Saturday, 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 08:10AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
To my delight, the editors at Playbill asked me to write a piece about S. Epatha Merkerson and Lillias White who are starring in While I Yet Live, the new play by the Tony-winning actor…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:27AMSaturday, October 11, 2014
Tom Stoppard has a rep, deserved or not, for writing plays that are brainy but cold-hearted. The wonderful thing about Indian Ink, which the Roundabout Theatre Company is giving an elegant r…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:53AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
The four young men sitting in the row in front of my husband K and me were exactly the dream demographic the producers must have had in mind when they decided to do a revival of Kenneth Lone…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:24AMSaturday, October 4, 2014
Kathleen Chalfant sits high on my list of the actors who I will see in almost anything (click here to see the whole list). And she’s as amazing as ever in the Keen Company’s revival of A…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:57AMSaturday, September 27, 2014
When A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters played at the old Promenade Theatre in the spring of 1989, the actors cast as its epistolary partners—the very wealthy and very WASPy Melissa Gardner and …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:44AMWednesday, September 24, 2014
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of plays about poor and working class people. But I’m also a scourge about most of the ones I see because they tend to stereotype their subjec…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:09AMSaturday, September 20, 2014
Judging by the raves it’s been getting, everybody seems to be eating up Bootycandy, Robert O’Hara’s satirical look at growing up black and gay. Everybody that is but me.Sitting in the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:53AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Ruby Rae Spiegel is only 21 and just starting her senior year at Yale but she’s already had two plays professionally produced in New York and has gotten the kind of reviews that a playwrig…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:41AMSaturday, September 13, 2014
Wish lists, which are what my fall previews tend to be, can be hit or miss things. So many of the shows and performances I was most excited about at the start of previous seasons turned out …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:25AMWednesday, September 10, 2014
As I suspected, Fiddler on the Roof, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, remains a beloved show and so everyone who wrote in for the chance to win a free copy of my friend …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:45AMThursday, September 4, 2014
It seems fitting that playwright Naomi Wallace should draw the title of her play And I And Silence from a line in an Emily Dickinson poem (click here to read it). For this awkwardly-named dr…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:28PMWednesday, September 3, 2014
It may not be a groundbreaking musical like Oklahoma, Hair or Company, but it’s hard to find a show more beloved than Fiddler on the Roof, which opened 50 years ago this month.That origina…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:03AMSaturday, August 30, 2014
The temperature in New York has been so unseasonably cool this month that it prompted a friend to post a comment on her Facebook page declaring “August is the new September.” …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:53AMWednesday, August 27, 2014
Ever since she was canned as executive producer of “Smash,” that misbegotten TV series about putting on a Broadway show, Theresa Rebeck has said that she didn’t get the chance to fully…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:44AMSaturday, August 23, 2014
Between Riverside and Crazy, the new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, ends its six-week run tonight. And that’s a shame because the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater space only s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:21AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
When I finished last Saturday’s post, I thought I was done with this year’s New York International Fringe Festival. But then I got an email from a friend inviting me to see a show direct…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:17AMSaturday, August 16, 2014
Every spring I tell myself I should see the end-of-school productions at Juilliard or New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts so that I can get a peek at the newest crop of talented…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:39AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Nothing makes sense in Phoenix, the totally inept two-hander that’s playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre through Aug. 23. Ostensibly, it’s a rom-com about two lonely souls who hooked…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:48PMSaturday, August 9, 2014
Summer Shorts, the festival of short plays that appear every August at the 59E59 Theaters, is always a grab bag. Its contributors are a motley crew of known and lesser-known playwrights. The…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:34AMWednesday, August 6, 2014
The public radio host Ira Glass set the theater blogosphere aflutter last week. The reason: after seeing an early preview of the new Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear, he …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:48AMSaturday, August 2, 2014
We all say we want to be loved for just being ourselves but playwright Laura Eason knows that romantic relationships usually start off with each person pretending to be someone different tha…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:03AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
Playwright Sarah Treem is only 33 years-old, which means she’s much too young to have lived through the pre-Roe v. Wade days that provide the backdrop for her latest play When We Were Youn…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:27AMSaturday, July 26, 2014
In another era, James Franco might have been hailed as a Renaissance man. Over just the past four years, he has appeared in some 30 movies; co-hosted the Oscars, turned up on several TV show…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
When I told people that my sister, niece and I were going on a just-us-girls vacation that included five days in London, they automatically assumed that I was going to be spending every minu…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:05AMSaturday, July 12, 2014
I’m off on a just-us-girls vacation with my sister and niece and since I won’t be writing here for the next couple of weeks, I’ve put on the ghost light that theaters set up when they'…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:35AMWednesday, July 9, 2014
What does it mean to be a Muslim in a post-9/11 America? That’s the question the Pakistani-American writer Ayad Akhtar has explored in his Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced, his novel …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:20AMSaturday, July 5, 2014
The Fourth of July was yesterday so that means summer is definitely here. Which also means it’s time for my annual list of books to keep theater lovers company through the remaining …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:55AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
The main lovers in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing are supposed to be Hero, the sweet young daughter of an Italian aristocrat; and Claudio, the gallant nobleman who falls for her. But…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:43AMFriday, June 27, 2014
If you want to see a show that will lift your spirits, then drop what you’re doing right now and get a ticket to tick, tick…boom!, which is playing in the New York City Center Encores! O…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:31PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Whimsy is not usually my thing. But, what can I say, I was charmed by Fly By Night, the quirky new musical that is playing at Playwrights Horizons through Sunday.The show was originally crea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AM 
