Sunday, February 3, 2013
This week's column discusses Rebecca Luker's sterling new Jerome Kern collection, "I Got Love," plus the reissue of the Off-Broadway chamber musical No Way to Treat a Lady.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 27, 2013
This month's column looks at the scripts of three recent Broadway attractions, Enda Walsh's Once, Nicky Silver's The Lyons and David Mamet's The Anarchist.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 20, 2013
This week's column discusses Barbara Cook's new album, "Loverman," and the remastered soundtrack recording of "Bye Bye Birdie," the movie starring Ann-Margret.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 13, 2013
This month's column looks at the Blu-ray release of the Trevor Nunn-Susan Stroman Oklahoma! starring Hugh Jackman; the first season of the TV series "Smash"; rarities from Mel …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 6, 2013
This week's column discusses the original cast recordings of Broadway's Chaplin and Leap of Faith and Off-Broadway's Now. Here. This.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 30, 2012
The sheer volume of theatre-related books published in 2012 has us playing catch-up this month, with the Equity bio "Performance of the Century," "Stella Adler on America'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 23, 2012
"Rashomon," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Brazil," a collection of Frank Capra films and Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" are screened in this m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 16, 2012
A look back at the year's musical-theatre albums that are worth your attention, perhaps for gift ideas this holiday season. The mix includes Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 9, 2012
A look back at the year's musical-theatre albums that are worth your attention, perhaps for gift ideas this holiday season. The mix this week includes Once, Michael John LaChiusa, Pasek …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, December 2, 2012
This month's column looks at two wonderfully rich memoirs, "World on a String" by jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli and "The Gershwins and Me" by Michael Feinstein.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 25, 2012
This week's column discusses the original 1968 London cast recording of John Kander & Fred Ebb's Cabaret, featuring Judi Dench as Sally Bowles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 18, 2012
This month we watch the 1956 telecast of Harold Arlen's Bloomer Girl; the Blu-ray release of the 1986 film version the stage musical Little Shop of Horrors; and holiday box sets celebrat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 11, 2012
This week's column discusses the original cast recording of the George Street Playhouse production of Barry Wyner's Calvin Berger as well as this season's "Carols for a Cure…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, November 4, 2012
The lives to two dramatists are in the spotlight in this month's books column: "Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World" by Howard Pollack and "Thornton Wilder: A L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 28, 2012
This week's column discusses the original Off-Broadway cast recording of the infamous Carrie; the new Broadway musical A Christmas Story; and the CD remastering of the 1951 musical Seven…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 21, 2012
This month, we screen Marcel Carné's backstage masterpiece "Children of Paradise"; Groucho Marx in The Mikado and Alfred Drake & Barbara Cook in Yeomen of the Guard;…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 14, 2012
This week's column discusses the Encores! cast recording of Jule Styne and Leo Robin's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 7, 2012
This week's column discusses the new Broadway cast recording of Porgy and Bess starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 30, 2012
This month, we watch the Othello-based backstage film noir "A Double Life"; Elaine May's "A New Leaf"; Steven Spielberg's classic "E.T."; highlights fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 23, 2012
This week's column discusses the Encores! cast recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pipe Dream and Laura Osnes' "Dream a Little Dream," her evening at the Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 16, 2012
This month's column looks at "Tales of a Broadway Flack," from old-time press agent Sol Jacobson; "The Outdoor Museum," a celebration of New York by Margery Gary Harn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 9, 2012
This week's column discusses the newly-mastered release of the original Broadway cast album of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 2, 2012
This month we watch three unconventional and unlikely movies, each of which creates a world of its own: Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums," Whit Stillman's "Metropo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 26, 2012
This week's column discusses Betty Buckley's new CD, "Ah, Men!"; the reissued cast album of the 1950 Irving Berlin musical Call Me Madam; and the two-disc set, "Scott …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, August 19, 2012
This month's column looks at "Loverly: The Life & Times of My Fair Lady" by Dominic McHugh, and Patrisha McLean's "All Fall Down: The Brandon de Wilde Story."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 12, 2012
This week's column discusses the CD release of Stephen Schwartz's 1978 musical, Working, with contributions from multiple songwriters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 5, 2012
This month we watch new Blu-ray releases of Jean Renoir's 1937 classic "La Grande Illusion" and Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in Steven Spielberg's "J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 29, 2012
This week's column discusses the original cast album of Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist starring Mary Testa as a lady daredevil.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 22, 2012
This month's column looks at biographies of lyricist Lorenz Hart ("A Ship without a Sail") and the internationally famous dance team, Fred & Adele Astaire ("The Astair…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 15, 2012
This week's column discusses the cast album of the New York City Center Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along, featuring Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, July 1, 2012
Watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford in "The Sting," Jean Dujardin in Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist," and Charles Chaplin's "The Gold Rush," glori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
