Annaleigh Ashford, left, and Josh Groban star in Broadway's current revival of Sweeney Todd. Ashford says it's rare for musicals to have this large of an orchestra. Even as a controversy has erupted ...

Youngstown Playhouse is going big with the finale to its centennial season. “Oklahoma!,” the first collaboration by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, would be included on any ...

Never mind the long-term implications; by the time we reached the huge arc of Strauss’s one-movement Alpine Symphony, everyone in the audience must surely have been feeling the physical and emotional ...

It was dubbed “A Night With the Orchestra.” But the Detroit Symphony Orchestra certainly hasn’t seen many nights like this. It’s certainly familiar with the world of hip-hop, having hosted a 2019 ...

Producers have been saying for years that large Broadway orchestras are not financially feasible. In fact, the issue led to a strike 20 years ago.... After years of ever-shrinking orchestras, some ...

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Even as a controversy has erupted on Broadway over the use of pre-recorded music in the upcoming David Byrne musical, "Here Lies Love," audiences for some musicals this past season are noticing the ...