Saturday, August 19, 2017
Hamlet is hands down the world's most famous play. People who have never been inside a theater quote its lines "To be, or not to be" and "To thine own self be true." And parodies and homages…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 07:06PMSaturday, August 12, 2017
Women of a certain age (which usually means between 50 and 75) make up the majority of the theater's ticket buying audience. And Curvy Widow, the new musical that recently opened at the West…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 12:42PMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Whimsy has never really been my cup of tea. And alas, A Parallelogramthe Bruce Norris play that opened at Second Stage Theater this past week, is reeking of it. A dark comedy…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:48AMSaturday, July 29, 2017
It may seem silly to talk about The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds her Chameleon Skin because it was scheduled for just two performances this past week, half the usual five or six-show run for prod…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:36AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
It's that time of year again: temperatures have heated up, show openings have cooled down and I've succumbed to summer sloth. So while I'll continue to see a few shows and to share my though…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 01:33PMSaturday, July 22, 2017
Although he's usually game for just about anything, my theatergoing buddy Bill declined when I suggested that we see Ghost Light, the immersive theatrical experience that the experimental th…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:54AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Dominique Morisseau's reputation as both a lyrical and thoughtful playwright has been growing for a few years now. Detroit '67, the first in a three-play cycle she wrote about her hometown, …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 01:54PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
Today would have been my mother's 100th birthday so although she left us 14 years ago, I'm going to take time out from the usual postings to wish her a Happy Birthday and to give her a stand…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:24AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
The producers of 1984 are marketing their show as though it were a horror movie. They've put out a warning that children under 13 will not be admitted (click here to read about that). And th…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 02:18PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
What's the purpose of life? I know that's a ridiculously big question but it's been on my mind because two shows I've recently seen take direct aim at that metaphysical enigma. And bot…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 05:42PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Happy Fifth of July. The Independence Day fireworks may be over but we've still got nine more weeks of summer to celebrate until Labor Day. For me that means time to sit on our terrace …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 01:48PMSaturday, July 1, 2017
The woman sitting next to me at the Roundabout Company's Laura Pels Theatre was the perfect audience for Napoli, Brooklyn, the new family drama that opened there this week. She guffawed…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:04AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Madness is unimaginable to those of us unaffected by it and yet that hasn't stopped writers from trying to recreate what it must feel like to lose control of one's mind. And actors also embr…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:12AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
My husband K and I are away on vacation so no posts until we get back next week.
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:54AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
The Red Bull Theater Company has a gift for silliness. Its production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th century classic The School for Scandal was one of the best evenings I had in th…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 12:12PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
The 2016-2017 theater season that ended on Sunday night with the Tony Awards ceremony hosted by Kevin Spacey was one of the best in recent memory. That made the contest for the top prizes on…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:18AMSaturday, June 10, 2017
After enduring 40 days of awards lunches, newspaper ads, TV appearances, magazine interviews and all kinds of social media interactions, the Broadway community (fans included) will finally g…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:24AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Has someone been traveling around peddling the idea that all a play now needs to be successful is quirky characters, snappy dialog and a speech at the end about the meaning of life? I …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:18AMSaturday, June 3, 2017
The Tony Awards ceremony, which will air on CBS next Sunday, June 11, is more than just a celebration of the best of the theater season. It's the way that many people, especially those outsi…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:48AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
Over the past few months, I've been bingeing on the big awards-baiting musicals that have opened on Broadway. Several of them are terrific but it was nice last week to see two smaller shows …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:06AMSaturday, May 27, 2017
Just like everyone else involved in putting on a show, costume and set designers see their main job as telling a story. But that job--and winning a Tony for it--is harder than it looks. Desi…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 12:12PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Most people know A.A. Milne as the creator of the Winnie-the-Pooh children's stories but in the two decades before he published the first Pooh book in 1926, Milne was best known as a humoris…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 03:05PMSaturday, May 20, 2017
The race is on. It may be done more politely than it was during our last presidential campaign (thank goodness), but the Tony nominees are beginning to elbow one another out of the way as th…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:06AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Getting a show in front of a mainstream audience ain't easy and it can be even tougher when you're a playwright of color. Which is why I'm happy to have seen Martín Zimmerman's Seven Spots …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 01:54PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
The theater awards season is like a presidential campaign. Everyone has their eyes on the ultimate prize but there are lots of other contests along the way that offer trophies and with them,…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:05AMWednesday, May 10, 2017
I promise to get back to talking about shows I've seen soon but as a card-carrying member of the Outer Critics Circle, I feel honor-bound to tout the awards we announced on Monday. The OCC r…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 12:24PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
All Tony awards are coveted but the awards for Best Musical tend to be the most coveted of all. And because 13 new musicals debuted during the 2016-2017 season, the odds of getting one this …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 02:06PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
If you're reading this blog, then you already know that the Tony nominations were announced yesterday. And depending on how you look at it, this year's nominators had one of the toughe…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 12:18PMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Like most talented playwrights these days, Annie Baker has no doubt been asked to spend some time in a writers' room for one of the prestige TV shows. But on the basis of her new play The An…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:36AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
There's no question that the Tonys are the Oscars, or most desired awards, of the theater world but there are other coveted prizes too. Yesterday, the Outer Critics Circle, of which I'm a pr…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSaturday, April 22, 2017
The Tonys may be the top dog in awards season but it's not the only one in the game. Lots of other groups also celebrate the best of the theater season. The nominations for the Lucille …
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