Sunday, March 10, 2013
This month's column screens two early television musicals — Alfred Drake as "Marco Polo" and Jo Sullivan or Barbara Cook as "Babes in Toyland" (though not toget…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 3, 2013
This week's column addressed a live recording of Patti LuPone's Far Away Places act from 54 Below, plus songbooks of Jerome Kern ("The Land Where the Good Songs Go") and th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Carousel, when done well, is one of the true glories of the world of musical theatre. The New York Philharmonic's current concert version, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSunday, February 24, 2013
This month's column looks at the deluxe, over-stuffed new coffee table book about Les Misérables, plus a survey of world drama entitled "Great Moments in the Theatre," b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Composer-lyricist Adam Guettel's evening of music at 54 Below — featuring the songwriter and Steven Pasquale and Whitney Bashor — included favorites from The Light in the Pia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
For her American Songbook concert at the Allen Room in Manhattan, a show recorded for later broadcast, Kristin Chenoweth embraced some of the greatest characters and songs of the musical the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMSunday, February 17, 2013
This week's column discusses the revival cast album of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood plus a two-fer of 1961 recordings by Chita Rivera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
For her American Songbook concert at the Allen Room in Manhattan, a show recorded for later broadcast, Kristin Chenoweth embraced some of the greatest characters and songs of the musical the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMSunday, February 10, 2013
Oscar Season has officially approached, and with it new Blu-ray releases of at least four of the 84 Best Picture winners (thus far).
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, Joel Grey and Chita Rivera sang the bitter, sweet — and bittersweet — songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb in Lincoln Center's American Songbook se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMSunday, February 3, 2013
This week's column discusses Rebecca Luker's sterling new Jerome Kern collection, "I Got Love," plus the reissue of the Off-Broadway chamber musical No Way to Treat a Lady.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 27, 2013
This month's column looks at the scripts of three recent Broadway attractions, Enda Walsh's Once, Nicky Silver's The Lyons and David Mamet's The Anarchist.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 20, 2013
This week's column discusses Barbara Cook's new album, "Loverman," and the remastered soundtrack recording of "Bye Bye Birdie," the movie starring Ann-Margret.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 13, 2013
This month's column looks at the Blu-ray release of the Trevor Nunn-Susan Stroman Oklahoma! starring Hugh Jackman; the first season of the TV series "Smash"; rarities from Mel …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 6, 2013
This week's column discusses the original cast recordings of Broadway's Chaplin and Leap of Faith and Off-Broadway's Now. Here. This.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 30, 2012
The sheer volume of theatre-related books published in 2012 has us playing catch-up this month, with the Equity bio "Performance of the Century," "Stella Adler on America'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 23, 2012
"Rashomon," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Brazil," a collection of Frank Capra films and Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" are screened in this m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 16, 2012
A look back at the year's musical-theatre albums that are worth your attention, perhaps for gift ideas this holiday season. The mix includes Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 9, 2012
A look back at the year's musical-theatre albums that are worth your attention, perhaps for gift ideas this holiday season. The mix this week includes Once, Michael John LaChiusa, Pasek …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, December 2, 2012
This month's column looks at two wonderfully rich memoirs, "World on a String" by jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli and "The Gershwins and Me" by Michael Feinstein.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 25, 2012
This week's column discusses the original 1968 London cast recording of John Kander & Fred Ebb's Cabaret, featuring Judi Dench as Sally Bowles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 18, 2012
This month we watch the 1956 telecast of Harold Arlen's Bloomer Girl; the Blu-ray release of the 1986 film version the stage musical Little Shop of Horrors; and holiday box sets celebrat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 11, 2012
This week's column discusses the original cast recording of the George Street Playhouse production of Barry Wyner's Calvin Berger as well as this season's "Carols for a Cure…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, November 4, 2012
The lives to two dramatists are in the spotlight in this month's books column: "Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World" by Howard Pollack and "Thornton Wilder: A L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 28, 2012
This week's column discusses the original Off-Broadway cast recording of the infamous Carrie; the new Broadway musical A Christmas Story; and the CD remastering of the 1951 musical Seven…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 21, 2012
This month, we screen Marcel Carné's backstage masterpiece "Children of Paradise"; Groucho Marx in The Mikado and Alfred Drake & Barbara Cook in Yeomen of the Guard;…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 14, 2012
This week's column discusses the Encores! cast recording of Jule Styne and Leo Robin's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 7, 2012
This week's column discusses the new Broadway cast recording of Porgy and Bess starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 30, 2012
This month, we watch the Othello-based backstage film noir "A Double Life"; Elaine May's "A New Leaf"; Steven Spielberg's classic "E.T."; highlights fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 23, 2012
This week's column discusses the Encores! cast recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pipe Dream and Laura Osnes' "Dream a Little Dream," her evening at the Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 16, 2012
This month's column looks at "Tales of a Broadway Flack," from old-time press agent Sol Jacobson; "The Outdoor Museum," a celebration of New York by Margery Gary Harn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
