Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Honky, the provocatively named comedy now running at Urban
Stages, kicks off with a not very funny incident: a black kid is killed for his
sneakers and sales spike at the Nike-style company …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AMSaturday, March 23, 2013
Passover begins on Monday evening and although My Name is
Asher Lev opened four months ago and has extended its run at the Westside
Theatre through
Sept. 1, it’s hard to think of a b…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:27AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
The expectation we have for playwrights is the same as we
have for parents: that they should love all their children equally. Of course they don’t. Both tend to have a soft spot for …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:22AMSaturday, March 16, 2013
Sometimes you just need a good laugh. At least that’s how I’ve been feeling over the
past couple of weeks as I’ve gone from one disappointing show to the next. I usually ta…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Maybe I’m just in a cranky mood. Because I’ve seen nearly
two dozen show so far this calendar year and I can count the ones I’ve liked on
one hand, with a few fingers left over.
…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:45PMSaturday, March 9, 2013
Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly is a small play in almost
every way. It’s a two-hander and all the
action takes place on a single set, a rundown boathouse near a farm
in Lebanon,…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Well, I guess it’s official:
I am truly not a John Doyle gal. The Scottish- born director has earned all kinds of kudos from critics
(most notably the New York Times’ Ben Brantley)…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:29AMSaturday, March 2, 2013
Young Hollywood stars coming to New York to act in plays is
so last year. Now, they’re writing the
plays. Just this past week, I saw The Revisionist, a new play
by Jesse Eisenberg, m…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:05PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Few things are more annoying than having someone go on
and on about how some long-gone production was so much better than the one that you can see right now. So I’m going to have to
…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:28AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
It takes both talent and moxie to make it in show business.
And Paul Downs Colaizzo, the 27-year-old playwright whose first play Really
Really opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Tuesday…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:26AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
The folks at Warner Bros. emailed to ask me if I’d be
interested in receiving and reviewing their new DVD box set of movie
musicals. I get offers like this a lot
and I tend not to respond …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
Let’s face it: the
fall theater season was disappointing as hell.
Of the 20 or so shows that opened on Broadway between last year’s Tony
broadcast and the dropping of the ball in …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:03AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for me because it is both
Valentine’s Day (for which my beloved husband K and I have special plans) and the
sixth anniversary of Broadway & Me, which …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:47AMSaturday, February 9, 2013
Audience participation is not my thing. So you might think that The Mystery of Edwin
Drood would not be my kind of show. At least, that’s what I feared.
For this
musical, ba…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:54AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Everything I’d read about the latest revival of Tennessee
Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof promised that it was going to be a hot
mess. The show’s top-billed star Scarlett Johansson kep…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:08AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Sometimes you really can’t go home again. Encores!, the great concert series that
celebrates the American musical, decided to celebrate its 20th season by going back to Fiorello!, th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:42AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
The Jammer, the roller derby comedy that opened at the Atlantic
Stage 2 last week, is a goofball of a show.
And I mean that as a total compliment.
Unless the action is s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:05AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
The coming out narrative, in which a young or closeted homosexual
struggles to accept his or her sexual identity, has been the dominant theme in
gay literature since at least 1862 when the p…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:30AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Directors often say that casting is the most important
decision they make since putting the right or wrong person in a role can make or break
a show. By that measure, the Roundabout
Th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:39AMSaturday, January 19, 2013
We regular Broadway theatergoers have gotten used to playing
host to movie stars over the past few years.
But most of them have been young starlets (male and female) hoping to make the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:32AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
So many shows, so little time. And since the traditional January post-holiday
reaping is now here, they’re closing faster than I can write about them.
Some of those clo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:40AMSaturday, January 12, 2013
The news that she was getting $10,000 and a place at the
table alongside America’s greatest playwrights must have thrilled Quiara
Alegría Hudes when she got the news that her play Water b…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:54AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Today, January 9th, is my husband K’s and my
anniversary and so I’m taking time out to celebrate with the man I love even
more than I love theater.
But before I sign…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:06AMSaturday, January 5, 2013
Dead Accounts is playing its final performance tomorrow, closing
three months before it had planned. I’m writing about it at this late date because I want to make the argument that the pro…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:29AMWednesday, January 2, 2013
People began posting 10 best lists so early that I
don’t know how they even managed to see—let alone rate—all the shows that
opened in November and December (click here for a han…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMSaturday, December 29, 2012
It’s no surprise that film critics are pooh-poohing the new
movie version of Alain
Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s pop opera Les Misérables. Just as it’s no surprise that…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AMTuesday, December 25, 2012
May
your holidays sparkle with peace, love, happiness —and the thrill of great
theater.
In the meantime, have yourself the merriest little Christmas.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:59AMSaturday, December 22, 2012
The small Minetta Lane Theatre was less than half full when
my theatergoing buddy Bill and I went to see the powerful new play
Falling. The poor turnout could have
been because it was the we…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:50PMWednesday, December 19, 2012
Christmas is less than a week away and so you’re no doubt already deep into your shopping list but there may be one person you
haven’t gotten around to yet:
you.
Not to worry. …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:03AMSaturday, December 15, 2012
Eve Ensler hit the theatrical equivalent of the Mega
Millions lottery with The Vagina Monologues, her collection of solo pieces in
which women talk about the full spectrum of the feminine ex…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:16PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Who
would have thunk it? After years of
being dissed, theater has become the place where all the cool kids want to hang
out. A pileup of Hollywood actors— Jake
Gyllenhaal, Kati…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:01AM 
