Tuesday, December 30, 2014
This is a rave review for a movie that a lot of people didn’t like. It’s based on a musical I loved that a lot of people didn’t like. The music was composed by a genius who leaves …
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMSunday, December 28, 2014
Here's the info from the TCM website on the Neil Simon Film Festival that begins this Friday. Just click here. There will be 17 Neil Simon movies shown the month of January, hosted by …
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 05:52PMFriday, December 5, 2014
Friday Questions will not be seen this week so that we can bring you this special program. Friday Questions will return in its normal time next week. But now, we proudly present: PETER P…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, December 1, 2014
Has NBC promoted their upcoming live version of PETER PAN enough? You can’t leaf through ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY or go to a pop culture website without seeing articles, videos, or discussion…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, November 22, 2014
With the passing of Mike Nichols this week, the world lost a superstar talent. He'd won Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, everything. But many younger people might not know that in the late '50s/early…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, November 17, 2014
The first thing you do is scope out where the local bars are.
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 12:37PMSunday, November 16, 2014
There
was a 1973 movie called THE LAST OF SHEILA. It was a murder mystery
written by, of all people, Stephen Sondheim and Tony Perkins. More
surprising, Tony was not in the movie and S…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
The run of my play, A OR B? at the Falcon Theatre ends on Sunday. If you want to see it, this is your last chance. Here's where you go for tickets. Happily it's been very well rece…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMTuesday, November 4, 2014
We’re at the time of year when networks are beginning to cancel new shows. No matter how successful you are, at one time or another you will find yourself in this position. My heart g…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, November 3, 2014
There is a joke in the first act of my play, A OR B? that always gets a laugh. Makes no difference the size of the audience or age range, it always gets a laugh.
Except… one night. All …
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, October 27, 2014
Here’s the latest installment of the mounting of my play, A or B? now playing at the Falcon Theatre.
Everything was geared towards Opening Night, which was last Friday. We had seven pr…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, October 25, 2014
I'll take it. Any review that starts out with WOW! I'll take. It's from Stage Scene LA. Am I allowed to thank a critic? Oh hell, I'll do it anyway. Thanks Steven Stanley.
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 06:51PMSaturday, October 4, 2014
Even though it's Saturday, here's a Friday Question comes from reader Alyson:
I
recently rewatched Frasier - great show, even better than I remembered.
I'm curious about the fencing scene…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Individual tickets go on sale today! Here’s where. Or you can call 1-818-955-8101. I know this means a whole lot to you folks in Norway or Tuscaloosa. But if you’re going to b…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMThursday, August 14, 2014
Any critic can review movies everyone has seen. But to write reviews for movies that no one has seen and still make them entertaining, that’s a challenge. With GET ON UP I guess I acce…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Broadway musicals are hard to adapt to the screen. They tend to be stylistic on the stage, but don’t translate to the realism of a motion picture. The biggest problem is that people in …
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, June 9, 2014
This is not a full review of the Tony Awards because, well… nobody saw them. Why write jokes that only four people in America will get (although the great comedy writer Jerry Belson used…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMTuesday, May 27, 2014
And it sounds so simple....
But he's right. Brilliant acting advice in only one minute.
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 05:00PMSaturday, May 3, 2014
A number of years ago at the Daily Grill in Brentwood I was waiting at the
valet for my car and there was Neil Simon waiting for his (a nicer one
by the way). I mentioned to my kids, who…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMTuesday, February 11, 2014
Allow me to respond, sir. This is a comment I received last week on my “Tips For Young Playwrights” post. It’s by Angry Gamer. He writes:
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 12:25PMThursday, February 6, 2014
With the Winter Olympics getting underway, I thought today would be a good day to talk about FROZEN.
FROZEN is an example of how you can take a formula, but if you do it really really wel…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
For a TV writer or a playwright, there’s nothing like seeing your first production. After God knows how many specs, one acts, and plays that never saw the light of day, the feeling can be…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, January 25, 2014
This you've GOT to see. That's all I've got to say.
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, January 11, 2014
I
discovered this extraordinary memo from David Mamet to the writers of
THE UNIT, a series he created a few semesters back for CBS. (The
origination of the memo seems to have come from I…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
As a follow up to today's post, thanks to reader Darms for turning me on to this: The Alamo Drafthouse and their uncensored version of a NO CELL PHONE reminder. Brilliant.
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 06:00PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
A new documentary premiered last night on HBO that I can’t recommend highly enough. It’s called SIX BY SONDHEIM. Now before you roll your eyes and say, “yet another Stephen Sondheim…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, December 7, 2013
Here’s what I liked about THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE (or SOUND OF MUSIC TAPE DELAYED on the West Coast). It was event television. The show got big numbers and yesterday everybody was talkin…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, September 28, 2013
These
are pictures from the musical I co-wrote with Janet Brenner, THE 60s
PROJECT. Just by looking at them you can tell it was a great show,
right? Thanks to Janet for the pix.The sh…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 04:00PMSunday, August 18, 2013
TCM is devoting this whole day to a Natalie Wood marathon. There goes my Sunday.
As longtime readers (two weeks) of this blog know, I am obsessed with Natalie Wood. Whenever I can’t f…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 12:24PMSunday, August 11, 2013
Some celebrity deaths hit you much harder than others. Usually it’s because they’re major stars, cultural icons, and they represent a good period of your life. You’re mourning your …
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 01:32PMSaturday, June 29, 2013
The difficulty in securing an agent is not confined to those writers
just starting out. I tried to get a theatrical agent when I wrote my
play a few years ago and hit a brick wall, even wi…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AM 
