Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Tony night. The biggest night of the year for the theater industry (not gross-wise) and for me personally. This year it was a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:31AMMonday, June 17, 2013
There has been talk throughout my career of allowing NYC theaters to get the Regional Theatre Tony. They've wanted it. I've always thought it was sort of a ridiculous, greedy desire.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:21AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
I feel pretty confident that my favorite play of the year, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, will win Best Play and my favorite musical, Matilda, will win Best Musical. (There is a ground…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:59PMSaturday, April 27, 2013
Numerous critics described The Trunch's appearance in very colorful terms and went out of their way to otherwise paint a picture of the dirt-colored, gold medal-winning child hater.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:18PMFriday, April 26, 2013
Let me start with John Logan's I'll Eat You Last and why this column might as well have been titled, "Why Bette Midler Should Receive a Tony Nomination."
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Now a mother of three -- her daughter is nine, one son is seven and another is almost five -- Lauren Ward is back on Broadway at least through the summer in a role she has been playing since…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:23AMFriday, April 12, 2013
Constantine Maroulis, the “American Idol” alumnus who earned a Tony nomination for “Rock of Ages,” stars in the Broadway musical revival “Jekyll & Hyde.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
It was not surprising Cinderella got categorized a "revival" -- after all, as Michael Riedel wrote a couple of weeks ago, that means it is a shoo-in for a nomination. But was that …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:27PMMonday, March 18, 2013
Speaking of back to Broadway -- Bette Midler is coming. I've been waiting for years, and now she is coming. Midler is starring in one of three one-woman shows on the Great White Way this sea…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:07PMSunday, March 10, 2013
I hope this Metamorphoses comes back to New York, but, if it doesn't, I am happy audiences can see it now at Arena.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:27PMThursday, February 21, 2013
During my career I have seen theater companies have a bad season or two and then rebound with good ones. But I don't think I've seen a company go from virtual obsolescence to consistent hit …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:51PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
In my decade plus career, I don't remember a better slate of contenders than we have this year. There are so many people who any other year would be nominated, but this year will fall short.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:06AMThursday, January 24, 2013
Bad set design can make an otherwise good production appear false and a pitiful play can be made all the more horrible by confusing environs.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:34AMSunday, January 13, 2013
As the dust settled, I asked a bunch of industry people to comment anonymously on what they consider to be the biggest surprises of the fall season and one of my unsolved mysteries of 2012-2…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:46PMWednesday, December 26, 2012
Some of you still want to give the last minute gift of theater tickets. It is always hard to recommend theater for people you do not know, but this season I have some generic recommendations…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
The Broadway grosses have recently told me two things. First, Kathie Lee Gifford is not a very good salesperson. Second, not everyone in the world is going to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Wo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:44AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
First came Roundabout Theatre Company's Roundabout Underground, then came Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 and, now, Manhattan Theatre Club's The Studio at Stage II. Its official debut is this …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:54PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
The Rebecca fiasco did not beget many winners, but there was one: Sierra Boggess. This may sound completely bizarre; let me explain.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:34PMSunday, October 14, 2012
Every once and a while when the lights come up at the start of intermission of a play, I am confused because I feel like I haven't been sitting in the dark all that long. Such was the case a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:19AMWednesday, September 12, 2012
I sometimes wonder why the majority of them do it. But I thank them all because without someone to produce the theater there would be no theater. This fall/winter the producers presenting wo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:51PMTuesday, September 11, 2012
There is work worth seeing at regional theaters throughout the country. All throughout the country new plays are being produced, old ones revived. I can't properly express how important I th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:46PMMonday, August 27, 2012
Ladies and gentlemen -- everything comes back around; everything old is new again; if you wait long enough, people forget. Except, I rarely completely forget in-development Broadway musicals…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:20AMMonday, August 20, 2012
It's hard getting money for a Broadway musical. So ridiculously rich people need to be involved. Long ago the wealthy were often content to act as nameless investors; now they increasingly w…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:05AMMonday, July 23, 2012
This week Into the Woods starts, making it Sondheim in the Park as opposed to Shakespeare in the Park, and it will be the toughest ticket the Delacorte has had in a while.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:53PMThursday, July 5, 2012
When The Best Man opened, Kerry Butler was understandably nervous -- after all, here she was making her major straight-play debut alongside Darth Vader, Murphy Brown, Dan Fielding and Will T…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:20AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Here's what Nora Ephron meant to me, as a Wellesley girl who wanted to go into entertainment. Ephron showed that it could be done, and by "it," I mean anything.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:39AMMonday, June 11, 2012
There are two nominated individuals whom I believe deserved to win Tony Awards over their competition: Tracie Bennett and Hugh Vanstone.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:45AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Despite the trip from the Berkshires barn to the La Jolla Playhouse to New York Theater Workshop and now to Broadway, Peter and the Starcatcher has by all accounts maintained its original fe…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:40PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
She laughed at a few remarks, but others that led to an uproarious response in most people, caused my mother to roll her eyes in disgust. You see, at the root of it, she was shocked by the s…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:00PMMonday, April 30, 2012
Thompson has just the right mix of vocal prowess and slapstick ability. Nice Work If You Can Get It is far from the best thing she's ever done but her genius is apparent in her featured role…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08AMFriday, March 23, 2012
I'm very attached to Love, Loss and What I Wore. I don't think I've ever sent as many people to an off-Broadway show as I have to this play. So it is with sadness that I reflect on its closi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:47AM 
