BWW Review: HADESTOWN at Kennedy Center
It is mere coincidence that Anaïs Mitchell’s remarkable, Tony Award-winning Hadestown, now being given a solid production at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, debuted on Broadway just before our twenty-month plague began, but it fits. Mitchell’s story is at bottom a moral call to arms, which cleverly mines the saddest tale in all of mythology and marries it to a still older myth – one which was designed to explain the seasons.
BWW Review: THE KING AND I: Still Something Wonderful
The National Tour of the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's THE KING AND I brings its parade of adorable children, a pair of star-crossed lovers, an imperial ruler, and a strong-willed, warm-hearted educator to the Boston Opera House through April 23rd. One of the grande dames of the 1950s, THE KING AND I retains its exalted place in the R & H pantheon, thanks to the artistry of Director Bartlett Sher, a songbird by the name of Laura Michelle Kelly, and a flawed King of Siam for our times, Jose Llana.
This Week at Bookworks Includes Amistead Maupin, Marilyn O'Leary and More
Saturday, January 25
1pm • Sharon Rhutasel • Living by Ear
Kids share part of their lives with a wayward teacher. More »
3pm • Armistead Maupin • The Days of Anna Madrigal
Suspenseful, comical & profoundly moving. 92 year old Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her 'logical family' in San Francisco. More »