All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Men in White"1934 Pulitzer winn…
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. NAThePlay.com @nathep…
 Wishing you a thoroughly festive holiday
Those of us who love musicals root hard for each new one that comes along. And we root extra hard when we know that a new creative team is getting its first big break or that the show is bas…
Summer has come roaring in this year. Temperatures seem to be setting records everywhere, making many of us (O.K., me) want to kick back and chill out with a cold drink and a cool book. The …
As the most devoted fans of musicals will tell you, the best way to appreciate a musical is probably to listen to its cast album (click here to check out my BroadwayRadio colleague Michae…
It can be hard to recapture the magic of the first time you saw a show. And the first times I saw Samm-Art Williams' Home were nearly perfect. The Negro Ensemble Company was in its heyda…
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Crimes of the Heart"1981 Pulitz…
We're in the homestretch now, with just a week to go before next Sunday's Tony Awards. And it's a particularly exciting time because there are virtually no sure winners this year and even th…
All of a sudden everybody doing a musical in this brand new 2024-25 season seems to be bellying up to a bar. Already this month, I've seen three shows"The Keep Going Songs, The Lonely Few an…
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. The Outsiders " The G…
We're officially in awards season. The Outer Critics Circle, on whose nominating committee I sit, announced its choices for the best in the 2023-2024 season last week (click here to see …
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. APRIL 13-MAY 23, 2024…
After seeing Mother Play, Paula Vogel's semi-autobiographical three-hander which opened at the Hayes Theater on the very last day of the 2023-2024 theater season, my friends and I went next …
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Corey Cott and McKenz…
The Bard was born 460 years ago today"and died exactly 52 years later in 1616. But of course his works live on even though debates about whether or not he actually wrote them do too (click h…
What's the hardest job in show business? There are obviously lots of contenders but right now as one musical after another is opening on Broadway, I've been thinking that the answer to t…
It's being an unusually busy theater season this spring with a baker's dozen of Broadway shows still scheduled to open between now and the end of the month. So it's no surprise that smaller …
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Strange Interlude"1928 Pulitzer…
Wishing you all the joy and drama and empathy that good theater always brings Â
In the journalism business we say that three occurrences of a thing make it a trend and so right now the hottest trend in theater seems to be musicals centered around the memories of old guy…
You can usually tell within the first 10 minutes or so of seeing a show whether you're in good hands. And I knew right away that I was in very good hands when I saw Dead Outlaw, the first Au…
 We're now used to getting musicals based on movies but it's rarer for a straight play to be adapted from a film. However that's the case with The Hunt, which opened this week at S…
If I had access to a time machine one stop I'd make would be sometime around 1960 at Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village where young playwrights like John Guare, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson s…
Valentine's Day was celebrated this past week and the new show I Love You So Much I Could Die, which opened at New York Theatre Workshop on Feb. 14, struck me as an ultimate gesture of love.…