Sanda Moore Coleman
Volunteer Theater CommentatorSanda Moore Coleman received an MFA in creative writing from Wichita State University in 1991. Since then, she has been the arts and community editor for The Martha's Vineyard Times, a teaching fellow at Harvard University, and an assistant editor at Image. In 2011, she received the Maureen Egan Writers Exchange prize for fiction from Poets & Writers magazine. She has spent more than 30 years performing, reviewing, and writing for theatre.
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Riverfest is upon us: nine straight days of fun in our river city, from May 31 to June 8, with events designed to appeal to a variety of tastes. Festival…
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The Sound of Music is the last musical written by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Nine months after it premiered on Broadway at the…
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If you were alive and cognizant in 1971 and 1972, you probably owned the album “Tapestry,” by Carole King, or you knew someone who did.It still holds the…
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Although Avenue Q was inspired by shows beloved by children such as Sesame Street and The Muppets, and although more than twice as many puppets than…
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While most one-act operas have a shorter running time than operas with two or more acts, there are exceptions, notably Wagner's Das Rheingold, which runs…
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The musical Evita, with lyrics and book by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, began life as a rock opera concept album released in 1976. Its warm…
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Our city has long nurtured a vibrant creative community, and if original work is the fire that lights your lantern, you don't have far to look to find it…
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is considered Shakespeare's best work. It's impossible to confirm a single bona fide text, as there are three surviving early…
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The jukebox musical has been around for decades, and is popular with audiences, if not always with critics. The concept uses a catalog of well known songs…
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Swan Lake bears the distinction of being Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's first ballet, composed in 1875. Tchaikovsky was commissioned by the director of the…