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Theater Review: A Pleasingly Bittersweet Sound of Music at the Academy of Music

It might surprise The Sound of Music‘s legions of adoring young fans to learn that the show originally got mixed reviews. Oh, it was a […]

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REVIEW: Pippin dazzles at the Academy of Music

In the 1970s, America was introduced to composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz with a one-two punch: Pippin and Godspell. Both shows ambitiously tackled widely different historical subjects […]

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REVIEW: Once at the Academy of Music

I don’t think there’s been a recent Broadway musical as polarizing to New York theatre goers as Once, the winner of 2012’s Tony for Best Musical: […]

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REVIEW: Bullets Over Broadway at Academy of Music

Olive, a stripper who wants to be a serious actress, says this of her previous stage experience in the musical Bullets Over Broadway: “I call it interpretive […]

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Broadway Philadelphia Season Kicks Off With a Woody Allen Show

The highly-anticipated Broadway Philadelphia season kicks off next month with the Woody Allen musical Bullets Over Broadway, which is based on the 1994 film of the […]