617 stories by "Jan Simpson"
Eight plays written by black playwrights are scheduled to open on Broadway this fall. That's twice the number of all the shows by black playwrights that opened on the too-aptly named Great W…
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 Subject Was Roses by Frank D…
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I went to see a show this week. There was a time when that wouldn't have been a remarkable statement. I routinely saw 150 shows a year and shared my thoughts about many of them her…
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: Our Town, by Thornton Wilder A P…
What a difference a year makes.         Â
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During the spring and summer evenings of 2020 we New Yorkers stood at our windows or out on th…
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 Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy W…
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: South Pacific Chichester South P…
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: No Place to Be Somebody "No Plac…
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After 16 long and scary months, the coronavirus seems to be in retreat. Over half of the country has now gotten at least one vaccination shot. And here in New York City, 60% of all adu…
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday and the winner for the drama prize was Katori Hall for her terrific play The Hot Wing King.
I had several dogs in this fight. Like most theater …
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: I Am My Own Wife "I Am My Own Wi…
People are getting vaccinated, some at a new site right in the middle of New York City's Theater District (click here to read more about that). Meanwhile, theaters are taking steps to reo…
As some of you know, I'm a contributor to BroadwayRadio and over the past few years, I've hosted "Stagecraft," a show that talks to playwrights and musical book writers about their recent sh…
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: Why Marry? "Why Marry?" Wikipedi…
Even, or maybe especially, in these pandemic times, it's time to put on a good face and celebrate the theater that we all continue to love:
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A year ago today, I was gearing up for the intense out-every-night theatergoing of awards season and, as I told my friend David Gordon who has been publishing a chronicle of this past pand…
We're in the middle of African American History Month, a commemoration made all the more urgent by the events of last summer that were prompted by the police murders of George Floyd and Bria…
This is a bittersweet anniversary for me: I published the first Broadway & Me post 14 years ago on Valentine's Day but it's now been nearly a year since I've seen a show in person. A…
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Deeply mourning the death of the great Cicely Tyson, a trailblazer and role model in so many ways.
I had planned to write a review of Ratatouille: the Tik Tok Musical, the delicious online presentation that began as a 15-second video created by a fan of the Disney animated film about a ra…
This is the time of year when people like me create lists that tout the best things we've experienced in the areas of interest we followed over the last 12 months. But it's hard to put the w…
...as is safely possible this year:
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Christmas as we know it"the tree, the cards, the carol singing"began during the early Victorian age and perhaps no one popularized those now-familiar traditions more than did Charles Dickens…
Let's be honest: it's been a tough year. For the world. For the nation. For the theater community. And yet, there are still things for us theater lovers to be grateful for, be it the pro…
A Zoomed scene from the staged reading of Lisa Loomer's docudrama RoeÂ
It hit me unexpectedly. I'd been going along for the past seven months telling myself that I didn't really miss …
