Sunday, May 25, 2025
Several years ago, I reported a piece on the Smithsonian's "American Popular Song" album, which was intended to be a collection of the best rendition of each song in the Great American Songb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:32AMThis is a slightly different post than I use write but maybe like me, you have wondered why the nominators for so many different theater awards seem to love the actress Kara Young so much th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:32AMSaturday, May 10, 2025
A new genre has been developing over the past few years, one that in tribute to the post-war change in British theater I’ve been calling “angry young women plays.”
These new works …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:02AMAll 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: “Lost in Yonkers“1991 Pulitz…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, April 26, 2025
The 2024-2025 theater season ends on Sunday with the dual openings of the musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves. And I’m exhausted. But it’s the kind of good exhaustion that c…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:24PMSaturday, April 19, 2025
The ever present tension between art and commerce moves centerstage in three recently opened off-Broadway productions—Irishtown at the Irish Repertory Theatre, I’m Assuming You Know…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSaturday, April 12, 2025
Bob Martin burst onto the Broadway scene back in 2006 with The Drowsy Chaperone, a loving send-up of Broadway musicals that ran for 674 performances, was nominated for 13 Tony awards and won…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:12PMAll 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: “Long Day’s Journey into Nig…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
As everyone knows, big name movie and TV stars have been invading Broadway this spring (click here for a rundown of who is doing what) and theatergoers are paying big bucks for the bragging …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
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: “A Strange Loop“2020 Pulitze…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
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. L to R: Adina Verson,…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:00PMSaturday, March 1, 2025
Even though these are crazy times, I don’t know how I let last week’s anniversary of Broadway & Me slip by. I started writing here on Feb. 14, 2007, which means it’s now been 18 ye…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:36AMSaturday, February 15, 2025
A thank you to the National Endowment for the Arts is prominently displayed on the cover of the program for My Man Kono, the new show that Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opened this week at A.R…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AMSaturday, February 8, 2025
History, they say, is written by the winners and the winners in Jordan Harrison’s thought-provoking new play The Antiquities are the artificial intelligence entities that the play imagines…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:06PMAll 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 Old Maid“1935 Pulitzer…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, February 1, 2025
When the Palestinian playwright Khawla Ibraheem began working on her one-woman show A Knock on the Roof a decade ago, it was a 10-minute monologue. Now the show, which is currently playing …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48PMSaturday, January 11, 2025
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 Kentucky Cycle“1992 Pu…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, January 4, 2025
Some theater-goers lust after seeing big-name stars and there will be plenty of them for those folks to see in the upcoming spring season, from theater-grown ones like Idina Menzel in Redwoo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:18PMSaturday, December 28, 2024
It’s that time of year when people like me who are lucky enough to see lots of shows are supposed to look back and draw up a list of the ones we consider to have been the best. But that’…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:48PMTuesday, December 24, 2024
Wishing you a theatrically merry little Christmas…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:35AMSunday, December 22, 2024
Leslye Headland has developed a following for her acclaimed Netflix series “Russian Doll” and for “The Acolyte,” the Disney Channel’s latest installment of the “Star Wars” saga…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:24PMSaturday, December 14, 2024
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 Great White Hope“1969 …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, December 7, 2024
There are lots of marquee-names in Shit. Meet. Fan., the naughtily-titled comedy that is currently running at MCC Theater. But the show’s true star may be its set, a duplex apartment that …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PMSaturday, November 23, 2024
As everyone knows, musicals are the mainstays of Broadway and four big ones opened over the last two weeks. But I’ve been so busy running out to see them—and seeing other shows too (if y…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:31PMThe 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. Arliss Howard and Mar…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:59AMSaturday, November 16, 2024
People have been trying to put Louis Armstrong’s life onstage ever since that master jazzman died in 1971. My BFF Phil took me to a backers’ audition for one attempt to build a musical a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:54PMSaturday, November 9, 2024
Hurricanes have wiped out entire communities along the west coast of Florida. Wildfires are burning up over 400,000 acres in northern California. Drought has pushed water levels in the Missi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:31AMAll 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: “Rabbit Hole”2007 Pulitzer w…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, November 2, 2024
You're unlikely to find anyone who doesn't have a strong opinion about Sunset Blvd., the latest revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s musical adaptation of Bi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:31PMSaturday, October 26, 2024
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” is now in its 16th season and its Emmy-winning celebration of gay and trans culture has spawned a half dozen spin-offs and scores of international versions. And no…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSunday, October 20, 2024
This October has turned out to be a crazy time for those of us trying to keep up with all the fall show openings. I’m currently scheduled to see more than a dozen of them over just the nex…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:24AM 
