For Duncan Sheik: Requiescat
The composer’s longtime collaborator remembers his colleague’s mischief and melancholy, and the melodic gift he took for granted.
The composer’s longtime collaborator remembers his colleague’s mischief and melancholy, and the melodic gift he took for granted.
To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward.
The awards will allow 28 productions more time for rehearsal and development with the entire creative team.
The Stoneman Douglas school shooting and the #NeverAgain movement made a stark, stirring backdrop for a high school production of the coming-of-age musical.
The ‘Spring Awakening’ composer, who enjoyed working on Brecht’s thorny classic with director Brian Kulick and star Tonya Pinkins, weighs in on the show’s fortunes.
A new singing-and-signing version of the rock musical puts its themes—voiceless youth, generational misunderstanding—into even sharper focus.
Once wary of musical theatre, recording artist Duncan Sheik is doing his part to expand the form.
But if artists from the clashing worlds of rock music and theatre settled their differences, they just might get what they need.