As I mentioned in my column of Sept. 19, every now and then throughout this 2015-2016 season I’ll take a 50th anniversary look at Jack Gaver’s book SEASON IN SEASON OUT, which detailed t…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:35AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: October’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:31AMSo was it true? So many people who’d been in Boston to see the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC had warned me. “You won’t believe it!” they cried. �…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:55AMThe biggest news this month may very well have come from the world of magazines. PLAYBOY announced that come January, it would no longer feature nudes in its monthly issues. So maybe it’s …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:02AMThat production I mentioned last week of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM made me return to its roots – meaning the demo. Do you know the term “demo”? It’s short for �…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:02AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Revisiting T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19AMYou have watched, haven’t you, the 1970 film of THE BOYS IN THE BAND with its original off-Broadway cast? Perhaps you’ve even listened to the far more complete version of Mart Crowley’…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:55AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Seating Plans…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25AMRecently I have not been The Most Happy Fella, although I have been singing the first lines of the 1956 hit musical – with one change of word.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:47AMFaithful readers will recall that last week I spoke to THE ROTHSCHILDS’ bookwriter Sherman Yellen and lyricist Sheldon Harnick about their revised version called ROTHSCHILD & SONS. (It’s…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:24AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Remembering …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The Return o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21AMIn his marvelous book BROADWAY BABIES SAY GOODNIGHT, Mark Steyn quotes Sheldon Harnick’s opinion that “It is not specifically a love affair that a musical needs – just strong emotion.�…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:50AMYes, a new version of THE ROTHSCHILDS is about to be produced at the York Theatre Company in Manhattan. Its title has been expanded to ROTHSCHILDS AND SONS while its length has been shortene…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:37PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: September’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMAlthough few students look forward to the end of summer vacation, three young men and five young women from The Beacon School had to be assuaged by one fact. Kenneth An, Leslie Gaines, Attic…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:25AMSo on September 12th right here, did we all celebrate the 48th anniversary of the off-Broadway opening of KLENOKSY AGAINST THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE?
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:02AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The Other TH…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56AMSo did my column last Friday convince you that you should do DISNEY’S MY SON PINOCCHIO? If you read what I wrote, you saw that I certainly admire this tender and moving story from Davi…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:58PMMany of us know of William Goldman’s landmark work THE SEASON, which detailed every Broadway production of the 1967-68 semester. It’s easily the book I’ve read the most times.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:15AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: My Favorite S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02AMTens of thousands of young actresses are waiting to play Glinda in WICKED. But WICKED is, to cite one of Stephen Schwartz’s best songs from the show, “Popular.” So to all y…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:22AMThe meteorologists say that summer doesn’t end until the final moments of September 22nd, but most of us disagree. Labor Day’s the day when we say, as the Goldmans and John Kander wrote …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:39AMEvery actor loves when a call comes in out of the blue offering him a job. When the invitation is the leading role in a world-famous musical, that’s all the sweeter. “Not necessa…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:08AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The 2015 Bro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMCongratulations to Stephan Artist, Steve Bell, Brigadude, Susan Berlin, Seth Christenfeld, Paco CM, William Cox, Jason Flum, Ingrid Gammerman, Kelsee B. Hankins, James Harris, Cathy Jones, N…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:39AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: August’s L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:09AMSummertime, and the traveling isn’t always easy: plane delays, security lines, a crying baby in the seat next to you. But plays and musicals call from across the country, and so, I must go…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:42AMHonor thy great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother. Not by visiting their graves, although that would be nice. Not by commissioning a plaque and attaching it to the wall of the st…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:07PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Give Me Liber…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08AMThe best musical I’ve seen this season gives us George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and yes, you’re already saying, we know: HAMILTON. No, that was last season’s show, as the Drama …
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