The good news is that the new Lion King is not exactly a dead-on remake. The bad news is that there isn't enough unique about it to make you think it is anything more than a knock off of The Lion King ...

The arrival of “The Lion King” every few years has become part of the great theatrical circle of life: There’s always a new generation waiting to be introduced to theater through the stage adaptation ...

Life's greatest tragedy is the passage of time. It is a lesson we all must learn eventually. Within the proverbial circle of life, there is only a beginning and an end that occurs in the immediacy of ...

A cheetah and giraffes are part of the many animals depicted against a hot African sun in the touring Broadway musical "The Lion King." Joan Marcus After a couple of hours of eye-popping pageantry, ...

APPLETON — Disney's "The Lion King" is not your average theater experience. It's an immersive spectacle of animals and scenes of the African savanna, set to moving music. Actors in ingeniously ...

“The World’s 1 musical” might seem a rather boastful tagline for the stage musical “Disney’s The Lion King.” But if the national Broadway tour of the show now at the Broward Center for a four-week run ...

The plot proceeds precisely as before, with lion cub Simba (the voice of Donald Glover once grown) pottering happily around the Pride Lands, an ecologically balanced Eden ruled by benign despot Mufasa ...

Watching the newest version of “The Lion King” — a big-screen celebrity-voiced musical trying its best to look like a television nature documentary — I recalled a line from John Gregory Dunne’s 1969 ...

Although based on Hamlet, The Lion King offers hope. The circle of life, after all, is the promise that energy never dies. We are all together in an infinite loop of time, and that should offer some ...

“Mufasa: The Lion King” is an odd, odd movie. Very realistic-looking lions, warthogs, meerkats and whatever break into song repeatedly. It’s like a curious fever dream that doesn’t want to go away.

Posi Morakinyo and Asha Parker-Wallace recently concluded their run together in the Almeida Theatre production of *American ...