Saturday, August 1, 2020
Happy Fourth of July! This is obviously a more unusual summer than most. COVID-19 continues its rampage across the country and most theaters remain closed. People are marching in the streets…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMGood news, particularly good news about theater, has been hard to find over the last two months since concerns about the coronavirus locked most of us indoors and closed theaters around the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMMy pals at BroadwayRadio invited me to join them for this past Sunday’s “This Week on Broadway“ podcast. We talked about some of our all-time favorite plays (you can hear us by clicki…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMSaturday, March 14, 2020
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: Katori Hall, P…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, February 15, 2020
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: Zora Howard, P…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, November 23, 2019
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: Alexis Scheer …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, October 19, 2019
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: Stagecraft: Wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:01AMSaturday, September 28, 2019
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: Stagecraft: Mf…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, September 14, 2019
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: Stagecraft: Je…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, August 31, 2019
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: Stagecraft: Be…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, July 20, 2019
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: Winter Miller,…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:01AMFriday, May 31, 2019
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: Jesse Eisenber…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00PMFriday, May 24, 2019
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: Adam Seidel…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:00PMFriday, May 10, 2019
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: Robert Horn…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:01PMSaturday, April 20, 2019
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: Thaddeus Ph…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, March 2, 2019
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: Madeleine …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, February 23, 2019
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: Loy A. Web…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, February 2, 2019
One of the questions I often ask myself after seeing a new show is: why are the show makers telling me this story? I haven’t been able to figure out the answer to that question …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:18AMThe Convent, the new play by Jessica Dickey, is like a mashup of Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds about a disparate group of people trying to find themselves on a spiritual retreat, and Cary…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:18AMFriday, February 1, 2019
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: Bob Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:00PMFriday, January 25, 2019
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: Charly Evon S…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00PMSaturday, January 19, 2019
Transgression—social, sexual and otherwise—has been the bread and butter of Neil LaBute’s career. It might be the downfall of it too. Last year, allegations about some unidentified mis…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AMSaturday, January 12, 2019
Something radical is happening on New York stages this season. It’s mainly taking place off-Broadway and it’s largely being driven by women of color who have written that most traditiona…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMMost theatergoers, especially those with limited time and resources, try to figure out which shows to see through a combination of word of mouth, social media and official reviews, particula…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMLife has gotten crazy again and I couldn't find the time to write this week. So as I usually do when this happens, I'm turning on the ghost light that theaters use when they're temporarily e…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMOver the past decade the playwright Theresa Rebeck has had four shows premiere on Broadway and at least a half dozen others open in major off-Broadway productions. And I can’t figure…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMThe end of the year has sneaked up on me. I got lost in the whir of finishing the school semester where I teach, getting ready for Christmas and dealing with some health problems (nothing se…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMYep; I've slipped back into a hole that’s going to keep me from doing a regular post today. But this isn't a disagreeable hole. I fell into it by (1) reading two fascinating books about 19…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMThe weather has been unseasonably warm here in the city but the winter theater festivals, including a few new ones, are plowing ahead as usual and so I thought I’d do a redux of the guide …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMFriday, December 7, 2018
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: Christopher D…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:00PMSaturday, November 10, 2018
As regular readers of this blog know, I'm crazy about my husband K. I also really appreciate his patience in allowing me to take up so much of my time with theater. We're just a third o…
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