1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
By Peter Filichia --
This month's Friday the 13th can be considered both lucky and unlucky for Broadway. It would have marked the 87th birthday of Gwen Verdon, and we're all pretty sad that …
It's the story of a trailer resident who may own a real Jackson Pollock painting and the art appraiser who comes to her home
By Peter Filichia "
So what was the first recording in 2012 that you chose for your listening pleasure?
For the twentieth straight year, I started New Year's Day by playing the CD that I…
Also, highlights from New York stages.
By Peter Filichia --
As that famous Frank Loesser song asked, "Here is the jackpot question in advance: what are you doing New Year's Eve?"
Most will party, but many know that it's a goo…
Tri-State Actors Theater's take on holiday classic is a little mean and self-aware
Peter Filichia gives us the scoop on what's going on in the Garden State
Peter Filichia "
So what would be the most logical Broadway musical to open on Christmas Day?
Why, Here's Love, right? After all, it's the musical of Miracle on 34th Street.
But Here's…
No one can accuse Bonnie & Clyde of not having a slam-bang opening. A barrage of rifle shots rings out as the two killers sit in the front seat of their car. These criminals aren't just bein…
The show returns to McCarter Theatre Center with familiar and new faces.
Peter Filichia lets us know what's going on where
This new take on the ugly duckling story has an anti-bullying message
By Peter Filichia --
You're in the middle of holiday shopping. You want to get something nice for that couple next door and their toddler. But you don't have much do-re-mi.
For the adult…
Mon, Dec. 5. Twenty days to Christmas, twenty days to Christmas, plenty of time to do our Christmas shopping. Thus, many of us instead went to the Roundabout's staged reading of that 1963 mu…
Holiday classic presented in radio play-style, sound effects and all
Production uses eight actors and 11 more to fill 57 roles, as well as play 23 inanimate objects and one animal.
O come all ye jaded Not everyone is sentimental about the holidays. Take James Hindman and Ray Roderick, who have written a musical called "A Christmas Survival Guide." The authors have chos…
By Peter Filichia "
In my recent book Broadway Musical MVPs, 1960-2010, I gave awards that baseball annually bestows but theater doesn't: Most Valuable Player, Comeback Player of the Year …
Laurel and Hardy and Bo Peep.
Minimal cast will tackle the classic "A Christmas Carol"
The six-character, one-set black comedy comes to Women's Theater Company in Parsippany.
The production of 'River,' at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, runs too shallow.
The production is a treat for the ears -- and the pocketbook
