The Goodmans are a family in pain. So much pain, in fact, they don’t even see “normal” on the horizon. Daughter Natalie would give anything just to wind up “Next to Normal,” the phrase that gives this ...

Ray of Light Theatre, San Francisco's home of "musical theater with a bite", revealed its 2025 season featuring shows that celebrate the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. The ...

Broadway's great leading lady Elaine Stritch once corrected herself when talking about musicals, when she was describing a Broadway show as a "musical comedy." "Every musical was called a musical ...

There is a message of hope in “Next to Normal,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical that’s onstage in a moving production at Theater West End in Sanford. “Dancers may disappear, but the dance goes ...

Not every suburban family is as picture-perfect as they seem, and it only takes a few seconds before the dysfunction, chaos and grief begin to merge. This is the story of “Next to Normal.” Boston ...

CHICO — Chico State’s School of the Arts presents an honest way of looking at mental health and grief with their musical “Next to Normal” starting next week. “This is a very human show and everyone in ...

Natalie Joy Johnson plays Diana Goodman, a suburban matriarch struggling with worsening bipolar disorder, in “Next to Normal” at Barrington Stage Company. The production runs through Sept. 8. (Daniel ...

PITTSFIELD, MASS. — When great material is given a great production it’s an exhilarating experience. This describes what is happening with the intense musical “Next to Normal,” which is offered ...

The lights dim and we turn our focus on the dining table. A red dining table with a set of mismatched chairs of pink and blue sits center stage. The mother, Diana, stands in the kitchen when her son, ...

The opening number of Columbia Musical Theatre Society’s “Next to Normal” sees Diana, a determined, if slightly neurotic, mother lead her husband and two children through the beginning of a new day.

For over two decades, Pauper Players and Company Carolina have provided students the opportunity to participate in every aspect of theater production. Pauper Players produces a student-run musical ...

The voices are incredible. The music is powerful. But it’s the faces that pulled me so deeply into “Next to Normal,” the Paramount’s first production of its second Bold Series, that is now playing ...