New York City Theater

The Barber of Seville turns 200 years old in two months. Performing it in English translation works best when it helps show American audiences...

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: 'It's the Most Ticket Scarce Time...

Full disclosure: I am not a rock 'n roller, and think its music has little to offer what we've come to know as "musical...

Andréa Burns. Note the accent over the e in the lady's name. That puts  the emphasis on its second syllable and indicates something latina...

In 1955, Johnny Mercer published these opening lines to a hit song of his: "When an irresistible force such as you meets an immovable...

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: Steven Gross Has 7,655 Songs For...

Author Joe DiPietro has delivered a cozy little play that sits comfortably somewhere between situation comedy and family drama. It starts in a tennis...

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: November’s Leftovers and December’s Brainteaser. Purchase...

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: DUDDY KRAVITZ: The OTHER Best Musical...

Peter Parnell has been writing plays, television scripts, books to musicals, and winning two Emmy Awards citations for his work as co--producer of The...

The title is misleading. It leads one to think the play is going to be one long groan of sadness, and that's not what...

On Your Feet joins its fellow juke box musicals Jersey Boys and Beautiful in the growing list of this new genre that delivers a...

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: From Reams with Love: HELLO, DOLLY! Purchase...

If you haven't heard of Charles III of Britain, don't berate yourself. He hasn't happened yet, but  playwright Mike Bartlett has conjured up what...

Dreamy music about the memories of childhood and a virtuoso spin through the themes of one of history’s greatest operas are the stuff of...

If you believe that a good way to judge music is on whether it sounds good and moves you, then you have a friend...

Michael Riedel, the theatre columnist for the New York Post and the co-host of the long running PBS show Theater Talk, sat with me...

Young Therese Raquin is in terrible trouble. We realize this the moment the curtain rises revealing a small and desolate village on the Seine...

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: We Can Always Go Back to...

AR Gurney is the rolling stone playwright that is certainly gathering no moss. As recently as August of this year I reviewed a new...