1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
Passing Strange is the title. Is diarrhea the subject of this new musical?
Does that sound snarky? Well, really, is it any worse than a certain thing that Stew says from the stage of the B…
It's the question that every theater critic gets asked by most every theatergoer he meets. It's often a hard question to answer. After all, I usually don't know the taste of the person askin…
South Orange troupe's take onTony-nominated drama about a gay couple and their conservative parents does the Great White Way one better
It started in 1981 in Laura Aden's basement. Back then, the idea of a consortium meant to help the five professional theaters in New Jersey seemed radical to some, unnecessary to others. But…
With wit and humor " and a couple Neanderthals " new play looks at love, mortality
There's that old expression, "You don't have to be Jewish to" " whatever. Well, I'll say that on this November 1, you don't have to be Catholic to celebrate All Saints Day. …
Chances are, this weekend, you’ll have at least one chance on at least one network to see the movie version of 1776, one of Broadway’s greatest musicals. In March, to celebrate t…
Whenever I get to Paris, not much time passes before I’m singing “You’re in Paris,” Susan Waston’s big song from Ben Franklin in Paris – though the first …
Did you catch the column I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Broadway Bound? It’s William Torbert Leonard’s 618-page tome that’s subtitled “A Guide to Shows That…
Last month’s brainteaser: What do these musicals have in common? Baby, Bajour, Good Vibrations, The Most Happy Fella, My One and Only, 1776, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off an…
'Mockingbird' star visits Madison Who wouldn't want to win an Oscar? Mary Badham, that's who. When she was nominated for her role as Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird," the 10-year-old was hop…
Got a nice e-mail from Dan Langan, who’d read my recent piece on this history of telephones in the theater. He was intrigued by my question, “Who was the first playwright to make…
T Charles EricksonStephanie Roth Haberle as Phaedra and Julio Monge as the Minotaur, Phaedra's half-brother in 'ÂœPhaedra Backwards' at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
Thomas Edison (James Glossman) explains his lightbulb to Nikola Tesla (Jon Barker) in “The Dangers of Electric Lighting†at the Luna Stage Company in West Orange. Tha…
We all have our favorite recordings. Mine, of course, may not be the same as yours. But of all the studio cast recordings that Lehman Engel made in the early '50s of musicals from the…
I’ve attended backers’ auditions in producers’ posh apartments, hotel banquet rooms, and Sardi’s — most of them for musicals that never raised enough money to s…
Andy Greenhut is getting ready for Sunday, sweet Sunday, with something to do. Once again, he’ll travel from Pennsylvania to Shubert Alley, where he’ll participate in the Broadwa…
I walked into the room, and there was Hal Holbrook, sitting on a chair, looking a good deal like the Mark Twain he’s been homaging for a half-century. Frankly, I think Holbrook likes t…
Did you see that article about Wikipedia in the New York Times last Friday? The fifth-largest website on the ‘net planned to hold “an editing marathon” at the New York Publ…
T Charles EricksonStephanie Roth Haberle plays the title character and Julio Monge plays the Minotaur in “Phaedra Backwards.†Every playbill routinely lists in what e…
Word-of-mouth has been great, and now there’s a good review from Charles Isherwood on Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophets. Let me say that I agree. Some, I fear, will …
Carol Todd and Jim Shankman star in "Jericho" at the New Jersey Repertory Company. Before each show at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, company producer Gabor Barabas o…
Exceptionally talented child stars make this take on the classic a must-see
Lorna Luft, Tyne Daly and Leslie Uggams all coming to area theaters
So if you were in New York on Tuesday and had a nice view of the top of the Empire State Building, you might have noticed that the colors illuminating the building were blue, pink and white.…
