1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
BIG FISH is struggling and closing. AFTER MIDNIGHT is running and thriving.
I saw both and preferred BIG FISH.
Not because BIG FISH was such a great musical. It doesn't sport Andrew Li…
I was a little shocked while watching Charlotte Moore's splendid revival of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock at the Irish Repertory Theatre.
I wasn't surprised that J. Smith Cameron was …
You want to do a musical that has solid name recognition — a great big Broadway show — but you want to challenge yourself and your staff, too. How ’bout SINGIN’ IN TH…
While I was reading an advance copy of Carolyn Quinn's MAMA ROSE'S TURN " an extraordinary biography of you-know-who -- I was reminded of chess.
At last! After years of waiting, one of the most endearing scores of recent vintage has finally been recorded and released.
It's going to be in a number of stockings that are hung by the ma…
What was the worst-received show of the month? No, not THE SNOW GEESE, but the interminable half-hour documentary that preceded the broadcast of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. Worse, because it reve…
Having a Halloween party? Many of my friends do, although they do demand that their guests come in costumes that were seen in Broadway musicals.
My favorite memory: I was dressed in Hugh O'…
Directors of PARADE must cringe numerous times when they witness their production's first preview. They often see that after many of Jason Robert Brown's songs end, the audience doesn't appl…
Yes, the third Sunday of every June has been reserved for Father's Day since 1910. But for me this year, the third Saturday in October was truly Father's Day.
For on Oct. 19, I saw not on…
Broadway already had Starbucks long before every street corner did. Starbuck Number One appeared as a pivotal character in N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker fifty-nine years ago next week…
"That girl is brave," a man said with great admiration permeating his voice. He was sitting behind me in the black-box Shaeberle Studio at Pace University in downtown New York. If a performa…
What I did the last couple of weeks can't compare to August Wilson's American Century Cycle - in which he wrote a play for each decade of the twentieth century. But I couldn't help noticing …
Forty-seven years ago this week, Cabaret opened in Boston, where the show would have its sole pre-Broadway tryout. Although Tony-winner Lotte Lenya and Tony-nominee Jack Gilford were "only" …
Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler sang in BAKER STREET "What a Night This Is Going to Be." Well, starting last Friday, I thought, "What a week this is going to be," for I'd be seeing three muâ…
We don't usually get terribly sentimental about theaters, but in this case we must make an exception.
On September 29, the Shubert Theatre on West 44th Street celebrated its hundredth anniv…
Here's some advice to directors who'd like to do SHREK. Don't dread the thought of that heavy latex headpiece that your Shrek would wear. Do as Stephen L. Fredericks did in his production of…
Considering that I attend the theater between 300-370 times a year, I'm often asked "So what are you looking forward to?"
My answer is always "Everything and nothing."
While any year would be a good one to give Ann-Margret a lifetime achievement award, 2013 is particularly apt.
It is, after all, the fiftieth anniversary of her breakthrough role as Kim McA…
One hundred and seventy years ago this month, Hans Christian Andersen wrote one of his most beloved stories. It was so beloved, in fact, that bookwriter-lyricist Anthony Drewe and composer G…
I love elevator critics. I don't mean people who criticize elevators. "That ride on that Otis wasn't nearly as good as the one I had on that Westinghouse last week." I mean people like the t…
Bless John Simpkins for giving Sweet Smell of Success another chance.
The gifted director, who also teaches at NYU, staged a revival of the 2002 musical on campus two years ago. On Sept. 12…
In a way, it's THE PRODUCERS and LES MISERABLES combined. At first glance, that may seem to be a strange way to describe CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, the 2011 musical with a book by RAGTIME'S Terren…
The moment I walked in, I found myself smiling broadly.
Yes, Trinity Repertory Company of Providence was beginning its 50th anniversary season in apt style. As usual, a production here wo…
The original cast album of Cowardy Custard is a must for the very young and the very old.
The two-disc set of the 1972 London revue features selections and snippets from more than five doze…
Congratulations to Susan Berlin, Jack Lechner, Brigadude, Arthur Robinson, Stu Grossman, Donald Tesione, John Griffin, Ron Schroeder, Ingrid Gammerman, Fred Abramowitz, Cathy Jones, Rob Will…
