1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
And here it comes: that annual sporting event that's unashamedly come to be known as "March Madness."
Much of the country will be watching to see which college basketball teams will be part…
“Every moment in life is an audition,” writes Tim Federle in Better Nate Than Ever. If that's true, Federle's audition as a writer gets him the part as The Country's Most Promisi…
A movie becomes a Broadway musical? While we think of this as a recent phenomenon, Donnybrook! proves it isn't. Its source, The Quiet Man, hit film screens on Sept. 14, 1952. Fewer than nine…
It's one of those Tony-winning musicals that doesn't get done very often " and certainly not enough.
But sharp director John Simpkins decided that his students at NYU Steinhardt could do Ci…
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, AnyaToes, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Mark Canestraro, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, John Griffin, Marc Grossberg, Jack Lechner, Paul Mendenhall, Brian Mu…
Learn how Broadway and TV actor Bryan Batt, a New Orleans native, was among those who helped turn around the fortunes of the New Orleans community theatre Le Petit Theatre due Vieux Carre.
There'll be a grand finale on the final day of the Junior Theater Festival '13 in Atlanta. But before the big display of entertainment, the teachers repair to classrooms to learn a little mo…
Here's hoping that you can make it to New York this month and next to see the York Theatre Company's four "Musicals in Mufti."
Starting this weekend, Mufti " which does readings of musicals…
On Feb. 17, 1983, I returned to New York from a two-week business trip and met my girlfriend at the O'Neill, where a friend had arranged comps for a preview of a new play. It started out ter…
While Alan Menken and I were having dinner the night before Junior Theater Festival '13 was to begin, he said to me, "You know, when I was a kid, what I really wanted to be was a rock star."…
It's only played a handful of previews thus far, but I'm hearing wonderful word-of-mouth about the new production of Cinderella at the Broadway Theatre.
The score alone would suggest succes…
Live! From Atlanta! It's Saturday afternoon! At Junior Theater Festival '13, Saturday morning saw 4,200 students head to 11 pods where they performed 15-minute excerpts from their musicals. …
It was the month that I made Page Six in the New York Post for my altercation with a "Fanilow" at Manilow on Broadway.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is one of the world's greatest novels.
Its reputation began two hundred years ago this week, when Austen's book…
Musicals often want to show their audiences a good, escapist time - which may be one reason why so many refer to alcoholic drinks or matters involving spirits.
Atlanta lost a big NFL football game this past weekend, but it certainly emerged victorious in musical theater. The eighth annual Junior Theater Festival once again took over the Renaissance…
Each of us has experienced it. Life is going along merrily, and then suddenly you gasp for breath.
That's when you remember that you'd forgotten an important anniversary. You rush to a stor…
"Odets is really great," Harold Rome had Marilyn Cooper sing in I Can Get It for You Wholesale 51 years ago. Thanks to Bartlett Sher's fine production Of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy, we see t…
What's the best aspect of this new Encores! production of FIORELLO! that's coming up at the end of the month? It will remind those who have forgotten what a fine show this Bock and Harnick m…
Have there been twelve musical versions of Twelfth Night? Perhaps not, but I count at least seven that have seen the light of New York stages: Love and Let Love (1967); Music Is (1976); Pla…
When you think of it, one aspect of ANNIE has never made any sense. At the end of the show, everyone is having a wonderful time, and not simply because it's Christmas Day. Miss Hannigan, Roo…
Between Christmas and New Year's Day, critics are seldom if ever invited to see shows. Managements don't want to give away tickets that would otherwise be sold. After all, Christmas Week has…
Celebrating a new release of the Bye Bye Birdie soundtrack is certainly delightful. Some, however, may moan when they realize the occasion is the fiftieth anniversary of the original release…
Forty-four years ago this week, The Fig Leaves Are Falling became the first new musical of 1969.
And forty-four years ago this week, The Fig Leaves Are Falling became the first new musica…
The show that was about to be presented was THE BOY FRIEND, but what had happened 30 minutes before the performance turned the show into 42nd Street. Here at Centenary College in Hackettstow…
