Saturday, August 11, 2012
The first real writing I ever did was a reworking of Grimm’s
Fairy Tales because they just didn’t make sense to my 8 year-old self. As I
recall, I made them more agreeable by changing so…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Yep, it's that time again. We're heading into the dog days of summer when everything
slows down. Including B& Me.
As seems to have become a tradition around this time each ye…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Actors and directors love to do classic works. It gives them a chance to size themselves up against the myths and memories of earlier, legendary performances and
produc…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
It would be hard to find a show with a more impressive pedigree than
the one for Dogfight, the lovely little musical that opened at Second Stage
Theatre on Monday night:
•Its directo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
There’s a lot that's similar about Bonnie & Clyde, the Frank
Wildhorn musical about the Depression-era gangsters that closed in December
after just 36 performances, and Baby Case, the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:19AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
Several small off-Broadway shows have come and gone over the
past few months while I’ve been preoccupied with all the Broadway openings at
the end of the season, the deserved hoopla leadin…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:00PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Summertime is tourist time in New York and one of the main things people want to do when they get here is see a Broadway show. But not just any show. Most want to take in a big B…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, July 7, 2012
In keeping with this week’s red-white-and-blue theme, I’m
going to recommend The Best Man (or Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, as it is
officially billed) which is turning into a staple of e…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:59AMWednesday, July 4, 2012
No post today. Instead I’m kicking back and will be celebrating the birth of our country with my
annual viewing of the pretty good movie version of the really great Tony-…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:49AMSaturday, June 30, 2012
Despite what the calendar says, the beginning of summer is a
personal choice. Traditionalists probably opted for June 20th, the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. But some folk…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Judging by all the honors he’s already racked up, the
playwright David Adjmi has plenty of fans and doesn’t need me. His bio boasts that he’s
won a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Whi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:03AMSaturday, June 23, 2012
At some point, almost every frequent theatergoer has probably thought
“I should write a play.” Unlike
most of us, journalists Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles went ahead
and wro…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:46AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
For people obsessed with theater, talking about how the
theater is dying is like talking about the weather for regular people: you know
you can always get a conversation going.
And yet…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:28AMSaturday, June 16, 2012
It’s usually not a good thing when your favorite part of a
show is its scenery. That’s the way I felt after I saw Spider-Man: Turn
Off the Dark and that’s the way I felt when I walked …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:01AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Lots of people are upset because Sunday night’s Tony Awards
drew only 6 million viewers, a big drop from the 6.9 million who tuned in
last year. I could try to put a positive on that by po…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:09AMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Tomorrow is Tony Day, which will mark the end of the 2011-2012 awards
season. And it’s been a good one because there’s been no monster hit to suck
all the oxygen—
and the suspen…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:14AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
To be fair, I should admit that I’m not really into comedy. And I'm completely mystified by British humor. I like a witty
joke as much as the next bloke but the low-brow, drop-the-drawers …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:59PMSaturday, June 2, 2012
The true story that inspired February House, the new musical
at the Public Theater, is so cool that I couldn’t wait to see the show. Here it is: in the early ‘40s, a group of artists tha…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:10AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Anyone who still questions the value of star power on
Broadway should take a look at the current revival of Evita in which the pop
star Ricky Martin plays Che, the narrator of Andrew Lloyd W…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMSaturday, May 26, 2012
Another impossibly busy weekend is staring me in the face so I don’t
have time to tell you about any of the recent shows I’ve seen. But I have
managed to steal a few minutes to put toget…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Maybe we should blame Joseph Alsop. When the KGB tried to blackmail the
powerful Washington columnist with a threat to reveal his homosexuality, Alsop
marched straight to the U.S. emba…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMSaturday, May 19, 2012
Some people are going to be drawn to the terrific new play
that just opened at The Duke on 42nd Street because of its
titillating title: Cock. Others may want to see it because of the refres…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
To borrow a phrase from Bill Clinton’s first presidential
campaign, it’s the dancing, stupid.
The floor-shaking production numbers in which a supercharged ensemble of
male d…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:02AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Maybe the question was simple but my guess is that readers of B&Me are just a theater savvy bunch cause everyone who wrote in got the right answer (the Carnegie Deli) to the question:&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AMSaturday, May 12, 2012
So many shows opened in the final weeks of the theater
season that officially ended on April 26 that I’ve had to scramble to catch up
with all of them. There were 14
new shows on Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:55AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
My friend Doug came to New York last month to celebrate his
birthday with some fellow theater lovers, including my buddy Bill and me. Sometime during the evening, well into
our cups, w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:22AMSaturday, May 5, 2012
Ethnic humor can be a tricky
thing. But anyone who's gone to
the website Old Jews Telling Jokes will tell you that it can also be a very
funny thing. Now, some of those classic
c…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:30AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
The Tony nominators spread around their love this year. When the nominations were announced yesterday, 30 of the 37 eligible shows were named in at least one category. And some of the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:10PMSaturday, April 28, 2012
Is any American play better known or more beloved than Tennessee
William’s A Streetcar Named Desire?
Even the most casual theatergoers have heard of Stanley's “Stella” cri de cou…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:45PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
A lot of hard work goes into bringing a Broadway show to the
stage. So every time I write about one, I try to remember all the years of study, the hours of rehearsal, the dreams of glory and…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:48AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
The main image on the cover of the Playbill for Regrets, the new drama playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club through the end of the month, is of a smiling All-American family, circa 1954.&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:50AM 
