Louis Armstrong’s famous songs sound great in a new Broadway show, even if the story of his life and illustration of his ...

The Louis Armstrong Musical, starring a terrific James Monroe Iglehart ( Aladdin, Hamilton) as the legendary Satchmo, opens ...

James Monroe Iglehart and a stellar ensemble are absolutely mesmerizing in a timely biographical musical about the life and ...

What’s onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist ...

Imagine a night in the musical theater where you get compressed versions of "Funny Girl" and "Funny Lady" plus "Funny Grandma ...

Tony Award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart steps into the shoes of the one and only Louis Armstrong in the new Broadway ...

Grammy-winning trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong — who was known as the King of Jazz over the course of his five decades ...

NEW YORK — Louis Daniel Armstrong, variously nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Pops,” is the subject of “A Wonderful World,” a ...

Too often big songs abruptly end ... Armstrong to fame later in life and a restrainedly luminous “What a Wonderful World” both bring the evening to a resounding close. But have we gotten ...

The shapeless and meandering new show “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical ... because there are also a lot of standard songs to be sung, from “Kiss of Fire” and “Avalon ...

Darlesia Cearcy, left, as Lucille Wilson and James Monroe Iglehart as Louis Armstrong in 'A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical.' Each has a big, barnstormer of a song. But the stories of ...

A Wonderful World | Photograph: Courtesy Jeremy Daniel ...