The Grammy-nominated score of Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría soars as high as the aerialists — which is perhaps why it’s the best-selling Cirque du Soleil album to date. The music accompanies gorgeous visuals and dazzling acrobatics in the arena version of this renowned production, which creates the perfect marriage of art, abstraction and skill. Experience the magic for y...

Rediscover why "life's a banquet" when  Sally Edmundson plays the title role in Stages Repertory Theatre’s fall revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s Auntie Mame. Nine multi-talented actors will portray more than 45 roles in Stages’s reinterpretation of the play, which originally starred Rosalind Russell on Broadway and was adapted into the classic film (and l...

Set your DVRs: On Wednesday, September 18 — tonight, as I type — Live From Lincoln Center on PBS will broadcast Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific live from the stage in New York City.This isn't the concert version that ran on PBS a few years ago. Nor is it the Glenn Close TV movie. It's the actual stage revival that won all the Tonys. Perhaps you saw the national tour of this ...

Finally, a video game for musical theater fans ... Dance on Broadway for the Nintendo Wii system invites you to participate in Broadway-style choreography. While the singers aren’t credited, their renditions of 20 familiar songs are true to the spirit of the original shows. Many decades of musical theater history are represented here, including tracks from Cabaret, Hair, 42nd Street, C...

If you’ve wondered what became of composer Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland after its Alley Theatre premiere, wonder no more: The Alice-inspired musical will open on Broadway in April 2011, at a yet-undisclosed Nederlander Theatre. Alley artistic director Gregory Boyd — who co-wrote the musical’s book along with lyricist Jack Murphy — will again direct. First up, howe...

Planning a trip to Sydney, Australia, in the near future? Then be sure to schedule in a performance byAnthony Warlow (whom you might have heard as Enjolras in the Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Misérables or as the title roles on the full concept recording of Jekyll & Hyde). I’ve spoken of Warlow in this blog before. And while the renowned baritone’s ...

The nonprofit theater company Gente de Teatro brings one of the most successful Argentine plays of the last 20 years to town when it stages Made in Lanús at Rice University’s Hamman Hall Thursday through Sunday, September 9 through 12. The Spanish-language production, scripted by Argentine playwright Nelly Fernández Tiscornia and directed by Marcela Salas, explores the dilemm...

When I read about the new Dennis Oppenheim commission for Intercontinental Airport, I was only mildly excited; the photos to date were compelling, but not entirely overwhelming. However, after previewing the maquette at Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery last Friday, I am a now an Oppenheim convert. In the bower of the garden, a smaller scale model of Radiant Fountains holds court that effectively...

The Alley Theatre’s 64th season mixes Picasso and Mozart with elves, fairies, Henry Higgins … even a severed hand or two. In the mood for a classic? Rediscover Pygmalion, Amadeus or Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (J.M. Barrie’s original). Prefer a world premiere? Explore art with two: A Weekend With Pablo Picasso and The Medusa Body. Wish you’d seen Todd ...

Here’s your chance to make a difference: For one night only (Saturday, July 31), Main Street Theater – Chelsea Market is staging Bald in the Land of Big Hair, a one-woman show presented by Pink Ribbons Project that’s based on the autobiography of cancer survivor Joni Rodgers. Actress Lisa Hamilton (Royal Shakespeare Company, Alley Theatre) stars, and the author herself will...