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Stage It: A ‘Million’ Openings
By Steven Libowitz   |   October 21, 2025

Rubicon Theatre launches its 2025-26 “Crossroads” season with the hit musical Million Dollar Quartet, a somewhat fictionalized dramatization of the night when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins came together at Sun Records for an impromptu jam session. A step up from a jukebox musical, the Tony-nominated show, which was a […]

Whole Lotta Clappin’ Going On 
By Richard Mineards   |   December 24, 2024

Talk about the Fab Four! The Tony Award-winning musical, Million Dollar Quartet staged by the Ensemble Theatre Company at the New Vic is set on December 4, 1956, when, in an extraordinary twist of fate, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins were brought together at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, for […]

A Million Reasons to See ‘Quartet’
By Steven Libowitz   |   December 10, 2024

It’s way too much of a cliché to say that a rock concert blew the roof off the venue, but there’s no doubt that there will be a “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” at the New Vic Theatre when Ensemble Theatre Company performs Million Dollar Quartet from December 4-22. The Jerry Lee Lewis classic is […]