Friday, May 6, 2011
One of these days, Rachel Sheinkin will get a good night's sleep. But right now, she's a little too busy to snooze " for she's working on a show about a most attractive woman who has been as…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:42PM[SHARE]As Roxie says in her title song in Chicago, “I hope this ain’t too crude” – but really: when you get up in the morning, don’t you first and foremost start walki…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2011
There's plenty of excitement down at the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank. "In a way," said artistic director John Dias, "two people working here now got Tony nominations on Tuesday." O…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:06AM[SHARE]The Theater Project Bliss Griffin and Michael Flood in "The African Company Presents Richard III." What a cruel irony. The Theatre Project, whose lease at Union County College isn'…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:06AM[SHARE]It’s the most wonderful time of the year for theater fans who can now cheer, rejoice and offer their congratulations to the many Tony nominees. Seems to me, however, that more theater …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2011
I'll never forget the day I was at a big musical theater exhibit at the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts. To enhance our experience, the sound system was playing selections from…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:45AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2011
It was the month that the Delaware Theatre Company did a musical called Chasin’ De Blues, subtitled “The Untold Story of Paramount Records.” I wonder what songs they includ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2011
There’s a moment deep in Baby, It's You! when The Shirelles are performing in a club in a certain city. They then disappear behind a mylar curtain as an announcer sets up their next en…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Many of us only appreciated the buildings after 9/11 took them away from us. Gifted playwright Matt Schatz, however, allows us to value them on a different level. He shows us the intense des…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]In "The Godfather: Part Two," he famously said, "I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out " just my enemies." So worry not, Al Pacino fans " especially those who are in their fourth decade …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]Have you heard the news? There's going to be a frightfully enormous earthquake on May 21 that's going to throw the entire planet into cataclysm. The world will soldier on for a while, but wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2011
It's a dizzying script, one that asks the tough question: are relationships built on truth or destroyed by it?
SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:09PM[SHARE]By Peter Filichia
It opened on April 11, 1936, and MasterworksBroadway is celebrating its 75th anniversary in style. It's made the first-ever recording of On Your Toes again available.
On…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:18AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
Said Mike Canestraro, “Grease. What a piece of shit. And you may quote me.” Well, I just did, Mike – although I should point out that Mike didn’t just say this out of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
It’s been a trend of late: shows that originated and made their reputations off-Broadway are years later revived as new productions on Broadway. Since 2000, I count 12, including music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
So how does a boy from Glencoe, Illinois wind up producing and directing every play by George Bernard Shaw? All right, David Staller hasn’t directed full productions of all 65 of GBS&r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
I know, I know. You've o.d.'d on Annie. In fact, you o.d.'d on it long ago. That's what happens when a musical becomes a smash hit and never for a second leaves the pub…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:56AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
Suddenly during the first act of Wonderland, the thought hit me. Would this be Stephen Sondheim's favorite musical of the season? I'll grant you that that seems an unlikely scenario. The Fra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2011
And to think it all started because he simply wanted to watch a Sidney Poitier movie.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:38AM[SHARE]Want to be a Broadway Star? Well, you can be, albeit vicariously, through a marvelous new board game that’s boldly called Be a Broadway Star. It’s the brainchild of Ken Davenport…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Just as some people get their 15 minutes of fame, some comedies get their 15 minutes of laughs before sputtering out. "Private Eyes," now receiving an adequate production at J City Theater, …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:49AM[SHARE]A childrens' show that is just peachy
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:48AM[SHARE]At 5 feet 5 inches tall, Matt Schatz is only about 1,362 feet shorter than his subject matter. It's the World Trade Center, which at one time was "The Tallest Building in the World." That's …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]Here's a challenge for husbands and wives: Arrive home and announce you want to take a vacation alone. Be prepared for "What do you mean?" as well as the inevitable "And what are you going t…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]Some years ago, when an editor asked me to write a new edition of Let’s Put on a Musical, he told me to drop 70 shows from my two previous editions and add 70 new musicals. Making…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
All right, it may not be the most significant anniversary in theatrical history. But for the record, 14 years ago this week " on April 16, 1997 -- David Ives's new pla…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:19AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2011
As any con man or lawman can tell you, timing is extraordinarily important in his occupation. If the con man is a little tardy in escaping, he might not get away. If the lawman’s late,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2011
How I love being with an audience that’s seeing a musical for the first time during the show’s second year. It was my pleasure-filled experience on Tuesday night when I saw La Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Me and my big mouth (or, for the grammatically conscious among us, my big mouth and I). On one of the recent podcasts I do most Sundays on Broadway Radio for Broadway Stars, the subject came…
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