311 stories by "Broadway & Me"
As the story goes, a drama school teacher once told Robert Creighton that he reminded him of the old movie actor James Cagney. And indeed, Creighton does resemble Cagney and radiates the sam…
Everything, including playwrights, gets branded these days. And Robert Askins has glommed onto what's turning out to be a surprisingly marketable one: he's the "religion guy." Hand to G…
When Le Mardi à Monoprix premiered in France five years ago, playwright Emmanuel Darley's sympathetic look at the life of a transgender woman must have seemed a bold statement. The play m…
There's a comfort in the familiar that makes it's hard to try something new, particularly when the rewards roll in for doing the same old thing. So although I have mixed feelings about …
My much adored niece Jennifer got married to a really great guy yesterday and we're all still celebrating so there will be no post today but I'll be back next week. In the meantime, I hope y…
Holding a stage all by one's self takes guts. But two very talented actors step up to the challenge and, with varying degrees of success, show how it can be done in the new one-woman s…
Like so many Americans in the '60s, Broadway show makers were swept up in the free-spirit mania of the times and created shows with eccentric characters who thumbed their noses at the establ…
The contests for this year's theater awards are so tight"and so many of the nominees truly worthy"that I hardly know where to cast my allegiance. And that's especially true in the category o…
The average Broadway theatergoer sees four shows a year, according to the Broadway League. The average theater reviewer routinely sees more shows than that in a week. Which may be one reason…
It's hard to argue with the Tony nominations announced yesterday morning. The much-admired An American in Paris and the even more critically beloved Fun Home lead the pac…
There is a direct line connecting the down and outers waiting for Hickey in The Iceman Cometh and the outcasts who gather in the parking lot of the Hummingbird Motel for the premature funera…
Plays like Hand to God rarely make it to Broadway nowadays. For as its cheeky ad campaign says, the play has no movie stars, isn't a transfer from London or based on a movie. On the other ha…
Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the mystique of Paris. And I've recently had the chance to overindulge that fascination by seeing the new productions of Gigi and An American in Paris t…
So much money is now spent on creating spectacles for theatergoers that we sometimes forget that all that's really needed are a play with something to say and actors who know how to say it. …
After-show talkbacks set my teeth on edge. Instead of talking about the show or what it provoked in them, most people just seem to want to show off. So I sighed inwardly when my theatergoing…
"They might as well give the Tony to her right now," my husband K said as we walked out of the American Airlines Theatre after seeing Kristin Chenoweth in the Roundabout Theatre Co…
The bathroom at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is a tiny space that sits between the backstage and the audience and that can accommodate just a couple of people at a time and so there's…
By all accounts (and there have been many of them; click here to read one) Larry David didn't intend to star in Fish in the Dark, the new farce that is playing at the Cort Theatre. But the s…
Several waves of nostalgia swept over me as I watched the revival of Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, which is running at the Music Box Theatre through Aug. 9. The first came becaus…
As I said, people love Into the Woods. I've never gotten more responses for a giveaway than I got for last week's offer of a free copy of the Blu-ray DVD of Rob Marshall's all-star movi…
The umpteenth snowstorm of the year and yet another fresh coat of snow on the ground make it hard to believe that spring officially arrived yesterday. But the New York theater season has bee…
People love Into the Woods, the Stephen Sondheim musical that interweaves four familiar fairytales into a larger fable about desire, dreams and the tangled bonds between parents and children…
Good guys don't stand much of a chance in today's popular culture, as evidenced by the popularity of the school-teacher-turned-drug-dealer series "Breaking Bad" and the beats-up-his-girlfrie…
On our way into Lives of the Saints, my theatergoing buddy Bill and I ran into a friend who told us that his wife had been in the hospital and he was eager to see something to take his …
Everyone seems to be fracturing narratives these days, from the low-brow antics of TV's "How to Get Away With Murder" to the high-brow musings in Kate Atkinson's metaphysical novel "Life Aft…
