Articles Tagged With: Howell Binkley

National Touring Company of Hamilton ????Joan Marcus

Hamilton at The Kennedy Center

Reviews August 5, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

I’m not going to drop hot beats and flawless rap-rhymes like Lin-Manuel Miranda. But that line— after two years (and in some places more) of living in uncertainty as to whether or not live, in-person theatre would ever come back to us? After everything we all went through, collectively, individually, as a young nation struggling (not unlike the time and place where this whole thing called Hamilton is set,

The National Touring Company of Ain't Too Proud. ????Emilio Madrid

Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations at The Hippodrome

Reviews May 4, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Music is the universal language that brings us all together. And you can feel the music rolling all through Charm City as The First National Tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations rolls on up to Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre for a one-week stop. Featuring the music & lyrics of The Legendary Motown Catalog with book by Dominique Morisseau, this show goes above and beyond the battle-cry of your ‘standard jukebox musical.’ This is the true,

The North American Tour of 'Come From Away' ???? Matthew Murphy

Come From Away at The National Theatre

Reviews April 13, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Welcome to the rock if you come from away! You’ll probably understand about half of what they say— if you’re coming out to DC— then let The National point the way— be sure to get your tickets to see Come From Away. The remarkable and outstanding musical with music, book, and lyrics by Irene Sankoff & David Hein, Come From Away is a stunning experience of the stories that were started when the world stopped on September 11,

Escape to Margaritaville at The National Theater

Reviews October 10, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

You may not know where you’re gonna go when the volcano
blows but three chords is all it takes to find yourself wasting away with a
cheeseburger in paradise. If you want a license to chill, The National Theatre
in Washington DC has just the thing for you (and all your Parrotheads out
there!) Escape to Margaritaville, the Jimmy Buffet Musical, is making a
one-week vacation in the nation’s capital and has 25 different songs on the
Buffet buffet for all your relaxation needs.

Ain’t Too Proud at The Kennedy Center

Reviews June 30, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

You can achieve many successes in the music industry. You can climb to the top, you can enjoy the view from the top once you get there, but to be the top? There’s only group in the history of rhythm & blues that has been touted continually, through to this very moment, as the best group in the entire history of rhythm & blues: The Temptations didn’t climb to the top they became the top.

Hamilton at The Kennedy Center

Reviews June 18, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

There are moments that the words don’t reach. Seeing the musical sensation that’s sweeping the nation with its razzle-dazzle rhyme in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s prime is supposed to be one of them, and not just one of them, but the biggest one of them, all the people coast to coast begging for the musical with the most finally have their shot— and they are not throwing away their shot— not this summer— because Hamilton has arrived.

Review: A Christmas Story at The Hippodrome Theatre

Reviews December 7, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

There’s so much more to do! Shopping, cooking, baking, wrapping— and there’s only 17 days to go! Because it all comes down to Christmas! And if you’re in Baltimore at The Hippodrome Theatre, then you’ve only got seven more chances to see A Christmas Story, The Musical before it hops on Santa’s magic sleigh and flies away for the holiday! Presented as a part of the CareFirst Hippodrome Broadway Series,

Review: Freaky Friday at Signature Theatre

Reviews October 27, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

So you’re never going to believe me— but I guess you will if you go and see it for yourself— but there’s a crazy world premiere musical happening in the Max at Signature Theatre this fall! Debuting— after previous incarnations as a novel and two major motion pictures (about 25 years apart)— as a stage musical, Freaky Friday lands in the Max with a propulsive rock sound, a textbook Disney outline, and a sensational story that you just have to see to believe.

Review: Jersey Boys at The Hippodrome Theatre

Reviews September 28, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

They were just four guys under a neighborhood street lamp singing someone else’s number one hits. If you ask those four guys how it all happened, you’ll get four different stories, but the truth of the matter is when those four guys found their sound? The Jersey Boys were born. For a one-week only limited engagement, the smash-hit musical Jersey Boys (with Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, Music by Bob Gaudio,

Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at The Kennedy Center

Reviews December 19, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther 2 Comments

Strange as it seems there’s been a run of crazy dreams, and none quite so crazy as the new touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat now appearing on the Opera House stage of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Presented by Independent Presenters Network under the Direction of Andy Blankenbuehler with Musical Direction by Wayne Green, this rebooted conceptualization of the hit musical is targeting a younger,