Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Stage critic Peter Filichia lets us know what's happening on New Jersey stages
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:41AM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
Dolly Gallagher Levi has certainly kept her promise. For nearly half a century, she's been telling us that "Dolly'll never go away again"-- and she hasn't, not since H…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:40PM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2012
To celebrate Ethel Merman's birthday on January 16 - her 105th, 104th or 103rd depending on which Merman scholar you choose to believe -- see her live.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:57PM[SHARE]Peter Filcihia says, 'Come with an open mind ...'
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Also: 'Veronica's Room' at the Bickford and Centenary Stage Company's Young Performers Workshop.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
This month's Friday the 13th can be considered both lucky and unlucky for Broadway. It would have marked the 87th birthday of Gwen Verdon, and we're all pretty sad that …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
It's the story of a trailer resident who may own a real Jackson Pollock painting and the art appraiser who comes to her home
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2012
By Peter Filichia "
So what was the first recording in 2012 that you chose for your listening pleasure?
For the twentieth straight year, I started New Year's Day by playing the CD that I…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 1, 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Also, highlights from New York stages.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 27, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
As that famous Frank Loesser song asked, "Here is the jackpot question in advance: what are you doing New Year's Eve?"
Most will party, but many know that it's a goo…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 03:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2011
Tri-State Actors Theater's take on holiday classic is a little mean and self-aware
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Peter Filichia gives us the scoop on what's going on in the Garden State
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Peter Filichia "
So what would be the most logical Broadway musical to open on Christmas Day?
Why, Here's Love, right? After all, it's the musical of Miracle on 34th Street.
But Here's…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:02AM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2011
No one can accuse Bonnie & Clyde of not having a slam-bang opening. A barrage of rifle shots rings out as the two killers sit in the front seat of their car. These criminals aren't just bein…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The show returns to McCarter Theatre Center with familiar and new faces.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Peter Filichia lets us know what's going on where
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
This new take on the ugly duckling story has an anti-bullying message
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
You're in the middle of holiday shopping. You want to get something nice for that couple next door and their toddler. But you don't have much do-re-mi.
For the adult…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2011
Mon, Dec. 5. Twenty days to Christmas, twenty days to Christmas, plenty of time to do our Christmas shopping. Thus, many of us instead went to the Roundabout's staged reading of that 1963 mu…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:52AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2011
Holiday classic presented in radio play-style, sound effects and all
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Production uses eight actors and 11 more to fill 57 roles, as well as play 23 inanimate objects and one animal.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]O come all ye jaded Not everyone is sentimental about the holidays. Take James Hindman and Ray Roderick, who have written a musical called "A Christmas Survival Guide." The authors have chos…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2011
By Peter Filichia "
In my recent book Broadway Musical MVPs, 1960-2010, I gave awards that baseball annually bestows but theater doesn't: Most Valuable Player, Comeback Player of the Year …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:35AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2011
Minimal cast will tackle the classic "A Christmas Carol"
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2011
The six-character, one-set black comedy comes to Women's Theater Company in Parsippany.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The production of 'River,' at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, runs too shallow.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The production is a treat for the ears -- and the pocketbook
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]If you can’t see a musical on closing night, make sure you at least see it during closing week. Many of the show’s fans come out to say goodbye, to revisit the producti…
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