311 stories by "Broadway & Me"
As I suspected, Fiddler on the Roof, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, remains a beloved show and so everyone who wrote in for the chance to win a free copy of my friend …
It seems fitting that playwright Naomi Wallace should draw the title of her play And I And Silence from a line in an Emily Dickinson poem (click here to read it). For this awkwardly-named dr…
It may not be a groundbreaking musical like Oklahoma, Hair or Company, but it's hard to find a show more beloved than Fiddler on the Roof, which opened 50 years ago this month.That original …
The temperature in New York has been so unseasonably cool this month that it prompted a friend to post a comment on her Facebook page declaring "August is the new September." But…
Ever since she was canned as executive producer of "Smash," that misbegotten TV series about putting on a Broadway show, Theresa Rebeck has said that she didn't get the chance to fully reali…
Between Riverside and Crazy, the new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, ends its six-week run tonight. And that's a shame because the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater space only sea…
When I finished last Saturday's post, I thought I was done with this year's New York International Fringe Festival. But then I got an email from a friend inviting me to see a show directed b…
Every spring I tell myself I should see the end-of-school productions at Juilliard or New York University's Tisch School of the Arts so that I can get a peek at the newest crop of talented h…
Nothing makes sense in Phoenix, the totally inept two-hander that's playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre through Aug. 23. Ostensibly, it's a rom-com about two lonely souls who hooked up …
Summer Shorts, the festival of short plays that appear every August at the 59E59 Theaters, is always a grab bag. Its contributors are a motley crew of known and lesser-known playwrights. The…
The public radio host Ira Glass set the theater blogosphere aflutter last week. The reason: after seeing an early preview of the new Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear, he …
We all say we want to be loved for just being ourselves but playwright Laura Eason knows that romantic relationships usually start off with each person pretending to be someone different tha…
Playwright Sarah Treem is only 33 years-old, which means she's much too young to have lived through the pre-Roe v. Wade days that provide the backdrop for her latest play When We Were Young …
In another era, James Franco might have been hailed as a Renaissance man. Over just the past four years, he has appeared in some 30 movies; co-hosted the Oscars, turned up on several TV show…
When I told people that my sister, niece and I were going on a just-us-girls vacation that included five days in London, they automatically assumed that I was going to be spending every minu…
I'm off on a just-us-girls vacation with my sister and niece and since I won't be writing here for the next couple of weeks, I've put on the ghost light that theaters set up when they're tem…
What does it mean to be a Muslim in a post-9/11 America? That's the question the Pakistani-American writer Ayad Akhtar has explored in his Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced, his novel "A…
The Fourth of July was yesterday so that means summer is definitely here. Which also means it's time for my annual list of books to keep theater lovers company through the remaining ei…
The main lovers in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing are supposed to be Hero, the sweet young daughter of an Italian aristocrat; and Claudio, the gallant nobleman who falls for her. But a…
If you want to see a show that will lift your spirits, then drop what you're doing right now and get a ticket to tick, tick…boom!, which is playing in the New York City Center Encores! Off…
Whimsy is not usually my thing. But, what can I say, I was charmed by Fly By Night, the quirky new musical that is playing at Playwrights Horizons through Sunday.The show was originally crea…
Intermission had arrived for Arrivals & Departures, the latest Alan Ayckbourn play (reportedly his 77th!) that is running along with two of the master playwright's earlier works in the a…
Sign me up for the Greta Gerwig fan club. A few months ago, I saw"and very much liked"this appealing young actress in "Frances Ha," the indie movie she and her boyfriend director Noah Baumba…
You might think that I'd be ready to give Shakespeare a rest after the recent Bard-heavy season on Broadway. But I bought tickets to Kenneth Branagh's acclaimed production of Macbeth the ver…
If you should ever be invited to a dinner party with the actor Jim Dale, you should go. For Dale has all the qualities anyone would want in a table companion: he's got great stories to tell,…
