This joyous and emotional musical also has a sombre literary and political background.
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The average shot length in Moulin Rouge! is under two seconds. While acceptable for an action movie, nothing like this had ever been done in a musical.
The enduring legacy of the 1925 film – with Lon Chaney as a villainous Phantom – is complicated by its tangled release history and multiple versions.
Defying Gravity is about the power of choosing and forging your own path, with or without help.
Freedom and feminism take the stage in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s musical revival of My Brilliant Career.
The production is doomed by a muddled script and mediocre music.
Eddie Redmayne’s jagged performance embodies the extreme rupture between Weimar and Nazi culture.
There is a stark contrast in box office figures between musical films that market themselves as ‘musicals’ and those that don’t.
Compared to the dopamine-fest of season one, Josh and Melissa’s situation in season two feels bleak.
Theatre was one of the worst-hit industries during the height of the pandemic, but the need to adapt may have set an exciting groundwork for the future.
Local institutions and community bonds forged during the turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s helped a vulnerable neighborhood walloped by the pandemic endure.
A recent controversy surrounding Québec director Robert Lepage has had some people claiming to be colour-blind when in comes to race. But nothing could be further from the truth.
The returned musical “King Kong” embodies the germinating seeds of two potential and mutually exclusive South Africas.
Mr Burns is a dazzling meditation on the meaning of theatre through The Simpsons.
Turns out learning a musical instrument really could benefit your child, in more ways than you might think.
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PhD graduate, History of Musicals, Lancaster University
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Professeur Agrégé, Institut d'études féministes et de genre, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Performance, University of the West of Scotland
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Professor Emeritus of Journalism and American Studies, Rutgers University - Newark
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Head of the School of Performance, London South Bank University
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Popular Music/Director of Black Studies, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer, Creative Writing and Literature, Adelaide University
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Professor in Film Studies, Lancaster University
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Senior Researcher, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
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Associate Professor in American Literature, University of Leeds