Sunday, July 28, 2013
This month's column looks at the controversial 1993 miniseries "Tales of the City," with said tales from San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin; and two new Blu-rays from the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMThis month's column looks at the controversial 1993 miniseries "Tales of the City," with said tales from San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin; and two new Blu-rays from the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThis month's column looks at the controversial 1993 miniseries "Tales of the City," with said tales from San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin; and two new Blu-rays from the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 25, 2013
"Let it be" are the words of wisdom that part of me whispers to myself while contemplating the newest Beatles tribute concert to reach Broadway, which in fact calls itself Let It B…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:07PMPlaybill.com offers look at opening night of Encores! Off-Center's I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Tony and Olivier Award winner Patti LuPone recently returned to 54 Below with Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, which she will offer through July 27 at the intimate nightspot. Playbill.com was t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSunday, July 21, 2013
This week's column examines the new cast recording of Stephen Schwartz's Pippin.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Nobody Loves You is the title of both the show and the TV show-within-the-show. Attractive singles seek to pair up as the audience watches, in weekly installments.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:17PMMonday, July 15, 2013
Forever Tango is happily ensconced at the Walter Kerr, where it first landed in 1997 for an impressive 13-month run. The show returned in 2004 for four months at the Shubert, but this new e…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:48PMSunday, July 14, 2013
This month's column looks at Ken Ludwig's primer on "How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare," Peter Filichia's chronicle of Broadway musicals, "Strippers, Showgirl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 11, 2013
Encores! Off-Center — the new summer series from the folks at City Center — kicked off its inaugural season July 10 with Sam Gold's production of Marc Blitzstein's The Cr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMEncores! Off-Center — the new summer series from the folks at City Center — kicked off its inaugural season last night with Sam Gold's production of Marc Blitzstein's The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
The 18th season of the Lincoln Center Festival got off to a visually splendorous start last evening with Monkey: Journey to the West.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMMonday, July 8, 2013
On the Town with youthful high spirits from the music, empathy from the actors, and comedy firing on all cylinders. "New York, New York" in Pittsfield, well worth the trip up the …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:59AMSunday, July 7, 2013
This week's column examines the new recording of Stephen Sondheim's Passion and "Judy Kuhn: All This Happiness."
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMThis week's column examines the new recording of Stephen Sondheim's Passion.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
An all-male boarding school serves as the starting point for Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy. During a school ceremony, tenor Pharus Jonathan Young is interrupted -- mid-solo -- by a homop…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:39PMSunday, June 30, 2013
This month's column looks at the obscure talkie "Perfect Understanding," with Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier; Harold Lloyd's silent classic "Safety Last!"; K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 24, 2013
This past spring saw not one but four solo shows, three of them Broadway vehicles for major star ladies and one unassuming off-Broadway effort with a skinny guy you probably never heard off.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:47PMJerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's She Loves Me proved thoroughly delightful June 22 as the opening attraction of the Caramoor Arts Festival in Katonah, New York. Conductor/director Ted Sp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMJerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's She Loves Me proved thoroughly delightful June 22 as the opening attraction of the Caramoor Arts Festival in Katonah, New York. Conductor/director Ted Sperli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMSunday, June 23, 2013
This week's column examines the original Broadway cast recording of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella, along with a Laura Osnes collection of songs by Maury Yeston.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 21, 2013
Seriously demented fun is on display at <em>The Explorers Club</em>. That is, the new play by Nell Benjamin at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 1 at City Center.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:00PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Errors -- of identification, understanding and more -- abound in the Public Theater's current Shakespeare in the Park offering, <em>The Comedy of Errors</em>.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:14PMThis month's column looks at award-winning director Jack O'Brien's memoir, "Jack Be Nimble."
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMFriday, June 14, 2013
There's a cutting-edge, politically provocative, modernistic new-style musical at the Public Theater that will have you literally dancing in the aisles.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:17PMSunday, June 9, 2013
This week's column examines conductor John Wilson's salute to "Rodgers and Hammerstein at the Movies" and the cast album of the long-lost Gene Kelly musical ClownAround.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 7, 2013
The answer, in a word, is: a lot. The question being, how much does Jane Lynch -- the antagonistic cheerleader coach of <em>Glee</em> -- add to the heretofore sleepy revival of &…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:09AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
The 69th Annual Theatre World Awards opened with a stunning, site-specific coup-de-théâtre: the curtain at the Music Box rose on the Pippin set, with a familiar musical vamp and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMSunday, June 2, 2013
This week's column examines the original cast recording of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's Off-Broadway musical Dogfight.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 26, 2013
This week's column examines the original cast recording of Michael John LaChiusa's Giant.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
