Tuesday, September 26, 2023
The news came this week that two titans of New York theater will be stepping down from the powerful perches on which they’ve long roosted. André Bishop who has lead Lincoln Center Theater…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:55AMSaturday, September 9, 2023
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Alison’s House”1931 Pulit…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, September 2, 2023
Somehow the weeks in July and August always seem to fly by more quickly than those during the rest of the year. And so here we are again at the end of the summer and, as I do every Labor Day…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:55AMSaturday, August 12, 2023
Listening to the waves of laughter that greeted the new comedy The Shark is Broken made me wonder if we might be entering the era of jukebox plays that pander to the folks who love particula…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:19PMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Rob Fisher and Sheldon Harnick on Sheldon’s 99th birthday in…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, August 5, 2023
Why is Frank Wood, not just a stalwart of New York theater but a Tony winner, lying on the floor and playing a dying dog? That’s the question I kept asking myself as I sat watching Toros, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:04PMSaturday, July 29, 2023
It’s 1998 and the five starting players for the Lady Train, the all-black girls basketball team in a small Arkansas town, aren’t dirt poor or bougie rich. The problems they’re dealing …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:33AMThursday, July 27, 2023
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Deirdre Kinahan, Play…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:00PMSaturday, July 8, 2023
Like most theater obsessives, I take pride in my collection of experiences that give me bragging rights—I saw Hamilton at the Public before it was a hit! I saw Glory Days, which opened and…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:33PMFriday, July 7, 2023
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “The Flick”2014 Pulitzer win…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:00PMSaturday, July 1, 2023
Happy Fourth of July Weekend! Time has been so slippery over these past three pandemic years and global warming is now playing such havoc with the weather that on some days just breathing …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:13AMWednesday, June 14, 2023
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Guest: Eboni Booth, P…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01PMSaturday, June 10, 2023
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and I go back a long way. I saw his first New York show down at P.S. 122 right after its director quit during previews and one of the actors published a pie…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:43PMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Buried Child”1979 Pulitzer …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, May 27, 2023
Diversity is sometimes thought of as the vegetable of theatrical offerings: something that we theater lovers should include in the diet of things we consume because it’s "good" for us. But…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AMSaturday, May 20, 2023
No review posting today but I’m thrilled to be able to share the news that Patrick Hoffman, the director and curator of The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at New York's Library for the P…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:18PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
Regular readers will know that I usually post my reviews on Saturdays but I’m changing things up this week because the show I want to talk about has a short run and the performance I recen…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12AMSaturday, May 6, 2023
And so it’s begun. The last show of Broadway’s 2022-23 season—a revival of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 meditation on white allyship—opened on …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Guest: David Auburn, …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01PMSaturday, April 15, 2023
O.K., so here’s the dilemma: when you revive a classic show that has problematic elements (and which of them doesn’t?) should you keep it the way it was written or update it for modern s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:42PMSaturday, April 8, 2023
It somehow feels appropriate during this Easter-Passover weekend to note that a lot of shows both on and off Broadway have been wrestling with faith this season (click here to read more abou…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:32AMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Anna Christie”1922 Pulitzer…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, April 1, 2023
People always ask people like me—people who've been blessed with the opportunity to see lots and lots of shows—what our favorites are. I tend to hem and haw when it comes to plays (somet…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMSaturday, March 25, 2023
Despite the projection of the date 1879 on the brick wall at the back of the Hudson Theatre, the new revival of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House could be taking place i…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PMSaturday, March 18, 2023
Thousands of dollars and countless hours have been spent trying to figure out how to get young people into the theater. But I’ve got a hunch that the answer is simple: offer things they wa…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:10AMMonday, March 13, 2023
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Ruined”2009 Pulitzer winner…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:00PMSaturday, March 4, 2023
Lorraine Hansberry only lived long enough to see two of her plays produced. The first was A Raisin in the Sun, celebrated when it opened in 1959 as the first play by an African-American woma…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:44PMSaturday, February 18, 2023
So here we are celebrating—albeit slightly belatedly—the 16th anniversary of Broadway & Me. My first post went up on Feb. 14, 2007 and in the intervening years, I've seen so many wo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:07AMSaturday, February 11, 2023
Around 1982 the photographer Larry Sultan began taking photos of his parents at their home in California’s affluent San Fernando Valley. And he kept at it over the next 10 years, final…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:43AMSaturday, February 4, 2023
A frigid cold front is sweeping across a large part of the country this weekend. And that can be a disincentive to go outside for even the most avid theatergoer. Luckily, there are—thanks …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:00AMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Giving awards can be tricky. We all want to—and should—celebrate extraordinary theatrical talent. But every time one person is ushered into the winner’s circle, a whole lot of other fo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:02AM 
