Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Getting a show in front of a mainstream audience ain't easy and it can be even tougher when you're a playwright of color. Which is why I'm happy to have seen Martín Zimmerman's Seven Spots …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:54PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
The theater awards season is like a presidential campaign. Everyone has their eyes on the ultimate prize but there are lots of other contests along the way that offer trophies and with them,…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AMWednesday, May 10, 2017
I promise to get back to talking about shows I've seen soon but as a card-carrying member of the Outer Critics Circle, I feel honor-bound to tout the awards we announced on Monday. The OCC r…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:24PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
All Tony awards are coveted but the awards for Best Musical tend to be the most coveted of all. And because 13 new musicals debuted during the 2016-2017 season, the odds of getting one this …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:06PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
If you're reading this blog, then you already know that the Tony nominations were announced yesterday. And depending on how you look at it, this year's nominators had one of the toughe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:18PMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Like most talented playwrights these days, Annie Baker has no doubt been asked to spend some time in a writers' room for one of the prestige TV shows. But on the basis of her new play The An…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
There's no question that the Tonys are the Oscars, or most desired awards, of the theater world but there are other coveted prizes too. Yesterday, the Outer Critics Circle, of which I'm a pr…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSaturday, April 22, 2017
The Tonys may be the top dog in awards season but it's not the only one in the game. Lots of other groups also celebrate the best of the theater season. The nominations for the Lucille …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
Playwrights Horizons hasn't made a big deal of it but over the past year, the company seems to have gone out of its way to tell stories about people whose lives rarely get shown onstage and …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:48PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
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Now this is more like it.
Unlike last week when I got crickets in response to my giveaway quiz, a whole bunch of you wrote in for the chance to win the
new book �…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:50AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
You B&Me readers are a clever bunch: everyone who wrote
in for the chance to win a free
digital download of the cast recording for the new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:13AMSunday, October 20, 2013
Has the art of romance been
totally lost? I ask because three
versions of what is arguably the most romantic play of all time, Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet (you know, the one where…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:31PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
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New Yorkers (and the tourists who come here) have been almost as
enchanted with Matilda, the musical based on the classic Roald Dahl story about a very smart girl and her ver…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AMSaturday, October 12, 2013
Female actors didn’t appear on the professional stage until about 50
years after Shakespeare’s death. Which explains, at least in part, why
actresses are always lamenting the paucity of …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:27AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
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Word of mouth has not been kind to The Film Society, the
Keen Company’s revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s first play, now running at The Clurman
Theater on Theater Row through Oc…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:38AMSaturday, October 5, 2013
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Philip Goes Forth seemed tailor-made for me. It’s a play about a young man who dreams of a
life in the theater. It was written by George Kelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:25AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
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This is the first time that The Old Friends, the Horton
Foote melodrama now playing at Signature Theatre’s Irene Diamond Stage through
Oct. 20, has been fully staged. And
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SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:17AMSaturday, September 28, 2013
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Seeing a bioplay always makes me nervous that what I’m going
to get is caricatures instead of characters. Seeing one with my husband K, who
hates watching people pretend to…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:06AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Maybe if I’d known more about Brendan Behan, I would have
had a better time at Brendan at the Chelsea, the gloomy drama about the Irish
poet and playwright Brendan Behan that’s playing a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:04AMSaturday, September 21, 2013
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You don’t have to love a show to admire it. At least that’s how I’m feeling about two of
the shows that have kicked off this new fall season.
The first I saw w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AMSaturday, September 14, 2013
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Between you and me, I’m a little reluctant to list the shows
I’m most looking forward to this fall. That’s
because my picks for past seasons have turned out to be…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:23AMSaturday, September 7, 2013
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Lots of people seem charmed by First Date, the first
musical to open in this new Broadway season.
And I wish I could have been too.
Because I admire the fact …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:20AMSaturday, August 31, 2013
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Labor Day has snuck up on me this year because it’s been a
busier summer than usual. Some publications have asked me to write about
theater-related subjects and instead of …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:35AMSaturday, August 24, 2013
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We need more poor playwrights. I don't mean bad writers or even those who are living hand-to mouth for the sake of their art but people who have grown up in families that had …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMSaturday, August 17, 2013
There’s a certain magic about seeing a show in Central Park, no
matter what the show is. I’ve seen two
there over the last couple of weeks and although not crazy about either, I’…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:05AMSaturday, August 10, 2013
We theater lovers used to beg for things to see in the summer.
And so we got festivals. Lots and
lots of festivals. Maybe too many
festivals.
There’s the New York Music…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMSaturday, August 3, 2013
Theater slows down in August. Or at least I
do. So while I’ll continue seeing a few
shows, I’ll only be writing about them here once a week, instead of the usual twice, until somet…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Just like the TV reality shows it lampoons, the new musical
Nobody Loves You, now playing at Second Stage Theatre through Aug. 11, is silly and yet
enjoyable at the same time.
The playwri…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:29AMSaturday, July 27, 2013
We're all obsessed with celebrity these days and almost
everyone (me included) has a story to tell about an encounter
with one. Writer Elizabeth Fuller’s
was with the movie star Bette Davi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Comeuppance for the financial scoundrels who
bilked people out of their savings and helped wreck the broader economy is once
again a hot topic. In “Blue Jasmine,”
the new Woody All…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:35AMSaturday, July 20, 2013
Choir Boy isn’t a musical but the best thing about it is the singing. Now playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s studio space at New York City Center through Aug. 4, this ambitious work…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:12PM 
