Broadway & Me

I'm a theater lover. I am happiest when I am sitting in a theater. Or 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 each Broadway season.

October 27, 2007

"A Bronx Tale" Well Told

In the tortoise and the hare nostalgia derby between the 1950s and the 1960s, the '50s is pulling ahead. At least on Broadway. Memorie...

October 24, 2007

Underwhelmed by "The Overwhelming"

Africa is hot. And I'm not talking about its climate. Movies like "The Last King of Scotland," "Blood Diamond" and ...

October 20, 2007

Outside the Comfort Zone With "Krum"

It's only a slight exaggeration to say that there are two kinds of theater lovers in New York: uptown theater people who prefer Broadway...

October 17, 2007

A King's Ransom

Besides the looming stagehands' strike, the hottest topic in theater circles over the past few months has been the $450 that Mel Brooks...

October 13, 2007

Reminiscing with "The Ritz"

I moved from New York to San Francisco in 1975, the same week that the original production of The Ritz opened on Broadway. It was a wild and...

October 10, 2007

"Dividing The Estate" is Wholly Entertaining

If Leo Tolstoy were alive today and going to theater in New York this season, he might rethink his famous edict that "every unhappy fam...

October 6, 2007

"Mauritius" and Women on Broadway

Let me get this part out of the way first: Mauritius didn't work for me. The chance to see its cast—F. Murray Abraham, Bobby Cannaval...

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