Although he's usually game for just about anything, my theatergoing buddy Bill declined when I suggested that we see Ghost Light, the immersive theatrical experience that the experimental th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:54AMDominique Morisseau's reputation as both a lyrical and thoughtful playwright has been growing for a few years now. Detroit '67, the first in a three-play cycle she wrote about her hometown, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:54PMToday would have been my mother's 100th birthday so although she left us 14 years ago, I'm going to take time out from the usual postings to wish her a Happy Birthday and to give her a stand…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:24AMThe producers of 1984 are marketing their show as though it were a horror movie. They've put out a warning that children under 13 will not be admitted (click here to read about that). And th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:18PMWhat's the purpose of life? I know that's a ridiculously big question but it's been on my mind because two shows I've recently seen take direct aim at that metaphysical enigma. And bot…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:42PMHappy Fifth of July. The Independence Day fireworks may be over but we've still got nine more weeks of summer to celebrate until Labor Day. For me that means time to sit on our terrace …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:48PMThe woman sitting next to me at the Roundabout Company's Laura Pels Theatre was the perfect audience for Napoli, Brooklyn, the new family drama that opened there this week. She guffawed…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:04AMMadness is unimaginable to those of us unaffected by it and yet that hasn't stopped writers from trying to recreate what it must feel like to lose control of one's mind. And actors also embr…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMMy husband K and I are away on vacation so no posts until we get back next week.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:54AMThe Red Bull Theater Company has a gift for silliness. Its production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th century classic The School for Scandal was one of the best evenings I had in th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMThe 2016-2017 theater season that ended on Sunday night with the Tony Awards ceremony hosted by Kevin Spacey was one of the best in recent memory. That made the contest for the top prizes on…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMAfter enduring 40 days of awards lunches, newspaper ads, TV appearances, magazine interviews and all kinds of social media interactions, the Broadway community (fans included) will finally g…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:24AMHas someone been traveling around peddling the idea that all a play now needs to be successful is quirky characters, snappy dialog and a speech at the end about the meaning of life? I …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:18AMThe Tony Awards ceremony, which will air on CBS next Sunday, June 11, is more than just a celebration of the best of the theater season. It's the way that many people, especially those outsi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:48AMOver the past few months, I've been bingeing on the big awards-baiting musicals that have opened on Broadway. Several of them are terrific but it was nice last week to see two smaller shows …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:06AMJust like everyone else involved in putting on a show, costume and set designers see their main job as telling a story. But that job--and winning a Tony for it--is harder than it looks. Desi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMMost people know A.A. Milne as the creator of the Winnie-the-Pooh children's stories but in the two decades before he published the first Pooh book in 1926, Milne was best known as a humoris…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:05PMThe race is on. It may be done more politely than it was during our last presidential campaign (thank goodness), but the Tony nominees are beginning to elbow one another out of the way as th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:06AMGetting a show in front of a mainstream audience ain't easy and it can be even tougher when you're a playwright of color. Which is why I'm happy to have seen Martín Zimmerman's Seven Spots …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:54PMThe theater awards season is like a presidential campaign. Everyone has their eyes on the ultimate prize but there are lots of other contests along the way that offer trophies and with them,…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AMI promise to get back to talking about shows I've seen soon but as a card-carrying member of the Outer Critics Circle, I feel honor-bound to tout the awards we announced on Monday. The OCC r…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:24PMAll Tony awards are coveted but the awards for Best Musical tend to be the most coveted of all. And because 13 new musicals debuted during the 2016-2017 season, the odds of getting one this …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:06PMIf you're reading this blog, then you already know that the Tony nominations were announced yesterday. And depending on how you look at it, this year's nominators had one of the toughe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:18PMLike most talented playwrights these days, Annie Baker has no doubt been asked to spend some time in a writers' room for one of the prestige TV shows. But on the basis of her new play The An…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AMThere's no question that the Tonys are the Oscars, or most desired awards, of the theater world but there are other coveted prizes too. Yesterday, the Outer Critics Circle, of which I'm a pr…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMThe Tonys may be the top dog in awards season but it's not the only one in the game. Lots of other groups also celebrate the best of the theater season. The nominations for the Lucille …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMPlaywrights Horizons hasn't made a big deal of it but over the past year, the company seems to have gone out of its way to tell stories about people whose lives rarely get shown onstage and …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:48PM--> Now this is more like it. Unlike last week when I got crickets in response to my giveaway quiz, a whole bunch of you wrote in for the chance to win the new book �…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:50AMYou B&Me readers are a clever bunch: everyone who wrote in for the chance to win a free digital download of the cast recording for the new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:13AMHas the art of romance been totally lost? I ask because three versions of what is arguably the most romantic play of all time, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (you know, the one where…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:31PM--> New Yorkers (and the tourists who come here) have been almost as enchanted with Matilda, the musical based on the classic Roald Dahl story about a very smart girl and her ver…
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