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Cheryl L. West’s Shout Sister Shout! is a post-Walk Hard musical biography. The ‘musical’ part is outstanding.

As rock and roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Shout Sister Shout, Carrie Compere takes Ford's Theatre to church.

'The Prom,' the 2018 Broadway musical that gave rise to the 2020 film starring Meryl Streep and James Corden, has its L.A. premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Flaws aside, “The Prom” is a bold and celebratory production with its intentions in all the right places.

“The Prom,” if you’ve never had the pleasure, deals with a cast of narcissistic Broadway types who try to "rescue" a gay high schooler in Indiana.

In the Broadway musical The Prom, a quartet of sad-sack Broadway performers in search of adoration choose a Cinderella to rescue — a girl from a small Midwestern town who wants to take another girl to her high school prom.

Down-on-their luck Broadway stars swoop down on an Indiana town to take up the cause of a high-school student who can't take her girlfriend to the prom. A promising premise, and this first national tour of the award-winning musical delivers all the laughs and spectacle with a knowing wink, while never losing sight of the poignant human story.

Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman — two characters at the center of the well-intentioned, if frustratingly uneven, Broadway musical “The Prom,” at Proctors through Sunday, March 6 — loom

When Credibility Matters

The memory of the Pulse massacre is with the cast members of “The Prom” as the touring Broadway musical performs in Orlando this week.