Northwest Choral Society (NWCS) will celebrate the wonders of the spring season with a concert on Sunday, May 5, filled entirely with, and entitled, “Flower Songs.” The concert will begin at 4 p.m., ...

Featuring aural floral offerings from Miley Cyrus, the Foundations and more. By Hannah Dailey If April showers bring May flowers, then now is the perfect time to refresh your playlists with a bouquet ...

The best intentions and a lot of sincere effort can't succeed in dispelling the scent of mothballs from this much-anticipated staging of "Flower Drum Song," a painstaking reinvention of the 1958 ...

The Carter Family, known as the First Family of Country Music, originally included A.P. Carter, his wife Sara, and her cousin Maybelle. Active in the 1920s and ’30s, they helped shape country and folk ...

A full-length book on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song must rank as an unexpected item. Of course, David H. Lewis' new Flower Drum Songs McFarland & Company, paperback would not ...

If we want to make something new, we first have to love what is old." That line from David Henry Hwang's "revisal" of Flower Drum Song expresses the challenge facing the musical's characters, who ...

“Flower Drum Song” is generally regarded as one of musical-theater masters Rodgers and Hammerstein’s lesser efforts. And the 1958 original is seen by many as hopelessly outdated, corny at best and ...

Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at a new makeover for a classic Broadway musical. "Flower Drum Song" began life as a novel, became a musical and a film, and is now back here on Broadway in a ...

Many older musicals go in for a refreshing facelift, but this version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Flower Drum Song," with a spankin' new book by David Henry Hwang, is a lot closer to wholesale ...