Broadway Review: Company (2021)
For some reason, certain ages tend to awaken different feelings and make us rethink about our lives. They’re usually those ages considered milestones, like 18, 30, 40, and so on. Turning 35 also has that […]
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Broadway Review: The Height of the Storm
[yasr_overall_rating] Going to the theater is a unique experience. The viewer must always be aware of what happens on stage and have great suspension of disbelief, since most of the time the imagination should help […]
Broadway Review: Tootsie
[yasr_overall_rating] A man pretends to be a woman to get a job. That’s Tootsie in a nutshell. The 1982 movie, starring Dustin Hoffman, is a classic and a very funny and entertaining story. But it was made […]
Broadway Review: What the Constitution Means to Me
[yasr_overall_rating] What does the Constitution mean to me? I had never actually thought much about the constitution before going to law school in Brazil. While there, we had four years of classes studying the 1988 […]
Broadway Review: My Fair Lady
[yasr_overall_rating] Hearing the words “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” during My Fair Lady always makes the audience laugh – at least that had been my experience in the past. Watching it […]
Broadway Review: Come From Away
[yasr_overall_rating] A musical about the aftermath of 9/11 doesn’t sound very exciting. However, Come From Away is surprisingly uplifting and inspiring. Completely sung-through, Come From Away follows the journey of passengers on September 11, 2001, […]
Broadway Review: Frozen
[yasr_overall_rating] On March 22, Frozen, the newest Disney musical on Broadway, opened in New York. After the worldwide success of the 2013 animation, it is no surprise that the story has been adapted for the […]
Broadway Review: Dear Evan Hansen
[yasr_overall_rating] More often than not, musicals tend to be categorized as “silly” or “for entertainment only” by those who clearly are not familiar with the genre. Especially on Broadway, this couldn’t be farther from the […]
Broadway Review: Hamilton
[yasr_overall_rating] Ever since I moved to New York in mid-2015, I had a goal: to watch Hamilton, the musical that even Obama had gone to see on Broadway. Since then, the musical only grew: it’s […]
Broadway Review: Blackbird
[yasr_overall_rating] Before going to the theater, I read the play’s synopsis and thought it would be kind of a romance, after all, it is a reunion of a couple that hadn’t seen each other for […]