Saturday, May 19, 2018
My name is Jan and I'm a Harry Potter fangirl. Seriously. I mean I pre-ordered the published script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Amazon, downloaded the Kindle vers…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:54AMSaturday, May 12, 2018
We theater junkies can be a demanding lot. And sometimes we let our pursuit of the excellent get in the way of our enjoying the very good. At least that's how I've been feeling about two sho…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:42AMSunday, May 6, 2018
The irony is that I've been seeing so many shows lately that I've fallen behind on just about everything else and so find that I don't have the time to tell you about them. I'm hoping to cli…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:42AMSaturday, April 28, 2018
Let the games begin. The spring theater season officially closed Thursday night with the opening of The Iceman Cometh, which means the Tony nominators will be toting up their scorecard…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:06AMSunday, April 22, 2018
Traditions says that King Lear is the most difficult role in the English-speaking theatrical canon. So as soon as actors hit their 50s, they start itching to take on the challenge. Which exp…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 04:48PMSaturday, April 14, 2018
Few things make me happier than seeing my husband K enjoy a good laugh while he's watching a show. And so that alone would be reason enough for me to cheer the revival (and Broadway debut) o…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:01AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
We're in the midst of an American musicals renascence so vibrant that even people who can't name the Big Five R&H shows know the names Lin-Manuel Miranda, Pasek & Paul and Kristen An…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:01AMSaturday, March 31, 2018
Tourists now make up 60% of the Broadway audience and seeing a Broadway show for most of those folks means seeing a big, splashy musical. And if it has a title they already know, so much the…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 03:38PMSaturday, March 24, 2018
Race has long been—long as in ever since white settlers arrived in the New World, took territory from the natives and then imported enslaved Africans to work that land—a divisive issue i…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:16AMSaturday, March 17, 2018
No post this week because my husband K and I have gone off on a quick vacation to the west coast. But the theater season is kicking into high gear and I'll be back next week. In …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:41AMSaturday, March 10, 2018
There is an unapologetic sweetness to the musical A Letter to Harvey Milk that won me over despite the many flaws of this show which opened this week in the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row.Base…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 07:24AMSaturday, March 3, 2018
A couple of weeks ago, a friend remarked that most of my recent reviews have been negative. "Haven't you liked anything you've seen," she asked. Well, yes I have. But since starting the Stag…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 01:50PMSaturday, February 24, 2018
It's been 20 years since the dance critic Joan Acocella declared that she wouldn't critique a piece that the choreographer Bill T. Jones had centered on terminally ill people and his own dia…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:04AMSaturday, February 17, 2018
It's hard to believe that I've been writing this blog for 11 years but that's what the calendar tells me. As longtime readers may remember, I posted a "Curtain-Raiser" on Feb. 14, 2007 (I've…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:27AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
[Porto], And judging by the knowing laughter from the 20- and 30-somethings in the audience at the performance I attended, she's hit her intended mark.the oddly punctuated romantic com…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:32AMSaturday, February 3, 2018
The creative ferment at the beginning of the last century rivaled that of the Renaissance. Painters like Pablo Picasso and Vasily Kandisnky restructured painting. Composers like Claude Debus…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:07AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
People don't usually make too big a deal about a 45th anniversary. After all, the much more impressive-sounding 50th is so close. But the 1973 match between Billie Jean King, a 29-year-old t…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:51AMSaturday, January 20, 2018
When theater lovers want to express their deep devotion to an actor as formidably talented as John Lithgow, they often say they would be content to listen to him if he were just reading the …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 07:51AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
Is Mark Rylance the greatest actor of our time? Over the course of a three-decade career, he's won three Tonys, two Oliviers and an Oscar. Last year, the Queen knighted him for his service t…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:31AMSaturday, December 30, 2017
As usual, I'm late to the party of 10 Bests Lists. All the others began going up the moment Christmas trees started sprouting on New York City street corners. But my tardiness matters even l…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:06AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
...a belated Happy Chanukah, a tardy Good Winter Solstice, a slightly premature Joyous Kwaanza and the all-pervasive hope that however you celebrate it, your holiday season will sparkle with…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:24AMSaturday, December 16, 2017
It's been a month since I've turned on the ghost light that theaters use when they're empty and that I use to signal that there will be no regular post today. And I'm not happy about doing i…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:33AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
It's no fun being a party-pooper. But that's the role I find myself in when it comes to the revival of Once on This Island, the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahaerty musical that opened this wee…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 12:06PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
The actress Jocelyn Bioh was a total delight in such shows as An Octoroon, Men on Boats and Everybody, bringing an extra zip to every line she spoke. So I figured a play Bioh wrote might be …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 11:24AMSaturday, November 25, 2017
No post today. And I'm too pooped to even turn on the ghost light that usually indicates I'm taking a break. Here's why: Over the past week, I've:•taped my first episode of TheatreTal…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 01:06PMSaturday, November 18, 2017
Nobody bats a thousand. It's unfair of us theater lovers to expect our favorite writers and directors to knock one out of the park (last sports metaphor, I promise) each time they come up wi…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:48AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
The story that British playwright Duncan Macmillan tells in People, Places & Things isn't new. But the brilliant way in which this tale about a woman's struggles with alcoholism and addi…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:06AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
In these challenging times, a play that makes a convincing argument for why it's important to continue on despite overwhelming odds is especially welcomed. And that's exactly what LCT3's pro…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:12AMSaturday, October 28, 2017
All the comments I overhead at the Irish Repertory Theatre Company's revival of Brian Friel's The Home Place seemed to be about the set. Decorated with prettily painted flats and lots o…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 09:04AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
The word sentimental has become one of the deepest insults you can hurl at a play. But I don't mind a bit of sentimentality if it's done well. And although the Roundabout Theatre Company's r…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 10:18AMSaturday, October 14, 2017
Sometimes you need to just follow your gut when it comes to deciding whether or not to see a show. My gut told me Tiny Beautiful Things wouldn't be for me. But I wanted …
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