1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
What a lucky township West Orange is.
At the risk of offending the learned and distinguished professors at Princeton University, Stephen Spinella may well be delivering the most entertaining lecture on campus.
When Michael Presser was a wee student in junior high (which is what we used to call middle school), he opened up the newspaper and saw a full-page ad for the then-new musical HOW TO SUCCEED…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Her…
All hail Fred Abramowitz, Jason Flum, Susan Berlin, Bill Bickel, Byrd Bonner, Brigadude, Gary Cherpakov, Seth Christenfeld, Dennis Dorner, Adrian Durlester, Paul Ford, Laura Frankos, Ingrid …
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Giv…
On March 8, 1971, Stephen Schwartz " making all of $22.50 a week thanks to one of his songs — agreed to provide music and some additional lyrics for an upcoming off-Broadway show. Neve…
Come to the York Theatre Company and see Robert Creighton in drag.
"What's he doing?" you ask. "LA CAGE? ROCKY HORROR? PAGEANT?"
No, a musical about James Cagney.
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The…
Musicals have always been consumed with time. Time signatures, curtain time, A TIME FOR SINGING. GOODTIME CHARLEY, "As Time Goes By" (which originated in a musical and not CASABLANCA), and T…
Go ahead. Name a star entrance that's greater than Peter Pan's. Try to name one that's more certain to get applause. You can't, can you? Of course, such PETER PAN stars as Mary Martin, Sandy…
I was excited to hear that Thornton Wilder's lost manuscript for A DAY IN SANTA FE has finally been found. Rumors had abounded for years that Wilder did not limit his full-length play output…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Par…
Spencer Lau was quite proud of his pride of lions, his cackle of hyenas and every other group of animals he'd put on stage. For Lau — the music director at Woodruff School in Seabrook,…
Of all the Oscar-winning films I've seen, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is the one I like the least.
If you were in college in the '60s and '70s, you were probably reading Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. even during the time you'd earmarked for physical science or calculus. The Baby Boomer generation wa…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Gig…
Nine nominations yielded nine Oscars. Never before had a film with so many nominations made a clean sweep. But that's what GIGI achieved when it won the Academy Award for 1958's Best Picture…
By Peter Filichia
If you didn't get to the Lion Theatre last month, then you missed your chance.
Musicals Tonight! did an excellent staged reading of Hazel Flagg.
At lea…
So in 1970, when the nation was entranced with The Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You," Lonny Price was more interested in someone who didn't necessarily want a girlfriend to be clo…
Think of how joyous that Friday night must have been. Only five days earlier, the four-year war had ended. Now at last there could be unmitigated happiness. That was especially true in the n…
By Peter Filichia
Every now and then, a lyric written long ago assumes a new and suddenly relevant meaning.
That happened with the 1962 TV-special Julie and Carol at Carnegie H…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: If …
It was "The Road to the Final Four," as CBS Sports trumpeted all month long. The National Collegiate Athletic Association's College Basketball Tournament " more chummily known as "March Madn…
