Sunday, 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 12:00AMSunday, June 10, 2012
This week's column discusses the new studio cast album of the early Gershwin musical Sweet Little Devil and a new CD from John Pizzarelli, "Double Exposure."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 3, 2012
This month's column looks at "Mr. Broadway," Gerald Schoenfeld's memoir about life as a Shubert, plus two books about Irving Berlin: "The Irving Berlin Reader" an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 27, 2012
This week's column discusses last season's Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones and a four-CD set of songs by composer Victor Herbert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 20, 2012
This month we watch John Malkovich in "Being John Malkovich," Julie Andrews and Robert Preston in "Victor Victoria," a TV version of Rodgers & Hart's "Deares…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 13, 2012
This week's column discusses the cast recording of Leslie Uggams' one-woman show Uptown Downtown, plus Nick Jonas singing five songs from the current revival of How to Succeed in Bus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 29, 2012
This week's column discusses the original cast recordings of Disney's Newsies, Frank Wildhorn and Don Black's Bonnie & Clyde, and the incidental score to the uproarious One M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 22, 2012
This month we watch a new set of films from Noel Coward and David Lean, including "Brief Encounter"; the Titanic tale, "A Night to Remember"; Louis Malle's "Vany…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, April 15, 2012
A fresh listen to the Titanic Broadway cast album on a grim anniversary and three live recordings — two with "Julie and Carol" and one with Liza Minnelli — make up this…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 8, 2012
In this month's stack of books is a memoir about Cary Grant, a slew of new plays (and one very old one) and a slim tome that decodes the lyrics of the Tony-winning Spring Awakening, plus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 25, 2012
This week's column discusses the original cast recording of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's Once, the new Dublin-set Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 18, 2012
This month's selection of new releases includes Daniel Craig in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," James Stewart in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" and Der…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 11, 2012
This month's column looks at two classic movie musicals from the viewpoint of surviving cast members— "Our Story: Jets & Sharks, Then and Now" and "The Sound of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 26, 2012
This week's column discusses the initial cast recording of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's A Christmas Story, plus four-song selections from the 1920s musicals Shuffle Along and Blackbi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, February 12, 2012
This month's column looks at Shakespeare on screen in "Anonymous" and "Shakespeare in Love"; newly-mastered releases of David O. Selznick's "A Star Is Born&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, February 5, 2012
This week's column discusses the original Broadway cast album of the 1960 revue A Thurber Carnival and a special item from the 1964 RCA catalog, "David Merrick Presents Hits from Hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 29, 2012
This month's column discusses the 50th anniversary Blu-ray of "To Kill a Mockingbird"; new releases of Hitchcock's "Rebecca," "Spellbound" and "Not…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 22, 2012
This week's column discusses the original Broadway cast album of People in the Picture, starring Donna Murphy, and the long-forgotten 1960 West End musical Johnny the Priest.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 15, 2012
Paging through a stack of recent theatre-related books, scripts and sheet music, including the latest from Peter Filichia, a travel tome celebrating Shakespeare's Italy, a Wicked memoir,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 9, 2012
Listening to "My Lifelong Love," a collection of songs by Georgia Stitt; Perfect Hermany, Jason Graae's one-man salute to Jerry Herman; and the CD debut of the 1959 West End ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMSunday, January 8, 2012
Listening to "My Lifetime Love," a collection of songs by Georgia Stitt; Perfect Hermany, Jason Graae's one-man salute to Jerry Herman; and the CD debut of the 1959 West End ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 1, 2012
Listening to the original Broadway cast recording of Elf; Stage Door Canteen from Lyrics & Lyricists; and "Possibilities," a solo album from Linda Lavin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 25, 2011
Screening Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris"; Jean Renoir's classic "The Rules of the Game"; Ernst Lubitsch and Ben Hecht's overhaul of Noel Coward's Desig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 18, 2011
Paging through "Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain" by Hal Holbrook; "Luck and Circumstance" by Michael Lindsay-Hogg; the new edition of Stanley Green's "Musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 11, 2011
This week's column discusses the cast album of the current Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, plus a special recording from the archives of the late Hu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, December 4, 2011
The holiday season has arrived yet again, bringing with it this column's annual list of recommended CDs from the past year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 27, 2011
Listening to "Legrand Affair," Melissa Errico's salute to composer Michel Legrand; Michael Feinstein's "The Sinatra Project, Vol. II: The Good Life"; and the 2011…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Paging through "Look, I Made a Hat," the second volume of Stephen Sondheim's collected and annotated lyrics. Here's everything from Sunday in the Park With George to Sondhe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
