Sunday, December 3, 2017
If you read a review of a movie and then go to the multiplex, you’ll see frame-for-frame exactly what the...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 10:12PMMonday, November 27, 2017
The audience’s grunt came early. With all the charges of sexual harassment in the news, there was an extra punch...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:01PMMonday, November 13, 2017
For the last third of a century, a concerted effort has been made to have children become aware of...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 12:36AMMonday, October 30, 2017
It sounds impossible. And it SHOULD be impossible. But David Greenspan is proving that it isn’t. He’s decided to memorize...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:03AMMonday, October 23, 2017
Only the incarcerated disagree. But all other adults will tell you that time goes fast. A fall from grace can...Continue Reading
The post TIME AND THE CONWAYS: Time and the Wrong Way appeare…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 05:40AMMonday, October 16, 2017
They must have watched each of “the classic 39 episodes” at least 39 times. For Michael McGrath has indeed become...Continue Reading
The post THE HONEYMOONERS: All Hail the Actors! appea…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:09AMMonday, October 9, 2017
It would seem to be an impossible task. How could two writers take one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” and have...Continue Reading
The post DESPERATE MEASURES: Better Than Shakespeare…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:10AMMonday, October 2, 2017
Was this another way of celebrating WEST SIDE STORY’s 60th anniversary? Last week, the venerable 1957 musical was much in...Continue Reading
The post A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is the new black-he…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:00AMMonday, September 25, 2017
It’s almost getting monotonous. Every new mounting of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG shows that its many, many assets far outweigh...Continue Reading
The post MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: Redeemed Once A…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:52AMMonday, September 18, 2017
One of the first lines you’ll hear is “I could kill a fag right now.” Don’t get up to leave....Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:48AMMonday, September 4, 2017
But why? In his new play INANIMATE, Nick Robideau tells us about an atypical sexual fetish that may surprise some,...Continue Reading
The post INANIMATE: A Subject Subjected to No Scrutiny a…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:09AMMonday, August 28, 2017
What an understatement. PRINCE OF BROADWAY? He became the king a long time ago. But because Harold’s surname is Prince,...Continue Reading
The post PRINCE OF BROADWAY: A Misnamed Mini-Mast…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:42AMMonday, August 21, 2017
Bette Midler may not be getting better or stronger entrance applause. At THE TERMS OF MY SURRENDER, a tsunami of...Continue Reading
The post Michael Moore Strikes a Flint and Lights a Fire a…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:44AMMonday, August 14, 2017
Experiencing A PARALELLOGRAM at Second Stage is the theatergoer’s version of walking into a meadow, spotting a butterfly, trying to...Continue Reading
The post A PARALLELOGRAM: Four Sides …
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:40AMMonday, August 7, 2017
Last Tuesday night at HELLO, DOLLY! Beanie Feldstein made the audience adore Minnie Fay; David Hyde Pierce and Kate...Continue Reading
The post HELLO, DOLLY! — CALL ON DONNA! ap…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:02AMMonday, July 24, 2017
Honor thy great-grandfather and great-grandmother. You can do so by seeing AMERIKE – THE GOLDEN LAND at the National Yiddish...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:38AMMonday, July 17, 2017
And it starts out so good. After we watch the King of Denmark killed and then lying in state, we’re...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:42AMMonday, July 10, 2017
Frankly, it isn’t that scary. And I’m the kind of guy who shuts his eyes tight whenever I’m subjected to...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:37AMMonday, July 3, 2017
Talk about being “in the room where it happens” … That’s exactly where you’ll be if you attend BLOOD ON...Continue Reading
The post BLOOD ON THE SNOW: History in the Making appeare…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:50AMMonday, June 26, 2017
“People thought I was crazy to do this,” he told the audience after he took his final curtain call....Continue Reading
The post CLARENCE, IS THAT YOU? appeared first on BroadwaySe…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:42AMMonday, June 19, 2017
Would they applaud and cheer the assassination? Well, we now know that Delta Airlines and Bank of America didn’t. But...Continue Reading
The post JULIUS CAESAR: Can It Be a Play for Our Ti…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:35AMMonday, June 12, 2017
In April, when I e-mailed Ike Murry McEntire about attending his Murry’s Dinner Playhouse in Little Rock, he wrote to...Continue Reading
The post (NEARLY) THE LAST DINNER THEATER IN AM…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:57AMMonday, June 5, 2017
What’s good for the boys in THE FULL MONTY is good for THE GIRLS. The fine new London musical by...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:48AMMonday, May 29, 2017
An apologetic Curtis Taylor, Jr.? In every production of DREAMGIRLS that I’ve seen, when Curtis must tell his girlfriend Effie...Continue Reading
The post DREAMGIRLS: London, at Last! appe…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:47AMMonday, May 22, 2017
So, as the expression goes in all murder mysteries, “Whodunnit?” The answer: scenic designer Anna Louizos. But I don’t...Continue Reading
The post CLUE ON STAGE: At the End of I…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 03:38AMMonday, May 15, 2017
Here’s a twist to that old question: “Is there life after death?” In the new musical CURVY WIDOW, the issue...Continue Reading
The post CURVY WIDOW: The Lioness in Winter appeared …
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:13AMMonday, May 8, 2017
He started challenging audiences 60 years ago by writing lyrics that would be sung by street gangs. Horrendous mothers, crooked...Continue Reading
The post PACIFIC OVERTURES: Sondheim at His…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:07AMMonday, May 1, 2017
I’ve seen the 1971 film and the 2005 one as well — and was appalled each time. Whether the...Continue Reading
The post CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and THE LITTLE FOXES: …
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:30AMSaturday, June 4, 2016
Alas, there won’t be a June Brainteaser. This is my last column for Kritzerland. I need more time to work on a musical with Douglas J. Cohen and Gerard Alessandrini. Wish us luck!
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:01PMThis is Peter’s final column in ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s been a pleasure and an honor to share this column with our DCMTA writers. THIS WEEK: The Answer to May�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AMFriday, May 27, 2016
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. Take The 2016 Broadway …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PM 
