Saturday, April 17, 2021
As 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…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:36PMAll 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: Why Marry? “Why Marry?” Wiki…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00AMSaturday, March 27, 2021
Even, or maybe especially, in these pandemic times, it's time to put on a good face and celebrate the theater that we all continue to love:
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:12PMThursday, March 11, 2021
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A year ago today, I was gearing up for the intense out-every-night theatergoing of awards season and, as I told my friend David Gordon who has been publishing a chronicle of this past pand…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:54PMMonday, February 15, 2021
We’re in the middle of African American History Month, a commemoration made all the more urgent by the events of last summer that were prompted by the police murders of George Floyd and Br…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:12PMSaturday, February 13, 2021
This is a bittersweet anniversary for me: I published the first Broadway & Me post 14 years ago on Valentine’s Day but it’s now been nearly a year since I’ve seen a show in person.…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:18PMFriday, January 29, 2021
Deeply mourning the death of the great Cicely Tyson, a trailblazer and role model in so many ways.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:03AMSaturday, January 2, 2021
I had planned to write a review of Ratatouille: the Tik Tok Musical, the delicious online presentation that began as a 15-second video created by a fan of the Disney animated film about a ra…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:32PMSaturday, December 26, 2020
This is the time of year when people like me create lists that tout the best things we’ve experienced in the areas of interest we followed over the last 12 months. But it’s hard to put t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:03PMFriday, December 25, 2020
...as is safely possible this year:
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:42AMSaturday, December 5, 2020
Christmas as we know it—the tree, the cards, the carol singing—began during the early Victorian age and perhaps no one popularized those now-familiar traditions more than did Charles Dic…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:18PMThursday, November 26, 2020
Let’s be honest: it’s been a tough year. For the world. For the nation. For the theater community. And yet, there are still things for us theater lovers to be grateful for, be it the p…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:03PMSaturday, October 24, 2020
A Zoomed scene from the staged reading of Lisa Loomer's docudrama Roe
It hit me unexpectedly. I’d been going along for the past seven months telling myself that I didn’t really miss …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:36PMSaturday, September 26, 2020
The first face-to-face debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is scheduled for this Tuesday, Sept. 29, and the uncertainty over the outcome of the election five weeks from now has me in a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:36PMSaturday, September 5, 2020
Traditions are important even—maybe especially—in troubled times. And so although theaters remain dark and I’ve been posting here infrequently, I’ve decided to go ahead with my annua…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:36PMSaturday, August 1, 2020
Macbeth is a great gateway drug for Shakespeare newbies. It’s got a straight-ahead plot, some of the Bard’s most memorable lines, plus witches. Us Shakespeare oldies like it too. It’s …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMSometimes you want a gourmet meal filled with rare or surprising ingredients. But sometimes you just want a big yummy bowl of macaroni and cheese. Seared, the latest play by Theresa Rebeck, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMThe monologue play is an odd hybrid. Unlike traditional monologues in which one actor talks directly to the audience, it usually features three or more performers. But unlike traditional pla…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMIn the old days, when tickets were cheaper, people went to musicals for the thrill of hearing new songs. Today, when seeing a Broadway show can cost more than a car note, they go for the sec…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMYes, I know it’s not a Saturday when I usually post but the holidays and other end-of-the-year obligations have turned my schedule topsy-turvy. So I’ve decided to invoke my old practice …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMIt’s been a while since I last turned on the ghost light that theaters use when they’re temporarily empty but I’m doing it now. That's mainly because I’ve been running around seeing …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PM..and a Happy Chanukah, a tardy Good Winter Solstice, a strong Happy Festivus, a slightly premature Joyous Kwanza and the all-around sincere hope that however you celebrate it, your holiday …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMFor those of us who write about culture, the holiday season includes making Top 10 lists. But this year, I’ve decided against trying to anoint the best shows I’ve seen or even tallying u…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMHappy New Year! Happy New Decade!! Here’s hoping that they’re both filled with more happiness (including lots of good theater) than not. Cheers!!!
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMSing Street, the new musical that opened last week at New York Theatre Workshop and which is the final big show of the fall season to open, arrived with high expectations. But that can hurt …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMBigger isn’t always better. The British director Richard Jones won deserved kudos in 2017 for staging The Hairy Ape in the vast drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory. That production lite…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMNo review post this week (although if you have a chance you should try to catch Talene Monahon’s How to Load a Musket, a really thought-provoking play about historical reenactors and the f…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMThe best preview for the spring 2020 theater season I’ve seen was the one that my friend and fellow theater junkie Howard Sherman posted on his Facebook page a couple of weeks ago:
I c…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMJust like Shakespeare, the great Greek playwrights staged their plays with all-male actors. But unlike the Bard, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides centered many of their plays around great …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMWither the musical? Not the jukebox musical or the ones that strap themselves to popular movies like a shipwreck victim clinging to a lifeboat or even those with rock scores whose songs self…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMOne of my best friends worked for the Negro Ensemble Company back in its heyday and so I got to see the original productions of such shows as Zooman and the Sign, The River Niger and the NEC…
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