David Herskovits said, “Show Boat is famously unresolved; it has been endlessly reworked, cut, emended, added to, and rearranged. Its gorgeous songs pulse through a chaotic story that is a back-stage ...

This new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat reframes the 1927 production for today. From the 1880s to 1927, the United States moved from steamboats to airplanes, from vaudeville to radio ...

This minimalist staging strips 'Show Boat' to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to reveal an often deeply sad and frequently funny masterpiece of music-theater.

A musical comedy behaved like a comic opera last week. It came back to Broadway just as if it had been written by Gilbert & Sullivan or Franz Lehar or Victor Herbert. It set people to singing again ...

From left: Tẹmídayọ Amay, Edwin Joseph, Steven Rattazzi, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Stephanie Weeks, J Molière, Philip Themio Stoddard, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Alvin Crawford, Suzanne Darrell in Show/Boat: ...