Saturday, April 15, 2017
If you love musicals, this is the season for you. Fourteen new ones will have opened by the time the season officially ends on April 27. And they range from small edgy chamber pieces to…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:18AMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Sometimes you want a little sizzle with your theatrical steak. Or at least I do. Which is why I'm such a fan of shows that take an imaginative approach to their storytelling, using all…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:54AMSaturday, April 8, 2017
And we're off: the awards season has officially begun. Nominations for the Lucille Lortel Awards, which honor off-Broadway productions, were announced this week. And since lots of shows run …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:02AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Happy marriages don't get much love in plays; they don't provide enough dysfunction for drama and there's not enough cutting up in them for comedy. So gratefully ensconced in one myself and …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:42PMSaturday, April 1, 2017
Spring is always kind of a crazy time for me. I'm happy to see the end of winter weather and excited by all the new shows coming in but am inevitably so busy seeing them (and juggling all th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Mass shootings are now so commonplace that they've spawned a whole subgenre of theater. Over the past decade I've seen The Columbine Project and The Library, both based on the 1999 massacre …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:54AMSaturday, March 25, 2017
If you read Broadway & Me, then you know how much I love theater. What you may not know is that I also love podcasts and so I've decided to combine the two because this is shaping up to …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:06AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
People have been telling me I should see a Marcus Gardley play for years now. But I somehow missed his breakout play The House that Will Not Stand and all the subsequent ones. Until this pas…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:36AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
Being a woman today can be tough (just ask Hillary Clinton). But it isn't as Job-like tough as Penelope Skinner makes it out to be in the play Linda, which is running through April 2 at Manh…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:03AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
You may have to be a young woman in your late teens or early 20s to truly appreciate All The Fine Boys, the new play that The New Group is running in the tiny Ford Foundation Studio Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:54PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
Grief is strange. We deal with the loss of someone we love as best we can but sometimes, even months later, the lingering sorrow continues to inform the choices we make. I don't know if…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:36PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth premiered in 1942, just 10 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor launched the U.S. into World War II. Clearly tapping into the zeitgeist of the mome…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:32PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
Bull in a China Shop is a flawed play and yet I want to commend LCT3 for putting it on. For this is just the kind of show that a theater devoted to nurturing new artists should be doing. The…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:12PMWednesday, March 1, 2017
In some ways, the family in Steven Levenson's new play If I Forget will be familiar to just about anyone who has a family. There's the bossy big sister and her henpecked husband, the ad…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:32AMSaturday, February 25, 2017
Stephen Sondheim will turn 87 next month but he's working on a new musical tentatively called Buñuel that is scheduled to have a full workshop production at the Public Theater later this sp…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
The day may come when attending a performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard will be like going to one for The Rocky Horror Show where audience members dress up like their favorit…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:06PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
Tickets for Man from Nebraska sold out almost as soon as Second Stage Theatre put them on sale. That's because the show was written by Tracy Letts (a Pulitzer Prize-winner for August: Osage …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:06AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
Yesterday was a really special day for me. Of course, it was Valentine's Day, which my much-adored husband K and I delight in celebrating. But it also marked the 10th anniversary of Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:06PMWednesday, February 8, 2017
News for us theater junkies usually means a new show or a major cast replacement but this still-new year has brought some events that will shake up the way that those of obsessed with theate…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:48PMSaturday, February 4, 2017
The Brits have such a fondness for plays about unhappy people who live in squalid settings and do unpleasant—and often violent—things to one another that they've even given the genre a n…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
A card-carrying member of the Bright Young Things, the bohemian artists and aristocrats who flouted conventional norms in England during the 1920s, the actor and playwright Miles Malleson ha…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AMSaturday, January 28, 2017
Staging a farce is a little like whipping up a soufflé. You need good ingredients, a skillful cook and the ineffable airiness that turns ordinary egg custard into a fluffy delight. The Liar…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
It's hard not to be won over by Dear Evan Hansen, the new musical that has made a triumphant transfer from Second Stage Theatre, where it played last spring, to Broadway's The Music Box thea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
This is a theater blog not a political blog but even before reports surfaced about how the new administration might eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts (click here to read about th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:48PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Usually a photo here of the ghost light that theaters turn on when they're temporarily empty means that I didn't have time to write a full post. But it means something very different this ti…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:33AMSaturday, January 14, 2017
People may be crowding into the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to see Cate Blanchett make her Broadway debut in The Present, her husband Andrew Upton's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's first play Plat…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:06AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
It's been cold and snowy in New York over the past few days, the kind of weather that makes even a theater lover want to stay home and snuggle up with a book or something on the DVR.The thea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSaturday, January 7, 2017
The Oxford Dictionary declared "post-truth" to be 2016's word of the year but in the theater world, I think a better choice would have been the word "immersive." Everywhere you looked, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:36PMWednesday, January 4, 2017
Most 10 Bests list came out around mid-December so I'm obviously arriving really late to the party with this one. Which is probably OK because I can't even pretend to say which were th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:24AMSaturday, December 31, 2016
Here's a toast to us all: may the next 365 days be filled with love, laughter, fortitude to get through the bad stuff and, of course, the sustaining comfort of good theater. Cheers!
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:42AMWednesday, December 28, 2016
Melissa Errico visited the cable news show "On Stage" this past weekend to talk about her latest show, the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of Finian's Rainbow, which has been extended…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:33AMSaturday, December 24, 2016
And may your day be merry and bright, sparkling in whatever way you choose.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:12AMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Earlier this year, the playwright Richard Greenberg released a collection of odd little pieces that weren't entirely fiction but not quite memoir either. Instead they unspool like the unanch…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:12AMSunday, December 18, 2016
It took me awhile to get the double meaning of the title In Transit, the a cappella musical that opened last Sunday at Circle in the Square. The show is set primarily in the subway so I got …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:06PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
The pop culture magazine Entertainment Weekly made Sutton Foster's TV show "Younger" its top pick of the week and even though I've not seen the show, I'm not surprised. Foster is a joy box o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:42AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
Some shows just aren't made for critics, theater snobs and other members of the theatergoing aristocracy who are always on the prowl for something cutting edge. A Bronx Tale, which opened at…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:33AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
I've fallen into another hole and so can't post today but I'm hoping to have climbed out by the weekend and to see you then.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:36PMSaturday, December 3, 2016
The playwright Nicky Silver sat in a seat in the back of the audience the night my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Silver's new play This Day Forward, which is running at the Vineyard Thea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:24PMWednesday, November 30, 2016
They may not know it but serious theatergoers owe a big debt of gratitude to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which, despite its name, has commissioned a series of dynamic plays that focus o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:12PMSaturday, November 26, 2016
There's no question that Gideon Irving is a really talented guy. He's been blessed with an ingratiating stage presence, a plangent singing voice and an irrepressible love of music in the Pau…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:02AM 
