311 stories by "Broadway & Me"
This is turning out to be Ayad Akhtar's year. Of course last year, when his play Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, wasn't so bad for him either. But in just the past six months, Ak…
You readers know your stuff. Or at least those of you who participate in my giveaway contests do because once again everyone who wrote in had the right answer to the question, in this case a…
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, ends in just four months but observances of the anniversary have been surprisingly quiet. Which is just one of the many…
It's embarrassing to say this but, Shakespeare aside, I know virtually nothing about Elizabethan theater. So I was going to skip Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, the double bill of two late 16th…
This past weekend's medical emergency is over and my hand is better but I'm still going to take it a bit easy (I've even canceled cooking Thanksgiving dinner; my always-wonderful husban…
No post today because I've developed a condition with my left hand that makes it difficult to type (I've pecked this message out with my right hand, which has been no fun). This is particula…
The rush of see-worthy shows continues. So I'm resorting to another highlights-and-lowlights summary, focusing this time on three intriguing works that deal in varying ways with the lim…
The rock star Sting has done everything he could to make his first Broadway musical a hit: writing a wonderfully melodious score and allying himself with experienced and award-winning pros l…
The playwright William Luce has made a career out of writing one-person shows about famous literary women from Isak Dinesen to Lillian Hellman but his most famous creation is certainly The B…
Today is my husband K's birthday. It's a big one and we're celebrating big time. So this is all you're going to hear from me today.
So many shows, so little time. There's no way I can write in full about each of the shows I'm scheduled to see this month"not and have a life too. My solution: at least one post e…
I'm reeling from the usual fall cocktail of show openings (even heavier than usual this year) some freelance assignments they've engendered (grateful to get them) other work commitments and …
Like the flashier Elevator Repair Service, the Godlight Theatre Company specializes in adapting literary works for the stage. But instead of putting on the word-for-word text as ERS likes to…
Everyone has been talking about what a busy fall season this is being (and it is; I'm booked solid seeing shows for the next month). But what they may have overlooked is that this season is …
The amiable musical Found, now playing at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater though Nov. 9, wasn't made for people like me. Don't get me wrong; I had a good enough tim…
Although she grew up in a theatrical family (dad was a director and founder of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, mom's an actor) the British director Marianne Elliott reportedly hate…
To my delight, the editors at Playbill asked me to write a piece about S. Epatha Merkerson and Lillias White who are starring in While I Yet Live, the new play by the Tony-winning actor…
Tom Stoppard has a rep, deserved or not, for writing plays that are brainy but cold-hearted. The wonderful thing about Indian Ink, which the Roundabout Theatre Company is giving an elegant r…
The four young men sitting in the row in front of my husband K and me were exactly the dream demographic the producers must have had in mind when they decided to do a revival of Kenneth Lone…
Kathleen Chalfant sits high on my list of the actors who I will see in almost anything (click here to see the whole list). And she's as amazing as ever in the Keen Company's revival of A Wal…
When A.R. Gurney's Love Letters played at the old Promenade Theatre in the spring of 1989, the actors cast as its epistolary partners"the very wealthy and very WASPy Melissa Gardner and the …
As regular readers know, I'm a big fan of plays about poor and working class people. But I'm also a scourge about most of the ones I see because they tend to stereotype their subjects o…
Judging by the raves it's been getting, everybody seems to be eating up Bootycandy, Robert O'Hara's satirical look at growing up black and gay. Everybody that is but me.Sitting in the audien…
Ruby Rae Spiegel is only 21 and just starting her senior year at Yale but she's already had two plays professionally produced in New York and has gotten the kind of reviews that a playwright…
Wish lists, which are what my fall previews tend to be, can be hit or miss things. So many of the shows and performances I was most excited about at the start of previous seasons turned out …
