Saturday, November 10, 2012
There will be, alas, no post day, and maybe not again until next Saturday. And here's why: in addition to the usual madness that always descends
at this time of year—the sprint towar…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:41AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
From Jan: Samuel D. Hunter knew that he was going to alienate some
people by making a 600-pound man the central character in his new play The
Whale. As he told the online theater magaz…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:34AMSaturday, November 3, 2012
Nerds—even the homeliest ones—rule in today’s pop culture. They’re
the stars of hit movies and TV shows. In real life, many are rich and envied. And
the prettiest girls don’t even …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:03AMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Hurricane Sandy has done its considerable damage and is now
gone. My husband K and I hunkered down and got through it
with no problems at all, save for a few flickering lights during the wor…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMSaturday, October 27, 2012
With just 10 days to go before the election and Romney
steadily gaining on Obama, you probably don’t need anyone to tell you how
disappointing idealism can sometimes be, how messy democrac…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:05AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
It’s not easy to talk
honestly about race. And the fact that
it’s no longer just a black-and-white issue in this country ups the degree
of difficulty. Still, many of today’…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMSaturday, October 20, 2012
Hallie Foote has been celebrated as the foremost interpreter
of the plays by her late father Horton Foote and more recently of those by her younger
sister Daisy. But as I watched Daisy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:09AMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Polls say that atheism is rising in the U.S. and that even
believers go to church less often than they once did. But God still seems to be
talking to America’s playwrights.
Faith…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:29AMWednesday, October 10, 2012
In some ways, the Theatre at St. Clement’s, a haven for so
many theatrical endeavors over the years, is the perfect place for Ten
Chimneys, a play about the legendary actors Alfred Lunt an…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:02AMSaturday, October 6, 2012
It’s not often that I’m haunted by a piece of theater but AdA:
Author directing Author, a pair of one-act plays that opened at La MaMa this week,
won’t let me go. The funny thing is th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:55PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Even if you’ve been in a coma for the past month, the news
certainly must have gotten to you by now that the first of the debates between
President Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:37AMSaturday, September 29, 2012
If There is I Haven’t Found It Yet, the dysfunctional
family drama that opened at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre
this week, has been getting all kinds of a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:09PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
Red Dog Howls, which opened at the New York Theatre Workshop
this week, isn’t a well-made play. It
has no real conflict. Crucial bits of information are held back in a strained
effor…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:28AMSaturday, September 22, 2012
Sometimes, as hard as I might try, I just don’t get it. For
instance, I know that I’m supposed to like Detroit, the new dark comedy that
opened at Playwrights Horizons this past week.&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
People have been so eager to badmouth the new musical
Chaplin that opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre last week that I’ve been
trying to figure out why they’ve been so hostile towards…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:14AMSaturday, September 15, 2012
Like most of you, I’ve been looking through all the fall
previews that everyone else has been doing and, to be honest, I don’t know that
there are all that many shows that …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:27PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Let’s face it, I’m not the demographic that the producers had
in mind when they decided to bring Bring It On to Broadway. And yet, like just about everyone else who
has seen this h…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve lost two people who
played significant roles in shaping my life. So I’m taking time out from my
usual posts to pay honor to their memories.
…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:56PMSaturday, September 1, 2012
How did the summer pass so quickly that we’re now staring in
the face of Labor Day? This is
always a bittersweet time of year for me because it means that the idylls of
summer are en…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
There are some playwrights whose work you can just rear back
and enjoy. And then there are others who
force you to sit up in your seat and work.
Sam Shepard has always fallen in …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMSaturday, August 25, 2012
Even though he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (not to mention an Oscar for the screenplay of "To Kill a Mockingbird") Horton Foote was often considered to be the most unsung
of America’s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:11AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
We should all be so lucky as to have a friend as good as Woody
Harrelson. As has now been told
many times, Harrelson worked a construction job in the summer of 1983 and
became buddies …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:26AMSaturday, August 18, 2012
Unless a friend, relative or lover is doing one of its
shows, deciding what to see at the New York International Fringe Festival can
be daunting. Not to mention
disappointing. There ar…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Summer is supposed to be the quiet season for New York
theatergoers but somebody apparently forgot to send that memo to the folks who
organized all the theater festivals that have been going…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:30AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
The first real writing I ever did was a reworking of Grimm’s
Fairy Tales because they just didn’t make sense to my 8 year-old self. As I
recall, I made them more agreeable by changing so…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Yep, it's that time again. We're heading into the dog days of summer when everything
slows down. Including B& Me.
As seems to have become a tradition around this time each ye…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Actors and directors love to do classic works. It gives them a chance to size themselves up against the myths and memories of earlier, legendary performances and
produc…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
It would be hard to find a show with a more impressive pedigree than
the one for Dogfight, the lovely little musical that opened at Second Stage
Theatre on Monday night:
•Its directo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
There’s a lot that's similar about Bonnie & Clyde, the Frank
Wildhorn musical about the Depression-era gangsters that closed in December
after just 36 performances, and Baby Case, the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:19AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
Several small off-Broadway shows have come and gone over the
past few months while I’ve been preoccupied with all the Broadway openings at
the end of the season, the deserved hoopla leadin…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:00PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Summertime is tourist time in New York and one of the main things people want to do when they get here is see a Broadway show. But not just any show. Most want to take in a big B…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AM 
