Friday, February 10, 2012
When I met with John Kander on January 29, I didn’t expect him to know the answer to the question I was about to ask. But I put it to him anyway. “Do you know what you were doing 50 year…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:54PMThere's incredible buzz in the packed City Center until the house lights dim. How quiet the chamber is! What anticipation there is here!
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:51AMWednesday, February 8, 2012
“I like to think of myself as Garrison Keillor of the blues,” says Guy Davis. As a result, Davis has put together a show that tells a great deal about that musical art form in the early-…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
T Charles EricksonBob Ari, right, and Randy Harrison face off as painter Mark Rothko and his assistant in âRedâ at the George Street Playhouse. While any actor loves to get exit ap…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AMBy Peter Filichia --
I received a nice e-mail from Elliot J. Cohen, who’d read my “A Tale of Three Dollys” a few weeks ago. In it, I wondered why Carol Channing on the original Broa…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:47AMSaturday, February 4, 2012
As if you haven't heard, it's a fictional account of people trying to do a musical about Marilyn Monroe. It's not to be confused with the two musicals that dealt with the screen legend in 19…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:32AMFriday, February 3, 2012
Saturday night, January 14, 2012. Every participant at the Junior Theater Festival has seen at least eight segments compete with MTI’s Jr. musicals. But eight is not enough. The ballroom…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:11AMIs Randy Harrison getting typecast? For the third time in his professional career, he’ll portray a visual artist. This time, he’s Ken, a fictional assistant to famous painter Mark Rothko…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:04AMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Saturday, Jan. 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the Junior Theater Festival. The students from all 63 schools and after-school musical theater programs have completed their presentations. If the kids were…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:52AMPeter Filichia lets us know what's happening on the stage in the garden state
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:21AMTuesday, January 31, 2012
Debra Whitfield stars in "Veronica's Room." Ira Levin didn’t need to use a chain saw in Texas to massacre his audience. The late author of “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Stepfor…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:29AMMonday, January 30, 2012
February is, of course, Black History Month. So celebrate each day by playing an African-American’s performance from different cast albums.
We have plenty to choose from. Black entertain…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:53PMFriday, January 27, 2012
Why doesn’t Spider-Man proclaim in its ads that it’s in its “Second Smash Year!”? Or does management feel that it can’t use that line until June, which will be the first anniversar…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:12PMWhen we last left the 63 casts of students participating in this year’s Junior Theater Festival, they were off to one of seven rooms. In each, they’d perform what could be called junior …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:56PMTony winner Chuck Cooper is starring in a production of the late August Wilson's '70s-set drama in Red Bank.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
The show manages to make a farce out of this pop-a-mole farce.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AMTuesday, January 24, 2012
Actress and playwright Danai Gurira's arresting new work has its world premiere in Princeton.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AMBy Peter Filichia –
A Thurber Carnival, the original cast album that Masterworks Broadway is re-issuing this week, could just as easily be called A Character Actors’ Carnival.
If you…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:31AMMonday, January 23, 2012
Nothing’s officially happened yet. It’s 7:40 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, and the stage of the vast MTIShowSpace Theater at Atlanta’s Hotel Renaissance Waverly is empty. But the house it…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:33AMFriday, January 20, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Stage critic Peter Filichia lets us know what's happening on New Jersey stages
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:41AMMonday, January 16, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
Dolly Gallagher Levi has certainly kept her promise. For nearly half a century, she’s been telling us that “Dolly’ll never go away again”-- and she hasn’t, n…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:40PMFriday, January 13, 2012
To celebrate Ethel Merman's birthday on January 16 - her 105th, 104th or 103rd depending on which Merman scholar you choose to believe -- see her live.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:57PMPeter Filcihia says, 'Come with an open mind ...'
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:31AMWednesday, January 11, 2012
Also: 'Veronica's Room' at the Bickford and Centenary Stage Company's Young Performers Workshop.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
This month’s Friday the 13th can be considered both lucky and unlucky for Broadway. It would have marked the 87th birthday of Gwen Verdon, and we’re all pretty sad t…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:54AMFriday, January 6, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
It's the story of a trailer resident who may own a real Jackson Pollock painting and the art appraiser who comes to her home
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 3, 2012
By Peter Filichia –
So what was the first recording in 2012 that you chose for your listening pleasure?
For the twentieth straight year, I started New Year’s Day by playing the CD th…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:35AMSunday, January 1, 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Also, highlights from New York stages.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM 
