71 stories by "Jan@broadwayandme"
The news came today that Ellen Stewart has died. She was 91 and news report say that she died peacefully in her sleep. So this is less a note of mourning than one of celebrati…
Driving Miss Daisy and I go back a long way. I saw the original 1987 off-Broadway production with Dana Ivey as the titular Jewish widow in post-War Atlanta and Morgan Freeman as the bl…
No post today because all attention in our household is being paid to the anniversary that my husband K and I are celebrating this weekend. So, just as theaters do when they're temporarily v…
Marriage"especially what makes for a long-lasting one"has been on my mind a lot lately. Maybe it's the fact that my wedding anniversary is coming up at the end of this week. I suspect …
The best thing about 10 best lists is that they give you a chance to look back and remember all the things you've done. I can't say that 2010 was the best year I've had going to the th…
I'm not a big fan of drag and I'm not fond of camp and yet, like just about everyone else who has seen it, I had a great time at The Divine Sister.
This campfest, written by and starring th…
I got so wrapped up in our family merrymaking that I forgot it was Saturday as well as Christmas Day and so failed to post an entry yesterday. But I still want to wish each of you a ha…
Weeks"actually months"have gone by since my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Angels in America, which is enjoying a sensational run at Signature Theatre as part of the company's year-long t…
If there's a would-be actor on your Christmas list then you can find him or her no better present than a ticket to see Mistakes Were Made, the satirical comedy about a producer trying to put…
What would I do without my theatergoing buddy Bill? My husband K is a news junkie and my niece Jennifer is a history nut but both looked at me as though I were crazy when I brought up …
The folks at Lincoln Center Theater probably aren't having the merriest holiday season. Over the past six weeks, they've opened two big shows"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and A …
Maybe there can be too much of a good thing. There was no show that I wanted to see more this fall than Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. And I wasn't the only one who f…
A windfall of shows descended on Broadway over the past couple of months but it came at a time when many people are still digging out from the recession. So it's sad but not surprising that …
In the spirit of the show-at-hand's title and its concise running time, I'm going to try to keep this relatively short. I didn't expect to have a good time at Long Story Short, the one…
They say it's not the gift but the thought that counts. Still, the gifts that tend to be the most fun to get"and give"are the ones that are mindful of what will most please the recipie…
Turkey can be a tricky word in the theater, even on Thanksgiving Day. So, I'm just going to wish you and yours a day, a season, a year full of things to be thankful for"including lots …
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." So says the Bible.
But that's…
It probably won't come as a surprise to you that a semi-professional grouch like me is not the target audience for Elf, the new musical version of the 2003 Will Ferrell movie about a man who…
It's a dog- eat-dog season on Broadway this fall. And having big names in the cast doesn't seem to be enough to guarantee survival. Last week, A Life in the Theatre, which has movie an…
It usually takes no more than the first 15 minutes of a play for me to tell if I'm going to be in for something special or for one of those evenings when I'm sneaking peeks at my watch. Spir…
Who would have thought that a play starring "Star Trek"s Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and "Grey's Anatomy"s Dr. George O' Malley would be playing to a half-full house on a Friday night? …
