Tuesday, September 8, 2015
It was just last month I was saying goodbye to my favorite new summer show, Lifetime's UnREAL, and welcoming back a favorite of mine from last season, USA's Playing House. Playing House is a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:45PMMonday, August 24, 2015
The new release does indeed make the show sound more like a revival with some bonus extras. There are three possible explanations I can think of for this change in slant.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:37PMThursday, July 16, 2015
I met Donna Lynne Champlin in 2002 and I've seen basically everything she has done in New York since, which means I have...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:51AMFriday, July 10, 2015
I am going to estimate that 95 percent of audience members going into An Act of God believe it is a one-person show starring Jim Parsons as God. (While he doesn't like you to take his name i…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:46PMThursday, June 18, 2015
What makes a show fail? Many in the industry have pondered that question. If we knew the answer, shows wouldn't fail. Even veteran producers with a string of hits sometimes stumble. For ther…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:01PMMonday, June 15, 2015
A few years after I began covering the theater, I was introduced to Joe Iconis through a mutual friend. Though he...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:03AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
It's approximately 24 hours since the Tony Awards ended -- and, while most of the community is at a Bombshell party, I...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:22AMAfter the telecast (discussed in my post here), Broadway is all about the after-parties. There is the official Tony...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:22AMFriday, May 29, 2015
If you ask me, On The Town, which is currently slightly trailing both other contenders in my Tony polling, deserves the win. I, like most, was worried when the show was announced for that ba…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:43PMIf you ask me, <em>On The Town</em>, which is currently slightly trailing both other contenders in my Tony polling, deserves the win. I, like most, was worried when the show was …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:00PMThursday, May 28, 2015
If I had to choose the one featured performer in a play or musical, on or off-Broadway, who I thought was giving the best...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:22PMIf I had to choose the one featured performer in a play or musical, on or off-Broadway, who I thought was giving the best performance this season, it would be Ruthie Ann Miles in Lincoln Cen…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:59PMTuesday, May 26, 2015
An American in Paris is about many things: Paris after the war, the joy of new experiences, romance, love, dance and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:48PMAn American in Paris is about many things: Paris after the war, the joy of new experiences, romance, love, dance and the relationship between three friends.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:10PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for supporting the theater. You seem like someone who paid full price, or at least almost full price, for your tickets. I appreciate that. Thank you for your patronage of the arts.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:58PMLast night was a history-making night on Broadway. Not only did Spider-Man, the most expensive Broadway musical ever, begin previews, but also Broadway fans embraced twittering during a show…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:58PM“Almost, Maine,” which closed shortly after it opened Off Broadway, is now popular abroad and in high schools.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn light of the Spider-Man debacle, I have been wondering if this tradition -- which has continued even as its supporting traditions have dissipated -- will be forever destroyed and, more im…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:58PMIt's often said that going too far down the rabbit hole may not be a good idea. One wonders if that is just what the producing team behind Wonderland has done. The buzz around town (among th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:58PMThursday, May 7, 2015
As a fever ate away at my remaining brain cells last week, I was bombarded with questions about the Tony nominations. I answer two main questions below.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:29PMMonday, April 27, 2015
It's unusual for stars or directors to have over two shows a season -- even two is quite an accomplishment. One of the reasons...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:56AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Other than the people who, I don't know, get a show up every day, the Tony nominators are pretty much the most important people in theater. But who are they? And when do they recuse themselv…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:53PMMonday, April 20, 2015
With Living on Love opening tonight, I thought it was a good time to write about the resurgence of Williamstown...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:15PMThursday, April 16, 2015
There is nothing like the electricity present on a Broadway opening night. Those in attendance at film premieres often say...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:12AMThursday, April 9, 2015
This past fall, I was unhappy the Broadway community seemed reluctant to embrace The Last Ship (before performances even began) because of some predisposed notions. This spring, I come to th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:43PMWednesday, April 1, 2015
One thing the theater community does well is celebrate its own. And Polly Bergen was a member of the theater community. Now, as I previously wrote, the League of American Theaters and Produc…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:14PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
I spend a lot of time writing about how much more producers and non-profits could be doing to encourage a new theater...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:44PMMonday, March 23, 2015
On April 5, 2001, I ran into Polly Bergen. And by "ran into," I honestly mean more "trip into." It was opening night of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:16PMSunday, March 22, 2015
In Spring 2001, I met director Scott Schwartz at the opening night party of Bat Boy. It was in the middle of a huge time for him...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:59AMFriday, March 13, 2015
The poster of On the Twentieth Century impressed many. A bunch of people said it seemed fun. Some people recognized Kristin Chenoweth and one of my mother's favorite leading men, Peter Galla…
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