shn – The Idiolect

My Wife and My Dead Wife

Angela Lansbury and company share dry martinis and dryer wit in Noël Coward comedy.

Kinky Boots is a study in how to do a musical adaptation right.

Peter and the Starcatcher is a prequel to Peter Pan, detailing how the Lost Boys and the pirates got to Neverland in the first…

There’s a difference between covering a life and capturing it.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert—The Musical combines the two main trends of Broadway musicals: It’s based on a cult movie, and it’s a popsical.

How does The Lion King hold up now, in its 15th year? Pretty darned well.

There are two ways of looking at War Horse. Both points of view are equally true, but it comes down to a matter of…

I wasn’t planning to go to Les Misérables. Not that I have anything against the blockbuster 1985 musical of Victor Hugo’s classic 1862 novel—I’d…

The Broadway musical based on the album of the same name by East Bay punk band Green Day, American Idiot has walked a lonely…

The last time SHN brought screen icon Kathleen Turner to the Bay Area, in 2007, she was costarring with Bill Irwin in a superb…