Monday, October 24, 2011
I’ve attended backers’ auditions in producers’ posh apartments, hotel banquet rooms, and Sardi’s — most of them for musicals that never raised enough money to s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMAndy Greenhut is getting ready for Sunday, sweet Sunday, with something to do. Once again, he’ll travel from Pennsylvania to Shubert Alley, where he’ll participate in the Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMI walked into the room, and there was Hal Holbrook, sitting on a chair, looking a good deal like the Mark Twain he’s been homaging for a half-century. Frankly, I think Holbrook likes t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMSunday, October 23, 2011
Did you see that article about Wikipedia in the New York Times last Friday? The fifth-largest website on the ‘net planned to hold “an editing marathon” at the New York Publ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22PMFriday, October 21, 2011
T Charles EricksonStephanie Roth Haberle plays the title character and Julio Monge plays the Minotaur in âPhaedra Backwards.â Every playbill routinely lists in what era or year a s…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:17AMWord-of-mouth has been great, and now there’s a good review from Charles Isherwood on Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophets. Let me say that I agree. Some, I fear, will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AMThursday, October 20, 2011
Carol Todd and Jim Shankman star in "Jericho" at the New Jersey Repertory Company. Before each show at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, company producer Gabor Barabas o…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:23AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Exceptionally talented child stars make this take on the classic a must-see
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:30AMLorna Luft, Tyne Daly and Leslie Uggams all coming to area theaters
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:01AMSo if you were in New York on Tuesday and had a nice view of the top of the Empire State Building, you might have noticed that the colors illuminating the building were blue, pink and white.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:17AMSo if you were in New York on Tuesday and had a nice view of the top of the Empire State Building, you might have noticed that the colors illuminating the building were blue, pink and white.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMTuesday, October 18, 2011
By Peter Filichia –
In the entire sixty-five year history of The Tony Awards, only one Tony-losing play has ever been turned into a Tony-winning musical.
And yet, that Tony-loser -- A R…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:34AMMonday, October 17, 2011
There was that season when we had two Wild Partys. We’re about to have two Titus Andronicuses, too: one at Seth Duerr’s Access Theatre (now through Oct. 29), the other at the Public (Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMThere was that season where we had two Wild Partys. We’re about to have two Titus Andronicuses, too: one at Seth Duerr’s Access Theatre (now through Oct. 29), the other at the Pu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, October 14, 2011
It’s a daunting task to play lawyer Atticus Finch in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:40AMDoesn’t time fly? The month is already half-gone, and we’re now at the Ides of October. You’d think that the powers-that-be would have released the film The Ides of March e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMFifty years ago this week, critics were seeing a film about which they’d rave: West Side Story. The next week, audiences would begin to embrace it, and the following April, the Academy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Michael Linden and Rhiannon Hansen in ReVision Theatreâs revival of âLittle Shop of Horrors.â Michael Linden and Rhiannon Hansen in ReVision Theatre’s revival of “Little S…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:01AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
Sherry Rubel The "Ainât Misbehavin'" cast, from left: Johmaalya Adelekan, Jacob Ming-Trent, Zurin Villanueva, Rheaume Crenshaw, J. Leonard Oxley (on piano) and Tyrone Davis Jr…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:38AMBy Peter Filichia –
Here’s a Broadway trivia question that’s not easy to answer. What musical opened on a holiday that celebrates a person mentioned in one of its songs?
No, no musi…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 06:54AMMonday, October 10, 2011
The New York Musical Theatre Festival continues to impress and enchant. Many productions have had the good fortune to have Mike Cohen, Director of Programming, deliver wildly entertaining pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, October 7, 2011
You may have noticed that the tag that I use at the end of the column has changed slightly in the last weeks.
While it used to say, “Check out his book, Broadway Musicals: The Biggest…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMThursday, October 6, 2011
'The Code Breaker' is a genuinely ambitious play aimed at teens but will impress many adults
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AMWednesday, October 5, 2011
It was a little revue of Fats Waller’s songs in a 66-seat cabaret space at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Meanwhile, on that theater’s mainstage was an Athol Fugard play that had received r…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:19AMShow-business veteran Tyne Daly is getting a break, relatively speaking, as she moves from her Broadway performance in âMaster Classâ to creating a role in the new musical âIt…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:12AMAh, the pre-show speech! Some directors come before us and state that tickets only pay for a quarter of a show’s expenses. Others say that a cast member has been ill, so we should now …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Never mind that 36 years have already passed since A Chorus Line opened on Broadway. What’s really astonishing is that five years have already passed since the revival of A Chorus Line ope…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:42PMHave you heard? “Natasha’s shtupping Protopopov.” So says Chebutykin in Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, now at Yale Rep in New Haven. Ruhl&r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMSaturday, October 1, 2011
What had been a big flop in Millburn now looks better in Parsippany
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AMFriday, September 30, 2011
And so, at 11 p.m. on Sunday night, the 2006-2007 season came to an end. Let’s take a look at it from A-to-Z.
A is for Angela Lansbury, who wins the award for Receiving the Biggest B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMWhat a nice and pleasant young man Duncan Sheik is! We had a lovely time talking and drinking at Sardi’s. I enjoyed hearing how, in the third grade in Hilton Head, South Carolina, he w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PM 
