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Broadway & Me
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I'm a theater lover. I am happiest when I am sitting in a theater. Or when I’m talking about theater. Or reading about theater. Or now blogging about it. If you’re reading this, you're probably a theater lover too and I hope you’ll keep me company as I blog my way through this Broadway season.
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"Feburary House" is, Alas, a Real Flophouse

The true story that inspired February House, the new musical at the Public Theater, is so cool that I couldn’t wait to see the show. Here it is: in the early ‘40s, a group of artists that included th...

2 h ago

Why the Money Keeps Rolling in for "Evita"

Anyone who still questions the value of star power on Broadway should take a look at the current revival of Evita in which the pop star Ricky Martin plays Che, the narrator of Andrew Lloyd Webber and...

3 days ago

A Hard Look at Stage Diversity Dos and Donts

Another impossibly busy weekend is staring me in the face so I don’t have time to tell you about any of the recent shows I’ve seen. But I have managed to steal a few minutes to put together a differe...

26 may 12

"The Columnist" Is All Tell, Too Little Show

Maybe we should blame Joseph Alsop.  When the KGB tried to blackmail the powerful Washington columnist with a threat to reveal his homosexuality, Alsop marched straight to the U.S. embassy and c...

23 may 12

"Cock" is Titillating—And in Just the Right Way

Some people are going to be drawn to the terrific new play that just opened at The Duke on 42nd Street because of its titillating title: Cock. Others may want to see it because of the refreshingly au...

19 may 12

"Newsies" Dances Its Way Into Your Heart

To borrow a phrase from Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, it’s the dancing, stupid.   The floor-shaking production numbers in which a supercharged ensemble of male dancers buck, w...

16 may 12

Special Edition: The Ticket Giveaway Winner

Maybe the question was simple but my guess is that readers of B&Me are just a theater savvy bunch cause everyone who wrote in got the right answer (the Carnegie Deli) to the question:  What ...

14 may 12

Another Look at the Seasons Biggest Transfers

So many shows opened in the final weeks of the theater season that officially ended on April 26 that I’ve had to scramble to catch up with all of them. There were 14 new shows on Broadway in April al...

12 may 12

Why "Death of a Salesman" Will Never Die

My friend Doug came to New York last month to celebrate his birthday with some fellow theater lovers, including my buddy Bill and me.  Sometime during the evening, well into our cups, we all sta...

09 may 12

The First-Ever Broadway & Me Ticket Giveaway

Ethnic humor can be a tricky thing.  But anyone whos gone to the website Old Jews Telling Jokes will tell you that it can also be a very funny thing.  Now, some of those classic comic stori...

05 may 12

Tony Love...But Not for Magic/Bird

The Tony nominators spread around their love this year.  When the nominations were announced yesterday, 30 of the 37 eligible shows were named in at least one category. And some of the face-offs...

02 may 12

The Latest Revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" Takes a Ride on the Darker Side

Is any American play better known or more beloved than Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire?  Even the most casual theatergoers have heard of Stanleys “Stella” cri de couer and know that...

28 apr 12

Why Im Saying Boo, Boo, Boo to "Ghost"

A lot of hard work goes into bringing a Broadway show to the stage. So every time I write about one, I try to remember all the years of study, the hours of rehearsal, the dreams of glory and the real...

25 apr 12

"Regrets" is Stuck in the Past

The main image on the cover of the Playbill for Regrets, the new drama playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club through the end of the month, is of a smiling All-American family, circa 1954.  It’s ...

18 apr 12

Is "End of the Rainbow" the End for Judy?

Movies and plays in which actors impersonate more famous celebrities aren’t my favorite form of entertainment. And yet I had really looked forward to seeing End of the Rainbow, the new musical drama ...

14 apr 12

“The Big Meal” is a Savory Treat

It’s becoming Sam Gold’s world. And we theater lovers will just have to content ourselves with living in it.  Which is fine with me. For over the last three years, Gold has surfaced as one of th...

11 apr 12

The Latter-Day Resurrections of "Godspell" ; and "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Here’s a question for the Baby Boomers among you:  was the substance you abused in your youth more likely to be speed or hashish? I ask because the answer could determine which of the two Gospel...

07 apr 12

The Tribulations of a Bloodless "Carrie"

It’s been a big season for remixed musicals. But while newcomers did the controversial nipping and tucking on Porgy and Bess and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, it’s the original team (composer M...

04 apr 12

Why "Now. Here. This." is Not for Me

“What do you do,” a friend once asked me.  “If you don’t like something that everyone else likes?”  Well, we’re about to find out right now.  Because I really didn’t like Now. Here. Th...

31 mar 12

The Real Shame of "Tis Pity Shes a Whore"

There’s no one who enjoys clever stagecraft more than I do.  But I’m old-school enough to believe that everything that appears on a stage—the acting, the set, any coup de theatre—should serve th...

28 mar 12

How "Once" Managed to Charm Even Me

Once, the new musical that opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre this week, may be the sweetest show to open on Broadway in years.  And I had worried about that.  My theatrical taste buds...

24 mar 12

Mad About NYPLS "The World of Noel Coward"

The best new show in town right now is at Lincoln Center.  But I’m not talking about the mighty War Horse, which even after a year is still packing them in at the Vivian Beaumont, or even 4000 M...

21 mar 12

"The Maids" Should Be a Little Dirtier

Jean Genet was the enfant terrible of French writers.  And, as a convicted thief and a defiantly openly gay man, he reveled in his status as an outsider. So it was perfectly in character when Ge...

17 mar 12

Totally Mesmerized by "The Total Bent"

If you see The Total Bent— which, if you haven’t done, you’ll have to rush to do because it closes this weekend—you may or may not see the same show I saw. For The Total Bent, the latest work by Stew...

14 mar 12

A Great Visit from "The Lady from Dubuque"

All great playwrights strive to make the people who see their plays think as well as feel.  And with Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams now gone, Edward Albee is not only our greatest living p...

10 mar 12

"How I Learned to Drive" is a Great Ride

Whenever I’ve had the good fortune to talk to young playwrights, Paula Vogel’s name always seems to come up.  They’ve all read or seen her work.  Most have been inspired by it.  Many w...

03 mar 12

The Real Pain of "Hurt Village"

A bumper crop of talented young playwrights has popped up over the last few years.  Annie Baker, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Amy Herzog have all had plays produced by major companies, received des...

01 mar 12

"Blood Knot" Connects Strongly to the Past

  Almost everything is new and sleek at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the sprawling, reportedly $70 million, theater space on 42nd Street that starchitect Frank Gehry designed to be the ...

25 feb 12

"CQ/CX" Asks Some Provocative Questions But Cops Out When It Comes to Answering Them

  Why write a play unless you have something to say?  The story of Jayson Blair, the young African-American reporter whose fabricated and plagiarized stories set-off a scandal that brought ...

22 feb 12

"Assistance&# 34; is an Amiable Workplace Comedy

Nearly every writer starts off imitating someone else.  Then if the novice has talent, he or she eventually develops his or her own unique voice.  In the old days, young playwrights modeled...

18 feb 12

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