615 stories by "Jan Simpson"
Journalists love stories about journalism. We even love the stories that cast us in a bad light. And I'll admit that's part of the reason that The Connector, which was inspired by the storie…
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Sarah Gancher (Playwr…
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "The Teahouse of the August Moon…
Sometimes you just don't get a show. Maybe its subject triggers you or fails to grab you at all. Maybe the playwright was trying to do too much or the director didn't do enough. Or maybe you…
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day, which was created to commemorate the six million Jews and others who were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis. But New York theater makers …
Previews are all about the promise of what's to come so I suppose it's no surprise that the last time I posted a preview list of the shows I was excited about seeing in an upcoming season wa…
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Idiot's Delight"1936 Pulitzer w…
It's that time of year when people like me draw up Top 10 lists ranking the cultural experiences they've had over the past 12 months but, as some of you know, 2023 hasn't been a great year f…
To truly appreciate Melissa Etheridge: My Window, you may need to be a hardcore fan of the singer-songwriter or a member of Generation X, who was born between 1965 and 1980, grew up with Eth…
The news came this week that two titans of New York theater will be stepping down from the powerful perches on which they've long roosted. André Bishop who has lead Lincoln Center Theater s…
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Alison's House"1931 Pulitzer wi…
Somehow the weeks in July and August always seem to fly by more quickly than those during the rest of the year. And so here we are again at the end of the summer and, as I do every Labor Day…
Listening to the waves of laughter that greeted the new comedy The Shark is Broken made me wonder if we might be entering the era of jukebox plays that pander to the folks who love particula…
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Rob Fisher and Sheldon Harnick on Sheldon's 99th birthday in 2…
Why is Frank Wood, not just a stalwart of New York theater but a Tony winner, lying on the floor and playing a dying dog? That's the question I kept asking myself as I sat watching Toros, th…
It's 1998 and the five starting players for the Lady Train, the all-black girls basketball team in a small Arkansas town, aren't dirt poor or bougie rich. The problems they're dealing with a…
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Deirdre Kinahan, Play…
Like most theater obsessives, I take pride in my collection of experiences that give me bragging rights"I saw Hamilton at the Public before it was a hit! I saw Glory Days, which opened and c…
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "The Flick"2014 Pulitzer winner …
Happy Fourth of July Weekend! Time has been so slippery over these past three pandemic years and global warming is now playing such havoc with the weather that on some days just breathin…
The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. Guest: Eboni Booth, P…
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and I go back a long way. I saw his first New York show down at P.S. 122 right after its director quit during previews and one of the actors published a pie…
All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Buried Child"1979 Pulitzer winn…
Diversity is sometimes thought of as the vegetable of theatrical offerings: something that we theater lovers should include in the diet of things we consume because it's "good" for us. But m…
No review posting today but I'm thrilled to be able to share the news that Patrick Hoffman, the director and curator of The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at New York's Library for the Per…
