Theatre News and Reviews

Charles Darwin would have relished the scene: A small, overcrowded theater, buzzing with people eager to hear the naturalist’s theories and life story more than 120 years after his death.

The hubbub surrounded a performance of the one-man musical, Charles Darwin: Live & in Concert, in New York City. Anthropologist and songwriter Richard Milner created the show as a tribute to the legendary naturalist, born February 12, 1809. He has performed it across the country and in Australia, Germany and Darwin’s native England.

Milner draws on historic photographs, illustrations and thousands of letters between Darwin and his contemporaries, punched up with Gilbert and Sullivan parodies. He performed the show, wrote the lyrics and co-wrote most of the music.

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