Review: King Charles III, Music Box Theatre
What if Shakespeare wrote about today’s royals, rather than kings from the sixteenth century and earlier? That’s the premise posited by King Charles III, a five...
Katie Buenneke
Review: Fiddler on the Roof, Broadway Theatre
Fiddler on the Roof has been produced by countless schools and community theatres since it premiered in 1964, and it’s currently appearing in its fifth revival ...
Review: School of Rock, Winter Garden Theatre
School of Rock, the stage musical, shouldn’t work as well as it does. The creative forces behind the show are all so disparate that it seems more like someon...
Review: The King and I, Lincoln Center Theater
The King and I is everything a classic musical should be. In director Bartlett Sher’s beautiful production, now playing at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater at...
Review: These Paper Bullets, The Geffen Playhouse
What if Benedick and his pals from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing were actually the Beatles, and Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day wrote all their music...
Review: Spring Awakening, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
At this point, it seems as if everyone and their grandmother has seen Spring Awakening. The musical about repressed teens in 1890s Germany premiered on Broadway...
Katie Buenneke
A recent graduate of the University of Southern California, Katie is a freelance theatre reviewer and arts & entertainment writer based in Los Angeles. She has been known to sing showtunes rather loudly in her car. @kbuenneke