Saturday, April 11, 2026
One of the things we theater obsessives love to do is argue about which is the greatest American play. I'm a Tennessee Williams stan and so I always try to get A Streetcar Named Desire into …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:06PMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Seascape" by Edward Albee Seas…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, April 4, 2026
Just about everyone"and here I mean most of the critics"seems to have something bad to say about Dog Day Afternoon, the new Stephen Adly Guirgis adaptation of the 1975 movie about a bank …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:02PMSaturday, March 14, 2026
Most of the reviews for Cold War Choir Practice devote most of their word count to laying out its multi-pronged plot which includes Soviet spies, former Black Panthers, Regan-era conserva…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Proof" by David Auburn Proof W…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, February 28, 2026
Ever since Sophocles put the fall of the House of Oedipus onstage, the theatrical canon has been chock-a-block with unhappy families. And that makes sense because they make for good drama. B…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSaturday, February 14, 2026
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "The Gin Game"1978 Pulitzer winn…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMTuesday, February 3, 2026
Photo Credit: T. Charles Erickson The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and o…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:55AMSaturday, January 17, 2026
Maybe it's the current dystopic state of the world but I had a hard time with Bug, the revival of Tracy Letts' 1996 play that opened this month at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Fried…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:06PMSaturday, January 10, 2026
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Photo credit: Library of Congress The Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, January 3, 2026
As usual, I'm late with a list of the shows I most enjoyed in 2025 but I'm going to share it anyway and since I am late, I'm also going to cut right to the chase. There were musicals I liked…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:02AMThursday, January 1, 2026
Saturday, December 27, 2025
 ...from me and some of our mutual friends:
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:18PMSaturday, December 13, 2025
Getting others to see the world in a certain way and then convincing them to do almost anything to preserve that point of view requires a toolbox of skills that include charisma and a ferven…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:36PMFriday, December 12, 2025
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Hamilton"2016 Pulitzer winner "…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:00PMThursday, December 11, 2025
Photo by Edward T. Morris The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01PMThursday, November 27, 2025
Happy Thanksgiving!Â
It's been a crazy month. An avalanche of shows have been opening both on and off Broadway. I've seen 20 of them over the past four weeks"some good, some just OK, a fe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:31PMSaturday, November 8, 2025
The only thing small about Kyoto, the latest import from Britain that opened this week at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse theater, is its one-word title. Everything else is outsized: the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:48PMSaturday, November 1, 2025
One-person shows are popping up everywhere. And it makes sense that they should. They're comparatively cheap to put on since by definitiion there's only one performer to pay and the cost…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:24PMFriday, October 10, 2025
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Water by the Spoonful"2012 Puli…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:00PMSaturday, October 4, 2025
Every once in a while I see a show that is filled with smart ideas, and that is interestingly directed and well-performed and yet still leaves me cold. Over the past week or so I saw two …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:06PMSaturday, September 27, 2025
Theater lovers have been celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hamilton this year, and well we should. Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the Founding Fathers made seeing musicals cool again, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:36AMSaturday, September 13, 2025
Once again I seem to be late to the party. Other bloggers, critics and influencers have been putting out lists of the things they most want to see in this new theater season since mid-August…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:12PMAll The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Street Scene"1929 Pulitzer winn…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, August 30, 2025
Well, here we are: it's Labor Day Weekend already. And every year since I started writing here, I've marked this unofficial end of summer"and the real start of the fall theater season"wi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:24PMTuesday, August 19, 2025
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Bubba Weiler (playwri…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMSaturday, August 9, 2025
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Dinner With Friends"2000 Pulitz…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMFriday, August 8, 2025
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Gene & Gilda by C…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:00PMSaturday, August 2, 2025
The New York Times recently published a fancy interactive list of what it considers to be "The Best Movies of the 21st Century."Â The editors say they assembled the list by asking more th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:32AMMonday, July 28, 2025
It's often said that imitation is the highest form of flattery but sometimes it's just a knock-off of something more original. And I'm afraid the latter seems to be the case with Ginger Twin…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:02PMWednesday, July 16, 2025
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Charles Randolph-Wrig…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00PM 
