Reviews

Is she or isn't she the royal daughter? In the end it doesn't matter for a musical that gives kleptocracy a good name

Young women and girls in search of a new Broadway role model, look no further than the title character in sumtious fairy tale “Anastasia."

Theater review by Adam FeldmanBroadway musicals often feature heroines trying to find themselves, but perhaps never as literally as in Anastasia.

Every couple of years — OK, two years ago and now — Broadway producers have felt compelled to stage a big, bombastic, romantic musical about

This epic musical about an amnesiac princess suffers from its own identity crisis.

A tuneful but tonally challenged new musical borrows inspiration from a Meg Ryan cartoon.

If you judged Anastasia from the excitement from fans both outside and inside the theater leading up to the curtain rising, you’d surmise this was a franchise that carried a generation. In reality, although this is the Broadway debut of the show, the story dates back to the 1997 animated movie that accounts for the nostalgic look back that so many young adults were experiencing.

The creative team behind 'Ragtime' draws on both the 1997 Fox animated feature and the live-action 1956 version with Ingrid Bergman in 'Anastasia,' a musical about the youngest surviving member of Romanov royalty.

In its yearlong journey from Hartford to Broadway, "Anastasia" has found itself.

The Broadway musical adaptation is not nearly animated enough

It's probably inevitable that Google Maps, or a clever facsimile of Google Maps, would someday star on Broadway. And here it is in Anastasia, a sprawling expansion on the 1997 animated film, that opened tonight following a developmental run at the Hartford Stage.

The legend of the Romanov who reputedly escaped the Russian royal family’s massacre in 1918 is bought to life in a sparkling Broadway show.

Broadway review: "Anastasia" musical goes heavy on digital effects and back story when it should let this modern princess (Christy Altomare) take center stage

It's more scaled-down and intimate than the usual Disney stage musicals.