Saturday, January 1, 2022
...and the chance to once again safely put the spotlights back on some really good theater:
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:03PMSaturday, December 25, 2021
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SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:33PMFriday, December 24, 2021
Saturday, December 18, 2021
You might have thought that I’d given up on theatergoing if you’ve been checking in here to see what I had to say about this comeback season’s new shows only to discover that I’d wri…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:36PMFriday, November 26, 2021
Lots of words are going to be written over the next few days by people who knew him, people who admired him and people who have a better way with words than I do. So although the pleasur…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:12PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Everyone involved with The Public Theater’s new musical The Visitor seems to be walking on eggshells. And who can blame them?
The week before previews were scheduled to begin, the prod…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:48PMSaturday, November 13, 2021
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: Cost of Living by Martyna Majok …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, October 23, 2021
Eight plays written by black playwrights are scheduled to open on Broadway this fall. That’s twice the number of all the shows by black playwrights that opened on the too-aptly named Great…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:36PMSaturday, October 16, 2021
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 Subject Was Roses by Frank D…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, October 9, 2021
I went to see a show this week. There was a time when that wouldn’t have been a remarkable statement. I routinely saw 150 shows a year and shared my thoughts about many of them here.…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:36AMSaturday, September 25, 2021
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: Our Town, by Thornton Wilder A P…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, September 4, 2021
What a difference a year makes.
Or doesn’t.
During the spring and summer evenings of 2020 we New Yorkers stood at our windows or out on the sidewalks to appla…
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. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy W…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, July 31, 2021
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: South Pacific Chichester South P…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00AMSaturday, July 10, 2021
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: No Place to Be Somebody “No Pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSaturday, July 3, 2021
After 16 long and scary months, the coronavirus seems to be in retreat. Over half of the country has now gotten at least one vaccination shot. And here in New York City, 60% of all adult…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:03PMSaturday, June 12, 2021
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday and the winner for the drama prize was Katori Hall for her terrific play The Hot Wing King.
I had several dogs in this fight. Like most theater …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:24AMSaturday, May 15, 2021
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: I Am My Own Wife “I Am My Own …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMFriday, April 23, 2021
People are getting vaccinated, some at a new site right in the middle of New York City's Theater District (click here to read more about that). Meanwhile, theaters are taking steps to reope…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AMSaturday, April 17, 2021
As some of you know, I’m a contributor to BroadwayRadio and over the past few years, I’ve hosted “Stagecraft,” a show that talks to playwrights and musical book writers about their r…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:36PMAll 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: Why Marry? “Why Marry?” Wiki…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00AMSaturday, March 27, 2021
Even, or maybe especially, in these pandemic times, it's time to put on a good face and celebrate the theater that we all continue to love:
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:12PMThursday, March 11, 2021
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A year ago today, I was gearing up for the intense out-every-night theatergoing of awards season and, as I told my friend David Gordon who has been publishing a chronicle of this past pand…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:54PMMonday, February 15, 2021
We’re in the middle of African American History Month, a commemoration made all the more urgent by the events of last summer that were prompted by the police murders of George Floyd and Br…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:12PMSaturday, February 13, 2021
This is a bittersweet anniversary for me: I published the first Broadway & Me post 14 years ago on Valentine’s Day but it’s now been nearly a year since I’ve seen a show in person.…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:18PMFriday, January 29, 2021
Deeply mourning the death of the great Cicely Tyson, a trailblazer and role model in so many ways.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:03AMSaturday, January 2, 2021
I had planned to write a review of Ratatouille: the Tik Tok Musical, the delicious online presentation that began as a 15-second video created by a fan of the Disney animated film about a ra…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:32PMSaturday, December 26, 2020
This is the time of year when people like me create lists that tout the best things we’ve experienced in the areas of interest we followed over the last 12 months. But it’s hard to put t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:03PMFriday, December 25, 2020
...as is safely possible this year:
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:42AMSaturday, December 5, 2020
Christmas as we know it—the tree, the cards, the carol singing—began during the early Victorian age and perhaps no one popularized those now-familiar traditions more than did Charles Dic…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:18PMThursday, November 26, 2020
Let’s be honest: it’s been a tough year. For the world. For the nation. For the theater community. And yet, there are still things for us theater lovers to be grateful for, be it the p…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:03PM 
