--> 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…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AMFemale actors didn’t appear on the professional stage until about 50 years after Shakespeare’s death. Which explains, at least in part, why actresses are always lamenting the paucity of …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:27AM--> Word of mouth has not been kind to The Film Society, the Keen Company’s revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s first play, now running at The Clurman Theater on Theater Row through Oc…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:38AM--> Philip Goes Forth seemed tailor-made for me. It’s a play about a young man who dreams of a life in the theater. It was written by George Kelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:25AM--> This is the first time that The Old Friends, the Horton Foote melodrama now playing at Signature Theatre’s Irene Diamond Stage through Oct. 20, has been fully staged. And …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:17AM--> Seeing a bioplay always makes me nervous that what I’m going to get is caricatures instead of characters. Seeing one with my husband K, who hates watching people pretend to…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:06AMMaybe if I’d known more about Brendan Behan, I would have had a better time at Brendan at the Chelsea, the gloomy drama about the Irish poet and playwright Brendan Behan that’s playing a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:04AM--> You don’t have to love a show to admire it. At least that’s how I’m feeling about two of the shows that have kicked off this new fall season. The first I saw w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AM--> Between you and me, I’m a little reluctant to list the shows I’m most looking forward to this fall. That’s because my picks for past seasons have turned out to be…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:23AM--> Lots of people seem charmed by First Date, the first musical to open in this new Broadway season. And I wish I could have been too. Because I admire the fact …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:20AM--> Labor Day has snuck up on me this year because it’s been a busier summer than usual. Some publications have asked me to write about theater-related subjects and instead of …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:35AM--> We need more poor playwrights. I don't mean bad writers or even those who are living hand-to mouth for the sake of their art but people who have grown up in families that had …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMThere’s a certain magic about seeing a show in Central Park, no matter what the show is. I’ve seen two there over the last couple of weeks and although not crazy about either, I’…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:05AMWe theater lovers used to beg for things to see in the summer. And so we got festivals. Lots and lots of festivals. Maybe too many festivals. There’s the New York Music…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMTheater slows down in August. Or at least I do. So while I’ll continue seeing a few shows, I’ll only be writing about them here once a week, instead of the usual twice, until somet…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMJust like the TV reality shows it lampoons, the new musical Nobody Loves You, now playing at Second Stage Theatre through Aug. 11, is silly and yet enjoyable at the same time. The playwri…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:29AMWe're all obsessed with celebrity these days and almost everyone (me included) has a story to tell about an encounter with one. Writer Elizabeth Fuller’s was with the movie star Bette Davi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AMComeuppance for the financial scoundrels who bilked people out of their savings and helped wreck the broader economy is once again a hot topic. In “Blue Jasmine,” the new Woody All…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:35AMChoir Boy isn’t a musical but the best thing about it is the singing. Now playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s studio space at New York City Center through Aug. 4, this ambitious work…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:12PMI'm back and I bring news of something light and breezy and perfect for summer theatergoing. Because it would be hard to find a more buoyant offering than The Explorers Club, the airy comedy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:55AMMy husband K and I are off on our first big vacation in a long while and so there will be no new posts here for the next couple of weeks. Which is why you're now looking at the ghost l…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:00AMSummer is my favorite time of the year. And one of the things I love about it is sharing this annual list of books for theater lovers to read at the beach, under a tree or, perhaps like me, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMMy mother gave me my first diary when I was eight years old and I continued to keep a journal into my 30s, thinking, I’m now chagrined to confess, that I might one day be famous and so sho…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:44PMGiven a choice between Shakespeare’s comedies and his tragedies, I’ll line up on the side of the serious stuff almost every time. Which is why I was nervous when I set off to meet my the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:21AMMaybe if I’d had a better sense of who Charles Ives is, I'd have had a better time at Charles Ives Take Me Home, the new play that is running at the Rattlestick Playwright…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:11AMPlaywright John Guare has given us many enjoyable nights in the theater with such works as The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation and A Free Man of Color (click here to read my …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:01AMThe question is the same every year: should the Tony Awards be a celebration for Broadway insiders and their fellow travelers (like me) or should the televised ceremony be basically a …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:23AMOff-Broadway shows usually come and go more quickly than big main-stem Broadway productions (unless those productions are duds or feature big Hollywood stars who sign up for limited runs or …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:29AMNostalgia for the 1950s, the childhood years of the baby boomers, will probably hold strong as long as the boomers do. But, as the TV series “Mad Men” has shown, ruminations about …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:00AMAnyone with even the slightest awareness of the young pop star Justin Bieber and his recent antics knows that the mix of celebrity and adolescence can be a toxic combination. So it’s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:35AM“Smash,” which ended its two-season run on NBC this past Sunday night, was like that friend you’re embarrassed by and are always thinking you should drop because she just doesn’t kno…
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