When Alanis Morissette sang, “All I really want is some patience / A way to calm the angry voice,” she couldn’t have known that voice would echo three decades later in a musical of the same name — Jagged Little Pill, now running at Slow Burn Theatre through June 28. Under the direction of Slow Burn’s co-founder and director, Patrick Fitzwater, Jagged Little Pill closes out … [Read more...]
At the Kravis: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ is challenging, but rewarding
Here’s a question for fans of statistics. What Broadway musical contains the greatest number of trauma topics? The Guinness Book of World Records is mum on the subject, but based on a viewing of the show currently at the Kravis Center this week, surely the answer is Jagged Little Pill. Based on singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette’s decade-defining 1995 album, adapter Diablo … [Read more...]