Saturday, January 21, 2012
There are some plays that you out-and-out love. And then there are others that you feel you ought to admire. The latter is the way I feel about Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
My good friend Andrea recently came to New York for the first time in four years and, of course, she wanted to see a Broadway show. After some research— reading the Times and talking…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMWednesday, January 11, 2012
The Soviet Union was the bogeyman that threatened what Superman used to call “The American way” when I was a kid. It lost the gig when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Since the…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:59AMSaturday, January 7, 2012
Despite recent balmy temperatures, the winter frost is beginning to settle in. The new year isn't even a week old and two shows have already announced that they’re folding their tents beca…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, January 4, 2012
What are they teaching in drama schools and playwriting workshops?
I ask because so many playwrights today seem to think all they need is snappy dialog and then voilà, they hav…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMSaturday, December 31, 2011
If you read as many “10 Bests” lists as I do around this time each year, it quickly becomes obvious that the lists say a whole lot more about the people making them than they do about an…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:32AMWednesday, December 28, 2011
Let’s be honest: what I think about Bonnie & Clyde isn’t going to matter one bit because the show has already posted its closing notice and will be moving out of the Gerald Schoenfel…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:59AMSaturday, December 24, 2011
No post today but, instead, heartfelt wishes that you and yours have a holiday filled with love, laughter, the company of good friends... and, maybe, some good theater too.
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:55PMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Somewhere Lorraine Hansberry must be smiling. When A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1959 on, she was the first black woman to have a play produced on Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:39PMSaturday, December 17, 2011
The shrinks who psychoanalyzed Broadway’s best back in the early ‘60s must have been doozies. How else to explain the fact that two of the most high-profile flops from that period …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, December 14, 2011
The first thing I noticed when my husband K and I walked into the Longacre Theatre to see David Henry Hwang’s new play Ch’ing•lish was the unusually large number of Asian faces in the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:13PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
No post today. My husband K and I are having our apartment painted. The painters arrive early on Monday morning and so we've spent the last few days packing up things (it's amazi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:57AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Repertory companies were once mainstays of the theater but,
with rare exceptions like Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company, they’re become
rarities nowadays. It’s just too expensi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:59AMSaturday, December 3, 2011
Like every exclusive society, the world of theater lovers has its unspoken rules. For starters, we’re all supposed to genuflect to everything by Shakespeare, mostly everything by Che…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:59AMWednesday, November 30, 2011
photo by Joan Marcus
Everybody knows that theater is a collaborative art, with its elements—the acting, the directing, the design, lighting and the play itself—all leaning on one anothe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:59AMSaturday, November 26, 2011
You gotta love the folks at Lincoln Center Theater. Or at least I do. Artistic director André Bishop and executive producer Bernard Gersten do what too few of their not-for-prof…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Theater doesn’t exist in a vacuum. A show like The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs took on a different meaning after the Apple co-founder’s death. And Wild Animals You Sh…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:59AMSaturday, November 19, 2011
My husband K is in love with the actress Nina Arianda. Which is OK with me because—like every other true theater lover in New York right now—I, too, am in love with Arianda, the st…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:59PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Katori Hall became the first African-American woman to win the Olivier Award for Best New Play when The Mountaintop, her meditation on the last night in Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, play…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:59AMSaturday, November 12, 2011
There’s not much scenery on the stage at The Public Theater’s Newman theater space where a new production of King Lear opened this week but that doesn’t stop nearly everyone on stage f…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:52AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
No matter how talented they are, ample-bodied and strong-featured actresses like Mary Testa usually play the funny best friend or the sassy sidekick instead of the leading lady. And so…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, November 5, 2011
Maybe I’m the wrong demographic for Asuncion, the new play by Jesse Eisenberg that just opened in a Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production at the venerable Cherry Lane Theatre. O…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Lots of people seem almost angry that they don’t like Relatively Speaking, the trio of one-act comedies now playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. It averaged a
D+ on StageGrade, wh…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:59AMSaturday, October 29, 2011
Cynics have long said that dying young can be a career boost in show business. But I doubt that even the most sardonic of them meant that the good fortune would redound on someone othe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:40AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
There’s an audience for Milk Like Sugar, the new play by Kirstin Greenidge that’s currently playing at Playwrights Horizons. But it's clearly not for everyone. About half way through thi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:58AMSaturday, October 22, 2011
The New York Times critic Charles Isherwood has declared that Stephen Karam’s new play Sons of the Prophet is “the first important new play of the fall season.” That’s quite a compli…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
It’s not every young playwright who makes her New York debut at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Or who has that play directed by the hot- director-of-the-moment Sam Gold. Or designed by …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMSaturday, October 15, 2011
There are at least three obvious reasons that may have prompted the Roundabout Theatre Company to revive Man and Boy, the 1963 drama by the British playwright Terence Rattigan, which opened …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:30PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
People see plays for all kinds of reasons. I was excited about The Lyons because I wanted to see what made Linda Lavin turn down chances to reprise her terrific performances in two hig…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMSaturday, October 8, 2011
Not much seen this week—at least not that I can yet write about since I try to keep the opening night embargo that shows ask reviewers to observe. Besides, it’s promising to be a b…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:03AMWednesday, October 5, 2011
I’m going to be honest with you. I had no idea what to make of Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, the new Adam Rapp play that the Atlantic Theater Company, its own facilities under …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AM 
