Saturday, September 29, 2012
If There is I Haven’t Found It Yet, the dysfunctional
family drama that opened at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre
this week, has been getting all kinds of a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:09PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
Red Dog Howls, which opened at the New York Theatre Workshop
this week, isn’t a well-made play. It
has no real conflict. Crucial bits of information are held back in a strained
effor…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:28AMSaturday, September 22, 2012
Sometimes, as hard as I might try, I just don’t get it. For
instance, I know that I’m supposed to like Detroit, the new dark comedy that
opened at Playwrights Horizons this past week.&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
People have been so eager to badmouth the new musical
Chaplin that opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre last week that I’ve been
trying to figure out why they’ve been so hostile towards…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:14AMSaturday, September 15, 2012
Like most of you, I’ve been looking through all the fall
previews that everyone else has been doing and, to be honest, I don’t know that
there are all that many shows that …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:27PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Let’s face it, I’m not the demographic that the producers had
in mind when they decided to bring Bring It On to Broadway. And yet, like just about everyone else who
has seen this h…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve lost two people who
played significant roles in shaping my life. So I’m taking time out from my
usual posts to pay honor to their memories.
…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:56PMSaturday, September 1, 2012
How did the summer pass so quickly that we’re now staring in
the face of Labor Day? This is
always a bittersweet time of year for me because it means that the idylls of
summer are en…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
There are some playwrights whose work you can just rear back
and enjoy. And then there are others who
force you to sit up in your seat and work.
Sam Shepard has always fallen in …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMSaturday, August 25, 2012
Even though he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (not to mention an Oscar for the screenplay of "To Kill a Mockingbird") Horton Foote was often considered to be the most unsung
of America’s…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:11AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
We should all be so lucky as to have a friend as good as Woody
Harrelson. As has now been told
many times, Harrelson worked a construction job in the summer of 1983 and
became buddies …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:26AMSaturday, August 18, 2012
Unless a friend, relative or lover is doing one of its
shows, deciding what to see at the New York International Fringe Festival can
be daunting. Not to mention
disappointing. There ar…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Summer is supposed to be the quiet season for New York
theatergoers but somebody apparently forgot to send that memo to the folks who
organized all the theater festivals that have been going…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:30AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
The first real writing I ever did was a reworking of Grimm’s
Fairy Tales because they just didn’t make sense to my 8 year-old self. As I
recall, I made them more agreeable by changing so…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Yep, it's that time again. We're heading into the dog days of summer when everything
slows down. Including B& Me.
As seems to have become a tradition around this time each ye…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Actors and directors love to do classic works. It gives them a chance to size themselves up against the myths and memories of earlier, legendary performances and
produc…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
It would be hard to find a show with a more impressive pedigree than
the one for Dogfight, the lovely little musical that opened at Second Stage
Theatre on Monday night:
•Its directo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
There’s a lot that's similar about Bonnie & Clyde, the Frank
Wildhorn musical about the Depression-era gangsters that closed in December
after just 36 performances, and Baby Case, the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:19AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
Several small off-Broadway shows have come and gone over the
past few months while I’ve been preoccupied with all the Broadway openings at
the end of the season, the deserved hoopla leadin…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:00PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Summertime is tourist time in New York and one of the main things people want to do when they get here is see a Broadway show. But not just any show. Most want to take in a big B…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, July 7, 2012
In keeping with this week’s red-white-and-blue theme, I’m
going to recommend The Best Man (or Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, as it is
officially billed) which is turning into a staple of e…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:59AMWednesday, July 4, 2012
No post today. Instead I’m kicking back and will be celebrating the birth of our country with my
annual viewing of the pretty good movie version of the really great Tony-…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:49AMSaturday, June 30, 2012
Despite what the calendar says, the beginning of summer is a
personal choice. Traditionalists probably opted for June 20th, the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. But some folk…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Judging by all the honors he’s already racked up, the
playwright David Adjmi has plenty of fans and doesn’t need me. His bio boasts that he’s
won a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Whi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:03AMSaturday, June 23, 2012
At some point, almost every frequent theatergoer has probably thought
“I should write a play.” Unlike
most of us, journalists Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles went ahead
and wro…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:46AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
For people obsessed with theater, talking about how the
theater is dying is like talking about the weather for regular people: you know
you can always get a conversation going.
And yet…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:28AMSaturday, June 16, 2012
It’s usually not a good thing when your favorite part of a
show is its scenery. That’s the way I felt after I saw Spider-Man: Turn
Off the Dark and that’s the way I felt when I walked …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:01AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Lots of people are upset because Sunday night’s Tony Awards
drew only 6 million viewers, a big drop from the 6.9 million who tuned in
last year. I could try to put a positive on that by po…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:09AMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Tomorrow is Tony Day, which will mark the end of the 2011-2012 awards
season. And it’s been a good one because there’s been no monster hit to suck
all the oxygen—
and the suspen…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:14AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
To be fair, I should admit that I’m not really into comedy. And I'm completely mystified by British humor. I like a witty
joke as much as the next bloke but the low-brow, drop-the-drawers …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:59PMSaturday, June 2, 2012
The true story that inspired February House, the new musical
at the Public Theater, is so cool that I couldn’t wait to see the show. Here it is: in the early ‘40s, a group of artists tha…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:10AM 
