All hail Fred Abramowitz, Jason Flum, Susan Berlin, Bill Bickel, Byrd Bonner, Brigadude, Gary Cherpakov, Seth Christenfeld, Dennis Dorner, Adrian Durlester, Paul Ford, Laura Frankos, Ingrid …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:42AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Give Your R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMOn March 8, 1971, Stephen Schwartz – making all of $22.50 a week thanks to one of his songs — agreed to provide music and some additional lyrics for an upcoming off-Broadway show. Ne…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:03AMCome to the York Theatre Company and see Robert Creighton in drag. “What’s he doing?” you ask. “LA CAGE? ROCKY HORROR? PAGEANT?” No, a musical about James Cagney.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:18AMIt’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 Br…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47AMMusicals have always been consumed with time. Time signatures, curtain time, A TIME FOR SINGING. GOODTIME CHARLEY, “As Time Goes By” (which originated in a musical and not CASABLANCA), a…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:12AMGo ahead. Name a star entrance that’s greater than Peter Pan’s. Try to name one that’s more certain to get applause. You can’t, can you? Of course, such PETER PAN stars as Mary Marti…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:51PMI was excited to hear that Thornton Wilder’s lost manuscript for A DAY IN SANTA FE has finally been found. Rumors had abounded for years that Wilder did not limit his full-length play outp…
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: Paris Makes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18AMSpencer Lau was quite proud of his pride of lions, his cackle of hyenas and every other group of animals he’d put on stage. For Lau — the music director at Woodruff School in Seabroo…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:01AMOf all the Oscar-winning films I’ve seen, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is the one I like the least.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:23AMIf you were in college in the ‘60s and ‘70s, you were probably reading Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. even during the time you’d earmarked for physical science or calculus. The Baby Boomer generat…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:31AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Gigi’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07AMNine nominations yielded nine Oscars. Never before had a film with so many nominations made a clean sweep. But that’s what GIGI achieved when it won the Academy Award for 1958’s Best Pic…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:16AMBy Peter Filichia If you didn’t get to the Lion Theatre last month, then you missed your chance. Musicals Tonight! did an excellent staged reading of Hazel Flagg. At l…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 02:58AMSo in 1970, when the nation was entranced with The Carpenters’ “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” Lonny Price was more interested in someone who didn’t necessarily want a girlfriend t…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:35AMThink of how joyous that Friday night must have been. Only five days earlier, the four-year war had ended. Now at last there could be unmitigated happiness. That was especially true in the n…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:37AMBy Peter Filichia Every now and then, a lyric written long ago assumes a new and suddenly relevant meaning. That happened with the 1962 TV-special Julie and Carol at Carnegie H…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:41PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: If You Insi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMIt was “The Road to the Final Four,” as CBS Sports trumpeted all month long. The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s College Basketball Tournament – more chummily known as “…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:46AMAt first it was only a few, but then more and more of you wrote in. “Aren’t you going to say anything about FISH IN THE DARK?” I answered “Well, you know what they say. If you haven�…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:57AMBy Peter Filichia She was one of the most esteemed film critics of all time, but her enviable reputation didn’t stop her from getting fired. Pauline Kael started writing for …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:00AMVictor Hugo is very much in place, but Victor, Hugo and Laverne are gone. We’re talking about one of the fundamental changes between the 1996 animated THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and the n…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:13PMFaithful readers will recall that a few weeks ago, I wrote about the sadness that actors endure when they say a line or sing a lyric that refers to a closing when the show is actually closin…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:22AMBy Peter Filichia So I celebrated Stephen Sondheim’s eighty-fifth birthday on March 22 in a way in which he wouldn’t have approved. I played the original cast album of Do I…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:28PMStephen Sondheim has always loved New York, and, for the most part, Gotham has returned the love. Broadway’s greatest composer-lyricist who turns 85 this week has been a New York presence …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:03AMLet’s give a warm twenty-first century welcome to ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:30AMBy Peter Filichia Let me spell it out for you so you won’t be as disappointed as Homer and Bart Simpson were on January 4, 1998. Simpsons pere and fils went to a video rental…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:43PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Love is the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09AMWhen an event announces that it’s “the first annual,” we have to wonder if that’s truth-in-advertising. Yes, every happening has to start somewhere; there was a time when there were …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:26AMWe’ve had theatrical pieces about show business, commerce, science, religion, prison and everything else you can think of from A(RT) to Z(ULU AND THE ZAYDA).
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