Show Boat forever changed the face of American theater. The first show to integrate its music and plot, Show Boat presented complex characters grappling with timely, realistic themes woven into a ...

Set between the 1880s and 1927, Show Boat follows a group of people on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater (or, um, show boat) on the Mississippi River. It traces the tragic love story between ...

Unlike the waterway of its most famous song, the landmark 1927 musical “Show Boat”—which integrated ... Consequently, musical-theater lovers will naturally be drawn to the staging at the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Theater Review “Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals. By Jesse Green A water cooler.

R-S Theatrics (St. Louis, MO) partners with the Showboat Community Theatre and Half Act Theatre ... riversidetheatreproject.com or at the door on show days.

Stephanie Weeks in Show/Boat: A River. Marisa Tornello In terms ... decades as the founder of experimental company Target Margin Theater. Kaye Voyce’s bracing scenic design includes such blunt ...

The American theatre does have to grapple with the audacity and the legacy of “Show Boat,” and its long confinement behind copyright has meant that no production before this one has really ...

Consequently, musical-theater lovers will naturally be drawn ... so much on offer—or radical reinterpretation. Styled as “Show/Boat: A River,” Mr. Herskovits’s version of the show is ...