Friday, December 25, 2015
There will be no regular post this weekend. Instead, I'm just going to wish you and yours a Christmas sparkling with peace, love, laughter and, of course, the good cheer of good theater. Dec…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:40AMWednesday, December 23, 2015
With her outsized features, brassy voice and campy sensibility, Jackie Hoffman is an inveterate scene stealer. And that's a problem for the revival of Once Upon a Mattress that is playing in…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:37PMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Allegiance, the new musical about the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, isn't doing well at the box office. On the one hand, that's understandable. It's an old-fas…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Who doesn't love a good Christmas fable? And over the past decade or so, one of the most popular has become the story of the impromptu cease fires that sprung up between British and Ge…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:12PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Do you have to understand a show in order to like it? I've been asking myself that question since seeing, back-to-back last week, Night is a Room, a cryptic drama playing in Signature …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:34PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
This year marked the centennial of Arthur Miller's birth and for my money, not enough attention has been paid. Sure, there have been a few productions. Both the Nashville Repertory Theatre a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:13PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
Not everyone is a theater fanatic like me and my buddy Bill who are so crazy about theater that we will see—and have seen—just about anything. When most people think about seeing a show,…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:36AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
New Yorkers are crazy about their dogs. And so I had assumed that the canine crowd would be out in full force at the Cort Theatre to see the Broadway debut of Sylvia, the revival of the 1995…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:09PMSaturday, November 28, 2015
For years now, gay-themed plays have centered around the angst of coming out or the agonies of the AIDS crisis. But we now live in an era when gays and lesbians can openly serve in the milit…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:01AMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Good theater will certainly be among the things I'll be grateful for this Thanksgiving. But so will be the presence in my life of family, friends and faithful readers. I wish you and yours a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:37PMSunday, November 22, 2015
Sorry about missing yesterday's deadline. But, dear readers, I had the choice of writing a post or seeing a show and, although it was my fifth of the week and I usually take a sabbatic…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:46AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Theater, or at least serious theater, is supposed to reflect the way society feels about itself at that given moment in time. And right now, gauging by the work of some of our best young pla…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:10PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
It seems somehow frivolous to chatter about what I've seen at the theater on the day after more than 100 people were massacred in the terrorist attack at the charming 150-year old Bataclan t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:14PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Joe Cino, who turned a gay coffeehouse into a theatrical haven for audacious playwrights like John Guare, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson during the 1960's, famously introduced each evening's…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:09PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
This past week, Adam Szymkowicz posted the 800th interview he's done over the past six years on his website "I Interview Playwrights" (click here to read it). Many of his subjects…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:32PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
David Lindsay-Abaire plays come in two flavors. They can be serious and thought-provoking dramas like Good People and his Pulitzer-Prize winning Rabbit Hole about parents surviving the death…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:55AMSaturday, October 31, 2015
Is there any theater company hotter right now than the Public Theater? It started the year off with the literally revolutionary production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton that moved to Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AMWednesday, October 28, 2015
Cloud Nine made the great British playwright Caryl Churchill's name when it was first produced in London back in 1979. And when it moved to New York a couple of years later, it won…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:07PMSaturday, October 24, 2015
October is always a crazy month for me. Not only do work demands kick into high gear, so does the theater season. And, on top of that, five of the people I most love have birthdays—and req…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:30PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
History, they say, is written by the victors. But sometimes there's a game change and new tales get told. Which may explain why long suppressed parts of the American story are finally m…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:25AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
As they age, some actors retreat from the stage, citing memory loss, diminished stamina or some other disabling factor. Luckily, neither Cicely Tyson, who will be 91 in December, nor James E…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:46PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
"I dare you to knock a show starring deaf people and a girl in a wheelchair," my husband K said when I got home from the Deaf West Theatre's revival of Spring Awakening that is playing a lim…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:57AMSaturday, October 10, 2015
Barbecue, the sly satire that opened this week at the Public Theater, is filled with so many surprises that the ushers won't even hand out programs until the intermission. Which makes it a b…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:08AMThursday, October 8, 2015
Relations between the worlds of theater and religion have been bad ever since the Puritans shut down London's theaters in 1642. And although the theaters reopened 18 years later with the res…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:26AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Alas, other demands on my time have gotten in the way of my ability to do a post today but I'll be back with a new one on Wednesday. In the meantime, I hope you'll check out some of th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:03PMWednesday, September 30, 2015
The American Theatre Wing’s annual gala is always a great party. Each year, the Wing, the creator of the Tony Awards, selects a beloved person from the theater world to honor and lots of s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:15AMSaturday, September 26, 2015
Sometimes even a serious theatergoer just wants to have fun. At least that's what I was hoping to do when I headed off to see the MCC Theater production of The Legend of Georgia McBride. And…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:46PMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Many critics seem to be regarding Hamlet in Bed, the overwrought new play that opened last week at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, as a kind of audition for some other production they'd rat…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSaturday, September 19, 2015
Resurrection seems to be the latest theater trend. News has recently come that shows featuring holograms of Billie Holiday and Whitney Houston will tour across the country. And now, on both …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:58AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Richard Maxwell clearly has a following. The night my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Isolde, the experimental work written and directed by Maxwell that's playing at Theatre For A New Audi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:45AMSaturday, September 12, 2015
The fall preview lists started streaming out soon after this summer’s blue moon appeared at the end of July. The New York Times’ comprehensive list of this season's new shows went online…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:16AM 
