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 11:03AMThere 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 01:33PMThere 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 12:01PMThe 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 11:42AMThere 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 03:12PMEven 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 12:36PMI 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 11:12PMAll 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: “How I Learned to Drive” by …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMIt’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 02:06AMAll 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 12:01AM...and the chance to once again safely put the spotlights back on some really good theater:
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:03PMYou 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 12:36PMLots 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 10:12PMEveryone 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 01:48PMAll 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: Cost of Living by Martyna Majok …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMEight plays written by black playwrights are scheduled to open on Broadway this fall. That’s twice the number of all the shows by black playwrights that opened on the too-aptly named Great…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:36PMAll 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 Subject Was Roses by Frank D…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMI went to see a show this week. There was a time when that wouldn’t have been a remarkable statement. I routinely saw 150 shows a year and shared my thoughts about many of them here.…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:36AMAll 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: Our Town, by Thornton Wilder A P…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMWhat a difference a year makes. Or doesn’t. During the spring and summer evenings of 2020 we New Yorkers stood at our windows or out on the sidewalks to appla…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMAll 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 Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy W…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMAll 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: South Pacific Chichester South P…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00AMAll 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: No Place to Be Somebody “No Pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMAfter 16 long and scary months, the coronavirus seems to be in retreat. Over half of the country has now gotten at least one vaccination shot. And here in New York City, 60% of all adult…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:03PMThe Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday and the winner for the drama prize was Katori Hall for her terrific play The Hot Wing King. I had several dogs in this fight. Like most theater …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMAll 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: I Am My Own Wife “I Am My Own …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMPeople are getting vaccinated, some at a new site right in the middle of New York City's Theater District (click here to read more about that). Meanwhile, theaters are taking steps to reope…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AMAs some of you know, I’m a contributor to BroadwayRadio and over the past few years, I’ve hosted “Stagecraft,” a show that talks to playwrights and musical book writers about their r…
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