Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Mitchell Erickson, a stage manager whose 50-year career encompassed well over 100 productions on Broadway and on tour, died Oct. 22 at the age of 92 in Portland, OR, after a long illness.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Playbill.com reports on the Dramatists Guild Fund's Annual Gala, Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars, which was held Oct. 21 at the Edison Ballroom.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMMonday, October 21, 2013
The final 20 minutes of "A Time to Kill" provide crackling theatrics. Unfortunately, those 20 minutes of high drama come after two full hours of lumbering storytelling.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:38PMThe final 20 minutes of the courtroom drama A Time to Kill provide crackling theatrics, as idealistic folksy small-town lawyer Sebastian Arcelus goes up against slimily wily district attorne…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:11PMSunday, October 20, 2013
This month's column looks at the bubbly René Clair fantasy "I Married a Witch," the World War II epic "From Here to Eternity," and the Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 18, 2013
Readers who remain undecided about whether to see the filmed version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, next Wednesday night (Oct. 23) on some 460 movie screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55PMSunday, October 13, 2013
This week's column examines the original cast albums of three of last season's Broadway musicals: Matilda, Hands on a Hardbody and Scandalous.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 10, 2013
On the musical stage, the wild adventures of the hero of "Big Fish" turn into a series of production numbers. Too many production numbers, and too few that rouse us.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:58PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Symphony Space presented a one-night-only concert celebrating the the 70th anniversary of the original Broadway opening night of Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus and the CD release of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSunday, October 6, 2013
This month's column looks at Nigel Simeone's massive new collection of correspondence to and from Leonard Bernstein, "The Leonard Bernstein Letters."
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 4, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Broadway veterans Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller teamed up at 54 Below, giving a performance titled Sin Twisters. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSunday, September 29, 2013
This week's column examines Laura Benanti's 54 Below act, In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention, and the new revival cast album of the Second Stage production of Jason Ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 27, 2013
Nice Fighting You, an act celebrating the work of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, kicked off its three-night run at 54 Below Sept. 26. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMSunday, September 22, 2013
This month's column looks at "La Cage aux Folles," the French-language film which launched that title on the international level and prepared the world for the Broadway musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 20, 2013
a review of David Leveaux's ROMEO AND JULIET starring Orlando Bloom
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:37PMMonday, September 16, 2013
a review of Horton Foote's THE OLD FRIENDS
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:40PMAn overview and review of the 20,000th performance of THE FANTASTICKS
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:39PMSunday, September 15, 2013
This week's column examines two long out-of-print recordings from the old Columbia label, the soundtrack album of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" and the Julius M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 12, 2013
Tony nominee Emily Skinner treated audiences to an evening of Broadway, Her Way at 54 Below Sept. 11. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster returned to the Café Carlyle Sept. 10 with a new act, opening the fall season at the legendary nightclub on Madison Avenue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster returned to the Café Carlyle Sept. 10 with a new act, opening the fall season at the legendary nightclub on Madison Avenue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMMonday, September 9, 2013
It's Man vs. Machine, to the nth degree, in Matt Charman's The Machine at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMFriday, September 6, 2013
It is not an auspicious sign when a generally-positive, ever-hopeful drama critic sees fit to start off a review with some such elliptical statement as "the trouble with whimsy..."
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:21PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Ann Morrison, one of the original cast members of Merrily We Roll Along, took the stage at 54 Below for a one-night only concert Sept. 2. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMAnn Morrison, one of the original cast members of Merrily We Roll Along, took the stage at 54 Below for a one-night only concert Sept. 2. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSunday, September 1, 2013
This week's column examines new recordings from Naxos of concert works by George Gershwin (including "Rhapsody in Blue," "Concerto in F" and the "Second Rhapsody…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 29, 2013
Jazz headliner Ann Hampton Callaway and Broadway star Liz Callaway — or maybe we should make that Broadway star Liz Callaway and jazz headliner Ann Hampton Callaway? — joined tog…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMWednesday, August 28, 2013
The Amoralists, that outlandishly unconventional troupe that regularly appears with unusual and eyebrow-raising theatrical fare dedicated to "plumbing the depths of the social, politica…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:32AMSunday, August 25, 2013
This month's column looks at newly-restored releases of Ernst Lubitsch's comic masterpiece "To Be or Not To Be" and Max Ophuls' evocative "The Earrings of Madame d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Broadway star Sierra Boggess made her debut at 54 Below Aug. 19. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM 
