Saturday, June 18, 2011
Forget about War Horse or even The Book of Mormon. The hottest ticket in town is Sleep No More. That’s the Macbethtakeoff in which theatergoers put on white-face masks and roam around…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:32AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
It probably makes me sound like a philistine to say this but I’ve never been a big Ingmar Bergman fan. Which may make you wonder why I was so eager to see Through a Glass Darkly, the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:33AMTuesday, June 14, 2011
The preliminary ratings for Sunday night’s Tony broadcast are 6.9 million, just a smidgen down from the 7 million who watched last year. But it seems there was a 9% increase in viewe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMSaturday, June 11, 2011
It’s finally Tony time and people who see only a few shows a year often use the Tony broadcast (on CBS this Sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern time) to decide which ones they should see. …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, June 8, 2011
Is there a harder working or more admirable head of a theater company than Jonathan Bank, the artistic director of the Mint Theater Company? Bank has not only delivered a welcoming mes…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:57PMSaturday, June 4, 2011
The Tony Awards are just a week away but so many shows opened at the end of the season that I'm way behind in posting about all the ones that are eligible for awards. I’ll still try …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:05PMWednesday, June 1, 2011
The Donmar Warehouse’s production of King Lear with Derek Jacobi as the addled monarch closes at BAM this weekend but I still want to get in my two cents about the show. Besides, it …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:24AMSaturday, May 28, 2011
Over the years, Playwrights Horizons has developed a reputation for being an incubator of ambitious musicals that dare to be different. William Finn’s In Trousers and March of the Falsetto…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:30AMWednesday, May 25, 2011
It's looking more and more like a good thing that Hollywood actors are coming to Broadway because someone has to fill the stages here. And as the American Theatre Wing’s Howard Sherman rec…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:04AMSaturday, May 21, 2011
The Independent Theater Bloggers Association, the group of theater watchers who regularly express ourselves online, announced the winners of our third annual theater awards yesterday. …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:54AMWednesday, May 18, 2011
My hats off to the Hollywood carpetbaggers who’ve come to Broadway this season. People like to complain about how movie stars are taking roles from established Broadway actors. But w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:28AMSaturday, May 14, 2011
We are now deep into the theater awards season. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park in April and, at the beginning of this month, The Lortel Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:28AMWednesday, May 11, 2011
My husband K and I recently saw a movie called “Baby Face.” The New York Times had said it was a great example of how progressive some movies had been before the Hayes Code clamped down …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:07AMSaturday, May 7, 2011
Even before he made his American debut in Boeing-Boeing two seasons ago, Mark Rylance was celebrated in a long New Yorker profile (click here to read it). He went on to win a Tony for …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:17AMFriday, May 6, 2011
The legendary Arthur Laurents, who wrote the books for Gypsy and West Side Story and directed the original productions of La Cage Aux Folles, Hallelujah, Baby! and the infamous Nick & No…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AMWednesday, May 4, 2011
The poor Tony nominators are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. As even the most casual theater fan knows, the Tony nominations were announced yesterday morning (click here …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:30AMMonday, May 2, 2011
It’s been a hectic few weeks as the spring theater season drew to its official close on April 28. And that’s a large part of the reason that I missed my usual posting day on Saturd…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:04PMWednesday, April 27, 2011
It was, by chance, a rainy afternoon when I saw Séance on A Wet Afternoon, the haunting new opera that is playing just through this weekend at the New York City Opera. Because seeing theate…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:49AMSaturday, April 23, 2011
Bad-mouthing Frank Wildhorn’s musicals has been a blood sport for years. Critics complain that his shows—Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Civil War—pander to plebian ta…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:40AMWednesday, April 20, 2011
If Broadway were a high school, Sutton Foster would be a shoo-in for class sweetheart. She’s not a beauty but there’s an endearing quality about her gawkiness. She’s multi-…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:56PMMonday, April 18, 2011
Yep, it’s true. I’ve just come off an incredible multimedia weekend. Not only did I make my debut on The American Theatre Wing’s long-running TV series “Working in the Th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:43AMSaturday, April 16, 2011
..well, kind of. The folks at The American Theatre Wing invited me to moderate some episodes of their long-running TV series "Working in the Theatre." The hour-long shows bring together pane…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:48PMIf you like musicals, then Broadway would seem to be the place for you this season. Eight musicals have been scheduled to open in March and April—six of them new shows. And we�…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:38AMWednesday, April 13, 2011
My husband K and I were having dinner at Orso after seeing the new Stephen Adly Guirgis play when a silver-haired couple walked by, spotted our Playbill lying face down on the table and aske…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:21AMSaturday, April 9, 2011
Arcadia is an amazing play. The language is, in places, sublime; the ideas totally scintillating. Many consider it to be Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. And yet, the production now playing at …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:20PMThursday, April 7, 2011
Unlike the movies or TV, the theater prides itself on being an art form that is supportive of women, including what people like to call “women of a certain age.” Even younger male …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:21AMSaturday, April 2, 2011
If you love meta musicals—and judging by the ecstatic reviews the show has gotten, a whole lot of people do—you’re going to love The Book of Mormon, which opened at the Eugene O’Neil…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:27PMWednesday, March 30, 2011
My husband K is crazy about Frank Loesser. The movie version of the composer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning final work, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, sat in our Tivo …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:22AMSaturday, March 26, 2011
I saw Mambo Mouth, John Leguizamo’s first one-man show when it played at the old American Place Theatre back in 1991. And I had a really good time—a better time, alas, than I had a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:02PMWednesday, March 23, 2011
People I know keep asking me what I think about Good People, the new David Lindsay-Abaire play. They don’t need my opinion to determine whether it’s, well, good because the show, n…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:45AMMonday, March 21, 2011
Beautiful Burnout, which is playing through March 27 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn Heights, is the textbook definition of style over substance. But the style is sensational.&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:46AM 
