892 stories from Broadway & Me
Eight plays written by black playwrights are scheduled to open on Broadway this fall. That's twice the number of all the shows by black playwrights that opened on the too-aptly named Great W…
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I went to see a show this week. There was a time when that wouldn't have been a remarkable statement. I routinely saw 150 shows a year and shared my thoughts about many of them her…
What a difference a year makes.         Â
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During the spring and summer evenings of 2020 we New Yorkers stood at our windows or out on th…
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After 16 long and scary months, the coronavirus seems to be in retreat. Over half of the country has now gotten at least one vaccination shot. And here in New York City, 60% of all adu…
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday and the winner for the drama prize was Katori Hall for her terrific play The Hot Wing King.
I had several dogs in this fight. Like most theater …
People are getting vaccinated, some at a new site right in the middle of New York City's Theater District (click here to read more about that). Meanwhile, theaters are taking steps to reo…
As some of you know, I'm a contributor to BroadwayRadio and over the past few years, I've hosted "Stagecraft," a show that talks to playwrights and musical book writers about their recent sh…
Even, or maybe especially, in these pandemic times, it's time to put on a good face and celebrate the theater that we all continue to love:
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A year ago today, I was gearing up for the intense out-every-night theatergoing of awards season and, as I told my friend David Gordon who has been publishing a chronicle of this past pand…
We're in the middle of African American History Month, a commemoration made all the more urgent by the events of last summer that were prompted by the police murders of George Floyd and Bria…
This is a bittersweet anniversary for me: I published the first Broadway & Me post 14 years ago on Valentine's Day but it's now been nearly a year since I've seen a show in person. A…
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Deeply mourning the death of the great Cicely Tyson, a trailblazer and role model in so many ways.
I had planned to write a review of Ratatouille: the Tik Tok Musical, the delicious online presentation that began as a 15-second video created by a fan of the Disney animated film about a ra…
This is the time of year when people like me create lists that tout the best things we've experienced in the areas of interest we followed over the last 12 months. But it's hard to put the w…
...as is safely possible this year:
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Christmas as we know it"the tree, the cards, the carol singing"began during the early Victorian age and perhaps no one popularized those now-familiar traditions more than did Charles Dickens…
Let's be honest: it's been a tough year. For the world. For the nation. For the theater community. And yet, there are still things for us theater lovers to be grateful for, be it the pro…
A Zoomed scene from the staged reading of Lisa Loomer's docudrama RoeÂ
It hit me unexpectedly. I'd been going along for the past seven months telling myself that I didn't really miss …
The first face-to-face debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is scheduled for this Tuesday, Sept. 29, and the uncertainty over the outcome of the election five weeks from now has me in a…
Traditions are important even"maybe especially"in troubled times. And so although theaters remain dark and I've been posting here infrequently, I've decided to go ahead with my annual Labor …
Sometimes you want a gourmet meal filled with rare or surprising ingredients. But sometimes you just want a big yummy bowl of macaroni and cheese. Seared, the latest play by Theresa Rebeck, …
Macbeth is a great gateway drug for Shakespeare newbies. It's got a straight-ahead plot, some of the Bard's most memorable lines, plus witches. Us Shakespeare oldies like it too. It's one of…
In the old days, when tickets were cheaper, people went to musicals for the thrill of hearing new songs. Today, when seeing a Broadway show can cost more than a car note, they go for the sec…
The monologue play is an odd hybrid. Unlike traditional monologues in which one actor talks directly to the audience, it usually features three or more performers. But unlike traditional pla…
It's been a while since I last turned on the ghost light that theaters use when they're temporarily empty but I'm doing it now. That's mainly because I've been running around seeing so many …
