Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Nearly all my theatergoing friends have been asking me if I've seen, and what I think about, The Royale, which has been running at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse theater for the last sev…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:16PMSaturday, April 23, 2016
If you call yourself any kind of theater lover, then you know that today is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. So, like much of the rest of the world, I'm taking time out …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMWednesday, April 20, 2016
For the first time in years, I attended the announcement of the Outer Critics Circle nominations, which The Algonquin Hotel graciously hosted in its Blue Bar yesterday morning. I wanted to s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:30PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
Now that transgender people are popping up on TV shows ("Transparent," "Orange is the New Black") in plays (Hir, Southern Comfort) and even on fashion runways (click here), the one muted let…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:31PMSaturday, April 9, 2016
Your mood when you walk into a theater can have a lot to do with what you think of a show when you walk out. And so perhaps because I've been wrestling with some of the issues—the me…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Pericles doesn't show up on the lists of Shakespeare's greatest hits. It didn't even make it into the First Folio. And most scholars say the Bard didn't actually write all of it anyway. This…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:32AMSaturday, April 2, 2016
Some men sit through plays with the resigned demeanor of boys serving detention and longing for the school bell to ring. But not the men at the performance I attended of Hold On to Me Darlin…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:27AMWednesday, March 30, 2016
The things I like the most about the new play Familiar are the things I can talk about the least. Unless I want to spoil the experience of your seeing this lovely work by the Zimbabwean-Amer…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:20AMSaturday, March 26, 2016
The actress Marin Ireland can do no wrong in my book and she shows why that's so in Ironbound, a drama about a Polish immigrant that's playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater through…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:22PMWednesday, March 23, 2016
All of a sudden the rootsy melodies of bluegrass music are being strummed on all kinds of New York stages. There's Southern Comfort, which is playing down at the Public Theater through this …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:38PMSaturday, March 19, 2016
Yep, I'm back in the hole again so no post today. But, aside from the bunch of shows I did manage to talk about on Wednesday, I hope you will check out the roundtable discussion I had …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:27PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
March Madness is the term used to describe this time of the year when college basketball teams compete for their national championship. But for me, it means the time when the spring theater …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:18AMSunday, March 6, 2016
Heavy loads of work and other obligations have put me in a hole. I'm working my way out but it may take another week or so before I can post again. I'll try to sneak in an occasional tweet (…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Most parents want their children to have a better life than they did. But a few want to better their own lives by living through their kids. That latter group is the one that interests playw…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:39PMWednesday, February 24, 2016
So much of my time is spent trying to keep up with shows that open on Broadway and those produced by the larger off-Broadway companies that I rarely get to see smaller off-off Broadway shows…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:32PMSaturday, February 20, 2016
Like the playwright John Patrick Shanley, I was a kid from a working-class family who got a scholarship to a New England prep school and it changed my life in all kinds of ways. So I was rea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:38AMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Lydia Diamond's Stick Fly, which had a brief Broadway run back in 2011, was such a refreshing look at African-American life in contemporary America that I had to talk myself out of jumping o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:21PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
I get sentimental around this time every year because tomorrow is Valentine's Day, a chance for me to celebrate how lucky I am to have my husband K in my life. And because it's also th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:56AMWednesday, February 10, 2016
Some roles become so identified with one actor that others shy away from doing them. Here I'm thinking of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (although the British actress Sheridan Smith recently dare…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:25PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
Health problems (nothing dire but serious enough to have screwed with my schedule) are keeping me from posting today. So as I usually do when I can't write here, I'm putting up the ghost lig…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:32PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Maurice Hines and his younger brother Gregory were barely out of diapers when they started in show business. Known as The Hines Kids (and later as Hines, Hines and Dad when their drummer fat…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:33AMSaturday, January 30, 2016
Just a couple of days ago I was yapping on in another post about how "as long as a show is well made, it's OK with me even it if isn't what I think of as 'my kind of show.'" So I suppose I'v…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:36AMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Theater snobs complain that Broadway has become too focused on shows that will appeal to the tourist trade. But the populist in me doesn't have a problem with that. As long as a show is well…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:01AMSaturday, January 16, 2016
My husband K and I are off for a no-Internet-access vacation so I've put on the ghost light that theaters set up when they're temporarily vacant. But I'm leaving plenty of good stuff for you…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:27AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Everything I've read about Stephen King suggests he's a really nice guy. He's been married to the same woman for 45 years. He gives away about $4 million a year to worthy causes. And he work…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:07PMSaturday, January 9, 2016
I'm usually no fan of director John Doyle's work. It always strikes me as too self-congratulatory about how clever it is. But Doyle's revival of The Color Purple knocked me out. And that's a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:22AMWednesday, January 6, 2016
Marjorie Prime, the Pulitzer Prize finalist running at Playwrights Horizons through Jan. 24, is intentionally unsettling. Playwright Jordan Harrison has set it in the near future when today'…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:09PMSaturday, January 2, 2016
Last year was a great year for theater. Lots of things to see. And lots of it good. Really good. And yet, as so often happens, a critical consensus has formed around just a few. The Humans, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:28AMFriday, January 1, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
There's an affinity between Shakespeare and music that rivals the synchronicity between peanut butter and jelly. Sometimes what results is lip-smackingly good like Kiss Me Kate, Cole Po…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:44PMFriday, 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 11:40AM 
