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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

February 25, 2022 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Jack Thorne Based on Story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany Curran Theater   In a world full of eye-popping, hair-raising, gasp-producing illusions and magic, steep staircases dance as if stars in a ballet; doors and suitcases waltz and twirl; and an ancient, arched ceiling reaching to the heavens transforms … [Read more...] about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“The Jungle”

April 5, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The JungleJoe Murphy & Joe RobertsonCurran TheatreJonathan Nyati, Tommy Letts & Ammar Haj AhmadOne young woman tells how she walked 3000 miles just to get to the Mediterranean, still a sea and a continent away from her destination.  An Iraqi with a guitar sings a song and relates how this song moved the hearts of guards to let him and 200 others cross a closed … [Read more...] about “The Jungle”

“Soft Power”

June 27, 2018 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Soft PowerDavid Henry Hwang (Play & Lyrics); Jeanine Tesori (Music & Additional Lyrics)Curran Theatre (in partnership with Center Theatre Group)Conrad Ricamora & Ensemble MembersIn the past twenty years, a number of twists and turns have challenged the notion of what defines the Great American Musical.  Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, and certainly … [Read more...] about “Soft Power”

“Head Over Heels”

April 20, 2018 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Head Over HeelsThe Go-Gos (Songs); Jeff Whitty (Book); James Magruder (Adapter of Book)Inspired by The Arcadia by Sir Philip SidneyCurran TheatreThe Cast of Head Over Heels"What happens when a Renaissance tale of royal romance written in iambic pentameter collides head-on with the jukebox music of the 1980s all-female group, the Go-Go’s?  And what if twists and turns of … [Read more...] about “Head Over Heels”

“Bright Star”

November 30, 2017 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Bright StarSteve Martin (Music, Book, Story) & Edie Brickell (Music, Lyrics, Story)Curran TheatreCarmen CusackUpfront, let’s just admit that some of the lyrics are full of more corn and clichés than a barn’s loft and that the story’s twists and turns are so unbelievably fantastical that even the audience laughed when the story’s dramatic ‘big reveal’ was reenacted.  … [Read more...] about “Bright Star”

“The Encounter”

April 28, 2017 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The EncounterSimon McBurneyBased on the Book Amazon Beaming by Petru PopescuThe Curran TheatreSimon McBurney & The Binaural Head“I am now so close, in your ears ... I am now going to take a walk across your head.”The voice is somewhere inside each audience member as will be in the next one hundred fifty-five minutes many voices of varying dialects and languages; countless … [Read more...] about “The Encounter”

“Eclipsed”

March 14, 2017 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

EclipsedDanai GuriraCurran Theatre in Conjunction with Public TheatreStacey SargeantMen start wars.  Men leave home and family and fight wars.  Yet, women and children bear so much of the actual brutality, pain, and suffering – usually silently and in the shadows.  Their stories are rarely told, superseded in the poems of Homer, the plays of Shakespeare, and the … [Read more...] about “Eclipsed”

“Fun Home”

January 27, 2017 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Fun HomeJeanine Tesori (Music); Lisa Kron (Book & Lyrics)Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison BechdelCurran Theatre “My dad and I both grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town.And he was gay,And I was gay,And he killed himself,And I became a lesbian cartoonist.”Kate Shindle & Robert PetkoffAs blunt and bleak as this summation appears, the musical that fills out the … [Read more...] about “Fun Home”

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