Notebook May 2022
All the rest is talk
by
On the Broadway lyric.
Topic: “Broadway”
Theater April 2022
Foreign accents
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On The Daughter-in-Law at City Center Stage II, Space Dogs at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, English at Linda Gross Theater.
Theater January 2022
Spare change
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On The Lehman Trilogy, Flying Over Sunset & Caroline, or Change.
Theater June 2021
The best book on theater
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On The Season, by William Goldman.
Theater April 2021
The tragedy of Mike Nichols
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A review of Mike Nichols: A Life, by Mark Harris.
Theater February 2021
Guys & dolls
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A review of Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, by Michael Riedel.
Jan 20, 2021
In your face with Kaufman and Hart
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On science and Grandpa’s wisdom.
Mar 19, 2020
Stephen Sondheim’s felicitous flop
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On the successful failure of the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along.
Theater March 2020
Sex, race, ethnicity
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On Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice at the Signature Center, A Soldier’s Play at the American Airlines Theater, and West Side Story at the Broadway Theater.
Theater January 2020
The bijou from Peru
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On The Letters of Cole Porter, edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh.