Saturday, 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 08:10AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Let me make two things clear right at the beginning of this
post. The first, as regular readers know, is that I hate audience participation. The second is that I absolutely loved Here Lies L…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:57AMSaturday, May 4, 2013
Even if you were born and raised in New York, as both my
husband K and I were, you've probably had fantasies of living “the real New
York life.” Of course the definition of what
that is …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
You don’t even have to be a theater lover to know that the
Tony nominations were announced yesterday. There were, as usual, the fairly predictable nods. Hollywood heavyweight Tom Hanks
got…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:56AMSaturday, April 27, 2013
I know. I know. This is two Saturdays in a row that I've turned on the ghost light, signaling a temporary pause in these posts. But what can I tell you? It's a crazy time and I'm seein…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:45AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Transposing Shakespeare to a different locale or time period
no longer earns a director the automatic cool points it once did. In fact,
doing so has become almost as ho-hum as a standing ova…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:41AMSaturday, April 20, 2013
It's crazy time on Broadway—six shows opened this past week and five more are due next week before the season officially closes on April 25—and so I should be here writing like a madwoma…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:48AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
People who love musicals really seem to love The Last Five
Years. In fact, those who saw the original 2002 production are still singing its
praises. And there have reportedly been over 3,500…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:36PMSaturday, April 13, 2013
It may not be politically correct to say this but I’m
getting tired of drag queens. Not the real people but the theatrical versions
of them that keep turning up in Broadway musicals in far…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:12AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
It’s always sad to hear that a show is closing prematurely.
And that’s true whether or not you had a good time when you saw it. Cause I’m
feeling badly for the cast and crew of Hands o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMSaturday, April 6, 2013
If you’d asked, I’d have said that one-person shows were my
least favorite form of theater. So it’s been truly surprising to find that some
of the shows I’ve most enjoyed this season…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:43PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Fairy tales ain’t what they used to be. Books like “Confessions
of an Ugly Stepsister” and “Glass Slippers & Jeweled Masques” have brought
an edgier, and even erotic, vibe to t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:22AMSaturday, March 30, 2013
Even before it opened the Pershing Square Center complex last year and
turned it into a prime hangout for theater lovers, the Signature
Theatre Company was beloved for focusing an entire sea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:36AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Honky, the provocatively named comedy now running at Urban
Stages, kicks off with a not very funny incident: a black kid is killed for his
sneakers and sales spike at the Nike-style company …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AMSaturday, March 23, 2013
Passover begins on Monday evening and although My Name is
Asher Lev opened four months ago and has extended its run at the Westside
Theatre through
Sept. 1, it’s hard to think of a b…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:27AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
The expectation we have for playwrights is the same as we
have for parents: that they should love all their children equally. Of course they don’t. Both tend to have a soft spot for …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:22AMSaturday, March 16, 2013
Sometimes you just need a good laugh. At least that’s how I’ve been feeling over the
past couple of weeks as I’ve gone from one disappointing show to the next. I usually ta…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Maybe I’m just in a cranky mood. Because I’ve seen nearly
two dozen show so far this calendar year and I can count the ones I’ve liked on
one hand, with a few fingers left over.
…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:45PMSaturday, March 9, 2013
Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly is a small play in almost
every way. It’s a two-hander and all the
action takes place on a single set, a rundown boathouse near a farm
in Lebanon,…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Well, I guess it’s official:
I am truly not a John Doyle gal. The Scottish- born director has earned all kinds of kudos from critics
(most notably the New York Times’ Ben Brantley)…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:29AMSaturday, March 2, 2013
Young Hollywood stars coming to New York to act in plays is
so last year. Now, they’re writing the
plays. Just this past week, I saw The Revisionist, a new play
by Jesse Eisenberg, m…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:05PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Few things are more annoying than having someone go on
and on about how some long-gone production was so much better than the one that you can see right now. So I’m going to have to
…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:28AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
It takes both talent and moxie to make it in show business.
And Paul Downs Colaizzo, the 27-year-old playwright whose first play Really
Really opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Tuesday…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:26AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
The folks at Warner Bros. emailed to ask me if I’d be
interested in receiving and reviewing their new DVD box set of movie
musicals. I get offers like this a lot
and I tend not to respond …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:34AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
Let’s face it: the
fall theater season was disappointing as hell.
Of the 20 or so shows that opened on Broadway between last year’s Tony
broadcast and the dropping of the ball in …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:03AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for me because it is both
Valentine’s Day (for which my beloved husband K and I have special plans) and the
sixth anniversary of Broadway & Me, which …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:47AMSaturday, February 9, 2013
Audience participation is not my thing. So you might think that The Mystery of Edwin
Drood would not be my kind of show. At least, that’s what I feared.
For this
musical, ba…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:54AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Everything I’d read about the latest revival of Tennessee
Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof promised that it was going to be a hot
mess. The show’s top-billed star Scarlett Johansson kep…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:08AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Sometimes you really can’t go home again. Encores!, the great concert series that
celebrates the American musical, decided to celebrate its 20th season by going back to Fiorello!, th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:42AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
The Jammer, the roller derby comedy that opened at the Atlantic
Stage 2 last week, is a goofball of a show.
And I mean that as a total compliment.
Unless the action is s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:05AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
The coming out narrative, in which a young or closeted homosexual
struggles to accept his or her sexual identity, has been the dominant theme in
gay literature since at least 1862 when the p…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:30AM 
