Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Holding a stage all by one's self takes guts. But two very talented actors step up to the challenge and, with varying degrees of success, show how it can be done in the new one-woman s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2015
Like so many Americans in the '60s, Broadway show makers were swept up in the free-spirit mania of the times and created shows with eccentric characters who thumbed their noses at the establ…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
The contests for this year's theater awards are so tight"and so many of the nominees truly worthy"that I hardly know where to cast my allegiance. And that's especially true in the category o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2015
The average Broadway theatergoer sees four shows a year, according to the Broadway League. The average theater reviewer routinely sees more shows than that in a week. Which may be one reason…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
It's hard to argue with the Tony nominations announced yesterday morning. The much-admired An American in Paris and the even more critically beloved Fun Home lead the pac…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2015
There is a direct line connecting the down and outers waiting for Hickey in The Iceman Cometh and the outcasts who gather in the parking lot of the Hummingbird Motel for the premature funera…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Plays like Hand to God rarely make it to Broadway nowadays. For as its cheeky ad campaign says, the play has no movie stars, isn't a transfer from London or based on a movie. On the other ha…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:26AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2015
Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the mystique of Paris. And I've recently had the chance to overindulge that fascination by seeing the new productions of Gigi and An American in Paris t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
So much money is now spent on creating spectacles for theatergoers that we sometimes forget that all that's really needed are a play with something to say and actors who know how to say it. …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2015
After-show talkbacks set my teeth on edge. Instead of talking about the show or what it provoked in them, most people just seem to want to show off. So I sighed inwardly when my theatergoing…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
"They might as well give the Tony to her right now," my husband K said as we walked out of the American Airlines Theatre after seeing Kristin Chenoweth in the Roundabout Theatre Co…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 4, 2015
The bathroom at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is a tiny space that sits between the backstage and the audience and that can accommodate just a couple of people at a time and so there's…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
By all accounts (and there have been many of them; click here to read one) Larry David didn't intend to star in Fish in the Dark, the new farce that is playing at the Cort Theatre. But the s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 28, 2015
Several waves of nostalgia swept over me as I watched the revival of Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, which is running at the Music Box Theatre through Aug. 9. The first came becaus…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
As I said, people love Into the Woods. I've never gotten more responses for a giveaway than I got for last week's offer of a free copy of the Blu-ray DVD of Rob Marshall's all-star movi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2015
The umpteenth snowstorm of the year and yet another fresh coat of snow on the ground make it hard to believe that spring officially arrived yesterday. But the New York theater season has bee…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
People love Into the Woods, the Stephen Sondheim musical that interweaves four familiar fairytales into a larger fable about desire, dreams and the tangled bonds between parents and children…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
Good guys don't stand much of a chance in today's popular culture, as evidenced by the popularity of the school-teacher-turned-drug-dealer series "Breaking Bad" and the beats-up-his-girlfrie…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2015
On our way into Lives of the Saints, my theatergoing buddy Bill and I ran into a friend who told us that his wife had been in the hospital and he was eager to see something to take his …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2015
Everyone seems to be fracturing narratives these days, from the low-brow antics of TV's "How to Get Away With Murder" to the high-brow musings in Kate Atkinson's metaphysical novel "Life Aft…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Every show is an event of some kind but The Events, the docudrama now playing at New York Theatre Workshop, promised to be a particularly special one. Inspired by the 2011 massacre of 77 peo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:47AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 28, 2015
Maybe it's because I stopped watching superhero movies around the time Michael Keaton left the "Batman" franchise. Or it could be because I don't live in Brooklyn and only visit when there's…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
If you care anything about musicals, you must have heard by now about Hamilton, the everybody's-talking-about-it show that's playing down at The Public Theater (even David Brooks the Times p…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2015
If you'd ask me, I'd say that I'm no fan of one-man shows. But, apparently, I'd be lying. Cause over the past week, I've seen and, in varying degrees, really enjoyed two of them. The first w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Talking about race is hard. So instead, most of us talk about talking about race. But playwright Joel Drake Johnson goes full tilt at the main subject in Rasheeda Speaking, now playing in a …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 14, 2015
Valentine's Day now means I get to celebrate two big romances in my life. The first, of course, is the ongoing one I share with my incredible husband K. And the second is with those of …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
We're in that annual lull between the shows that rushed to open before the holidays and those waiting in the wings to make their bows in the spring. A few shows have bravely ventured out ove…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 7, 2015
The new musical Honeymoon in Vegas has been doing terrible business. It's playing to audiences that are barely three-quarters full and most of those folks have gotten such heavily discounted…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
A note from Jan: Scary stuff spooks me. A lot. As in, not able to sleep for nights and so as much as I wanted to see the new John Tiffany-Stephen Hoggett show about vampires, I just couldn'…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 31, 2015
A Month in the Country, which opened at Classic Stage Company this past Thursday, was written five years before Anton Chekhov was even born. But the setting, the themes and the characters wi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
As regular readers know, I'm always griping about how so few plays today grapple with current events. Well, I certainly can't say that about The Road To Damascus, the political thriller at t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:42AM[SHARE] 
