Saturday, April 13, 2024
It’s being an unusually busy theater season this spring with a baker’s dozen of Broadway shows still scheduled to open between now and the end of the month. So it’s no surprise that sm…
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: “Strange Interlude”1928 Puli…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Wishing you all the joy and drama and empathy that good theater always brings
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:36PMSaturday, March 23, 2024
In the journalism business we say that three occurrences of a thing make it a trend and so right now the hottest trend in theater seems to be musicals centered around the memories of old guy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:12PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
You can usually tell within the first 10 minutes or so of seeing a show whether you’re in good hands. And I knew right away that I was in very good hands when I saw Dead Outlaw, the first …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:42PMSaturday, March 2, 2024
We’re now used to getting musicals based on movies but it’s rarer for a straight play to be adapted from a film. However that’s the case with The Hunt, which opened this week at S…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:42PMSaturday, February 24, 2024
If I had access to a time machine one stop I’d make would be sometime around 1960 at Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village where young playwrights like John Guare, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:02AMSaturday, February 17, 2024
Valentine’s Day was celebrated this past week and the new show I Love You So Much I Could Die, which opened at New York Theatre Workshop on Feb. 14, struck me as an ultimate gesture of lov…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:36PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
Journalists love stories about journalism. We even love the stories that cast us in a bad light. And I'll admit that’s part of the reason that The Connector, which was inspired by the stor…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:12AMThe 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. Sarah Gancher (Playwr…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:00AMAll 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: “The Teahouse of the August Mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, February 3, 2024
Sometimes you just don’t get a show. Maybe its subject triggers you or fails to grab you at all. Maybe the playwright was trying to do too much or the director didn’t do enough. Or maybe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:02PMSaturday, January 27, 2024
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day, which was created to commemorate the six million Jews and others who were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis. But New York theater makers …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:24PMSaturday, January 20, 2024
Previews are all about the promise of what’s to come so I suppose it’s no surprise that the last time I posted a preview list of the shows I was excited about seeing in an upcoming seaso…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:02PMSaturday, January 13, 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: “Idiot’s Delight”1936 Puli…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, December 23, 2023
It’s that time of year when people like me draw up Top 10 lists ranking the cultural experiences they’ve had over the past 12 months but, as some of you know, 2023 hasn’t been a great …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:54PMSaturday, October 7, 2023
To truly appreciate Melissa Etheridge: My Window, you may need to be a hardcore fan of the singer-songwriter or a member of Generation X, who was born between 1965 and 1980, grew up with Eth…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:43PMTuesday, September 26, 2023
The news came this week that two titans of New York theater will be stepping down from the powerful perches on which they’ve long roosted. André Bishop who has lead Lincoln Center Theater…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:55AMSaturday, September 9, 2023
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: “Alison’s House”1931 Pulit…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, September 2, 2023
Somehow the weeks in July and August always seem to fly by more quickly than those during the rest of the year. And so here we are again at the end of the summer and, as I do every Labor Day…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:55AMSaturday, August 12, 2023
Listening to the waves of laughter that greeted the new comedy The Shark is Broken made me wonder if we might be entering the era of jukebox plays that pander to the folks who love particula…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:19PMAll 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. Rob Fisher and Sheldon Harnick on Sheldon’s 99th birthday in…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, August 5, 2023
Why is Frank Wood, not just a stalwart of New York theater but a Tony winner, lying on the floor and playing a dying dog? That’s the question I kept asking myself as I sat watching Toros, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:04PMSaturday, July 29, 2023
It’s 1998 and the five starting players for the Lady Train, the all-black girls basketball team in a small Arkansas town, aren’t dirt poor or bougie rich. The problems they’re dealing …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:33AMThursday, July 27, 2023
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. Deirdre Kinahan, Play…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:00PMSaturday, July 8, 2023
Like most theater obsessives, I take pride in my collection of experiences that give me bragging rights—I saw Hamilton at the Public before it was a hit! I saw Glory Days, which opened and…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:33PMFriday, July 7, 2023
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 Flick”2014 Pulitzer win…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:00PMSaturday, July 1, 2023
Happy Fourth of July Weekend! Time has been so slippery over these past three pandemic years and global warming is now playing such havoc with the weather that on some days just breathing …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:13AMWednesday, June 14, 2023
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: Eboni Booth, P…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01PMSaturday, June 10, 2023
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and I go back a long way. I saw his first New York show down at P.S. 122 right after its director quit during previews and one of the actors published a pie…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:43PMAll 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: “Buried Child”1979 Pulitzer …
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