While contemplating writing this blog post, prolific beach bum musician Jimmy Buffett entered the Margaritaville in the sky, and I began...

It's been a Sondheim-palooza in the past year since the legendary Broadway composer passed at the age of 91. In addition to his musicals...

It feels somewhat inappropriate for me -- a straight, white guy -- to critique the new musical A Strange Loop (which won the Tony and...

I read a lot of plays, not only for pleasure and storytelling but also because i'm always on the lookout for potential future Jakespeare...

Picture it: You've grown up listening to the cast album of a musical, memorizing every word and vocal inflection to be heard, and then a...

Take a look at almost any musical written in the past decade, and you'll notice that the overture -- that instrumental "settling music"...

In just a few weeks, Jakespeare Virtual Theatre Company will cease operations for the foreseeable future. I made this difficult decision...

In my mind, Stephen Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown are the two most interesting Broadway composers of all time. That doesn't mean, mind...

One thing I've been hugely surprised by since starting my own theatre group is how many people do not seem to understand what "community...

(Editor's note: A "movie-musical" refers to a film based on a work that was originally produced for the stage, as opposed to one written...

I can't imagine a worse feeling in theatre than letting down your castmates, crew, and audience. But that is likely the emotion coursing...

When I was eight years old, my mother signed me up from a summer theatre workshop at our local civic league downtown; she knew I was a...

In my family, talking about money was never a taboo subject as I came to discover is the norm in many other households. The idea of...

I think it's pretty safe to say that theatre is the only place where sequels never work. Think about it: Can you name one sequel -- or,...

I recently had a conversation with a new theatre friend about what their favorite musical(s) is/are, and I said something that I...

When I first tell people I meet that I love theatre (and musicals in particular), they always ask me the same question: How did you first...

Ever since I began doing theatre around the age of 10, I never had any problem getting cast in shows. At the time, it made me think that...

It's the same every year: theatre companies often producing plays (and sometimes musicals) that are Christmas-themed. You'll likely find...

Attention spans being what they are these days (short), one-minute plays are the latest fad in theatrical performances. Covering an...

Are you thinking of producing a virtual play, but you don't know what show would translate well to the Zoom (or any other streaming...