Happy Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, directed by Jeff Wise for Wheelhouse Theatre Company at the Duke on 42nd Street, New York, through November 29, 2018.
The novelist Kurt Vonnegut is not remembered for his plays, but this is a doozy. Happy Birthday Wanda June is a satirical 1970 theatrical comedy by the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, …
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, music & lyrics by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, plus songs by Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse. Philadelphia Academy of Music through November 18, 2018.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will forever be associated with the appealing personality of Gene Wilder who starred in the original 1971 film. This touring production proves that there …