311 stories by "Broadway & Me"
Every show is an event of some kind but The Events, the docudrama now playing at New York Theatre Workshop, promised to be a particularly special one. Inspired by the 2011 massacre of 77 peo…
Maybe it's because I stopped watching superhero movies around the time Michael Keaton left the "Batman" franchise. Or it could be because I don't live in Brooklyn and only visit when there's…
If you care anything about musicals, you must have heard by now about Hamilton, the everybody's-talking-about-it show that's playing down at The Public Theater (even David Brooks the Times p…
If you'd ask me, I'd say that I'm no fan of one-man shows. But, apparently, I'd be lying. Cause over the past week, I've seen and, in varying degrees, really enjoyed two of them. The first w…
Talking about race is hard. So instead, most of us talk about talking about race. But playwright Joel Drake Johnson goes full tilt at the main subject in Rasheeda Speaking, now playing in a …
Valentine's Day now means I get to celebrate two big romances in my life. The first, of course, is the ongoing one I share with my incredible husband K. And the second is with those of …
We're in that annual lull between the shows that rushed to open before the holidays and those waiting in the wings to make their bows in the spring. A few shows have bravely ventured out ove…
The new musical Honeymoon in Vegas has been doing terrible business. It's playing to audiences that are barely three-quarters full and most of those folks have gotten such heavily discounted…
A note from Jan: Scary stuff spooks me. A lot. As in, not able to sleep for nights and so as much as I wanted to see the new John Tiffany-Stephen Hoggett show about vampires, I just couldn'…
A Month in the Country, which opened at Classic Stage Company this past Thursday, was written five years before Anton Chekhov was even born. But the setting, the themes and the characters wi…
As regular readers know, I'm always griping about how so few plays today grapple with current events. Well, I certainly can't say that about The Road To Damascus, the political thriller at t…
Anger, not the forgiveness of sins, is the guiding principle in I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard, the brand new two-hander by Halley Feiffer that opened at Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 o…
Lots of theatergoers breathe a sigh of relief when they hear that a show is just one act. But increasingly quick gasps might be more apt. For two of the shows I saw last week"Constellations …
Years ago, I took my aunt, then in her 80s, for lunch at Chez Josephine, the Theatre District bistro named for the legendary performer Josephine Baker. At some point during our meal, Jean-Cl…
Yep. You're at the right place. Things just look different. That's cause I've been promising myself for ages that I'd give B&Me a facelift and I finally got around to doing it. This is s…
If watching two guys drink beer and try to one up each other is your idea of a good time, then Winners and Losers, which opened last week at Soho Rep., may be the show for you. Alas, I need …
My husband K and I have gone off to celebrate our 20th anniversary and so no post today but I'll be back with lots to say next Wednesday.
As the great Frank Loesser once wrote, Baby, it's cold outside. On top of that, lots of theaters have gone dark in this annual cold-weather interregnum when old or failing shows have c…
Just as I'm sure you've been doing, I've spent the holidays reading all of the year-end "Best" lists and after the usual "What were they thinking?" "Oh yeah, I forgot about that one" and "I …
Happy New! Until this week, the weather in New York has been unseasonably mild but winter is about to hit Broadway hard. Eight main stem shows are scheduled to take their ï¬nals bo…
Samuel D. Hunter should be my kind of playwright. The characters he writes about are the blue-collar people that I'm always griping never appear in plays. He takes on the kind of big questio…
May your holidays sparkle with peace, love, happiness"and the good cheer of live theater.
The city is filling up with holiday visitors and, of course, a lot of those folks want to see a Broadway show. And the ones who want to see a show probably want to see a show with a big-name…
There's no post today cause after weeks of heavy-duty theatergoing, end-of-the-semester madness, assorted medical appointments and other life stuff, I'm taking the day off to play hooky with…
Theater is all about dreams and so it's nice when one comes true as triumphantly as it does with the revival of The Elephant Man, which opened at the Booth Theatre on Sunday night, fulfillin…
