Rich Mehrenberg - Page 11

The Hunchback of Notre Dame...is the perfect way to end the company's current season...I predict many Broadway World Award nominations in its future.

Fifth of July is an intelligent piece of community theater.

With a choir of 90+ singers, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is touted as the largest production the Fulton has ever staged in its 166 year history!

However, it's obvious that Wolfgang and company respect their audience. It's Shakespeare! You don't put ketchup on fllet mignon.

Harrisburg families will find themselves laughing, crying and falling in love with the characters all over again in this brand new adaptation.

Sometimes we can't get caught up in what we don't have, we must value what we do have. I think this perspective is like the message of 'Into the Woods'.

Red is a great exploration of the purpose of art...the show proves that a good play can be both thoroughly entertaining, and intellectually stimulating.

This production, just like the Greased Lightning car, could use some fine tuning

Million Dollar Quartet is the kind of show that invites dancing in the aisles. It is a fun and memorable blast from the past.

The Robber Bridegroom is the wrong show at the wrong time.

Blackbird is not an easy show to watch, but it is an important one.  It tackles complex themes and, like life, promises no simple resolutions.

The Capital 10-Miler: A Run for the Arts, returns to Harrisburg for its 8th consecutive year.

Come see Show Boat at Dutch Apple Dinner Theater and stimulate your brain, heart, and stomach all in one night!

At the start of the 2017-2018 school year, Central York High School's performing arts program experienced a change in leadership. Bringing both veteran and new staff members together, the program is now poised for growth in the coming years. Broadway World sits down with Ben Hodge, who has been teaching Performing Arts at Central for 15 years, and is now director for the school's plays and musicals.

Allison Fund & Justin Droegemueller are fellow cast members in Dutch Apple Theater's production of Ring of Fire and newlyweds in real life.

Only a week ago, in my review of The Mousetrap, I praised the Fulton in their decision to bring a drama back to the mainstage. I will now 'double-down', and share how much fun it was to attend a musical in their intimate fourth floor theater.

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap marks the welcomed return of drama to the Fulton Theater's mainstage. For far too long, the company has produced one big, splashy musical comedy after another. It is good for a theater to have some variety, something different now and then, and The Mousetrap fits the bill.

Considering it only has four characters and one setting, Sam Shepherd's True West has a lot going on. It is a show about the creative process, sibling rivalry and an exploration of the idea that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. The show is a character study, it has moments of great intensity, and moments of absurd humor. It is a difficult show to pull off, yet Susquehanna Stage Company hits all the right notes.

There haven't been many popular mystery musicals over the years. I suspect it has something to do with a conflict of genres. Effective mysteries are cerebral. Audience members must perform mental gymnastics in order to outwit the detective. Musicals (with the exception of Sondheim) often prioritize emotions over logic.