Review: RUTKA at Playhouse In The Park
Rutka is a new musical that adapts the diary entries of a young Jewish girl's final months before being killed in 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Featuring an original indie-rock musical score, Rutka finds the balance of telling a nuanced account of her adolescent experiences while growing up in a time of terror and isolation.
Video: Go Inside the Recording Studio with 'The Match' From RUTKA
The critically acclaimed RUTKA, a powerful new musical adapted from Rutka's Notebook, has released “The Match,” performed by the show's songwriters Joceyln Mackenzie and Jeremy Lloyd-Styles. “The Match” is available today from Rialto Records on all streaming platforms. Check out video of the show's composers performing the song in the recording studio below.
54 SINGS VULFPECK Comes to 54 Below
54 Below will present Delaney Brown (Jagged Little Pill), André Jordan (Diana), Sean Steele (Kinky Boots), Becca Suskauer (Pretty Woman), and more in 54 Sings Vulfpeck on July 23 at 9:30 PM. “It Gets Funkier” at 54 Below for an evening celebrating the songs of Vulfpeck.
Review: ALANIS MORISSETTE'S JAGGED LITTLE PILL Will Leave You Breathless At Straz Center
Jagged Little Pill, is the latest “Jukebox Musical,” in a rather long line of “Jukebox Musicals,” to make it on Broadway and then tour in recent years. With music by Alanis Morissette, book by Diablo Cody, and additional music by Michael Farrell and Guy Sigsworth, the show traverses the iconic landscape of songs represented on Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name, and touches on topics of pain, healing, and empowerment.