Set against the backdrop of America’s Deep South at the turn of the 20th-Century. Show Boat tells a powerful story of freedom, loyalty, and above all love. The show’s Broadway premiere in 1927 ...

Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater, in collaboration with NYU Skirball, presents a daring reimagining of the seminal musical Show Boat, now re-envisioned as Show / Boat: A River. This bold ...

Bob May has 50 years experience in the performing arts and business in Southern California. He has been a stage and film actor and director. He has also been a producer, business consultant, ...

Unlike the waterway of its most famous song, the landmark 1927 musical “Show Boat”—which integrated song and story with a sophistication that set the American musical on its path to full ...

Befitting of the rich and diverse score, Stagecrafters will present the epic musical, "Show Boat," with an amazing 19-piece orchestra – the largest ensemble in the community theater's history. The ...

When Show Boat opened on Broadway in 1927, it was an instant hit. Now, as co-music director and orchestrator of Show/Boat: A River Dan Schlosberg said, “People don’t want to touch it.” Set between the ...

Introduction : setting the stage -- Act I : Before Rodgers and Hammerstein. Show boat : in the beginning ; Anything goes : songs ten, book three ; Porgy and Bess : Broadway opera ; On your toes and ...

Racial tensions between blacks and whites are at the heart of the "Ol' Man River" musical. Asian-American actors say it doesn't make sense to get... A heads-up to our readers: This post quotes a ...

Michael Brolly, a master wood artist, works on his wooden boat that acts as a musical instrument when fully set up Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Emmaus. The instrument uses eight strings that when rubbed ...