Saturday, November 25, 2017
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. Guest: Rajiv Joseph R…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:55AMSaturday, November 18, 2017
Nobody bats a thousand. It's unfair of us theater lovers to expect our favorite writers and directors to knock one out of the park (last sports metaphor, I promise) each time they come up wi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AMThursday, November 16, 2017
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. Guest: Sarah DeLappe …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:22PMSaturday, November 11, 2017
The story that British playwright Duncan Macmillan tells in People, Places & Things isn't new. But the brilliant way in which this tale about a woman's struggles with alcoholism and addi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:06AMSunday, November 5, 2017
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. Guest: Itamar Moses I…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
In these challenging times, a play that makes a convincing argument for why it's important to continue on despite overwhelming odds is especially welcomed. And that's exactly what LCT3's pro…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:12AMSaturday, October 28, 2017
All the comments I overhead at the Irish Repertory Theatre Company's revival of Brian Friel's The Home Place seemed to be about the set. Decorated with prettily painted flats and lots o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:04AMFriday, October 27, 2017
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. Guest: Steve Dietz S…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 02:44PMSaturday, October 21, 2017
The word sentimental has become one of the deepest insults you can hurl at a play. But I don't mind a bit of sentimentality if it's done well. And although the Roundabout Theatre Company's r…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:18AMFriday, October 20, 2017
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. Guest: Anna Ziegler …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:07PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
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. Guest: Max Posner Pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:00PMSometimes you need to just follow your gut when it comes to deciding whether or not to see a show. My gut told me Tiny Beautiful Things wouldn't be for me. But I wanted …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMSaturday, October 7, 2017
Regular readers may have noticed that I haven't been posting as often as I usually do. But that doesn't mean I haven't been seeing shows and having thoughts about them. In fact, I seem to be…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:54PMThe 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. Guest: JIRÉH BREON …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:37AMSaturday, September 30, 2017
It's hard not to be charmed by Charm, the new play about a 67-year-old transgender woman who offers etiquette lessons to underprivileged and gender-fluid youths. For everyone associated with…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:18AMSaturday, September 23, 2017
The instrument that gives The Violin its title is what the film director Alfred Hitchcock used to call a MacGuffin, a plot device to provide some momentum for what in this play, which opened…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:12AMSaturday, September 16, 2017
Ever since a friend died earlier this summer at the relatively young age of 62, I've been preoccupied with death. So For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, Sarah Ruhl's warm-hearted meditation …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:18AMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Experience has taught me that I'm a terrible prognosticator. So many of the shows I get all worked up about at the beginning of a theater season end up disappointing me. And then shows that …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:48AMSaturday, September 2, 2017
Monday is Labor Day, which for some folks means that the summer is winding down, for others that the school year is starting up and for us theater lovers that a new season is just around the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:24AMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Whether you walk out of Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre feeling as though you got you money's worth after seeing Prince of Broadway is going to depend on what you go into…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:24PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
Hamlet is hands down the world's most famous play. People who have never been inside a theater quote its lines "To be, or not to be" and "To thine own self be true." And parodies and homages…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:06PMSaturday, August 12, 2017
Women of a certain age (which usually means between 50 and 75) make up the majority of the theater's ticket buying audience. And Curvy Widow, the new musical that recently opened at the West…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:42PMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Whimsy has never really been my cup of tea. And alas, A Parallelogramthe Bruce Norris play that opened at Second Stage Theater this past week, is reeking of it. A dark comedy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:48AMSaturday, July 29, 2017
It may seem silly to talk about The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds her Chameleon Skin because it was scheduled for just two performances this past week, half the usual five or six-show run for prod…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:36AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
It's that time of year again: temperatures have heated up, show openings have cooled down and I've succumbed to summer sloth. So while I'll continue to see a few shows and to share my though…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:33PMSaturday, July 22, 2017
Although he's usually game for just about anything, my theatergoing buddy Bill declined when I suggested that we see Ghost Light, the immersive theatrical experience that the experimental th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:54AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Dominique Morisseau's reputation as both a lyrical and thoughtful playwright has been growing for a few years now. Detroit '67, the first in a three-play cycle she wrote about her hometown, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:54PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
Today would have been my mother's 100th birthday so although she left us 14 years ago, I'm going to take time out from the usual postings to wish her a Happy Birthday and to give her a stand…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:24AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
The producers of 1984 are marketing their show as though it were a horror movie. They've put out a warning that children under 13 will not be admitted (click here to read about that). And th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:18PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
What's the purpose of life? I know that's a ridiculously big question but it's been on my mind because two shows I've recently seen take direct aim at that metaphysical enigma. And bot…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:42PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Happy Fifth of July. The Independence Day fireworks may be over but we've still got nine more weeks of summer to celebrate until Labor Day. For me that means time to sit on our terrace …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:48PM 
