Saturday, 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 07:10AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Anyone who still questions the value of star power on
Broadway should take a look at the current revival of Evita in which the pop
star Ricky Martin plays Che, the narrator of Andrew Lloyd W…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMSaturday, May 26, 2012
Another impossibly busy weekend is staring me in the face so I don’t
have time to tell you about any of the recent shows I’ve seen. But I have
managed to steal a few minutes to put toget…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Maybe we should blame Joseph Alsop. When the KGB tried to blackmail the
powerful Washington columnist with a threat to reveal his homosexuality, Alsop
marched straight to the U.S. emba…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMSaturday, May 19, 2012
Some people are going to be drawn to the terrific new play
that just opened at The Duke on 42nd Street because of its
titillating title: Cock. Others may want to see it because of the refres…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
To borrow a phrase from Bill Clinton’s first presidential
campaign, it’s the dancing, stupid.
The floor-shaking production numbers in which a supercharged ensemble of
male d…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:02AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Maybe the question was simple but my guess is that readers of B&Me are just a theater savvy bunch cause everyone who wrote in got the right answer (the Carnegie Deli) to the question:&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:05AMSaturday, May 12, 2012
So many shows opened in the final weeks of the theater
season that officially ended on April 26 that I’ve had to scramble to catch up
with all of them. There were 14
new shows on Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:55AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
My friend Doug came to New York last month to celebrate his
birthday with some fellow theater lovers, including my buddy Bill and me. Sometime during the evening, well into
our cups, w…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:22AMSaturday, May 5, 2012
Ethnic humor can be a tricky
thing. But anyone who's gone to
the website Old Jews Telling Jokes will tell you that it can also be a very
funny thing. Now, some of those classic
c…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:30AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
The Tony nominators spread around their love this year. When the nominations were announced yesterday, 30 of the 37 eligible shows were named in at least one category. And some of the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:10PMSaturday, April 28, 2012
Is any American play better known or more beloved than Tennessee
William’s A Streetcar Named Desire?
Even the most casual theatergoers have heard of Stanley's “Stella” cri de cou…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:45PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
A lot of hard work goes into bringing a Broadway show to the
stage. So every time I write about one, I try to remember all the years of study, the hours of rehearsal, the dreams of glory and…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:48AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
The main image on the cover of the Playbill for Regrets, the new drama playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club through the end of the month, is of a smiling All-American family, circa 1954.&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:50AMSaturday, April 14, 2012
Movies and plays in which actors impersonate more famous celebrities aren’t my favorite form of entertainment. And yet I had really looked forward to seeing End of the Rainbow, the new mus…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:39AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
It’s becoming Sam Gold’s world. And we theater lovers will just have to content ourselves with living in it. Which is fine with me. For over the last three years, Gold has surfaced…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:28AMSaturday, April 7, 2012
Here’s a question for the Baby Boomers among you: was the substance you abused in your youth more likely to be speed or hashish?
I ask because the answer could determine which of t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
It’s been a big season for remixed musicals. But while newcomers did the controversial nipping and tucking on Porgy and Bess and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, it’s the original tea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:16PMSaturday, March 31, 2012
“What do you do,” a friend once asked me. “If you don’t like something that everyone else likes?” Well, we’re about to find out right now. Because I really didn…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
There’s no one who enjoys clever stagecraft more than I do. But I’m old-school enough to believe that everything that appears on a stage—the acting, the set, any coup de theatre�…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:21AMSaturday, March 24, 2012
Once, the new musical that opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre this week, may be the sweetest show to open on Broadway in years. And I had worried about that. My theatrical t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:25AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
The best new show in town right now is at Lincoln Center. But I’m not talking about the mighty War Horse, which even after a year is still packing them in at the Vivian Beaumont, or …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:55PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
Jean Genet was the enfant terrible of French writers. And, as a convicted thief and a defiantly openly gay man, he reveled in his status as an outsider. So it was perfectly in characte…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:42AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
If you see The Total Bent— which, if you haven’t done, you’ll have to rush to do because it closes this weekend—you may or may not see the same show I saw. For The Total Bent, the la…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:53AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
All great playwrights strive to make the people who see their plays think as well as feel. And with Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams now gone, Edward Albee is not only our greatest…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Whenever I’ve had the good fortune to talk to young playwrights, Paula Vogel’s name always seems to come up. They’ve all read or seen her work. Most have been inspired by i…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:11PMThursday, March 1, 2012
A bumper crop of talented young playwrights has popped up over the last few years. Annie Baker, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Amy Herzog have all had plays produced by major companies, rec…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:04AMSaturday, February 25, 2012
Almost everything is new and sleek at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the sprawling, reportedly $70 million, theater space on 42nd Street that starchitect Frank Gehry designed to be th…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:58PMWednesday, February 22, 2012
Why write a play unless you have something to say? The story of Jayson Blair, the young African-American reporter whose fabricated and plagiarized stories set-off a scandal…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:08AMSaturday, February 18, 2012
Nearly every writer starts off imitating someone else. Then if the novice has talent, he or she eventually develops his or her own unique voice. In the old days, young playwright…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Since yesterday was Valentine’s Day, my husband K and I took some time out to celebrate the great good luck of being able to share our love and lives with one another.
But&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AM 
