Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It certainly was a choice that playwright Anthony McCarten used "A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical" to portray the ...

It’s a good guess that ticket buyers walking into the Golden Gate Theatre will anticipate a rip-roaring concert of Neil Diamond's greatest hits – and the show absolutely delivers on that front. But ...

If you’re walking into A Beautiful Noise expecting a jukebox concert of Neil Diamond’s greatest hits, let me reassure you right away: the show absolutely delivers on that promise. The audience claps, ...

Like many Baby Boomers, I grew up on the music of Neil Diamond, appreciating his distinctive whiskey baritone voice, earworm melodies and familiar, sing-along lyrics. But when I saw “A Beautiful Noise ...

There’s one moment the audience for “A Beautiful Noise,” the Neil Diamond musical now on the boards at the Landmark, gleefully anticipates. And that comes right before intermission when Nick Fradiani ...

Talk about an oxymoronic title, especially for a musical. Drawn from a 1976 Neil Diamond song title and applied to the whole arc of his life and career, “A Beautiful Noise” is a yoking worth pondering ...

There’s a big booming introduction — “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Neil Diamond” — the stage curtain does that ta-dah swoop upward, the lights blaze and then … nothing. There, center stage, sits the ...

SCHENECTADY — Jukebox biomusicals are nothing new. “Jersey Boys” arguably kicked off the trend, followed by a slew of star-centered (and star-endorsed) Broadway projects. The Temptations, Cher, Donna ...

KPFA Theatre Critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “The Neil Diamond Musical A Beautiful Noise” at BroadwaySF Orpheum through June 22, 2025.

It certainly was a choice that playwright Anthony McCarten used “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” to portray the much-loved superstar behind the songs as an absolute jerk. But that’s what ...