Sunday, 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 12:00AMSunday, November 13, 2011
Screening the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray of "West Side Story"; "Top Banana" with Phil Silvers; the Blu-ray of "Blue Velvet"; a set of Jean Harlow films; and Alfre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 6, 2011
In preparation for the new Broadway cast album of Follies, here's part two of an overview of the four recordings that already exist. This week, the Cameron Mackintosh London production a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, October 30, 2011
In preparation for the cast album of the new Broadway production of Follies, here's part one of an overview of the four cast recordings that already exist. This week, the original 1971 c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
