Broadway.com’s Word of Mouth panel has seen it all—literally. Be it dramas or comedies, musicals or plays, Hollywood stars or Broadway divas, our real-life reviewers have seen everything the Great White Way has to offer during the 2009-2010 season. Now with awards season in full swing, we’ve asked them to weigh in on the best of ...

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has dreamed up some of the most beloved musical tales in modern theater history (including Company, Passion, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George and A Little Night Music , just to name a few). His latest Broadway outing, Sondheim on Sondheim , however, tells a very different story—his own. Sondheim on ...

Of all the new shows to open on Broadway so far this season, none has been anything like Fela! , the tuner that tells the life story of pioneering musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Fusing Afrobeat music and the innovative staging and choreography of director/creator Bill T. Jones, the show is the sort of high-octane, high-brow, real-life musical ...

It has been nearly 50 years since Finian's Rainbow , the classic musical packed with jazz and American songbook standards, was last seen on a Broadway stage. On October 29 the tuner officially returned, bringing the story of Irishman Finian, his daughter Sharon, a stolen pot of gold and the topsy-turvy land of Missitucky back for audiences—including WOM panelists ...