Sunday, October 7, 2012
This week's column discusses the new Broadway cast recording of Porgy and Bess starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 30, 2012
This month, we watch the Othello-based backstage film noir "A Double Life"; Elaine May's "A New Leaf"; Steven Spielberg's classic "E.T."; highlights fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 23, 2012
This week's column discusses the Encores! cast recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pipe Dream and Laura Osnes' "Dream a Little Dream," her evening at the Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 16, 2012
This month's column looks at "Tales of a Broadway Flack," from old-time press agent Sol Jacobson; "The Outdoor Museum," a celebration of New York by Margery Gary Harn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 9, 2012
This week's column discusses the newly-mastered release of the original Broadway cast album of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 2, 2012
This month we watch three unconventional and unlikely movies, each of which creates a world of its own: Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums," Whit Stillman's "Metropo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 26, 2012
This week's column discusses Betty Buckley's new CD, "Ah, Men!"; the reissued cast album of the 1950 Irving Berlin musical Call Me Madam; and the two-disc set, "Scott …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, August 19, 2012
This month's column looks at "Loverly: The Life & Times of My Fair Lady" by Dominic McHugh, and Patrisha McLean's "All Fall Down: The Brandon de Wilde Story."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 12, 2012
This week's column discusses the CD release of Stephen Schwartz's 1978 musical, Working, with contributions from multiple songwriters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 5, 2012
This month we watch new Blu-ray releases of Jean Renoir's 1937 classic "La Grande Illusion" and Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in Steven Spielberg's "J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 29, 2012
This week's column discusses the original cast album of Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist starring Mary Testa as a lady daredevil.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 22, 2012
This month's column looks at biographies of lyricist Lorenz Hart ("A Ship without a Sail") and the internationally famous dance team, Fred & Adele Astaire ("The Astair…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 15, 2012
This week's column discusses the cast album of the New York City Center Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along, featuring Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, July 1, 2012
Watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford in "The Sting," Jean Dujardin in Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist," and Charles Chaplin's "The Gold Rush," glori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 10, 2012
This week's column discusses the new studio cast album of the early Gershwin musical Sweet Little Devil and a new CD from John Pizzarelli, "Double Exposure."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 3, 2012
This month's column looks at "Mr. Broadway," Gerald Schoenfeld's memoir about life as a Shubert, plus two books about Irving Berlin: "The Irving Berlin Reader" an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 27, 2012
This week's column discusses last season's Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones and a four-CD set of songs by composer Victor Herbert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 20, 2012
This month we watch John Malkovich in "Being John Malkovich," Julie Andrews and Robert Preston in "Victor Victoria," a TV version of Rodgers & Hart's "Deares…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 13, 2012
This week's column discusses the cast recording of Leslie Uggams' one-woman show Uptown Downtown, plus Nick Jonas singing five songs from the current revival of How to Succeed in Bus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 29, 2012
This week's column discusses the original cast recordings of Disney's Newsies, Frank Wildhorn and Don Black's Bonnie & Clyde, and the incidental score to the uproarious One M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 22, 2012
This month we watch a new set of films from Noel Coward and David Lean, including "Brief Encounter"; the Titanic tale, "A Night to Remember"; Louis Malle's "Vany…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, April 15, 2012
A fresh listen to the Titanic Broadway cast album on a grim anniversary and three live recordings — two with "Julie and Carol" and one with Liza Minnelli — make up this…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 8, 2012
In this month's stack of books is a memoir about Cary Grant, a slew of new plays (and one very old one) and a slim tome that decodes the lyrics of the Tony-winning Spring Awakening, plus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 25, 2012
This week's column discusses the original cast recording of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's Once, the new Dublin-set Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 18, 2012
This month's selection of new releases includes Daniel Craig in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," James Stewart in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" and Der…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 11, 2012
This month's column looks at two classic movie musicals from the viewpoint of surviving cast members— "Our Story: Jets & Sharks, Then and Now" and "The Sound of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 26, 2012
This week's column discusses the initial cast recording of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's A Christmas Story, plus four-song selections from the 1920s musicals Shuffle Along and Blackbi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, February 12, 2012
This month's column looks at Shakespeare on screen in "Anonymous" and "Shakespeare in Love"; newly-mastered releases of David O. Selznick's "A Star Is Born&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, February 5, 2012
This week's column discusses the original Broadway cast album of the 1960 revue A Thurber Carnival and a special item from the 1964 RCA catalog, "David Merrick Presents Hits from Hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 29, 2012
This month's column discusses the 50th anniversary Blu-ray of "To Kill a Mockingbird"; new releases of Hitchcock's "Rebecca," "Spellbound" and "Not…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 22, 2012
This week's column discusses the original Broadway cast album of People in the Picture, starring Donna Murphy, and the long-forgotten 1960 West End musical Johnny the Priest.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
