“The Rocky Horror Show” brought the clan from Transylvania back to Chico Cabaret just in time for Halloween.
The Friday production of the show was deranged, raw, raunchy and crude, but oh so much fun.
Would you expect anything else from this preposterous 1975 cult classic by Richard O’Brien?
Phil Ruttenburg, Chico Cabaret artistic director, skillfully guided a […]
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 […]
The neon green sign that read “McHale’s” looked like it could be on a small town bar anywhere in the country, but instead it illuminated the corner of 46th Street and 8th Avenue in the giant city of New York. Inside the establishment that it promoted a visitor found a suitably dark watering hole, […]
The veteran English director, Anthony Page, seems to be in the process of creating the theatrical equivalent of Mount Rushmore on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Already running at the Lyric, there’s his fine account of Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana, starring Woody Harrelson. This has now been joined, next door at the Apollo, by the London […]
The creative team behind the upcoming West End production of Evita announced further plans for the new mounting, the first major London revival of the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical, at a press conference in London on January 31. Evita will start performances at the Adelphi Theatre on June 2, with an opening set […]
Theatre news on Slashdot? Yeah, it happens occasionaly: The MIT Musical Theatre Group will be staging a musical version of the Star Wars Trilogy (Eps. IV through VI). There will be tap-dancing stormtroopers, singing Ewoks, etc.
Tickets for the pre-Broadway world premiere engagement of Lestat, the new Elton John-Bernie Taupin musical based on the vampire characters of Anne Rice are now on sale.
Tickets for the Dec. 17-Jan. 29, 2006, San Francisco run went on sale 10 AM Oct. 30. The production at the Curran Theatre is presented as part of the […]
Hot Feet, a new dance musical conceived by Maurice Hines, will make the jump to Broadway next year. Previews will begin on April 15, 2006 and officially open April 30th at a theater to be announced. Before coming to Broadway the musical will play Washington DC’s National Theatre from March 18th through April 9th.
Hot Feet […]
This Friday and Saturday (28th & 29th) is your last chance to catch Chico Cabaret’s Twist and Shout Sock Hop. The Buzz called it an ‘atmosphere of good, clean fun. Audience members tapped and sang along with many of the numbers from “My Boyfriend’s Back” to “Bobby’s Girl.”‘ So get to the Cabaret […]
Young newlyweds Corine and Paul Bratter are back on Broadway for the first time since Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park premiered in 1963!
Up-and-coming stars Amanda Peet (best known for the films The Whole Nine Yards and Something’s Gotta Give and recently seen at the Public Theater in Neil LaBute’s This Is How It […]
The Twist and Shout Sock Hop is half way through its run and going strong. With a little more support this fundraising show may reach its financial goals and keep the theatre alive.
The highlight of the show has to be the dueling Elvii. Young Elvis and old Elvis battle it out […]