The 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 …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:42AMIt’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 10:07AMSo why would the new musical LOVING REPEATING – called “a play within a lecture” – make me think of the slam-bang, razz-ma-tazz musical Mame? Well, for one thing, in …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:18AMYou certainly need many bodies to write, direct, design, produce and perform a musical. Perhaps that’s why so many lyricists cite the human body in their lyrics.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:34AMIt’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 Wiz That…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49AMPerhaps you’ve been debating whether or not to stage BILLY ELLIOT at your theater. After all, how will a British musical set almost a third of a century ago in Northeast England play i…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:13AMWe’ve lately been hearing a lot about A CHORUS LINE’s opening forty years ago. But THE WIZ did, too. And at the moment, the African-American urban take on THE WIZARD OF OZ – which o…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:23AMI’ve never been a Smokey Joe’s Café fan. When the show opened, I used the word “putrid” in my review, which prompted the producer to write and complain. And yet, while I was in Linc…
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: July 31, 20…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02AMThe sign outside the theater says “Every word in THREE DAYS TO SEE (except for the show’s first moments) was written by Helen Keller.” Yeah, there’s no question that she didn’t con…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:49PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: July 24, 20…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMWhen the term “family show” is used, it’s usually a euphemism. What it more often means is a show that little kids will like or love. Mom and Dad, however, won’t be a…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:45AMHow considerate of Kristin Chenoweth to close ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY five days before her birthday. That way, the cast didn’t have to go through the expense of cards, a cake, candles and…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:42AMUnless my colleague Matthew Murray has squealed on me, no one knows I made a tremendous mistake late last year.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:25PMIt happens at many a performance attended by critics. An actor says a line that resonates with the aisle-sitters, and suddenly these men and women are reaching for their notebooks to precise…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:13AMThe response to Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska was good but not great. The kids watching the Lincoln Southwest High production seemed more im…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:13PMSo I see that SOMETHING ROTTEN! – the marvelous musical at the St. James – is still advertising itself as “Loser! Best Musical! 2015 Tony Award!”
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:54AMThe late, great acerbic comic Phyllis Diller had plenty of memorable one-liners, but there’s one I remember most. With half-closed eyes that said she’d seen more fire than rain, Diller d…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:32AMSeptember 16, 1991. Studio B in the John Houseman Theatre on 42nd Street. I’m seeing a staged reading of a new musical called RUTHLESS!
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:59AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: June’s Lef…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27AMHow does a manual become a musical? I posed that question last Friday when I discussed a recent production of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. The 1961 smash hit remains the…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:42PMIt was the month of the Tony Awards, of course. The flag behind ON THE TOWN’s sailors sported 48 stars, but we had plenty more in attendance at Radio City Music Hall on June 7.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:06AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: A Classic(s)…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM“The Mad Men Musical.” That’s a good way to advertise your upcoming production of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. No, the 1961-62 Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning mus…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:10PMDOCTOR FAUSTUS and THE TEMPEST will never be confused with summer movies. Still, how nice that two plays that were written more than 400 years ago are back in New York as spring gives way to…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:06AMAs much as I consider MISS SAIGON a near-masterpiece, I’ve always felt it has one problem that the authors should rethink. Needless to say, MISS SAIGON has done extraordinary well without …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:44PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Hail to Thee…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMIt opened in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1954, long before I became aware of musical theater and prior to my learning to drive. Even after I got a license, I didn’t discover The North Shore …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:00AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Welcome 2015-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMAnother season has come and gone. Bless the hits from 2014-2015 and adieu to the shows that closed faster than Seth Rudetsky talks.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:27PMIf the audience at the Imperial Theater on May 19 seems younger than usual, there’s good reason. It’s 10:30 in the morn and students from 13 lucky New York City schools and academies wil…
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