When I met with John Kander on January 29, I didn't expect him to know the answer to the question I was about to ask. But I put it to him anyway. "Do you know what you were doing 50 years ag…
There's incredible buzz in the packed City Center until the house lights dim. How quiet the chamber is! What anticipation there is here!
"I like to think of myself as Garrison Keillor of the blues," says Guy Davis. As a result, Davis has put together a show that tells a great deal about that musical art form in the early- to …
T Charles EricksonBob Ari, right, and Randy Harrison face off as painter Mark Rothko and his assistant in “Red†at the George Street Playhouse. While any actor loves …
By Peter Filichia -- I received a nice e-mail from Elliot J. Cohen, who'd read my "A Tale of Three Dollys" a few weeks ago. In it, I wondered why Carol Channing on the original Broadway c…
As if you haven't heard, it's a fictional account of people trying to do a musical about Marilyn Monroe. It's not to be confused with the two musicals that dealt with the screen legend in 19…
Saturday night, January 14, 2012. Every participant at the Junior Theater Festival has seen at least eight segments compete with MTI's Jr. musicals. But eight is not enough. The ballroom…
Is Randy Harrison getting typecast? For the third time in his professional career, he'll portray a visual artist. This time, he's Ken, a fictional assistant to famous painter Mark Rothko (19…
Saturday, Jan. 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the Junior Theater Festival. The students from all 63 schools and after-school musical theater programs have completed their presentations. If the kids were…
Peter Filichia lets us know what's happening on the stage in the garden state
Debra Whitfield stars in "Veronica's Room." Ira Levin didn't need to use a chain saw in Texas to massacre his audience. The late author of "Rosemary's Baby," "The Stepford Wives" a…
February is, of course, Black History Month. So celebrate each day by playing an African-American's performance from different cast albums. We have plenty to choose from. Black entertainer…
Why doesn't Spider-Man proclaim in its ads that it's in its "Second Smash Year!"? Or does management feel that it can't use that line until June, which will be the first anniversary of its o…
When we last left the 63 casts of students participating in this year's Junior Theater Festival, they were off to one of seven rooms. In each, they'd perform what could be called junior vers…
Tony winner Chuck Cooper is starring in a production of the late August Wilson's '70s-set drama in Red Bank.
The show manages to make a farce out of this pop-a-mole farce.
Actress and playwright Danai Gurira's arresting new work has its world premiere in Princeton.
By Peter Filichia " A Thurber Carnival, the original cast album that Masterworks Broadway is re-issuing this week, could just as easily be called A Character Actors' Carnival. If you're …
Nothing's officially happened yet. It's 7:40 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, and the stage of the vast MTIShowSpace Theater at Atlanta's Hotel Renaissance Waverly is empty. But the house itself i…
This week's column
Stage critic Peter Filichia lets us know what's happening on New Jersey stages
By Peter Filichia -- Dolly Gallagher Levi has certainly kept her promise. For nearly half a century, she's been telling us that "Dolly'll never go away again"-- and she hasn't, not since H…
To celebrate Ethel Merman's birthday on January 16 - her 105th, 104th or 103rd depending on which Merman scholar you choose to believe -- see her live.
Peter Filcihia says, 'Come with an open mind ...'
Also: 'Veronica's Room' at the Bickford and Centenary Stage Company's Young Performers Workshop.