Music gets abused a lot in musical theater. Operatic scale is reduced to overmiked bombast, singers belt their lungs out with no regard for tone, performers desperate to wow the crowd ham it up. The ...

Swing-time continues, big-time, in Broward with two long-running tours of swing music and dance. The post-Broadway tour of Swing! finishes up tonight at the Coral Springs Center, but Forever Swing is ...

Creator and director Dan Regan tried to pare down the script for the musical revue Forever Swing: Zoot Suit, believing that any words he needed were in the songs of that era. While there is some setup ...

`Forever Swing,” playing here through Sunday, brings back to the Chicago Theatre the kind of big band/vaudeville bill this grand old house used to present regularly in its glory days as a downtown ...

“Forever Swing” is a very enjoyable nightclub act. But in a theater, it’s a club act trying to pass as a stage show. The revue, which originated in Canada, capitalizes on the recent resurgence of ...

Dean Regan's "Forever Swing" is a well put-together big-band musical revue in the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts through Sunday, with matinees on Saturday and Sunday. It follows the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. SWING, the subtle variations in rhythm that make people want to move, is at once the most important element in jazz or blues and the ...