Saturday, August 2, 2025
The New York Times recently published a fancy interactive list of what it considers to be "The Best Movies of the 21st Century."Â The editors say they assembled the list by asking more th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2025
It's often said that imitation is the highest form of flattery but sometimes it's just a knock-off of something more original. And I'm afraid the latter seems to be the case with Ginger Twin…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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. Charles Randolph-Wrig…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 12, 2025
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 to Succeed in Business With…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2025
We've already had our first heat waves of the season"the temperature hit 101° in Central Park this past week!"which is a sure sign that summer is here. But for almost 20 years now, the su…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 14, 2025
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 Diary of Anne Frank"1956 Pu…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 7, 2025
In most tellings of the myth about the ill-fated love story between Orpheus and Eurydice that famously has him going to the underworld to bring her back from the dead, he gets top billing an…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2025
Several years ago, I reported a piece on the Smithsonian's "American Popular Song" album, which was intended to be a collection of the best rendition of each song in the Great American Songb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:32AM[SHARE]This is a slightly different post than I use write but maybe like me, you have wondered why the nominators for so many different theater awards seem to love the actress Kara Young so much th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2025
A new genre has been developing over the past few years, one that in tribute to the post-war change in British theater I've been calling "angry young women plays."Â Â
These new works mo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:02AM[SHARE]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: "Lost in Yonkers"1991 Pulitzer w…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2025
The 2024-2025 theater season ends on Sunday with the dual openings of the musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves. And I'm exhausted. But it's the kind of good exhaustion that com…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 19, 2025
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The ever present tension between art and commerce moves centerstage in three recently opened off-Broadway productions"Irishtown at the Irish Repertory Theatre, I'm Assuming You Kn…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2025
Bob Martin burst onto the Broadway scene back in 2006 with The Drowsy Chaperone, a loving send-up of Broadway musicals that ran for 674 performances, was nominated for 13 Tony awards and won…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:12PM[SHARE]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: "Long Day's Journey into Night"1…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2025
As everyone knows, big name movie and TV stars have been invading Broadway this spring (click here for a rundown of who is doing what) and theatergoers are paying big bucks for the bragging …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 8, 2025
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: "A Strange Loop"2020 Pulitzer wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2025
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. L to R: Adina Verson,…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 1, 2025
Even though these are crazy times, I don't know how I let last week's anniversary of Broadway & Me slip by. I started writing here on Feb. 14, 2007, which means it's now been 18 years (a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2025
A thank you to the National Endowment for the Arts is prominently displayed on the cover of the program for My Man Kono, the new show that Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opened this week at A.R…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2025
History, they say, is written by the winners and the winners in Jordan Harrison's thought-provoking new play The Antiquities are the artificial intelligence entities that the play imagines w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:06PM[SHARE]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 Old Maid"1935Â Pulitzer w…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2025
When the Palestinian playwright Khawla Ibraheem began working on her one-woman show A Knock on the Roof a decade ago, it was a 10-minute monologue. Now the show, which is currently playin…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 11, 2025
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 Kentucky Cycle"1992Â Puli…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 4, 2025
Some theater-goers lust after seeing big-name stars and there will be plenty of them for those folks to see in the upcoming spring season, from theater-grown ones like Idina Menzel in Redwoo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 28, 2024
It's that time of year when people like me who are lucky enough to see lots of shows are supposed to look back and draw up a list of the ones we consider to have been the best. But that's al…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Leslye Headland has developed a following for her acclaimed Netflix series "Russian Doll" and for "The Acolyte," the Disney Channel's latest installment of the "Star Wars" saga. And if Cult …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 14, 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: "The Great White Hope"1969Â Pu…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 7, 2024
There are lots of marquee-names in Shit. Meet. Fan., the naughtily-titled comedy that is currently running at MCC Theater. But the show's true star may be its set, a duplex apartment that sc…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2024
As everyone knows, musicals are the mainstays of Broadway and four big ones opened over the last two weeks. But I've been so busy running out to see them"and seeing other shows too (if you h…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:31PM[SHARE] 
