Saturday, July 2, 2022
Now that Covid has been around for more than two years and vaccines have made contracting the virus a little less scary, a new kind of normal is settling in. The Tony award ceremonies return…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMSaturday, June 25, 2022
For the second time this month, there will be no regular post here. It’s not because there haven’t been shows to see and talk about: although it will be weeks before anything new opens o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:24PMThursday, June 23, 2022
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: Madhuri Shekar…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:00PMSaturday, June 11, 2022
The settings and the circumstances are the same in two new off-Broadway shows that portray the plight of the young Black and Brown people who are so often trapped in systems that view them�…
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 Young Man From Atlanta”…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, June 4, 2022
Dreaming Zenzile, the musical that opened at New York Theatre Workshop this week, began as a tribute concert. And it probably should have stayed one.
The show, a co-production with the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:37AMSaturday, May 21, 2022
The girls aren’t what they’re expected to be in Belfast Girls, the new show that opened at the Irish Rep this week. They also aren’t what we’ve come to expect to find in historical d…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:12AMSaturday, May 14, 2022
It may seem strange for a theater lover—and hip-hop know-nothing—like me to be quoting the rapper Drake but his self-congratulatory lyrics “Started from the bottom, now we're here” s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:36PMSaturday, May 7, 2022
Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God has been almost universally adored by the critics. And the play, which has just been extended at Signature Theatre through May 22, deserv…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:07PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Seventeen shows opened or reopened on Broadway this month and as I bounced from one to the other, I found myself asking what exactly is a Broadway show. The simplest answer to that question …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMSaturday, April 23, 2022
We’re in the midst of the spring crush when new shows are opening literally every night as they rush in to be considered for the awards that celebrate the end of each theater season.
So …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:42AMSaturday, April 16, 2022
Making a good musical is hard. Now I don’t consider that statement to be a conceptual scoop that no one has ever considered before. But the thought has been much on my mind after seeing an…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:06AMSaturday, April 9, 2022
In the opening monologue of Confederates, now running at the Pershing Square Signature Center through April 24, a college professor runs down a list of popular culture centered around slaver…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:33PMAll 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: “Beyond the Horizon”1920 Pul…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, April 2, 2022
Here’s the dilemma: reviews are usually written by people who see anywhere between 200 and 300 shows a year but the people who read those reviews may see only two or three shows a year, of…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:03AMSaturday, March 26, 2022
There are so many things to admire about Lloyd Suh’s The Chinese Lady which is currently running at The Public Theater through April 10. And here are just a few of them.
ADMIRATION #1: T…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:33PMSaturday, March 12, 2022
There are so many themes—cultural assimilation, filial responsibility, sibling rivalry, climate change, animal cruelty, homophobia—packed into This Space Between Us that this new dramedy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:12PMAll 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: “Of Thee I Sing” Of Thee I S…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01PMSaturday, March 5, 2022
The playwright Charly Evon Simpson had written a bunch of stuff before she got her breakthrough three years ago with Behind the Sheet, a devastating drama about how the father of American gy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSaturday, February 26, 2022
There have been so many voices absent from the American stage that sometimes we don’t even know what we’ve been missing until we suddenly hear it. English, the deceptively simple play by…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:12PMSaturday, February 19, 2022
Even before it opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center on Tuesday, some people were calling the musical Black No More “the new Hamilton.” And it’s easy to see why.
The score, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
I can hardly believe it but I published the first Broadway & Me post 15 years ago on Valentine’s Day. So this post should have gone up yesterday. However I was so busy celebrating V-Da…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:12PMSaturday, February 12, 2022
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: “How I Learned to Drive” by …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
It’s not easy to write about Tambo & Bones, the new play that opened at Playwrights Horizons this week. And I'm pretty sure its playwright Dave Harris intended it to be difficult.
Th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:06AMSaturday, January 15, 2022
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: “Anna in the Tropics” by Nil…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, January 1, 2022
...and the chance to once again safely put the spotlights back on some really good theater:
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:03PMSaturday, December 25, 2021
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SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:33PMFriday, December 24, 2021
Saturday, December 18, 2021
You might have thought that I’d given up on theatergoing if you’ve been checking in here to see what I had to say about this comeback season’s new shows only to discover that I’d wri…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PMFriday, November 26, 2021
Lots of words are going to be written over the next few days by people who knew him, people who admired him and people who have a better way with words than I do. So although the pleasur…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:12PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Everyone involved with The Public Theater’s new musical The Visitor seems to be walking on eggshells. And who can blame them?
The week before previews were scheduled to begin, the prod…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:48PM 
