879 stories from Broadway & Me
There are so many themes"cultural assimilation, filial responsibility, sibling rivalry, climate change, animal cruelty, homophobia"packed into This Space Between Us that this new dramedy, wh…
The playwright Charly Evon Simpson had written a bunch of stuff before she got her breakthrough three years ago with Behind the Sheet, a devastating drama about how the father of American gy…
There have been so many voices absent from the American stage that sometimes we don't even know what we've been missing until we suddenly hear it. English, the deceptively simple play by San…
Even before it opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center on Tuesday, some people were calling the musical Black No More "the new Hamilton." And it's easy to see why.Â
The score, much…
I can hardly believe it but I published the first Broadway & Me post 15 years ago on Valentine's Day. So this post should have gone up yesterday. However I was so busy celebrating V-Day …
It's not easy to write about Tambo & Bones, the new play that opened at Playwrights Horizons this week. And I'm pretty sure its playwright Dave Harris intended it to be difficult.Â
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...and the chance to once again safely put the spotlights back on some really good theater:
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My Smilebox Creation
You might have thought that I'd given up on theatergoing if you've been checking in here to see what I had to say about this comeback season's new shows only to discover that I'd written abo…
 Lots of words are going to be written over the next few days by people who knew him, people who admired him and people who have a better way with words than I do. So although the ple…
Everyone involved with The Public Theater's new musical The Visitor seems to be walking on eggshells. And who can blame them? Â
The week before previews were scheduled to begin, the pr…
Eight plays written by black playwrights are scheduled to open on Broadway this fall. That's twice the number of all the shows by black playwrights that opened on the too-aptly named Great W…
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I went to see a show this week. There was a time when that wouldn't have been a remarkable statement. I routinely saw 150 shows a year and shared my thoughts about many of them her…
What a difference a year makes.         Â
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During the spring and summer evenings of 2020 we New Yorkers stood at our windows or out on th…
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After 16 long and scary months, the coronavirus seems to be in retreat. Over half of the country has now gotten at least one vaccination shot. And here in New York City, 60% of all adu…
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday and the winner for the drama prize was Katori Hall for her terrific play The Hot Wing King.
I had several dogs in this fight. Like most theater …
People are getting vaccinated, some at a new site right in the middle of New York City's Theater District (click here to read more about that). Meanwhile, theaters are taking steps to reo…
As some of you know, I'm a contributor to BroadwayRadio and over the past few years, I've hosted "Stagecraft," a show that talks to playwrights and musical book writers about their recent sh…
Even, or maybe especially, in these pandemic times, it's time to put on a good face and celebrate the theater that we all continue to love:
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A year ago today, I was gearing up for the intense out-every-night theatergoing of awards season and, as I told my friend David Gordon who has been publishing a chronicle of this past pand…
We're in the middle of African American History Month, a commemoration made all the more urgent by the events of last summer that were prompted by the police murders of George Floyd and Bria…
This is a bittersweet anniversary for me: I published the first Broadway & Me post 14 years ago on Valentine's Day but it's now been nearly a year since I've seen a show in person. A…
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Deeply mourning the death of the great Cicely Tyson, a trailblazer and role model in so many ways.
I had planned to write a review of Ratatouille: the Tik Tok Musical, the delicious online presentation that began as a 15-second video created by a fan of the Disney animated film about a ra…
