879 stories from Broadway & Me
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…
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…
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 …
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 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 …
Wishing you all the joy and drama and empathy that good theater always brings
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
