1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
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.…
By Peter Filichia "
In the entire sixty-five year history of The Tony Awards, only one Tony-losing play has ever been turned into a Tony-winning musical.
And yet, that Tony-loser -- A Rai…
There was that season when we had two Wild Partys. We're about to have two Titus Andronicuses, too: one at Seth Duerr's Access Theatre (now through Oct. 29), the other at the Public (Nov. 29…
There was that season where we had two Wild Partys. We’re about to have two Titus Andronicuses, too: one at Seth Duerr’s Access Theatre (now through Oct. 29), the other at the Pu…
It's a daunting task to play lawyer Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
Doesn’t time fly? The month is already half-gone, and we’re now at the Ides of October. You’d think that the powers-that-be would have released the film The Ides of March e…
Fifty years ago this week, critics were seeing a film about which they’d rave: West Side Story. The next week, audiences would begin to embrace it, and the following April, the Academy…
Michael Linden and Rhiannon Hansen in ReVision Theatre’s revival of “Little Shop of Horrors.†Michael Linden and Rhiannon Hansen in ReVision Theatre's re…
Sherry Rubel The "Ain’t Misbehavin'" cast, from left: Johmaalya Adelekan, Jacob Ming-Trent, Zurin Villanueva, Rheaume Crenshaw, J. Leonard Oxley (on piano) and Tyrone …
By Peter Filichia "
Here's a Broadway trivia question that's not easy to answer. What musical opened on a holiday that celebrates a person mentioned in one of its songs?
No, no musical th…
The New York Musical Theatre Festival continues to impress and enchant. Many productions have had the good fortune to have Mike Cohen, Director of Programming, deliver wildly entertaining pr…
You may have noticed that the tag that I use at the end of the column has changed slightly in the last weeks.
While it used to say, “Check out his book, Broadway Musicals: The Biggest…
'The Code Breaker' is a genuinely ambitious play aimed at teens but will impress many adults
It was a little revue of Fats Waller's songs in a 66-seat cabaret space at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Meanwhile, on that theater's mainstage was an Athol Fugard play that had received rave …
Show-business veteran Tyne Daly is getting a break, relatively speaking, as she moves from her Broadway performance in “Master Class†to creating a role in the new mu…
Ah, the pre-show speech! Some directors come before us and state that tickets only pay for a quarter of a show’s expenses. Others say that a cast member has been ill, so we should now …
Never mind that 36 years have already passed since A Chorus Line opened on Broadway. What's really astonishing is that five years have already passed since the revival of A Chorus Line opene…
Have you heard? “Natasha’s shtupping Protopopov.” So says Chebutykin in Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, now at Yale Rep in New Haven. Ruhl&r…
What had been a big flop in Millburn now looks better in Parsippany
And so, at 11 p.m. on Sunday night, the 2006-2007 season came to an end. Let’s take a look at it from A-to-Z.
A is for Angela Lansbury, who wins the award for Receiving the Biggest B…
What a nice and pleasant young man Duncan Sheik is! We had a lovely time talking and drinking at Sardi’s. I enjoyed hearing how, in the third grade in Hilton Head, South Carolina, he w…
Well, now that the Tonys are over, I can let you know what’s been on some readers’ minds.
“Here’s to the authors who stretch,” wrote Doug Braverman, in respons…
Audra McDonald will perform songs by old and new composers in Princeton
It was the month that the New York Musical Theatre Festival began. Although Ghostlight turned out to be abysmal, we’re all glad the festival is here – partly because it offers ma…
I envy St. Martin de Porres. The 16th century Peruvian was said to have the ability to be in two places at one time. I, alas, cannot, and as a result, I’m missing two events between Fr…
