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.…
Journalists love stories about journalism. We even love the stories that cast us in a bad light. And I'll admit that's part of the reason that The Connector, which was inspired by the storie…
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. Sarah Gancher (Playwr…
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: "The Teahouse of the August Moon…
Sometimes you just don't get a show. Maybe its subject triggers you or fails to grab you at all. Maybe the playwright was trying to do too much or the director didn't do enough. Or maybe you…
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day, which was created to commemorate the six million Jews and others who were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis. But New York theater makers …
Previews are all about the promise of what's to come so I suppose it's no surprise that the last time I posted a preview list of the shows I was excited about seeing in an upcoming season wa…
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: "Idiot's Delight"1936 Pulitzer w…
It's that time of year when people like me draw up Top 10 lists ranking the cultural experiences they've had over the past 12 months but, as some of you know, 2023 hasn't been a great year f…
To truly appreciate Melissa Etheridge: My Window, you may need to be a hardcore fan of the singer-songwriter or a member of Generation X, who was born between 1965 and 1980, grew up with Eth…
The news came this week that two titans of New York theater will be stepping down from the powerful perches on which they've long roosted. André Bishop who has lead Lincoln Center Theater s…
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: "Alison's House"1931 Pulitzer wi…
Somehow the weeks in July and August always seem to fly by more quickly than those during the rest of the year. And so here we are again at the end of the summer and, as I do every Labor Day…
Listening to the waves of laughter that greeted the new comedy The Shark is Broken made me wonder if we might be entering the era of jukebox plays that pander to the folks who love particula…
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. Rob Fisher and Sheldon Harnick on Sheldon's 99th birthday in 2…