“In The Heights” is not the first movie of its kind in recent years, and it does not look like it will be the last. The past decade has seen a resurgence of movie-musicals.

Positive representation like this creates a pathway for people that’s lit by those paving the way.

In a strong introduction to the Performing Arts Department’s production of “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” original Broadway cast member Trazana Beverly spoke passionately about her experience with the show to the Washington University community Nov. 19 in Umrath Lounge.

You should start obsessing over “Love Never Dies” (almost) as much as “The Phantom of the Opera.”

This year, a more universal casting is coming to Wash. U. as well, in the form of Mama’s Pot Roast’s “Miscast,” based off of the Broadway version, but donating all the proceeds to a St. Louis-based HIV/AIDS-focused organization.

Sometimes you just want to dress up and pretend you’re not a college student who spends more time at frat parties than wine bars once in a while, and a night at the theater is the perfect excuse to do that. Here are four Broadway shows coming through St. Louis this semester that you might want to check out.

Don’t want to be an American idiot? You might be if you miss out on this weekend’s performances of the Green Day musical at the Peabody Opera House. “American Idiot” opened on Broadway in April 2010 and stayed running for almost a year. It has been touring the country since the beginning of 2012, and its time in St. Louis is here.

The new musical in town wants to be clear that it’s nothing like “Glee.” Other than the fact that it’s a musical, this is a statement I can agree with. Tonight, at 9 p.m. CST, NBC will premiere “Smash,” its new follow-up to “The Voice.” The show has a grown-up premise, unlike its “Glee”-ful competitor.