879 stories from Broadway & Me
This is the time of year when people like me create lists that tout the best things we've experienced in the areas of interest we followed over the last 12 months. But it's hard to put the w…
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Christmas as we know it"the tree, the cards, the carol singing"began during the early Victorian age and perhaps no one popularized those now-familiar traditions more than did Charles Dickens…
Let's be honest: it's been a tough year. For the world. For the nation. For the theater community. And yet, there are still things for us theater lovers to be grateful for, be it the pro…
A Zoomed scene from the staged reading of Lisa Loomer's docudrama RoeÂ
It hit me unexpectedly. I'd been going along for the past seven months telling myself that I didn't really miss …
The first face-to-face debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is scheduled for this Tuesday, Sept. 29, and the uncertainty over the outcome of the election five weeks from now has me in a…
Traditions are important even"maybe especially"in troubled times. And so although theaters remain dark and I've been posting here infrequently, I've decided to go ahead with my annual Labor …
Sometimes you want a gourmet meal filled with rare or surprising ingredients. But sometimes you just want a big yummy bowl of macaroni and cheese. Seared, the latest play by Theresa Rebeck, …
Macbeth is a great gateway drug for Shakespeare newbies. It's got a straight-ahead plot, some of the Bard's most memorable lines, plus witches. Us Shakespeare oldies like it too. It's one of…
In the old days, when tickets were cheaper, people went to musicals for the thrill of hearing new songs. Today, when seeing a Broadway show can cost more than a car note, they go for the sec…
The monologue play is an odd hybrid. Unlike traditional monologues in which one actor talks directly to the audience, it usually features three or more performers. But unlike traditional pla…
It's been a while since I last turned on the ghost light that theaters use when they're temporarily empty but I'm doing it now. That's mainly because I've been running around seeing so many …
Yes, I know it's not a Saturday when I usually post but the holidays and other end-of-the-year obligations have turned my schedule topsy-turvy. So I've decided to invoke my old practice of p…
For those of us who write about culture, the holiday season includes making Top 10 lists. But this year, I've decided against trying to anoint the best shows I've seen or even tallying up my…
..and a Happy Chanukah, a tardy Good Winter Solstice, a strong Happy Festivus, a slightly premature Joyous Kwanza and the all-around sincere hope that however you celebrate it, your holiday …
Sing Street, the new musical that opened last week at New York Theatre Workshop and which is the final big show of the fall season to open, arrived with high expectations. But that can hurt …
Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!! Here's hoping that they're both filled with more happiness (including lots of good theater) than not. Cheers!!!
Bigger isn't always better. The British director Richard Jones won deserved kudos in 2017 for staging The Hairy Ape in the vast drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory. That production li…
The best preview for the spring 2020 theater season I've seen was the one that my friend and fellow theater junkie Howard Sherman posted on his Facebook page a couple of weeks ago:
I can…
No review post this week (although if you have a chance you should try to catch Talene Monahon's How to Load a Musket, a really thought-provoking play about historical reenactors and the fra…
Just like Shakespeare, the great Greek playwrights staged their plays with all-male actors. But unlike the Bard, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides centered many of their plays around great …
One of my best friends worked for the Negro Ensemble Company back in its heyday and so I got to see the original productions of such shows as Zooman and the Sign, The River Niger and the NEC…
Wither the musical? Not the jukebox musical or the ones that strap themselves to popular movies like a shipwreck victim clinging to a lifeboat or even those with rock scores whose songs self…
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Time flies. And this year it's whizzing by so quickly that I almost forgot to take some time out to celebrate the 13th anniversary of Broadway & Me…
Christopher Chen's intriguing memory play The Headlands works on so many levels that it's hard for me to keep track of all of them.
It starts out as a crime procedural centered around an i…
