Ailey in Opelika by Michael Kaiser

My favorite memory of my 30-year arts management career was attending a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:01am on March 2, 2015☆⚑

Aisle View: The Other Place and a Modern/Classic Bloodbath by Steven Suskin

The nether realm, as constructed in Jennifer Haley's eighty-minute drama The Nether at MCC, is a demon world of evil and imagination.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 8:44am on February 25, 2015☆⚑

Aisle View: Wildly Funny Sketch Plays by Steven Suskin

Arnie Burton, Rick Holmes, Kelly Hutchinson and Liv Rooth in David Ives' Lives of the Saints. Photo: James Leynse

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00pm on February 24, 2015☆⚑

Don't Rain On Her Parade:KImberly Faye Greenberg Brings Fanny Brice to Fabulous Life by Jaime Lubin/huffington Post

Review of Performance of Fabulous Fanny: The Songs & Stories of Fanny Brice at 54 below this past February 12, 2015

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:30pm on February 24, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Ivo van Hove's "View From the Bridge" View, David Hare's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" Gaze by David Finkle

London--What can ordinarily be objectionable about Ivo van Hove's too often juvenile look-at-me directing is that he thinks it's innovative to play up a script's subtext. That, of course, i…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 8:04pm on February 24, 2015☆⚑

The Broadway Musical Season -- Not So Dire by Cara Joy David

Fret not for the Broadway season of new musicals, dear friends. Even if, as rumors have it, a summer (post-Tony) opening is announced for Hamilton, all is not lost for this season of Broadwa…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 2:26pm on February 24, 2015☆⚑

Stage Door: Kill Me Like You Mean It, Churchill by Fern Siegel

Churchill never failed to inspire -- and Keaton's excellent rendition explains why.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:19am on February 24, 2015☆⚑

Organizational Culture by Michael Kaiser

While those who study organizational development and psychology have developed myriad ways to analyze the culture of institutions, I have my own simplistic way of evaluating culture: I find …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:05am on February 23, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Stoppard's Hard Problem Neatly Solved, Last of the De Mullins Deftly Revived, Homer's Odyssey in 60 Minutes by David Finkle

Almost immediately after Tom Stoppard's new and intellectually thrilling play, The Hard Problem, at the National Theatre's Dorfman, begins, the just-about-peerless playwright has his charact…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 6:47pm on February 22, 2015☆⚑

Rob McClure's Honeymoon on Broadway | Dustin Fitzharris by Dustin Fitzharris

I caught up with McClure and found out what it's like working with Tony Danza, his dream role and the cinematic way he proposed to his wife.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:40am on February 21, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: James McAvoy Rules 'The Ruling Class,' A Feminized Treasure Island,' 'Di and Viv and Rose' on Friendship by David Finkle

When Peter Barnes decided the ruling English class was nutty, he created Jack Gurney and wrote The Ruling Class, a hellzapoppin satire during most of which Gurney (James McAvoy) contends he'…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 8:22pm on February 20, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Nick Jones's "Verité," Stephen Adly Guirgis's "Between Riverside and Crazy" by David Finkle

Nick Jones could have fooled me. And did with Verité, his new comedy(?) at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow. But he didn't fool...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 7:42pm on February 18, 2015☆⚑

The Secrets Behind Great Storytelling by Damian Bazadona

Great storytelling -- whether it's a new play, a television spot or a speech -- is all about creating an emotional connection with the audience. Storytelling is elevated by great writers and…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:49pm on February 18, 2015☆⚑

Aisle View: Lin-Manuel Miranda's Alexander The Great by Steven Suskin

The show has been impeccably staged by Thomas Kail, Miranda's colleague from In the Heights, with choreography from that show's Andy Blankenbuehler. For theatergoers who admired but didn't …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:46pm on February 17, 2015☆⚑

Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill by Michael Kaiser

It is not necessarily true that there is more going on than there was 20 years ago, but there certainly is far more information directed at all of us, constantly, and without pause. All of t…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:06am on February 17, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Ronald Keaton Makes an Imposing 'Churchill' by David Finkle

When I was at college, a favorite pastime of mine was sitting around with a bunch of other procrastinators keen on determining the most important person of the 20th century. I maintained it…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 6:55pm on February 15, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy in O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh" by David Finkle

Can a great play also be not entirely good? And before you answer that, please put aside any objections about the adjective...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:27pm on February 12, 2015☆⚑

Second That Emotion by Helen Eisenbach

Against all odds filmmakers continue to make fine works, adapting or creating stories not from comics or video games but exploring the human experience on our own planet.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 8:55pm on February 12, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: "The Events" Proves Less Than Riveting by David Finkle

In the program for The Events, now at the New York Theatre Workshop, is a note about the production's provenance that goes in...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 7:02pm on February 12, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Joel Drake Johnson's Sly Rasheeda Speaks, Craig muMs Grant's Paradox of the Urban Cliché by David Finkle

Joel Drake Johnson is a sly one. At first, his Rasheeda Speaks -- directed by Cynthia Nixon with her own sly touch in a very impressive directing debut -- looks as if it's going to be a str…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 6:59pm on February 11, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: Christine Bianco Lights Up Application Pending by David Finkle

Beauty and humor aren't so common a combination that a theatergoer can afford to get blasé about it. That's what Christina Bianco dispenses in large quantities throughout the Greg Edwards-A…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 2:12pm on February 11, 2015☆⚑

First Nighter: John Cariani's Love/Sick, Brian Dykstra's Selling Out by David Finkle

Sometimes playwright John Cariani looks at the world -- actually the worlds of love and relationships -- through rose-colored glasses. Just as often he views those worlds through lenses tint…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 2:06pm on February 10, 2015☆⚑

What's the Best Broadway Can Be? by Damian Bazadona

Times are great for the Broadway industry today, and I want to keep it that way. And if you ask me how we do that? I believe that a focus on diversifying our workplace, our audience and our …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 2:08pm on February 9, 2015☆⚑

Karaoke for a Good Cause with Carson Kressley by Cara Joy David

One of the great thing about writing about entertainment is that you get to learn about all of these fabulous charities through...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 1:36pm on February 9, 2015☆⚑

Executive Committees by Michael Kaiser

The Executive Committee is also a place to "try out" ideas without subjecting them to full board scrutiny. Discussions about board dues, new programming ideas, even new trustees, c…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 9:19am on February 9, 2015☆⚑