Rachel gets to take her best friend and her best friend’s daughter to see Come From Away for the first time, on tour, in Durham, North Carolina! Come along with her and see how they like seeing a Broadway Type Show!

Emojiland is a New York Times Critics Pick that deserves every bit of praise it’s gotten - but also a deeper appreciation.

The witches have an exceptionally large role in facilitating the plot of Macbeth.

It’s a new year which means there are new shows to see on Broadway and on tour.

Audience behavior - what is considered appropriate, how deviations are enforced - is a distinctly race- and class-based phenomenon.

Rachel has never liked change, and that includes shows closing. Two of those shows Rachel would like to talk about this month are Scotland, PA and Waitress. Dive into the editorial to find out why!

With their version of Moby-Dick, Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin have created a vision of America today colliding with America in the 1850s that’s as messy and ambitious as both the source material and the nation it’s embodying.

I expected something experimental, perhaps even odd, but I didn’t expect it to so radically challenge my understanding of experimental theatre as a medium for disabled artists.

A wish list featuring three Broadway musicals and two upcoming shows.

A list of songs to get you through the last stretch of the semester.

Rachel has shared how important theatre is to her in past pieces, but this piece is going to explain a good part of why and how going to the theatre to specific shows or to repeatedly going to see the same people in different shows, makes her feel at home both with herself and the world around her.

It’s after Thanksgiving, I’m still digesting my feast - and there’s no better after-dinner topic than stories of unrequited and surreptitious love.

Musicals take years upon years to write. Have you ever wondered about the process behind what makes the cut and what never sees the Broadway stage? The process is a myriad of complicated factors, both artistic and commercial, which can help or harm a show in the long run.

This month musical enthusiast Stephanie Lottes ranks her favorite Disney on Broadway musicals. 

Scotland, PA a “modern” 1975 version of the Great Scottish Play, Macbeth, set in a Fast Food Restaurant. Some might think that’s crazy as a story, but then make it a musical and they look at you funny. But this show was amazing!

How we read Shakespeare is influenced by ideas that came long after the playwright did.

Shiz is a monthly sketch comedy show that drops musical theatre characters into ridiculous, hilarious scenarios and lets chaos and comedy ensue.

A look into the heroines of Stephanie’s top five musicals.

While actors, I believe, can and should be cast as characters with different identities from themselves if they are the best for the part, we also must be careful not to let actors from minority identities and experiences be excluded from telling their own stories, systematically or not.

Rachel is excited to share her second time on the Rock as well as her day of Paying It Forward on September 11th and tell you about the documentary You Are Here.

Last year I told the tale of how I single-handedly revived Twelfth Night.  Well, folks, it’s story time again. This is the story of how I got the chance to catch the hottest show of the summer.

Is Aristotle’s Poetics still relevant to modern theatre?

Into the Woods is a favorite musical among many. Musical Theatre Podcast Musicals W/ Cheese give their thoughts.

I was never a fan of musicals. But Hadestown was different.