for the hit musical and how he expects it to fare in an Obama nation. Source: A Wicked Writer – TheaterMania.com
With less gritty realism and attention to societal ills than West Side Story, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s contemporary immigrant story, In the Heights, gets by on its wits and rhythms. Source: There IS a Place for Us — In the Heights is an “Up Side Story”