It’s always sad to hear that a show is closing prematurely. And that’s true whether or not you had a good time when you saw it. Cause I’m feeling badly for the cast and crew of Hands o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMIf you’d asked, I’d have said that one-person shows were my least favorite form of theater. So it’s been truly surprising to find that some of the shows I’ve most enjoyed this season…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:43PMFairy tales ain’t what they used to be. Books like “Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister” and “Glass Slippers & Jeweled Masques” have brought an edgier, and even erotic, vibe to t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:22AMEven before it opened the Pershing Square Center complex last year and turned it into a prime hangout for theater lovers, the Signature Theatre Company was beloved for focusing an entire sea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:36AMHonky, the provocatively named comedy now running at Urban Stages, kicks off with a not very funny incident: a black kid is killed for his sneakers and sales spike at the Nike-style company …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AMPassover begins on Monday evening and although My Name is Asher Lev opened four months ago and has extended its run at the Westside Theatre through Sept. 1, it’s hard to think of a b…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:27AMThe expectation we have for playwrights is the same as we have for parents: that they should love all their children equally. Of course they don’t. Both tend to have a soft spot for …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:22AMSometimes you just need a good laugh. At least that’s how I’ve been feeling over the past couple of weeks as I’ve gone from one disappointing show to the next. I usually ta…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMMaybe I’m just in a cranky mood. Because I’ve seen nearly two dozen show so far this calendar year and I can count the ones I’ve liked on one hand, with a few fingers left over. …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:45PMLanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly is a small play in almost every way. It’s a two-hander and all the action takes place on a single set, a rundown boathouse near a farm in Lebanon,…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMWell, I guess it’s official: I am truly not a John Doyle gal. The Scottish- born director has earned all kinds of kudos from critics (most notably the New York Times’ Ben Brantley)…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:29AMYoung Hollywood stars coming to New York to act in plays is so last year. Now, they’re writing the plays. Just this past week, I saw The Revisionist, a new play by Jesse Eisenberg, m…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:05PMFew things are more annoying than having someone go on and on about how some long-gone production was so much better than the one that you can see right now. So I’m going to have to …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:28AMIt takes both talent and moxie to make it in show business. And Paul Downs Colaizzo, the 27-year-old playwright whose first play Really Really opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Tuesday…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:26AMThe folks at Warner Bros. emailed to ask me if I’d be interested in receiving and reviewing their new DVD box set of movie musicals. I get offers like this a lot and I tend not to respond …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AMLet’s face it: the fall theater season was disappointing as hell. Of the 20 or so shows that opened on Broadway between last year’s Tony broadcast and the dropping of the ball in …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:03AMTomorrow is going to be a big day for me because it is both Valentine’s Day (for which my beloved husband K and I have special plans) and the sixth anniversary of Broadway & Me, which …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:47AMAudience participation is not my thing. So you might think that The Mystery of Edwin Drood would not be my kind of show. At least, that’s what I feared. For this musical, ba…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:54AMEverything I’d read about the latest revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof promised that it was going to be a hot mess. The show’s top-billed star Scarlett Johansson kep…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:08AMSometimes you really can’t go home again. Encores!, the great concert series that celebrates the American musical, decided to celebrate its 20th season by going back to Fiorello!, th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:42AMThe Jammer, the roller derby comedy that opened at the Atlantic Stage 2 last week, is a goofball of a show. And I mean that as a total compliment. Unless the action is s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:05AMThe coming out narrative, in which a young or closeted homosexual struggles to accept his or her sexual identity, has been the dominant theme in gay literature since at least 1862 when the p…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:30AMDirectors often say that casting is the most important decision they make since putting the right or wrong person in a role can make or break a show. By that measure, the Roundabout Th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:39AMWe regular Broadway theatergoers have gotten used to playing host to movie stars over the past few years. But most of them have been young starlets (male and female) hoping to make the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:32AMSo many shows, so little time. And since the traditional January post-holiday reaping is now here, they’re closing faster than I can write about them. Some of those clo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:40AMThe news that she was getting $10,000 and a place at the table alongside America’s greatest playwrights must have thrilled Quiara Alegría Hudes when she got the news that her play Water b…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:54AMToday, January 9th, is my husband K’s and my anniversary and so I’m taking time out to celebrate with the man I love even more than I love theater. But before I sign…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:06AMDead Accounts is playing its final performance tomorrow, closing three months before it had planned. I’m writing about it at this late date because I want to make the argument that the pro…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:29AMPeople began posting 10 best lists so early that I don’t know how they even managed to see—let alone rate—all the shows that opened in November and December (click here for a han…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMIt’s no surprise that film critics are pooh-poohing the new movie version of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s pop opera Les Misérables. Just as it’s no surprise that…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AMMay your holidays sparkle with peace, love, happiness —and the thrill of great theater. In the meantime, have yourself the merriest little Christmas.
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