When Broadway shut down in March, hundreds of musician found themselves out of work -- along with everyone else involved with dozens of shows. The musical "Come From Away" went dark in the midst of a ...

First, Grande crooned Jay-Z's "99 Problems" like it was made for the theatre, belted Cypress Hill's "Insane in the Brain" with ease, and turned Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" into a bouncy bop. It's all ...

See if you can decipher this twisted tune. In Tune Twist, we run the lyrics of a hit song through multiple languages, then translate them back into English. Here's a hint: This song comes from a 2004 ...

Listening to the recently released cast album of “Real Women Have Curves” reminds me that talking about musical theater as a kind of music — in the same way we talk about jazz, rock, or country music ...

A recent New York Times piece suggested that “the Broadway musical is in trouble.” Much of the context in that reporting is fair: capitalization costs have soared, risk tolerance has shrunk and ...

About twice a month for 38 years, Jeffrey Scharf has been churning out a financial opinion column for the Santa Cruz Sentinel called, “Everybody’s Business.” Odd but effective, it blends the left-ish ...

Any song can become a Broadway showstopper in the hands of Ariana Grande. The Wicked: For Good star has frequently proven her ability to sing just about anything, from a bop about her best friend's ...