Looking at the global phenomenon that is “Mamma Mia!,” it’s hard to believe, but, prior to its 1999 opening at London’s Prince Edwards Theater, the show wasn’t regarded as a sure-fire hit. The ...

Part of what made ABBA so compelling is they were so eclectic. They gave the world everything from disco songs to pop ballads to a war-themed sea shanty. Some of their music was pretty theatrical for ...

As I walked into Cortland Repertory Theatre’s Little York Pavilion to see “Mamma Mia” I wondered if I were the only regular theatergoer in the English-speaking world who hadn’t seen the jukebox ...

From “Dancing Queen” to “Fernando,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You” to “Super Trouper,” the polished pop of ABBA still glistens. In 2013, the quartet allowed Swedish music journalist Jan Gradvall access to ...

Winters Mill High School students will bring back the 1970s in style, with performances of the musical “Mamma Mia!” Director Natalie Bolander said students share her enthusiasm for the beloved ...

If life were not a cabaret but a karaoke bar, we could all live in the world of sunny, syncopated bliss that is "Mamma Mia!" There, no moment is too awkward, no emotional crisis too severe that ...

OK, look. I don't want to waste your time. It's hot, it's muggy and the news is an ever-widening gyre of flaming airborne chili-festival Porta Potties. So how about we forgo a review that seeks to ...

After splitting in 1982, ABBA announced on April 27 that they have written and recorded their first new songs in 35 years! But while the Swedish pop group has had nine Number 1 hits in the UK between ...