Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Connor Palace
by Roy Berko - May 17, 2023
Dear Evan Hansen at Connor Palace is a top-ranking musical drama that highlights social anxiety, suicide, family angst, and teenage drug addiction. Based on real-life incidents, it explores the complexities of mental health and societal investigation. With a pop-contemporary musical theatre sound, i...
Review: AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' at GREAT LAKES THEATER
by Roy Berko - May 08, 2023
What did our critic think of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' at GREAT LAKES THEATER? The setting in which a musical production takes place, often affects the pleasure one gets from the experience. A perfect case in point is AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' presently being staged by Great Lakes Theater in its intimate Hanna Thea...
Review: THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN at Karamu
by Roy Berko - April 28, 2023
What did our critic think of THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN at Karamu? It's been called '...[a] sharp and tasty new musical...charming...as the show ingeniously turns professional perkiness, the lifeblood of the American musical, into a funny, poignant comment on ethnic self-denial.'...