Friday, March 21, 2014
So have you heard the plot of Edward Sakamoto's FISHING FOR WIVES which The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opens on April 5?
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:27AM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
Last week, while writing about The Mikado, I started thinking that I, like Ko-Ko, should make a little list, too.
The Best Musicals? Too trite. The Best Cast Albums? A little better, but ho…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 15, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46AM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2014
Yes, the opening song is called "Bless This Land," but let's also bless the York Theatre Company for reminding us that TENDERLOIN is a blessedly good musical. James Morgan's troupe finished …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:32AM[SHARE]Hell certainly looks better than my apartment " at least in the way that Harry Feiner has designed NO EXIT for The Pearl Theatre Company. It's a sleek swank room with three lovely chaises lo…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
By Peter Filichia
So what can we all do on March 14th to mark the 129th anniversary of the opening of The Mikado?
Well, for one thing, we can listen to a 1960 recording of Gilbert and Sulli…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 8, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2014
Have you ever seen a production of LES MISERABLES in which “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” had full chairs and no tables at all? Leave it to Aubrey Berg, the chair of the musical …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:23AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
By Peter Filichia --
There I was, putting the final touches on my new book The Great Parade: The 1963-64 Broadway Season, which St. Martin's will bring out next spring. I wanted to check a r…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:48PM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2014
How long have I been attending community theater productions? Let's put it this way: when I started, Betty White could have still given birth. And yet, here at the Bronx House, I'm seeing so…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 08:11AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
By Peter Filichia " Jule Styne couldn't do it. Frank Loesser couldn't do it. Even Richard Rodgers couldn't do it.
But Cole Porter could.
The task in question? Seeing your final Broadway mu…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 22, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2014
At the Junior Theater Festival '14, Saturday night and all day Sunday are the best times to be in the MTI ShowSpace. After those many events in small breakout rooms, how nice to have all 4,0…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:13PM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
By Peter Filichia " All of us remember the time when we got interested in theater and, for the first time, we read raves for a certain show that had just opened. "Oh," each of us recalls exc…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:37PM[SHARE]There can't be many places in the world where an audience applauds after the speaker says, "It's not a democracy; it's a dictatorship." But here at the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, th…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2014
By Peter Filichia -- Sunday, February 9, 1964. Now more than fifty years have passed, but most everyone who was then alive and beyond the age of reason remembers it well.
Up until then, whe…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:22AM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
In a way, it's the musical theater equivalent of speed dating. You do get to see as many as eight musicals in four hours " but only in a manner of speaking. The 93 schools and academies that…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By Peter Filichia --
How many musicals that played only seven months on Broadway ever see two major Manhattan revivals and a snazzy concert version?
But as of this week, Little Me, which o…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:13AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
By Peter Filichia --
Two hundred years ago this week, a star was born.
Edmund Kean was a journeyman actor until January 26, 1814. On that night, he played Shylock at the Drury Lane, London…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:56PM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
When we last left Nate Foster, we didn't want to. Tens of thousands who read Tim Federle's young adult novel Better Nate Than Ever immediately fell in love with the thirteen-year-old native …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:23AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
The most fascinating letter replicated in the recently published The Leonard Bernstein Letters isn't one solely by Leonard Bernstein.
The undated letter " suspected by editor Nigel Simeone …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:41PM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2014
Sitting in the Upper Elementary School in Moorestown, New Jersey, I'm looking forward to the audience reaction when the lights come up at a certain moment in Scene Four. The Moorestown Theat…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2014
In 1956, long before comic strip icons Superman, Charlie Brown and Annie became lead characters in Broadway musicals, there was Li'l Abner.
Al Capp's famed comic strip about the rustic inha…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:19AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2014
Whenever someone has asked me the question, "If you could have as a dinner companion anyone who's ever lived, who would it be?" my answer has always been "Thornton Wilder. I'd love to chat w…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:02AM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2014
Every now and then, I come across them.
I'm talking about the intense musical theater fans who tell me that they hate Hello, Dolly!
And yes, "hate" is the verb they gleefully use.
Last Jan…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PM[SHARE]Adults have differing opinions on politics, religion, sex, money and virtually everything else, but there's one aspect of life on which they all agree. Time passes oh-so-swiftly and much-too…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2013
How often does your phone ring anymore? We all seem to communicate differently now. Go away for a week's vacation, and you'll probably come back to fewer than a half-dozen messages on your a…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 06:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
Here is the jackpot question in advance.
Musically speaking, what are you doing New Year's Eve at the party you're hosting?
A young friend excitedly told me that he planned to take many of…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:25AM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2013
You may know the song entitled "The Story of My Life" from SHREK, but do you know the musical called THE STORY OF MY LIFE? It has nothing to do with Pinocchio, Peter Pan or Papa Bear, as Jea…
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