If you love musicals, this is the season for you. Fourteen new ones will have opened by the time the season officially ends on April 27. And they range from small edgy chamber pieces to…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:18AMSometimes you want a little sizzle with your theatrical steak. Or at least I do. Which is why I'm such a fan of shows that take an imaginative approach to their storytelling, using all…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:54AMAnd we're off: the awards season has officially begun. Nominations for the Lucille Lortel Awards, which honor off-Broadway productions, were announced this week. And since lots of shows run …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:02AMHappy marriages don't get much love in plays; they don't provide enough dysfunction for drama and there's not enough cutting up in them for comedy. So gratefully ensconced in one myself and …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:42PMSpring is always kind of a crazy time for me. I'm happy to see the end of winter weather and excited by all the new shows coming in but am inevitably so busy seeing them (and juggling all th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMMass shootings are now so commonplace that they've spawned a whole subgenre of theater. Over the past decade I've seen The Columbine Project and The Library, both based on the 1999 massacre …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:54AMIf you read Broadway & Me, then you know how much I love theater. What you may not know is that I also love podcasts and so I've decided to combine the two because this is shaping up to …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:06AMPeople have been telling me I should see a Marcus Gardley play for years now. But I somehow missed his breakout play The House that Will Not Stand and all the subsequent ones. Until this pas…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:36AMBeing a woman today can be tough (just ask Hillary Clinton). But it isn't as Job-like tough as Penelope Skinner makes it out to be in the play Linda, which is running through April 2 at Manh…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:03AMYou may have to be a young woman in your late teens or early 20s to truly appreciate All The Fine Boys, the new play that The New Group is running in the tiny Ford Foundation Studio Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:54PMGrief is strange. We deal with the loss of someone we love as best we can but sometimes, even months later, the lingering sorrow continues to inform the choices we make. I don't know if…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:36PMThornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth premiered in 1942, just 10 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor launched the U.S. into World War II. Clearly tapping into the zeitgeist of the mome…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:32PMBull in a China Shop is a flawed play and yet I want to commend LCT3 for putting it on. For this is just the kind of show that a theater devoted to nurturing new artists should be doing. The…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:12PMIn some ways, the family in Steven Levenson's new play If I Forget will be familiar to just about anyone who has a family. There's the bossy big sister and her henpecked husband, the ad…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:32AMStephen Sondheim will turn 87 next month but he's working on a new musical tentatively called Buñuel that is scheduled to have a full workshop production at the Public Theater later this sp…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AMThe day may come when attending a performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard will be like going to one for The Rocky Horror Show where audience members dress up like their favorit…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:06PMTickets for Man from Nebraska sold out almost as soon as Second Stage Theatre put them on sale. That's because the show was written by Tracy Letts (a Pulitzer Prize-winner for August: Osage …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:06AMYesterday was a really special day for me. Of course, it was Valentine's Day, which my much-adored husband K and I delight in celebrating. But it also marked the 10th anniversary of Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:06PMNews for us theater junkies usually means a new show or a major cast replacement but this still-new year has brought some events that will shake up the way that those of obsessed with theate…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:48PMThe Brits have such a fondness for plays about unhappy people who live in squalid settings and do unpleasant—and often violent—things to one another that they've even given the genre a n…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMA card-carrying member of the Bright Young Things, the bohemian artists and aristocrats who flouted conventional norms in England during the 1920s, the actor and playwright Miles Malleson ha…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AMStaging a farce is a little like whipping up a soufflé. You need good ingredients, a skillful cook and the ineffable airiness that turns ordinary egg custard into a fluffy delight. The Liar…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMIt's hard not to be won over by Dear Evan Hansen, the new musical that has made a triumphant transfer from Second Stage Theatre, where it played last spring, to Broadway's The Music Box thea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMThis is a theater blog not a political blog but even before reports surfaced about how the new administration might eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts (click here to read about th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:48PMUsually a photo here of the ghost light that theaters turn on when they're temporarily empty means that I didn't have time to write a full post. But it means something very different this ti…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:33AMPeople may be crowding into the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to see Cate Blanchett make her Broadway debut in The Present, her husband Andrew Upton's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's first play Plat…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:06AMIt's been cold and snowy in New York over the past few days, the kind of weather that makes even a theater lover want to stay home and snuggle up with a book or something on the DVR.The thea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMThe Oxford Dictionary declared "post-truth" to be 2016's word of the year but in the theater world, I think a better choice would have been the word "immersive." Everywhere you looked, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:36PMMost 10 Bests list came out around mid-December so I'm obviously arriving really late to the party with this one. Which is probably OK because I can't even pretend to say which were th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:24AMHere's a toast to us all: may the next 365 days be filled with love, laughter, fortitude to get through the bad stuff and, of course, the sustaining comfort of good theater. Cheers!
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:42AMMelissa Errico visited the cable news show "On Stage" this past weekend to talk about her latest show, the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of Finian's Rainbow, which has been extended…
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