Monday, October 10, 2011
The New York Musical Theatre Festival continues to impress and enchant. Many productions have had the good fortune to have Mike Cohen, Director of Programming, deliver wildly entertaining pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2011
You may have noticed that the tag that I use at the end of the column has changed slightly in the last weeks.
While it used to say, “Check out his book, Broadway Musicals: The Biggest…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2011
'The Code Breaker' is a genuinely ambitious play aimed at teens but will impress many adults
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2011
It was a little revue of Fats Waller's songs in a 66-seat cabaret space at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Meanwhile, on that theater's mainstage was an Athol Fugard play that had received rave …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:19AM[SHARE]Show-business veteran Tyne Daly is getting a break, relatively speaking, as she moves from her Broadway performance in “Master Class†to creating a role in the new mu…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Ah, the pre-show speech! Some directors come before us and state that tickets only pay for a quarter of a show’s expenses. Others say that a cast member has been ill, so we should now …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2011
Never mind that 36 years have already passed since A Chorus Line opened on Broadway. What's really astonishing is that five years have already passed since the revival of A Chorus Line opene…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:42PM[SHARE]Have you heard? “Natasha’s shtupping Protopopov.” So says Chebutykin in Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, now at Yale Rep in New Haven. Ruhl&r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2011
What had been a big flop in Millburn now looks better in Parsippany
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2011
And so, at 11 p.m. on Sunday night, the 2006-2007 season came to an end. Let’s take a look at it from A-to-Z.
A is for Angela Lansbury, who wins the award for Receiving the Biggest B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PM[SHARE]What a nice and pleasant young man Duncan Sheik is! We had a lovely time talking and drinking at Sardi’s. I enjoyed hearing how, in the third grade in Hilton Head, South Carolina, he w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PM[SHARE]Well, now that the Tonys are over, I can let you know what’s been on some readers’ minds.
“Here’s to the authors who stretch,” wrote Doug Braverman, in respons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PM[SHARE]Audra McDonald will perform songs by old and new composers in Princeton
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AM[SHARE]It was the month that the New York Musical Theatre Festival began. Although Ghostlight turned out to be abysmal, we’re all glad the festival is here – partly because it offers ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2011
I envy St. Martin de Porres. The 16th century Peruvian was said to have the ability to be in two places at one time. I, alas, cannot, and as a result, I’m missing two events between Fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PM[SHARE]Who’d expect that Elf would contain one of the most significant pieces of dialogue in the history of the Broadway musical? But there it is midway through the first act. North Pole resi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PM[SHARE]After Faith Prince had her landmark success with Adelaide in Guys and Dolls in 1992, many musical theater enthusiasts were heard to say, “Wouldn’t she make an ideal Ella Peterson…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PM[SHARE]It was a month that saw August: Osage County decide not only to offer student rush, but also senior rush. Well, why not? What’s good for the gosling is good for the goose and gander. S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:57AM[SHARE]I swear – this will be the last column on The Most Clever Broadway Musical Moments. We’ve had five in the last two weeks, but I do believe I’ve saved the best for last: The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:57AM[SHARE]As I mentioned on Monday, I’m the critic-in-residence at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, more chummily known as CCM, where recently I saw Aubrey Berg’s excellent production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:57AM[SHARE]Guess who’s singing an album of Broadway songs. Sandi Patty. Some (especially pagans) may not know the name, but much of the country is quite aware that Sandi Patty is the doyenne of g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Protest and the proletariat " but no punch
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:53AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2011
By Peter Filichia "
We have two important anniversaries this week, both as the result of West Side Story. It's celebrating its 54th year of never being out of the public consciousness since…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:44PM[SHARE]He’s made a name for himself by doing “exploratory readings” of musicals from the ‘40s (Barefoot Boy with Cheek) and ‘50s (Arms and the Girl) – not to men…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2011
Carol RoseggFrom left, Harvey Fierstein, Jack Feldman and Alan Menken form the creative team behind the new musical "€œNewsies."€ Needless to say, relatives who baby…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:39AM[SHARE]Down the hall from Steve Spiegel’s office at Theatri©al Rights Worldwide is the warehouse that’s filled with a great many boxes. They’re waiting to ship out scripts to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Twice before, I’ve given you excerpts from the diary that Mrs. Sherman Edwards kept while her husband's show 1776 was gestating. I reprinted excerpts in one column on the show&rsq…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37PM[SHARE]36 years ago this week, CBS aired a TV version of a Tony-winning Broadway play – late at night, so as few people could see it as possible. The play was David Rabe’s Sticks and Bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37PM[SHARE]Today, it’s a different experience for the playgoers at Music Theatre of Wichita. Usually, when they come to the Century II Theatre for a musical, the show essentially starts many minu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37PM[SHARE]Joan Marcus From left, Aaron Clifton Moten, Steven Skybell and Michael Cumpsty in "Much Ado About Nothing." Of all Shakespeare's plays, "Much Ado about Nothing" may have the least …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:57AM[SHARE]Tom Chapin Growing's pains Chalk up another setback to Hurricane Irene: It caused a postponement at the Growing Stage in Netcong. A planned Sept. 30 ribbon-cutting would have celebrated the …
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