Wednesday, January 28, 2015
As regular readers know, I’m always griping about how so few plays today grapple with current events. Well, I certainly can’t say that about The Road To Damascus, the political thriller …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:42AMSaturday, January 24, 2015
Anger, not the forgiveness of sins, is the guiding principle in I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, the brand new two-hander by Halley Feiffer that opened at Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
Lots of theatergoers breathe a sigh of relief when they hear that a show is just one act. But increasingly quick gasps might be more apt. For two of the shows I saw last week—Constellation…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:43AMSaturday, January 17, 2015
Years ago, I took my aunt, then in her 80s, for lunch at Chez Josephine, the Theatre District bistro named for the legendary performer Josephine Baker. At some point during our meal, Jean-Cl…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Yep. You're at the right place. Things just look different. That's cause I've been promising myself for ages that I'd give B&Me a facelift and I finally got around to doing it. This is s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:57AMIf watching two guys drink beer and try to one up each other is your idea of a good time, then Winners and Losers, which opened last week at Soho Rep., may be the show for you. Alas, I need …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:53AMFriday, January 9, 2015
My husband K and I have gone off to celebrate our 20th anniversary and so no post today but I'll be back with lots to say next Wednesday.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:12AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
As the great Frank Loesser once wrote, Baby, it’s cold outside. On top of that, lots of theaters have gone dark in this annual cold-weather interregnum when old or failing shows have…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:48AMSaturday, January 3, 2015
Just as I’m sure you’ve been doing, I’ve spent the holidays reading all of the year-end “Best” lists and after the usual “What were they thinking?” “Oh yeah, I forgot about t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:24AMWednesday, December 31, 2014
Happy New! Until this week, the weather in New York has been unseasonably mild but winter is about to hit Broadway hard. Eight main stem shows are scheduled to take their finals bows …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:11AMSaturday, December 27, 2014
Samuel D. Hunter should be my kind of playwright. The characters he writes about are the blue-collar people that I’m always griping never appear in plays. He takes on the kind of big quest…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:26AMWednesday, December 24, 2014
May your holidays sparkle with peace, love, happiness—and the good cheer of live theater.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:42AMSaturday, December 20, 2014
The city is filling up with holiday visitors and, of course, a lot of those folks want to see a Broadway show. And the ones who want to see a show probably want to see a show with a big-name…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:23AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
There's no post today cause after weeks of heavy-duty theatergoing, end-of-the-semester madness, assorted medical appointments and other life stuff, I'm taking the day off to play hooky with…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:46AMSaturday, December 13, 2014
Theater is all about dreams and so it’s nice when one comes true as triumphantly as it does with the revival of The Elephant Man, which opened at the Booth Theatre on Sunday night, fulfill…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:25AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
This is turning out to be Ayad Akhtar’s year. Of course last year, when his play Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, wasn’t so bad for him either. But in just the past six months…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:55PMSaturday, December 6, 2014
You readers know your stuff. Or at least those of you who participate in my giveaway contests do because once again everyone who wrote in had the right answer to the question, in this case a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:16AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, ends in just four months but observances of the anniversary have been surprisingly quiet. Which is just one of the many…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:44AMSaturday, November 29, 2014
It’s embarrassing to say this but, Shakespeare aside, I know virtually nothing about Elizabethan theater. So I was going to skip Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, the double bill of two late 16…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
This past weekend's medical emergency is over and my hand is better but I’m still going to take it a bit easy (I’ve even canceled cooking Thanksgiving dinner; my always-wonderful hu…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:30AMSaturday, November 22, 2014
No post today because I've developed a condition with my left hand that makes it difficult to type (I've pecked this message out with my right hand, which has been no fun). This is particula…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:05AMWednesday, November 19, 2014
The rush of see-worthy shows continues. So I’m resorting to another highlights-and-lowlights summary, focusing this time on three intriguing works that deal in varying ways with the l…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:40PMSaturday, November 15, 2014
The rock star Sting has done everything he could to make his first Broadway musical a hit: writing a wonderfully melodious score and allying himself with experienced and award-winning pros l…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:52PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
The playwright William Luce has made a career out of writing one-person shows about famous literary women from Isak Dinesen to Lillian Hellman but his most famous creation is certainly The B…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:47PMSaturday, November 8, 2014
Today is my husband K's birthday. It's a big one and we're celebrating big time. So this is all you're going to hear from me today.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:03AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
So many shows, so little time. There’s no way I can write in full about each of the shows I'm scheduled to see this month—not and have a life too. My solution: at least one po…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:12PMSaturday, November 1, 2014
I’m reeling from the usual fall cocktail of show openings (even heavier than usual this year) some freelance assignments they've engendered (grateful to get them) other work commitments an…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:46AMWednesday, October 29, 2014
Like the flashier Elevator Repair Service, the Godlight Theatre Company specializes in adapting literary works for the stage. But instead of putting on the word-for-word text as ERS likes to…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMSaturday, October 25, 2014
Everyone has been talking about what a busy fall season this is being (and it is; I’m booked solid seeing shows for the next month). But what they may have overlooked is that this season i…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:14PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
The amiable musical Found, now playing at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater though Nov. 9, wasn’t made for people like me. Don’t get me wrong; I had a good enou…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:31AMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Although she grew up in a theatrical family (dad was a director and founder of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, mom’s an actor) the British director Marianne Elliott reportedly ha…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:10AM 
