Sure, Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep can sure belt out a tune, and yes, having Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth in one movie, is a great achievement. However, the film version of Mamma Mia still cannot compare to seeing and hearing this grand musical live and in person! Mamma Mia has been a smashing success as [...]

Perhaps it was a bittersweet moment, when Andrew Lloyd Webber realized that his Phantom of the Opera stage musical was aging. After all, The Lion King just usurped Phantom’s title as the Broadway’s “All Time Highest Grossing Show”, making $853,846,062 since its debut in 1997. Phantom on the other hand, has been playing steadily since [...]

The ballet Swan Lake as certainly had quite a history so far. From its origins all the way back in 1875, to the shocking psychological thriller starring Natalie Portman entitled Black Swan, the production is truly iconic. Indeed, the popular film (and countless others) pays tribute to this ballet production, a magical semblance of emotion, [...]

The story of “Alice in Wonderland” is coming back to Broadway and similarly to the show, Wonderland, that made it to the Great White Way in 2011, this one shows the modern side to the classic fairy tale. Modern, indeed. Those who saw “Alice in Wonderland” on the big screen in 2010 when it was [...]

There may have been no huge underdog that was going to come in and make a clean sweep; and like most years, many people got a taste of who would walk away with an Oscar at this year’s award ceremony when they watched the Golden Globes. Still, from the moment Billy Crystal took the stage, [...]

“Death of a Salesman” is one of those plays that is put on in schools, community theaters, and backyards all around the world, but no one might do it better than Philip Seymour Hoffman; and he’s coming to Broadway in a revival of the show that now has a timely twist. There’s no doubt that [...]

It sure is going to be a long four months waiting for Christopher Nolan’s final Batman film, entitled The Dark Knight Rises. And it’s going to be an even longer period of time after summer 2012, as Hollywood scrambles to find another director capable of delivering the same explosive, exciting thrills as the last two [...]

“Rent” is one of those shows that is universally known and loved, as it’s been taken from a book, transformed into a Broadway production, and has even inspired a movie. Now, it’s coming to Chicago with a fresh face brought to it by respected director, David Cromer, who’s worked extensively (and who is respected greatly) [...]

Jessica Chastain helped make a name for herself when she appeared in the movie version of “The Help” (even though she has many credits to her name before that appearance); and now she’s taking on another adaptation of a book — this time in on stage, acting out The Heiress, the play based on the [...]

“What’s done is done,” is one of the most famous lines from William Shakespeare’s classic play Macbeth. But what Lady Macbeth obviously didn’t know when she said it was that what’s done is about to be redone. Macbeth has been done on Broadway and in community and school theaters everywhere, but it’s probably never be [...]