1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
The rumor mill: I'm told that none of us should be surprised if selections from a musical we saw on TV become a one-night charity benefit at the Shubert. 'Nuff said.
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: August'…
The thought occurs to me while I'm driving to Cranford, New Jersey, to see The Theatre Project Jr.'s production of BUGSY MALONE, JR. This was minutes after I'd finished watching Alan Parker'…
By Peter Filichia
Musical theater writers have many goals, but there's one for which they always aim.
Write a song that will advance the action.
There are plenty of wond…
They're still talking about your wildly successful production of THE MUSIC MAN, aren't they? Oh, that dynamic actor who played Harold Hill! Ah, that equally potent actress as Marian Paroo! W…
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: McCasla…
Many of those interested in theater have had their Tony acceptance speeches ready for years if not decades. Steven Carl McCasland can match his passion for Broadway with the best of them...
By Peter Filichia
If I had a chance to run into Leonard Bernstein wherever he is now, I'd ask him to forgive me.
I just " for the first time ever " heard the Original London Ca…
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: I chall…
While I appreciate that so many people have applied to be part of the incoming class at Broadway University, I'm afraid that you'll have to take a rigorous entrance exam to prove that you're…
By Peter Filichia
What a good season for Bill Russell! He's just seen one of his musicals return to off-Broadway -- Pageant, now at the Davenport Theatre on West 45th " and come Octob…
It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. THIS WEEK: A True Marx Brot…
We're always hearing how young people simply will not watch black-and-white movies. But you can't prove that by Noah Diamond.
August is the month when kids who have been enrolled in summer theater arts programs show what they have learned in June and July. New Jersey School of the Dramatic Arts Kids on Stage! shows…
By Peter Filichia
Remember, 1776 is first and foremost an entertainment. What was not on the minds of its bookwriter Peter Stone or its composer-lyricist Sherman Edwards was 100% hist…
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
You could, of course, do CATCH ME IF YOU CAN the way it was done on Broadway. Take Troupe 4982 from Bradford High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which brought its production to the Thespian F…
On Facebook last week, an oft-made complaint cropped up again.
Young theater lovers have no interest in shows that opened before they were old enough to be paying attention to theater.
By Peter Filichia
There are plenty of raised eyebrows at Connecticut Repertory Theatre as soon as many theatergoers hear the first note of the overture.
Long-time fans of Gypsy…
Where did the time go? Time to catch up on my favorite column ‘Filichia on Friday.” Here are 9 articles from ‘Mr. Prolific’-Peter Filichia from his column on Kritzerl…
Does the musical that toasted "To Life!" have any life left? Oh, yes. Almost 50 years to the day that FIDDLER ON THE ROOF began rehearsals at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, Edina (Minnesota…
It was the month of The New York Musical Theatre Festival, which yielded a true winner in THE GIG, Douglas J. Cohen's terrific reminder that the word "amateur" means first and foremost "one …
By Peter Filichia
Can't you just see Elaine Stritch entering heaven, looking around, seeing all those angels in their wings and muttering "Does anyone still wear a halo?"
All r…
Did you see that someone took the trouble to put every one of the issues of BROADWAY BUNION on line? Do you remember this venerable tabloid whose motto was "All of the Rialto at your feet"? …
Some of the Thespian Festival workshops on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus are held in modest classrooms. Not this one. The mammoth all-purpose room in the Westbrook Music Building…
