Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Alice Ripley won. 2009 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: J. Robert Spencer was nominated but did not win. Best Performance ...

"Next to Normal" sounds about just as inviting, but the the inspired rock musical about a mother and her struggles with a worsening bipolar disorder and the impact it has on her family, was a ...

With their spring musical, “Next to Normal,” All Student Theatre (AST) intends to use the power of storytelling to start more ...

This new musical centers on what appears to be a ... because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character ...

"Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid," says Diana Goodman, a suburban mother with bipolar disorder, in the musical Next to Normal. In a society that sees mental illness as a ...

For our money, this smaller-scale version of Next to Normal was more moving and involving ... couldn't have found a stronger cast for this musical drama about a family torn apart by a mother's ...

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts opens Next to Normal, a contemporary rock musical with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, on April 4. Winner of three Tony Awards in ...