Tag Archives: Rodgers and Hammerstein

Bookshelf: Hirschfeld, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Michael Caine

If you’re a theater aficionado and received a nice check from your mother for the holidays or maybe from a busy relative gave you a gift card to Barnes & Noble, what should you spend it on? Here’s our review of a few books related to the arts.

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews | Tagged Al Hirschfeld, Michael Caine, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Todd S. Purdum | Leave a comment

Lush, Lovely And Topical ‘The King And I’ Swirls Into The Arsht

Damaged by yet another homogenized film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s work, few think of The King and I as a piece deeply focused on incipient feminism, international politics and the challenge of leadership. But the national tour at the Arsht Center of the Lincoln Center revival underscores how prescient this was when it was written in 1951.

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Arsht Center, Bartlett Sher, Broadway Across America, Jose LLana, Laura Michelle Kelly, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The King and I | Leave a comment