Saturday, September 12, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: My Favo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02AM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
Tens of thousands of young actresses are waiting to play Glinda in WICKED. But WICKED is, to cite one of Stephen Schwartz’s best songs from the show, “Popular.” So to all y…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:22AM[SHARE]The meteorologists say that summer doesn't end until the final moments of September 22nd, but most of us disagree. Labor Day's the day when we say, as the Goldmans and John Kander wrote in A…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:39AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Every actor loves when a call comes in out of the blue offering him a job. When the invitation is the leading role in a world-famous musical, that’s all the sweeter. “Not necessa…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:08AM[SHARE]It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AM[SHARE]Congratulations to Stephan Artist, Steve Bell, Brigadude, Susan Berlin, Seth Christenfeld, Paco CM, William Cox, Jason Flum, Ingrid Gammerman, Kelsee B. Hankins, James Harris, Cathy Jones, N…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:39AM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Augu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:09AM[SHARE]Summertime, and the traveling isn't always easy: plane delays, security lines, a crying baby in the seat next to you. But plays and musicals call from across the country, and so, I must go.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:42AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
Honor thy great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother. Not by visiting their graves, although that would be nice. Not by commissioning a plaque and attaching it to the wall of the st…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:07PM[SHARE]It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Give Me…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08AM[SHARE]The best musical I've seen this season gives us George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and yes, you're already saying, we know: HAMILTON.
No, that was last season's show, as the Drama Desk, …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 15, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
So why would the new musical LOVING REPEATING – called “a play within a lecture” – make me think of the slam-bang, razz-ma-tazz musical Mame? Well, for one thing, in …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:18AM[SHARE]You certainly need many bodies to write, direct, design, produce and perform a musical. Perhaps that's why so many lyricists cite the human body in their lyrics.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 8, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
Perhaps you’ve been debating whether or not to stage BILLY ELLIOT at your theater. After all, how will a British musical set almost a third of a century ago in Northeast England play i…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:13AM[SHARE]We've lately been hearing a lot about A CHORUS LINE's opening forty years ago.
But THE WIZ did, too. And at the moment, the African-American urban take on THE WIZARD OF OZ " which only ra…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:23AM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2015
I've never been a Smokey Joe's Café fan. When the show opened, I used the word "putrid" in my review, which prompted the producer to write and complain. And yet, while I was in Lincoln, Neb…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:08AM[SHARE]It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Jul…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
The sign outside the theater says "Every word in THREE DAYS TO SEE (except for the show's first moments) was written by Helen Keller." Yeah, there's no question that she didn't contribute to…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 25, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Jul…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2015
When the term “family show” is used, it’s usually a euphemism. What it more often means is a show that little kids will like or love. Mom and Dad, however, won’t be a…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:45AM[SHARE]How considerate of Kristin Chenoweth to close ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY five days before her birthday. That way, the cast didn't have to go through the expense of cards, a cake, candles and p…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:42AM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2015
Unless my colleague Matthew Murray has squealed on me, no one knows I made a tremendous mistake late last year.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:25PM[SHARE]It happens at many a performance attended by critics. An actor says a line that resonates with the aisle-sitters, and suddenly these men and women are reaching for their notebooks to precise…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:13AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2015
The response to Irving Berlin's White Christmas at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska was good but not great. The kids watching the Lincoln Southwest High production seemed more impr…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:13PM[SHARE]So I see that SOMETHING ROTTEN! " the marvelous musical at the St. James " is still advertising itself as "Loser! Best Musical! 2015 Tony Award!"
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:54AM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2015
The late, great acerbic comic Phyllis Diller had plenty of memorable one-liners, but there's one I remember most. With half-closed eyes that said she'd seen more fire than rain, Diller drone…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:32AM[SHARE]September 16, 1991. Studio B in the John Houseman Theatre on 42nd Street. I'm seeing a staged reading of a new musical called RUTHLESS!
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 27, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: June…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27AM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2015
How does a manual become a musical? I posed that question last Friday when I discussed a recent production of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. The 1961 smash hit remains the…
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