Monday, October 31, 2011
Whenever I get to Paris, not much time passes before I’m singing “You’re in Paris,” Susan Waston’s big song from Ben Franklin in Paris – though the first …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15AMDid you catch the column I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Broadway Bound? It’s William Torbert Leonard’s 618-page tome that’s subtitled “A Guide to Shows That…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Last month’s brainteaser: What do these musicals have in common? Baby, Bajour, Good Vibrations, The Most Happy Fella, My One and Only, 1776, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
'Mockingbird' star visits Madison Who wouldn’t want to win an Oscar? Mary Badham, that’s who. When she was nominated for her role as Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the 10-year-old…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:06AMGot a nice e-mail from Dan Langan, who’d read my recent piece on this history of telephones in the theater. He was intrigued by my question, “Who was the first playwright to make…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
T Charles EricksonStephanie Roth Haberle as Phaedra and Julio Monge as the Minotaur, Phaedra's half-brother in 'Phaedra Backwards' at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:54PMThomas Edison (James Glossman) explains his lightbulb to Nikola Tesla (Jon Barker) in âThe Dangers of Electric Lightingâ at the Luna Stage Company in West Orange. That Luna Stage C…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:06AMMonday, October 24, 2011
We all have our favorite recordings. Mine, of course, may not be the same as yours. But of all the studio cast recordings that Lehman Engel made in the early ‘50s of musicals from the…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:49PMI’ve attended backers’ auditions in producers’ posh apartments, hotel banquet rooms, and Sardi’s — most of them for musicals that never raised enough money to s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMAndy Greenhut is getting ready for Sunday, sweet Sunday, with something to do. Once again, he’ll travel from Pennsylvania to Shubert Alley, where he’ll participate in the Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMI walked into the room, and there was Hal Holbrook, sitting on a chair, looking a good deal like the Mark Twain he’s been homaging for a half-century. Frankly, I think Holbrook likes t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMSunday, October 23, 2011
Did you see that article about Wikipedia in the New York Times last Friday? The fifth-largest website on the ‘net planned to hold “an editing marathon” at the New York Publ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22PMFriday, October 21, 2011
T Charles EricksonStephanie Roth Haberle plays the title character and Julio Monge plays the Minotaur in âPhaedra Backwards.â Every playbill routinely lists in what era or year a s…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:17AMWord-of-mouth has been great, and now there’s a good review from Charles Isherwood on Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophets. Let me say that I agree. Some, I fear, will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AMThursday, October 20, 2011
Carol Todd and Jim Shankman star in "Jericho" at the New Jersey Repertory Company. Before each show at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, company producer Gabor Barabas o…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:23AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Exceptionally talented child stars make this take on the classic a must-see
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:30AMLorna Luft, Tyne Daly and Leslie Uggams all coming to area theaters
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:01AMSo if you were in New York on Tuesday and had a nice view of the top of the Empire State Building, you might have noticed that the colors illuminating the building were blue, pink and white.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:17AMSo if you were in New York on Tuesday and had a nice view of the top of the Empire State Building, you might have noticed that the colors illuminating the building were blue, pink and white.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMTuesday, October 18, 2011
By Peter Filichia –
In the entire sixty-five year history of The Tony Awards, only one Tony-losing play has ever been turned into a Tony-winning musical.
And yet, that Tony-loser -- A R…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:34AMMonday, October 17, 2011
There was that season when we had two Wild Partys. We’re about to have two Titus Andronicuses, too: one at Seth Duerr’s Access Theatre (now through Oct. 29), the other at the Public (Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMThere was that season where we had two Wild Partys. We’re about to have two Titus Andronicuses, too: one at Seth Duerr’s Access Theatre (now through Oct. 29), the other at the Pu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, October 14, 2011
It’s a daunting task to play lawyer Atticus Finch in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:40AMDoesn’t time fly? The month is already half-gone, and we’re now at the Ides of October. You’d think that the powers-that-be would have released the film The Ides of March e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMFifty years ago this week, critics were seeing a film about which they’d rave: West Side Story. The next week, audiences would begin to embrace it, and the following April, the Academy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Michael Linden and Rhiannon Hansen in ReVision Theatreâs revival of âLittle Shop of Horrors.â Michael Linden and Rhiannon Hansen in ReVision Theatre’s revival of “Little S…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:01AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
Sherry Rubel The "Ainât Misbehavin'" cast, from left: Johmaalya Adelekan, Jacob Ming-Trent, Zurin Villanueva, Rheaume Crenshaw, J. Leonard Oxley (on piano) and Tyrone Davis Jr…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:38AMBy Peter Filichia –
Here’s a Broadway trivia question that’s not easy to answer. What musical opened on a holiday that celebrates a person mentioned in one of its songs?
No, no musi…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 06:54AMMonday, October 10, 2011
The New York Musical Theatre Festival continues to impress and enchant. Many productions have had the good fortune to have Mike Cohen, Director of Programming, deliver wildly entertaining pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, October 7, 2011
You may have noticed that the tag that I use at the end of the column has changed slightly in the last weeks.
While it used to say, “Check out his book, Broadway Musicals: The Biggest…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMThursday, October 6, 2011
'The Code Breaker' is a genuinely ambitious play aimed at teens but will impress many adults
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AM 
