230 stories from Kritzerland
Alas, there won't be a June Brainteaser. This is my last column for Kritzerland. I need more time to work on a musical with Douglas J. Cohen and Gerard Alessandrini. Wish us luck!
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Peter Alfano, Steve Bell, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Regina Miller DeCuzzi, Bill Downs, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, Kurt Ganzl, John Griffin, Joe Harri…
So we hear Kurt Peterson tell the audience at the end of the newly released compact disc WHEN EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE. It's the show he did with Victoria Mallory at City Center on April 29, …
The Puritans, as SOMETHING ROTTEN! has been reminding us for more than a year, hated the theater because they thought it Godless. Well, perhaps in was in those days, but you have to admit th…
Alas, the famous original production of LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT was before my theatergoing time. So although I can't officially offer an eyewitness report that would verify all the goo…
Do you think that when Benjamin Walker leaves AMERICAN PYSCHO (which I reviewed at www.broadwayselect.com) that The Naked Cowboy will take his place?
Faithful readers may recall that last week I spoke about my discussion at Penn State with Scott Miller, the august author of wonderful musical theater books and the artistic director of New …
Had a great time at Penn State last week, thanks to Richard Biever of Fuse Productions. He's the one who invited Jennifer Ashley Tepper (the Director of Programming at Feinstein's/54 Below) …
"I don't know why at five, I was already telling people that when I grew up that I wanted to be a dancer."
And this from a kid who hailed from Rolla, Missouri, where role models for dance…
I know, I know " you've already heard that the production of 1776 at Encores! is revolutionary for two distinct reasons.
Don't forget to celebrate World Theatre Day on Sunday, March 27. But here's my question: was this day chosen because it was the day in 1964 that Barbra Streisand read all her raves for her p…
It was a good week for George Bernard Shaw.
TACT " meaning The Actors Company Theatre " and The Gingold Theatrical Group " which is now in its eleventh year of "Project Shaw," which produ…
"I like a Gershwin tune " how about you?"
That's the first question I asked Nadia Natali last week in a sit-down in the Drama Book Shop's Arthur Seelen Theater. And indeed Natali said tha…
His composer died, his lyricist died, and yet Granville Wyche Burgess will never say die.
The bookwriter of CONRACK knows the famous show business spin on General Douglas MacArthur's most…
If you'd been at the Sunday, Feb. 21 matinee of PRODIGAL SON, would you have been outraged or tremendously impressed with what Timothée Chalamet did?
All right, we all know that GREASE was the longest-running musical of the 1971-72 season and -- at least until A CHORUS LINE came along -- the longest-running Broadway show of all time.
How nice that Encores! reminds us of its original mission with its current reading-slash-production of CABIN IN THE SKY.
Well, the event was called BroadwayCon, so I took the "Con" to mean "Controversial."
This happened on Saturday, Jan. 23, when I sat on a panel called "Why Didn't It Run?" Frank DiLella of…
It was the month we lost Brian Bedford, David Bowie and Alan Rickman, all of whom might well have lights dimmed for them on Broadway marquees. Whether or not you're in favor of one, some or …
My hat's off to Peter Alfano, Fred Abramowitz, AnyaToes, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Tay and Saul Caplan, Charlene DeLucia, Jason Flum, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, Don Horn, Alynne Amkraut…
As I mentioned in my column of Sept. 19, every now and then throughout this 2015-2016 season I'll take a 50th anniversary look at Jack Gaver's book SEASON IN SEASON OUT, which detailed the 5…
Remember from our days in school when our English teachers tried to drum into our heads what a simile was?
December's Leftovers and January's Brainteaser
So did you hear that Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was named Time's Person of the Year? The way she handled economic strife in the Eurozone and the continent's ongoing migrant crisis…
One opened in 1922 and ran precisely two months; the other debuted in 1955 and managed to run twice as long. Both left many Broadway critics and theatergoers unimpressed.
