Saturday, 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 08:06AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Maybe if I’d known more about Brendan Behan, I would have
had a better time at Brendan at the Chelsea, the gloomy drama about the Irish
poet and playwright Brendan Behan that’s playing a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:04AMSaturday, September 21, 2013
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You don’t have to love a show to admire it. At least that’s how I’m feeling about two of
the shows that have kicked off this new fall season.
The first I saw w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AMSaturday, September 14, 2013
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Between you and me, I’m a little reluctant to list the shows
I’m most looking forward to this fall. That’s
because my picks for past seasons have turned out to be…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:23AMSaturday, September 7, 2013
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Lots of people seem charmed by First Date, the first
musical to open in this new Broadway season.
And I wish I could have been too.
Because I admire the fact …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:20AMSaturday, August 31, 2013
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Labor Day has snuck up on me this year because it’s been a
busier summer than usual. Some publications have asked me to write about
theater-related subjects and instead of …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:35AMSaturday, August 24, 2013
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We need more poor playwrights. I don't mean bad writers or even those who are living hand-to mouth for the sake of their art but people who have grown up in families that had …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMSaturday, August 17, 2013
There’s a certain magic about seeing a show in Central Park, no
matter what the show is. I’ve seen two
there over the last couple of weeks and although not crazy about either, I’…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:05AMSaturday, August 10, 2013
We theater lovers used to beg for things to see in the summer.
And so we got festivals. Lots and
lots of festivals. Maybe too many
festivals.
There’s the New York Music…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:18AMSaturday, August 3, 2013
Theater slows down in August. Or at least I
do. So while I’ll continue seeing a few
shows, I’ll only be writing about them here once a week, instead of the usual twice, until somet…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Just like the TV reality shows it lampoons, the new musical
Nobody Loves You, now playing at Second Stage Theatre through Aug. 11, is silly and yet
enjoyable at the same time.
The playwri…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:29AMSaturday, July 27, 2013
We're all obsessed with celebrity these days and almost
everyone (me included) has a story to tell about an encounter
with one. Writer Elizabeth Fuller’s
was with the movie star Bette Davi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Comeuppance for the financial scoundrels who
bilked people out of their savings and helped wreck the broader economy is once
again a hot topic. In “Blue Jasmine,”
the new Woody All…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:35AMSaturday, July 20, 2013
Choir Boy isn’t a musical but the best thing about it is the singing. Now playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s studio space at New York City Center through Aug. 4, this ambitious work…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:12PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
I'm back and I bring news of something light and breezy and perfect for summer theatergoing. Because it would be hard to find a more buoyant
offering than The Explorers Club, the airy comedy…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:55AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
My husband K and I are off on our first big vacation in a long while and so there will be no new posts here for the next couple of weeks. Which is why you're now looking at the ghost l…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:00AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Summer is my favorite time of the year. And one of the
things I love about it is sharing this annual list of books for theater lovers
to read at the beach, under a tree or, perhaps like me, …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMSaturday, June 29, 2013
My mother gave me my
first diary when I was eight years old and I continued to keep a journal into
my 30s, thinking, I’m now chagrined to confess, that I might one day be famous
and so sho…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:44PMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Given a choice between Shakespeare’s comedies and his
tragedies, I’ll line up on the side of the serious stuff almost every time. Which
is why I was nervous when I set off to meet my the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:21AMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Maybe if I’d had a better sense of who Charles Ives is, I'd have had
a better time at Charles Ives Take Me Home, the new play that is running at the
Rattlestick Playwright…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:11AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Playwright John Guare has given us many enjoyable nights in
the theater with such works as The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of
Separation and A Free Man of Color (click here to read my …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:01AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
The question is the same every year: should the Tony Awards be a celebration for
Broadway insiders and their fellow travelers (like me) or should the televised
ceremony be basically a …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:23AMSaturday, June 8, 2013
Off-Broadway shows usually come and go more quickly than big
main-stem Broadway productions (unless those productions are duds or feature
big Hollywood stars who sign up for limited runs or …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:29AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Nostalgia for the 1950s, the childhood years of the baby boomers,
will probably hold strong as long as the boomers do. But, as the TV series “Mad Men” has shown,
ruminations about …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:00AMSaturday, June 1, 2013
Anyone with even the slightest awareness of the young pop
star Justin Bieber and his recent antics knows that the mix of celebrity and
adolescence can be a toxic combination.
So it’s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:35AMWednesday, May 29, 2013
“Smash,” which ended its two-season run on NBC this past
Sunday night, was like that friend you’re embarrassed by and are always thinking you should drop because she just doesn’t kno…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:29AMSaturday, May 25, 2013
For years now, the sociologist Richard Florida has been
preaching that young people in what he calls the creative class don’t want to
just sit back and be fed their culture, they want to g…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:52PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Who knew that Russians would be so hip this spring? The Encores! series just finished its season with a
production of Rodgers and Hart’s gangsters-and-Russian ballet musical On Your
Toes. …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:09AMSaturday, May 18, 2013
It’s another can’t-find-time-to-blog weekend for me but
rather than turn the ghost light on yet again, I’m going to give a brief shout
out to a new trend I've noticed: the fancy insert…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:54AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Even if Nora Ephron hadn’t written it and Tom Hanks weren’t
starring in it, Lucky Guy would probably be a hit. For the play, now running at the Broadhurst
Theatre, tells the story …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:13AMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Performers who’ve made their name in musicals often jump at
the chance to show that they can do straight dramatic roles as well. In just the past year, Norbert Leo Butz and
Nathan La…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:10AM 
