Wednesday, 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 01:48PMSaturday, July 1, 2017
The woman sitting next to me at the Roundabout Company's Laura Pels Theatre was the perfect audience for Napoli, Brooklyn, the new family drama that opened there this week. She guffawed…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:04AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Madness is unimaginable to those of us unaffected by it and yet that hasn't stopped writers from trying to recreate what it must feel like to lose control of one's mind. And actors also embr…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
My husband K and I are away on vacation so no posts until we get back next week.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:54AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
The Red Bull Theater Company has a gift for silliness. Its production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th century classic The School for Scandal was one of the best evenings I had in th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
The 2016-2017 theater season that ended on Sunday night with the Tony Awards ceremony hosted by Kevin Spacey was one of the best in recent memory. That made the contest for the top prizes on…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMSaturday, June 10, 2017
After enduring 40 days of awards lunches, newspaper ads, TV appearances, magazine interviews and all kinds of social media interactions, the Broadway community (fans included) will finally g…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:24AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Has someone been traveling around peddling the idea that all a play now needs to be successful is quirky characters, snappy dialog and a speech at the end about the meaning of life? I …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:18AMSaturday, June 3, 2017
The Tony Awards ceremony, which will air on CBS next Sunday, June 11, is more than just a celebration of the best of the theater season. It's the way that many people, especially those outsi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:48AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
Over the past few months, I've been bingeing on the big awards-baiting musicals that have opened on Broadway. Several of them are terrific but it was nice last week to see two smaller shows …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:06AMSaturday, May 27, 2017
Just like everyone else involved in putting on a show, costume and set designers see their main job as telling a story. But that job--and winning a Tony for it--is harder than it looks. Desi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:12PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Most people know A.A. Milne as the creator of the Winnie-the-Pooh children's stories but in the two decades before he published the first Pooh book in 1926, Milne was best known as a humoris…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:05PMSaturday, May 20, 2017
The race is on. It may be done more politely than it was during our last presidential campaign (thank goodness), but the Tony nominees are beginning to elbow one another out of the way as th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:06AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Getting a show in front of a mainstream audience ain't easy and it can be even tougher when you're a playwright of color. Which is why I'm happy to have seen Martín Zimmerman's Seven Spots …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:54PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
The theater awards season is like a presidential campaign. Everyone has their eyes on the ultimate prize but there are lots of other contests along the way that offer trophies and with them,…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AMWednesday, May 10, 2017
I promise to get back to talking about shows I've seen soon but as a card-carrying member of the Outer Critics Circle, I feel honor-bound to tout the awards we announced on Monday. The OCC r…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:24PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
All Tony awards are coveted but the awards for Best Musical tend to be the most coveted of all. And because 13 new musicals debuted during the 2016-2017 season, the odds of getting one this …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:06PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
If you're reading this blog, then you already know that the Tony nominations were announced yesterday. And depending on how you look at it, this year's nominators had one of the toughe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:18PMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Like most talented playwrights these days, Annie Baker has no doubt been asked to spend some time in a writers' room for one of the prestige TV shows. But on the basis of her new play The An…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
There's no question that the Tonys are the Oscars, or most desired awards, of the theater world but there are other coveted prizes too. Yesterday, the Outer Critics Circle, of which I'm a pr…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:42AMSaturday, April 22, 2017
The Tonys may be the top dog in awards season but it's not the only one in the game. Lots of other groups also celebrate the best of the theater season. The nominations for the Lucille …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
Playwrights Horizons hasn't made a big deal of it but over the past year, the company seems to have gone out of its way to tell stories about people whose lives rarely get shown onstage and …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:48PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
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Now this is more like it.
Unlike last week when I got crickets in response to my giveaway quiz, a whole bunch of you wrote in for the chance to win the
new book �…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:50AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
You B&Me readers are a clever bunch: everyone who wrote
in for the chance to win a free
digital download of the cast recording for the new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory got t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:13AMSunday, October 20, 2013
Has the art of romance been
totally lost? I ask because three
versions of what is arguably the most romantic play of all time, Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet (you know, the one where…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:31PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
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New Yorkers (and the tourists who come here) have been almost as
enchanted with Matilda, the musical based on the classic Roald Dahl story about a very smart girl and her ver…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AMSaturday, October 12, 2013
Female actors didn’t appear on the professional stage until about 50
years after Shakespeare’s death. Which explains, at least in part, why
actresses are always lamenting the paucity of …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:27AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
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Word of mouth has not been kind to The Film Society, the
Keen Company’s revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s first play, now running at The Clurman
Theater on Theater Row through Oc…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:38AMSaturday, October 5, 2013
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Philip Goes Forth seemed tailor-made for me. It’s a play about a young man who dreams of a
life in the theater. It was written by George Kelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:25AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
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This is the first time that The Old Friends, the Horton
Foote melodrama now playing at Signature Theatre’s Irene Diamond Stage through
Oct. 20, has been fully staged. And
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SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:17AMSaturday, September 28, 2013
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Seeing a bioplay always makes me nervous that what I’m going
to get is caricatures instead of characters. Seeing one with my husband K, who
hates watching people pretend to…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:06AM 
