Saturday, October 14, 2017
Sometimes you need to just follow your gut when it comes to deciding whether or not to see a show. My gut told me Tiny Beautiful Things wouldn't be for me. But I wanted …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 7, 2017
Regular readers may have noticed that I haven't been posting as often as I usually do. But that doesn't mean I haven't been seeing shows and having thoughts about them. In fact, I seem to be…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:54PM[SHARE]The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Guest: JIRÉH B…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 30, 2017
It's hard not to be charmed by Charm, the new play about a 67-year-old transgender woman who offers etiquette lessons to underprivileged and gender-fluid youths. For everyone associated with…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2017
The instrument that gives The Violin its title is what the film director Alfred Hitchcock used to call a MacGuffin, a plot device to provide some momentum for what in this play, which opened…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 16, 2017
Ever since a friend died earlier this summer at the relatively young age of 62, I've been preoccupied with death. So For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, Sarah Ruhl's warm-hearted meditation …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 9, 2017
Experience has taught me that I'm a terrible prognosticator. So many of the shows I get all worked up about at the beginning of a theater season end up disappointing me. And then shows that …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 2, 2017
Monday is Labor Day, which for some folks means that the summer is winding down, for others that the school year is starting up and for us theater lovers that a new season is just around the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 26, 2017
Whether you walk out of Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre feeling as though you got you money's worth after seeing Prince of Broadway is going to depend on what you go into…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
Hamlet is hands down the world's most famous play. People who have never been inside a theater quote its lines "To be, or not to be" and "To thine own self be true." And parodies and homages…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 12, 2017
Women of a certain age (which usually means between 50 and 75) make up the majority of the theater's ticket buying audience. And Curvy Widow, the new musical that recently opened at the West…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
Whimsy has never really been my cup of tea. And alas, A Parallelogramthe Bruce Norris play that opened at Second Stage Theater this past week, is reeking of it. A dark comedy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2017
It may seem silly to talk about The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds her Chameleon Skin because it was scheduled for just two performances this past week, half the usual five or six-show run for prod…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
It's that time of year again: temperatures have heated up, show openings have cooled down and I've succumbed to summer sloth. So while I'll continue to see a few shows and to share my though…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 22, 2017
Although he's usually game for just about anything, my theatergoing buddy Bill declined when I suggested that we see Ghost Light, the immersive theatrical experience that the experimental th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Dominique Morisseau's reputation as both a lyrical and thoughtful playwright has been growing for a few years now. Detroit '67, the first in a three-play cycle she wrote about her hometown, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 15, 2017
Today would have been my mother's 100th birthday so although she left us 14 years ago, I'm going to take time out from the usual postings to wish her a Happy Birthday and to give her a stand…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
The producers of 1984 are marketing their show as though it were a horror movie. They've put out a warning that children under 13 will not be admitted (click here to read about that). And th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 8, 2017
What's the purpose of life? I know that's a ridiculously big question but it's been on my mind because two shows I've recently seen take direct aim at that metaphysical enigma. And bot…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Happy Fifth of July. The Independence Day fireworks may be over but we've still got nine more weeks of summer to celebrate until Labor Day. For me that means time to sit on our terrace …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 1, 2017
The woman sitting next to me at the Roundabout Company's Laura Pels Theatre was the perfect audience for Napoli, Brooklyn, the new family drama that opened there this week. She guffawed…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Madness is unimaginable to those of us unaffected by it and yet that hasn't stopped writers from trying to recreate what it must feel like to lose control of one's mind. And actors also embr…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2017
My husband K and I are away on vacation so no posts until we get back next week.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2017
The Red Bull Theater Company has a gift for silliness. Its production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th century classic The School for Scandal was one of the best evenings I had in th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
The 2016-2017 theater season that ended on Sunday night with the Tony Awards ceremony hosted by Kevin Spacey was one of the best in recent memory. That made the contest for the top prizes on…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 10, 2017
After enduring 40 days of awards lunches, newspaper ads, TV appearances, magazine interviews and all kinds of social media interactions, the Broadway community (fans included) will finally g…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Has someone been traveling around peddling the idea that all a play now needs to be successful is quirky characters, snappy dialog and a speech at the end about the meaning of life? I …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 3, 2017
The Tony Awards ceremony, which will air on CBS next Sunday, June 11, is more than just a celebration of the best of the theater season. It's the way that many people, especially those outsi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Over the past few months, I've been bingeing on the big awards-baiting musicals that have opened on Broadway. Several of them are terrific but it was nice last week to see two smaller shows …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 27, 2017
Just like everyone else involved in putting on a show, costume and set designers see their main job as telling a story. But that job--and winning a Tony for it--is harder than it looks. Desi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Most people know A.A. Milne as the creator of the Winnie-the-Pooh children's stories but in the two decades before he published the first Pooh book in 1926, Milne was best known as a humoris…
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