Time travel, music, and glamour with The Lost Estate

Joe Manganiello: “We’re in danger of the culture being lost.”

Actor, writer, and producer Joe Manganiello offered a moving reflection on his great-grandmother’s survival of the Armenian Genocide and the legacy of generational trauma it left behind. In recounting her harrowing escape from Kharpert, Manganiello described how she survived a bullet wound, swam across the Euphrates River with her last remaining child, and ultimately came to the...

Time travel, music, and glamour with The Lost Estate

Visitors stepping into an experience by The Lost Estate can expect to be whisked away in a whirl of music, fine food, and extraordinary theming. The immersive performance company has established a name for its richly detailed worlds, from a 1930s New York Speakeasy to Dickensian Christmas feasts.  Its latest show, Paradise Under The Stars, opened in London’s West Kensington in mid-March.   This Cuban spectacular forms a key part of the company’s…

A New Broadway Musical Revisits a Culture and Era Nearly Lost to the World

****/***** (four stars out of five) At the start of 2025, on the stage of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Cuban music returned to life. Not as a concert, and certainly not as a touristy tribute. Buena Vista Social Club, now a Broadway musical directed by Saheem Ali with a book by Marco Ramirez, is something closer […]