Samuel AllenKevin Isola as the Maniac takes over the interrogation room of the Central Police Headquarters in Milan, Italy. The second act of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" begins at the…
By Peter Filichia -- Tom Aldredge died on July 22. Fran Landesman met the same sad fate a day later. But The Nervous Set, the 1959 musical in which he performed and for which she wrote the…
I’m not asking you to celebrate with me, but this month marks the 25th anniversary of my getting a CD player. Not only that, I bought the “Summer, 1986 issue” – Volum…
It’s a Saturday when I’ll see one of Shakespeare's most famous plays -- Hamlet -- and one of his least famous: The Two Noble Kinsmen. If indeed the latter can even be said to be …
Some weeks ago, I mentioned that the Talkin’ Broadway 2007 Summer Festival Citations had a marvelous award that no other award has. Sure, we can all point to countless organizations th…
“What do you feel like doing tonight, Marty?” “I don’t know, Angie. What do you feel like doing?” And so it goes, over and over again in the 1955 film class…
Truth to tell, when I heard that the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut was attempting a production of 1776, I was wary. For one thing, I didn’t think that 26 actors wou…
Alecia BrooksDirector Carlos Armesto with actresses Elena Ricardo, center, and Renée Bang Allen, rehearsing "€œSpring Awakening."€ A director must get the rig…
So Jerusalem won’t recoup, producer Sonia Friedman told the Times. That’s the same newspaper that employs a theater critic who called Jez Butterworth’s work a “magnif…
Michael GoldsteinMal McCree and Paul Notice in Samuel J. and K. at Passage Theatre It's a silver anniversary for Passage Theatre Company of Trenton. The troupe, which opened in1986 with a mi…
Two years ago, I liked Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living? at the Mint Theater Company. So while I’m up here at the Shaw Festival, I’m anxious to see another of his pla…
August is the only month in which we don't have a true official holiday. Oh, August 11 is a big day in India and the day after is a big deal in Armenia. But for Americans, such big days as H…
Really, I planned to be good about it. While many of my fellow critics (or "brother wizards," as I like to call them) had already attended and assessed Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, I plann…
On Tuesday while writing my Wednesday column on That Championship Season, I went to check a line in my hardcover edition. That's when I noticed the quotations from the 1972 critics' reviews …
It ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do. If one really wanted to mount Oklahoma! exactly the way it was first done in 1943, it could be done. The original Robert Russell Bennet…
Ben Brantley made it easy for me. Ever since I saw Gregory Mosher's production of That Championship Season last week, I've had a criticism I've wanted to make. But there was no way I could…
Michael Hartman, Broadway's most handsome press agent, stood before the crowd. "Who went to Catholic schools?" he demanded to know. I dutifully raised my hand with a few others seated before…
On Part Two of my Broadway Universe Mid-Term Exam, I asked readers, "What would you like in your gift-bag once you've arrived in heaven?" Donald Tesione replied, "Do I have to die to a get r…
It was the month that Donald Driver of the Green Bay Packers appeared in the Super Bowl, and - Oh, Brother! He did his own thing in helping his team to win. Not interested in sports? All r…
Six Follies logos! Isn't that enough to get you to "Design: Fraver," subtitled "Four Decades of Theatre Poster Art"? As soon as you saunter into The New York Public Library for the Perfo…
When I asked readers "What Broadway songs have you tired of?" I got a number of fascinating answers: Richard Brock: "'Being Alive.' Every singer seems to try to 'improve' it and only end u…
Does Patti LuPone realize how many men imitate her? Well, yes, she probably does. I really didn't. But when I asked readers "Which performers did you imitate when you were a kid - or, for …
Some years ago, Jennifer Strome was spending New Year's Eve with friends in California, hoping that the next year would be better. "I'd felt that I'd recently been betrayed, and I poured o…
A-14 is an almost great seat to a Broadway show. Depending on the theater, you're in the first or first few rows, but terribly off to the side. But that's not my experience at the press pr…
Ron Schroeder said, "Okay Peter, if a lot of people answer, you've got a lot of reading. The problem with the essay questions is that there are too many answers." He was referring to the s…