Forget about War Horse or even The Book of Mormon. The hottest ticket in town is Sleep No More. That’s the Macbethtakeoff in which theatergoers put on white-face masks and roam around…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:32AMIt probably makes me sound like a philistine to say this but I’ve never been a big Ingmar Bergman fan. Which may make you wonder why I was so eager to see Through a Glass Darkly, the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:33AMThe preliminary ratings for Sunday night’s Tony broadcast are 6.9 million, just a smidgen down from the 7 million who watched last year. But it seems there was a 9% increase in viewe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMIt’s finally Tony time and people who see only a few shows a year often use the Tony broadcast (on CBS this Sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern time) to decide which ones they should see. …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMIs there a harder working or more admirable head of a theater company than Jonathan Bank, the artistic director of the Mint Theater Company? Bank has not only delivered a welcoming mes…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:57PMThe Tony Awards are just a week away but so many shows opened at the end of the season that I'm way behind in posting about all the ones that are eligible for awards. I’ll still try …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:05PMThe Donmar Warehouse’s production of King Lear with Derek Jacobi as the addled monarch closes at BAM this weekend but I still want to get in my two cents about the show. Besides, it …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:24AMOver the years, Playwrights Horizons has developed a reputation for being an incubator of ambitious musicals that dare to be different. William Finn’s In Trousers and March of the Falsetto…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:30AMIt's looking more and more like a good thing that Hollywood actors are coming to Broadway because someone has to fill the stages here. And as the American Theatre Wing’s Howard Sherman rec…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:04AMThe Independent Theater Bloggers Association, the group of theater watchers who regularly express ourselves online, announced the winners of our third annual theater awards yesterday. …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:54AMMy hats off to the Hollywood carpetbaggers who’ve come to Broadway this season. People like to complain about how movie stars are taking roles from established Broadway actors. But w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:28AMWe are now deep into the theater awards season. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park in April and, at the beginning of this month, The Lortel Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:28AMMy husband K and I recently saw a movie called “Baby Face.” The New York Times had said it was a great example of how progressive some movies had been before the Hayes Code clamped down …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:07AMEven before he made his American debut in Boeing-Boeing two seasons ago, Mark Rylance was celebrated in a long New Yorker profile (click here to read it). He went on to win a Tony for …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:17AMThe legendary Arthur Laurents, who wrote the books for Gypsy and West Side Story and directed the original productions of La Cage Aux Folles, Hallelujah, Baby! and the infamous Nick & No…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AMThe poor Tony nominators are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. As even the most casual theater fan knows, the Tony nominations were announced yesterday morning (click here …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:30AMIt’s been a hectic few weeks as the spring theater season drew to its official close on April 28. And that’s a large part of the reason that I missed my usual posting day on Saturd…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:04PMIt was, by chance, a rainy afternoon when I saw Séance on A Wet Afternoon, the haunting new opera that is playing just through this weekend at the New York City Opera. Because seeing theate…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:49AMBad-mouthing Frank Wildhorn’s musicals has been a blood sport for years. Critics complain that his shows—Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Civil War—pander to plebian ta…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:40AMIf Broadway were a high school, Sutton Foster would be a shoo-in for class sweetheart. She’s not a beauty but there’s an endearing quality about her gawkiness. She’s multi-…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:56PMYep, it’s true. I’ve just come off an incredible multimedia weekend. Not only did I make my debut on The American Theatre Wing’s long-running TV series “Working in the Th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:43AM..well, kind of. The folks at The American Theatre Wing invited me to moderate some episodes of their long-running TV series "Working in the Theatre." The hour-long shows bring together pane…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:48PMIf you like musicals, then Broadway would seem to be the place for you this season. Eight musicals have been scheduled to open in March and April—six of them new shows. And we�…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:38AMMy husband K and I were having dinner at Orso after seeing the new Stephen Adly Guirgis play when a silver-haired couple walked by, spotted our Playbill lying face down on the table and aske…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:21AMArcadia is an amazing play. The language is, in places, sublime; the ideas totally scintillating. Many consider it to be Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. And yet, the production now playing at …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:20PMUnlike the movies or TV, the theater prides itself on being an art form that is supportive of women, including what people like to call “women of a certain age.” Even younger male …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:21AMIf you love meta musicals—and judging by the ecstatic reviews the show has gotten, a whole lot of people do—you’re going to love The Book of Mormon, which opened at the Eugene O’Neil…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:27PMMy husband K is crazy about Frank Loesser. The movie version of the composer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning final work, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, sat in our Tivo …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:22AMI saw Mambo Mouth, John Leguizamo’s first one-man show when it played at the old American Place Theatre back in 1991. And I had a really good time—a better time, alas, than I had a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:02PMPeople I know keep asking me what I think about Good People, the new David Lindsay-Abaire play. They don’t need my opinion to determine whether it’s, well, good because the show, n…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:45AMBeautiful Burnout, which is playing through March 27 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn Heights, is the textbook definition of style over substance. But the style is sensational.&nbs…
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