‘Next to Normal' Review: A Musical Worth Mulling on PBS
It would be a very welcome thing to know what Terry Teachout, who passed away in 2022, thought about the 'Next to Normal' being presented by the PBS platform 'Great Performances,' as staged last fall at London's Wyndham's Theatre. Surely, a show about bipolar disorder, death, grief, medical ethics, electro-shock therapy and family dysfunction was never going to be the feel-good TV spectacular of 2025. But time has been more than unkind.
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