‘Show for Days’ at Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center
Patty LuPone is a highly original and always welcome star who has built a brilliant career primarily on stage, and we who love live...
‘Significant Other’ at Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City
Joshua Harmon's first play Bad Jews introduced us to him as an imaginative writer with an uncanny ear for authentic dialogue. It also informed...
‘Hand to God’ at The Booth Theatre in New York City
As summer fare this highly imaginative black comedy by Robert Askins is not what you'd expect. No Butterflies are Free, no Barefoot in the...
‘An Act of God’ at Studio 54 in New York City
Jim Parsons was put together with pieces of PeeWee Herman, Jerry Lewis, and James Stewart and the result is a most appealing actor who's...
Filichia on Friday: ‘Welcome 2015-2016!’ (‘Merman’s Apprentice’ coming to Birdland on...
It's an honor to bring Peter Filichia's column every week on Kritzerland called 'Filichia on Friday' to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts.
This Week:
Welcome 2015-2016!
Editor's Note: I attended a...
Richard Seff Predicts The Tony Awards: Best Play and Musical and...
Many scribes have been offering opinions on who might win the Tony Awards this coming Sunday, June 7th, and for those of you who haven't...
DCMetroTheaterArts Columnist Richard Seff is Elated that Julie Halston and Brad...
In a phone call earlier today, DCMetroTheaterArts' columnist Richard Seff was elated that Julie Halston and Brad Oscar were named this year's recipients of the award that...
‘Something Rotten!’ at The St. James Theatre in New York City
It doesn't sound like much of an epitaph for a Broadway season, but Something Rotten is indeed the title of the last show to...
‘Wolf Hall’ at The Winter Garden Theatre in New York City
Hillary Mantel is a novelist, dramatist and critic whose best known works are her two novels about the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell. The play...
‘Dr. Zhivago’ at The Broadway Theatre in New York City
This will be a short review because I have respect for the creative team behind Doctor Zhivago, but disappointment in their relentlessly moving musical...
‘Finding Neverland’ at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City
I suggest that producers, composers, writers, stars and others with lots of money earned from their work other than in theatre, those who have...
‘The King and I’ at The Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln...
When all the elements fuse, when a director is clearly in charge and on the right track, it is such a pleasure to be...
‘The Visit’ at The Lyceum in New York City
Full disclosure: I have known and loved Chita Rivera and her talent since we were virtually toddlers. I was then (we're talking the early...
‘Living on Love’ at The Longacre Theatre in New York City
In the 1940s and '50s summer theatres popped up all over the place, particularly in New England, where every other town boasted of one....
‘An American in Paris’ at The Palace Theatre in New York...
"Fresh as paint" kept buzzing through my head as I sat, enthralled, as this latest "new musical based on a famous film" sang and...
‘It Shoulda Been You’ at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New...
If you leave your sense of disbelief checked in the cloak room at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway, you might just have a...
‘Skylight’ at The Golden Theatre in New York City
For those of you who love live theatre enough to cherish the teamwork of two major acting talents, Skylight by David Hare should motivate...
‘Gigi’ at The Neil Simon Theatre in New York City
The current stage revival on Broadway of Lerner and Loewe's film Gigi is lovely to look at. It's filled with principal performers in supporting...
‘Paint Your Wagon’ at City Center’s Encores
I'm sending you this note on the City Center's staged reading of Lerner and Loewe's Paint Your Wagon even though its brief 6 performances...
‘On the Twentieth Century’ at Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre
The word is out. It didn't arrive in town with much hoopla, most thought "another revival of a relic from the past" so it...