4 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere Whenever I get the chance, I tell theater people and theater-goers who’ve never been to Ridgefield Theater Barn (RTB) in western Connecticut to do ...

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 ...

Alan Paul is going into his second summer as artistic director of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass. He succeeded founder Julianne Boyd, who retired in fall 2022 after 27 years, and says ...

Raw emotion and minimalist presentation meet with stunning results in Tom Kitt and Brian Yorker’s musical Next to Normal, running at Sanford’s Theater West End through Sunday, March 2. Melissa Minyard ...

Among the epiphanies visited upon humanity during the pandemic has been the recognition that mental health is an issue for all of us. With lives universally turned upside down, the collective ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This Friday, July 23, Fort Salem Theater proudly presents Next To Normal, running ...

NORMAL — Spooky Halloween favorites will return to the big screen in October. "We know the Normal Theater offers an important escape for many members of our community," Normal Civic Arts Manager Adam ...

This October marked the 26th anniversary of the rebirth of the Normal Theater as a town-run venue for classic, independent and foreign films. Yet the distinctive Art Moderne-designed movie house goes ...

In “Next to Normal,” newly on display at Chance Theater, we experience a musical about a mother’s mental illness, the toll that this condition — and the inexact treatments for it, including drugs and ...

Google “Next to Normal” and “images” and you’ll see a lot of anguished white faces. The celebrated musical about a clinically depressed woman and the family that supports her (or doesn’t) has ...