884 stories from Broadway & Me
I'm reeling from the usual fall cocktail of show openings (even heavier than usual this year) some freelance assignments they've engendered (grateful to get them) other work commitments and …
Like the flashier Elevator Repair Service, the Godlight Theatre Company specializes in adapting literary works for the stage. But instead of putting on the word-for-word text as ERS likes to…
Everyone has been talking about what a busy fall season this is being (and it is; I'm booked solid seeing shows for the next month). But what they may have overlooked is that this season is …
The amiable musical Found, now playing at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater though Nov. 9, wasn't made for people like me. Don't get me wrong; I had a good enough tim…
Although she grew up in a theatrical family (dad was a director and founder of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, mom's an actor) the British director Marianne Elliott reportedly hate…
To my delight, the editors at Playbill asked me to write a piece about S. Epatha Merkerson and Lillias White who are starring in While I Yet Live, the new play by the Tony-winning actor…
Tom Stoppard has a rep, deserved or not, for writing plays that are brainy but cold-hearted. The wonderful thing about Indian Ink, which the Roundabout Theatre Company is giving an elegant r…
The four young men sitting in the row in front of my husband K and me were exactly the dream demographic the producers must have had in mind when they decided to do a revival of Kenneth Lone…
Kathleen Chalfant sits high on my list of the actors who I will see in almost anything (click here to see the whole list). And she's as amazing as ever in the Keen Company's revival of A Wal…
When A.R. Gurney's Love Letters played at the old Promenade Theatre in the spring of 1989, the actors cast as its epistolary partners"the very wealthy and very WASPy Melissa Gardner and the …
As regular readers know, I'm a big fan of plays about poor and working class people. But I'm also a scourge about most of the ones I see because they tend to stereotype their subjects o…
Judging by the raves it's been getting, everybody seems to be eating up Bootycandy, Robert O'Hara's satirical look at growing up black and gay. Everybody that is but me.Sitting in the audien…
Ruby Rae Spiegel is only 21 and just starting her senior year at Yale but she's already had two plays professionally produced in New York and has gotten the kind of reviews that a playwright…
Wish lists, which are what my fall previews tend to be, can be hit or miss things. So many of the shows and performances I was most excited about at the start of previous seasons turned out …
As I suspected, Fiddler on the Roof, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, remains a beloved show and so everyone who wrote in for the chance to win a free copy of my friend …
It seems fitting that playwright Naomi Wallace should draw the title of her play And I And Silence from a line in an Emily Dickinson poem (click here to read it). For this awkwardly-named dr…
It may not be a groundbreaking musical like Oklahoma, Hair or Company, but it's hard to find a show more beloved than Fiddler on the Roof, which opened 50 years ago this month.That original …
The temperature in New York has been so unseasonably cool this month that it prompted a friend to post a comment on her Facebook page declaring "August is the new September." But…
Ever since she was canned as executive producer of "Smash," that misbegotten TV series about putting on a Broadway show, Theresa Rebeck has said that she didn't get the chance to fully reali…
Between Riverside and Crazy, the new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, ends its six-week run tonight. And that's a shame because the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater space only sea…
When I finished last Saturday's post, I thought I was done with this year's New York International Fringe Festival. But then I got an email from a friend inviting me to see a show directed b…
Every spring I tell myself I should see the end-of-school productions at Juilliard or New York University's Tisch School of the Arts so that I can get a peek at the newest crop of talented h…
Nothing makes sense in Phoenix, the totally inept two-hander that's playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre through Aug. 23. Ostensibly, it's a rom-com about two lonely souls who hooked up …
Summer Shorts, the festival of short plays that appear every August at the 59E59 Theaters, is always a grab bag. Its contributors are a motley crew of known and lesser-known playwrights. The…
The public radio host Ira Glass set the theater blogosphere aflutter last week. The reason: after seeing an early preview of the new Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear, he …
