Set in 1950s America (as opposed to the original 18th century Europe), "Candide" tells the story of an innocent young man, Candide, played by Sam Simahk. He is the disciple of teacher/philosopher ...

The Clarence Brown Theatre’s season-opening musical “Candide” is a sumptuous, big-city production with some of the best vocals I’ve heard from the stage. Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" is a two-act ...

Famous composer Leonard Bernstein would’ve turned 100 in August of this year, but the School of Music is celebrating early this week with its performance of the satirical musical comedy “Candide.” ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. It's hard to know how to categorize composer Leonard Bernstein's Candide, ...

Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide deserves its place of honor in the repertoire of any contemporary classical music company. Since its Broadway debut in 1956 as a musical, the complex yet ...

“Candide,” subtitled “Optimism,” hit all the right marks in Syracuse Opera’s Feb. 9 production at the Crouse-Hinds Theater. Playing to a comfortably full house, Leonard Bernstein’s 1959 farcical ...

Probing the existential questions that haunt us was a hallmark of Bernstein both as a person and composer. He was not satisfied unless he was immersed in major issues, upending and questioning the ...

Thanks to director James Ortiz, Skylight Music Theatre's new production of "Candide" might be the cleverest of all possible stagings. Ortiz has whisked this picaresque misadventure from 18th-century ...

On the face of it, Voltaire’s 1759 satirical novella Candide might seem like grim source material for a musical like the one that Lamplighters Music Theatre is currently touring around the Bay Area.