Some art entertains, some art educates, and occasionally you get a fantastic confluence where a show does both tremendously well. Suffs, the new Broadway musical about the history of the women’s suffrage movement, accomplishes the mission of delivering a heartfelt and personal story while also educating us better than many history classes. Shaina Taub, the creator/composer/lyricist/librettist/star of this musical, has managed to take vital history and deliver it in a beautiful story of women’s resilience and action.
Suffs, now playing at the Music Box Theatre, tells the story of suffragist …
Theatre Horizon has done it again. As they’ve done so many times since its founding in 2005 by Erin Reilly and Matthew Decker, Theatre Horizon has brought some of the brightest talent in the region to Norristown and let them flourish creatively. Tick, Tick…Boom! at Theatre Horizon is a must-see production led by co-director Steve Pacek and a terrific cast of Robi Hager, Elena Camp, and Angel Sigala.
Tick, Tick…Boom! is an autobiographical musical from Jonathan Larson, the creator behind the smash hit, Rent. It takes place the week leading up to his 30…
Most of us only know Lehman Brothers as a greedy bank that didn’t get bailed out in the 2008 financial crisis and shut down, but there was so much more to their history. The Lehman Trilogy, playing now at The Arden Theatre, tells the epic story that turned 3 poor, Jewish, immigrant brothers into an American institution of capitalism, and eventually into nothing.
The Lehman Trilogy was written by Stefano Massini, an Italian playwright who tapped in to the pathos of a deeply American story and went on to win a Tony Award for Best Play in 2022. …
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