Mincing words would be a waste of time so I’m going to get right to it: I don’t know what the hell the folks at LCT3 were thinking when they booked Stop Hitting Yourself…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:08AMMachinal, the 1928 drama inspired by the real-life story of a woman who murders her husband, is not an easy play to like. And so I can’t really use the word "like" to describe how I feel a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:55AMThe baby boomer musical, shows stitched together around the songbooks of acts popular in the ‘50s, 60’s and ‘70s, is taking over Broadway. The trend started with the ABBA-scored …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:16AMThe challenge of reviving a game-changing work is that the game has already been changed and so it’s really tough to recreate the titillating shock of the original. The challenge of doing …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMGay plays usually fall into three categories: the coming-out story, the AIDS drama, the cri de couer for acceptance from the wider society...or from the self. So I was intrigued when I…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:47AMFrom its out-of-town run at The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge last spring right through to the news this week that the Broadway production has recouped its investment, the current …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMIf you’d asked me to name my favorite songwriters, the composer Burt Bacharach and his frequent lyricist Hal David wouldn’t have made the list (in case you’re interested, Cole Porter, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:31AMIf you've seen the opening number of The Lion King or even some of the outlandish set pieces in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (which turns off for the final time on Broadway tonight) you kno…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AMWho’s to say what were the best shows of 2013? Even the august New York Times critics can’t agree on that; only two shows (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and Twelfth N…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AMMay your holidays sparkle with peace, love, happiness —and, of course, the great pleasure of live theater.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:50AMIf you’re still looking for a show that will appeal to the entire family—antsy tots, sulky teens, grumpy grandparents and weary everyone else—I have just the thing for you: A Gen…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:49PMIt’s the holiday season so you probably don’t need any more family drama but there are three high profile (and star-studded) shows about familial relationships that I hadn’t gotten aro…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:31AMSometimes a show can have everything going for it and still flop. That’s certainly the case with Big Fish, the big splashy musical written by Andrew Lippa, directed by Susan Stroman and st…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:12AMWhoever is picking the plays for Playwrights Horizons clearly wants the people who see them to come out thinking hard and talking seriously about them. So far t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:45AMLast night my theatergoing buddy Bill and I went to see an NT Live encore presentation of the 50th anniversary celebration that London's National Theatre threw for itself last month.&n…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:17AMYou’ve got to love Ethan Hawke. Or at least I do. I can’t think of another actor working today who displays such obvious love for the theater—from his choice of challenging…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:15AMPeople who love theater love shows about the theater. Which is why there are so many backstage musicals, dramas and comedies from 42nd Street to the upcoming Bullets Over Broadway, fro…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:40PMAre theater producers becoming like their counterparts in the movie business and saving their best stuff for the time closest to awards season? I ask because this is the second fall in…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AMIt’s a little surprising to me but you guys seem to prefer free cast recordings and tell-all books to free theater seats. Still, a couple of you did write in for the giveaway of two free t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:51AMTheater lovers who love Shakespeare must be thrilled with this season, which has turned out to be the theatrical equivalent of a greatest hits album featuring nearly all the Bard’s most be…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:03AMBig stars were supposed to provide the thrills this fall theater season but so far the response to most of them has been kind of tepid. Now it’s true that Cherry Jones and Zachary Qui…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:31AMWhen a musician records work closely identified with a more iconic artist, it’s called a tribute album. And recently, as the number of shows featuring actors doing the same thing has grown…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:36PMI come to bury A Time to Kill, not to praise it. Cause it’s too late for the latter. The courtroom melodrama that opened just last month at the Golden Theatre announced this week that it w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:40PMEveryone complains about ticket prices and rightly so. Seats for the starry revival of Betrayal, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, cost up to $…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:11PMFirst things first: it looks like I owe you guys an apology. Because either you all really don’t want to see Disaster! (which I don’t believe) or I made the giveaway question too c…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:19AM“Never forget” was the rallying cry adopted by those who survived the Holocaust. But that generation is dying out and feelings about what it means to be a Jew, particularly what it means…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:41AMPeople— actors and theatergoers alike—can’t seem to get enough of Macbeth. The talented young Scottish actor James McAvoy took it on earlier this year in London A new production starri…
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