All stories by Broadway & Me on BroadwayStars

Saturday, March 8, 2014

How I Fell in Love with "Stage Kiss" by Broadway & Me

Almost everything—the acting, the directing, the costumes, the set, and most especially the play itself—works in Stage Kiss, the romantic comedy now running at Playwrights Horizon throug…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:33PM
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

"The Tribute Artist" is Stuck in the Past by Broadway & Me

Drag queens have long played a central role in gay life. In the old almost-everybody-in-the-closet days, they provided a way for gay men (those who dressed up as women and those who simply a…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:01PM
Saturday, March 1, 2014

"Middle of the Night" Turns Out to Be Timeless by Broadway & Me

When a revival doesn’t work, people often say it’s because the show has outlived its time.  Well, we no longer live in a time when the marriage of a Jew and a gentile would be a sca…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:54PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

"Kung Fu" Provides Too Few Real Kicks by Broadway & Me

When Time magazine put together its list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, Bruce Lee won a spot, right alongside Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso and Mother…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:09AM
Saturday, February 22, 2014

"Love and Information" Offers Plenty of Both by Broadway & Me

It turns out to be surprisingly easy to love Love and Information the new Caryl Churchill play that New York Theatre Workshop opened this week at the Minetta Lane Theatre. I don’t always f…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:36PM
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

"The Correspondent" Botches Its Message by Broadway & Me

Death pops up fairly regularly in plays. But its companion grief—the agonizing bewilderment that follows the loss of a loved one—appears less frequently. And that’s why I thought it mi…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:23AM
Saturday, February 15, 2014

A Seventh Anniversary Message by Broadway & Me

As you surely know, yesterday was Valentine’s Day (hope you enjoyed yours as much as my husband K and I did ours). But, as you may not know, it was also the anniversary of Broadway & M…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:18AM
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

"Almost, Maine" is a Cozy Winter Treat by Broadway & Me

If you crossed the linked stories in the 2003 movie “Love Actually” with the quirky small-town characters of the ‘90s-era sitcom “Northern Exposure” you might end up with Almost, M…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:21AM
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Guest Blogger: Bill's Big Praise for "Little Me" by Broadway & Me

From Jan: So much theater.  So little time.  I put the Encores! production of Little Me on my calendar as soon as I heard about it but somehow I didn’t get around to getting tick…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:47AM
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

"A Man's A Man" is Brecht with Heart by Broadway & Me

Bertolt Brecht famously championed the theater of alienation but the revival of his A Man’s a Man that opened last week at Classic Stage Company is oddly endearing.Like so many works by Br…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:16AM
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Love Overcomes All in "Outside Mullingar" by Broadway & Me

Plays about the Irish so often portray their characters in such a twee way that you’d think they were just one step removed from leprechauns. And I feared I was in for more of that kind of…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:07AM