311 stories by "Broadway & Me"
Almost everything"the acting, the directing, the costumes, the set, and most especially the play itself"works in Stage Kiss, the romantic comedy now running at Playwrights Horizon through Ma…
Drag queens have long played a central role in gay life. In the old almost-everybody-in-the-closet days, they provided a way for gay men (those who dressed up as women and those who simply a…
When a revival doesn't work, people often say it's because the show has outlived its time. Well, we no longer live in a time when the marriage of a Jew and a gentile would be a scandal…
When Time magazine put together its list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, Bruce Lee won a spot, right alongside Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso and Mother…
It turns out to be surprisingly easy to love Love and Information the new Caryl Churchill play that New York Theatre Workshop opened this week at the Minetta Lane Theatre. I don't always fee…
Death pops up fairly regularly in plays. But its companion grief"the agonizing bewilderment that follows the loss of a loved one"appears less frequently. And that's why I thought it might be…
As you surely know, yesterday was Valentine's Day (hope you enjoyed yours as much as my husband K and I did ours). But, as you may not know, it was also the anniversary of Broadway & Me.…
If you crossed the linked stories in the 2003 movie "Love Actually" with the quirky small-town characters of the '90s-era sitcom "Northern Exposure" you might end up with Almost, Maine, the …
From Jan: So much theater. So little time. I put the Encores! production of Little Me on my calendar as soon as I heard about it but somehow I didn't get around to getting ticket…
Bertolt Brecht famously championed the theater of alienation but the revival of his A Man's a Man that opened last week at Classic Stage Company is oddly endearing.Like so many works by Brec…
Plays about the Irish so often portray their characters in such a twee way that you'd think they were just one step removed from leprechauns. And I feared I was in for more of that kind of b…
