Cristina Moreno

After a highly successful run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the new musical American Idiot opened last week on Broadway. The show, based on Green Day’s award winning album of the same name, also features music from the group’s most recent record 21st Century Breakdown, along with b-sides and other unreleased material.

On Saturday night, I had the chance to see a new musical, In the Heights. It was the final dress rehearsal before it’s big opening night on Broadway. Was I completely blown away by it? No. I think there are some parts that still need tweaking and I wish some of the characters and storylines [...]

An audience shuffles into a theater and takes their seats. A man, Tim Crouch, director and playwright, walks onto the stage and plucks a person out of the crowd. The individual that he has chosen is an actor who will be costarring in that evening’s performance. The catch? The actor has never played this role [...]