884 stories from Broadway & Me
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…
This is turning out to be Ayad Akhtar's year. Of course last year, when his play Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, wasn't so bad for him either. But in just the past six months, Ak…
You readers know your stuff. Or at least those of you who participate in my giveaway contests do because once again everyone who wrote in had the right answer to the question, in this case a…
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, ends in just four months but observances of the anniversary have been surprisingly quiet. Which is just one of the many…
It's embarrassing to say this but, Shakespeare aside, I know virtually nothing about Elizabethan theater. So I was going to skip Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, the double bill of two late 16th…
This past weekend's medical emergency is over and my hand is better but I'm still going to take it a bit easy (I've even canceled cooking Thanksgiving dinner; my always-wonderful husban…
No post today because I've developed a condition with my left hand that makes it difficult to type (I've pecked this message out with my right hand, which has been no fun). This is particula…
The rush of see-worthy shows continues. So I'm resorting to another highlights-and-lowlights summary, focusing this time on three intriguing works that deal in varying ways with the lim…
The rock star Sting has done everything he could to make his first Broadway musical a hit: writing a wonderfully melodious score and allying himself with experienced and award-winning pros l…
The playwright William Luce has made a career out of writing one-person shows about famous literary women from Isak Dinesen to Lillian Hellman but his most famous creation is certainly The B…
Today is my husband K's birthday. It's a big one and we're celebrating big time. So this is all you're going to hear from me today.
So many shows, so little time. There's no way I can write in full about each of the shows I'm scheduled to see this month"not and have a life too. My solution: at least one post e…
