Adam Lambert will play Judas to Cynthia Erivo's Jesus in the Hollywood Bowl production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." (Etienne Laurent / For The Times) Adam Lambert sits on a rickety wooden chair just ...

JCSUPERSTAR is a rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Tim Rice. It is loosely based on “the Gospels’ account of the Passion.” It “adds a texture above the religious text by ...

Of course, the line on Jesus, theologically, is that he was (or is) both man and God, and Rice’s lyrics in the more self-doubting numbers, like “Gethsemane,” go a long way there, but it’s ultimately ...