Encanto earns its tears, this aria to familial togetherness a loving concerto of community I’d happily hum along with whenever the opportunity to do so might arise.

I have zero wish to spend much time on Dear Evan Hansen.

“It’s such an easy word: kindness. It’s such a simple thing. It’s a very simple act to find that kindness in your heart.”
– Jonathan Butterell

I adored Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.

Cinderella gave me a headache, and that might be the nicest thing I have to say on the matter.

In the Heights is an epic celebration of humanity I’ll be thinking about for the remainder of 2021.

“In a way, the world in this past year has gone through the most isolating, difficult time imaginable. What better guides out of the darkness and back into the light than the people of Washington Heights?”
– IN THE HEIGHTS director Jon M. Chu

In the Heights is an epic celebration of humanity I’ll be thinking about for the remainder of 2021.

Murphy’s joy in slapping me silly for every second of The Prom’s laborious 130 minutes was more than I could take, this laudably inclusive LGBTQ high school musical a celebratory dance I’d rather not have been invited to attend.