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‘How to Be a Rock Critic’ Explores Tangled Mess that was Lester Bangs

Aug 02, 2017 James Currie Features, Music News, Musical Theatre, Reviews 0

By Peter Thomas Ricci Lester Bangs is probably the most (in)famous writers of rock criticism, and for good reason – a pill popping, beer boozing, cough-syrup downing polemicist who wildly

Lookingglass’ “Moby Dick” Offers Spectacular Theatrical Experience

Jun 29, 2017 James Currie Features, Music News, Musical Theatre, Reviews 0

By Peter Thomas Ricci Let’s be direct about it: Lookingglass Theatre’s production of “Moby Dick,” a remount of its world-premiere staging from 2016, is a truly spectacular piece of theater,...

Theo Ubique Brings Back Delightful ‘Lonesome Losers’ to No Exit Stage

Jun 26, 2017 James Currie Features, Music News, Musical Theatre, Reviews 0

By Peter Thomas Ricci “Jacques Brel’s Lonesome Losers of the Night,” the original musical revue from Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Musical...

Historical Inconsistencies Mar Writers Theatre’s Perfect ‘Parade’

Jun 03, 2017 James Currie Features, Music News, Musical Theatre, Reviews 0

by Peter Thomas Ricci Writers Theatre’s production of the Jason Robert Brown musical “Parade” is the kind of show that makes my heart sink – a technically perfect, ravishingly performed...

Audra McDonald Dazzles in Steppenwolf Concert

May 25, 2017 James Currie Features, Music News, Musical Theatre, Reviews 0

by Peter Thomas Ricci The term “National Treasure” is one of the more irritating cliches in the performing arts, yet it is entirely appropriate when applied to the luminous Audra […]

Lyric’s ‘My Fair Lady’ an Energetic, Witty Delight

May 08, 2017 James Currie Features, Music News, Musical Theatre, Reviews 0

by Peter Thomas Ricci Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “My Fair Lady” is among the most beloved of the classic musicals, with multiple Broadway stagings and a film […]