The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. The Outsiders – The…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01PMWe’re officially in awards season. The Outer Critics Circle, on whose nominating committee I sit, announced its choices for the best in the 2023-2024 season last week (click here to see …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:18PMThe Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. APRIL 13-MAY 23, 2024…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 01:00PMAfter seeing Mother Play, Paula Vogel’s semi-autobiographical three-hander which opened at the Hayes Theater on the very last day of the 2023-2024 theater season, my friends and I went nex…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:32AMThe Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Corey Cott and McKenz…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00PMThe Bard was born 460 years ago today—and died exactly 52 years later in 1616. But of course his works live on even though debates about whether or not he actually wrote them do too (click…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:12PMWhat’s the hardest job in show business? There are obviously lots of contenders but right now as one musical after another is opening on Broadway, I’ve been thinking that the answer to…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:06PMIt’s being an unusually busy theater season this spring with a baker’s dozen of Broadway shows still scheduled to open between now and the end of the month. So it’s no surprise that sm…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Strange Interlude”1928 Puli…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMWishing you all the joy and drama and empathy that good theater always brings
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:36PMIn the journalism business we say that three occurrences of a thing make it a trend and so right now the hottest trend in theater seems to be musicals centered around the memories of old guy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:12PMYou can usually tell within the first 10 minutes or so of seeing a show whether you’re in good hands. And I knew right away that I was in very good hands when I saw Dead Outlaw, the first …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:42PMWe’re now used to getting musicals based on movies but it’s rarer for a straight play to be adapted from a film. However that’s the case with The Hunt, which opened this week at S…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:42PMIf I had access to a time machine one stop I’d make would be sometime around 1960 at Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village where young playwrights like John Guare, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:02AMValentine’s Day was celebrated this past week and the new show I Love You So Much I Could Die, which opened at New York Theatre Workshop on Feb. 14, struck me as an ultimate gesture of lov…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:36PMJournalists love stories about journalism. We even love the stories that cast us in a bad light. And I'll admit that’s part of the reason that The Connector, which was inspired by the stor…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:12AMThe Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Sarah Gancher (Playwr…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:00AMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “The Teahouse of the August Mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSometimes you just don’t get a show. Maybe its subject triggers you or fails to grab you at all. Maybe the playwright was trying to do too much or the director didn’t do enough. Or maybe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:02PMToday is International Holocaust Memorial Day, which was created to commemorate the six million Jews and others who were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis. But New York theater makers …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:24PMPreviews are all about the promise of what’s to come so I suppose it’s no surprise that the last time I posted a preview list of the shows I was excited about seeing in an upcoming seaso…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:02PMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Idiot’s Delight”1936 Puli…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMIt’s that time of year when people like me draw up Top 10 lists ranking the cultural experiences they’ve had over the past 12 months but, as some of you know, 2023 hasn’t been a great …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:54PMTo truly appreciate Melissa Etheridge: My Window, you may need to be a hardcore fan of the singer-songwriter or a member of Generation X, who was born between 1965 and 1980, grew up with Eth…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:43PMThe news came this week that two titans of New York theater will be stepping down from the powerful perches on which they’ve long roosted. André Bishop who has lead Lincoln Center Theater…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:55AMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Alison’s House”1931 Pulit…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSomehow the weeks in July and August always seem to fly by more quickly than those during the rest of the year. And so here we are again at the end of the summer and, as I do every Labor Day…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:55AMListening to the waves of laughter that greeted the new comedy The Shark is Broken made me wonder if we might be entering the era of jukebox plays that pander to the folks who love particula…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:19PMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Rob Fisher and Sheldon Harnick on Sheldon’s 99th birthday in…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMWhy is Frank Wood, not just a stalwart of New York theater but a Tony winner, lying on the floor and playing a dying dog? That’s the question I kept asking myself as I sat watching Toros, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:04PMIt’s 1998 and the five starting players for the Lady Train, the all-black girls basketball team in a small Arkansas town, aren’t dirt poor or bougie rich. The problems they’re dealing …
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