New York City Theater

‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Metropolitan Opera

The Barber of Seville turns 200 years old in two months. Performing it in English translation works best when it helps show American audiences how similar the elements of effective comedy are across...

Filichia on Friday: ‘It’s the Most Ticket Scarce Time of the Year’

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‘School of Rock-The Musical’ at The Winter Garden Theatre in New York City

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 theater.” Before you start cursing me out as an old codger let me tell you that...

‘Andréa Burns is On Her Feet!’: A Chat at The Marquis Theatre With Richard Seff

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 her background. And sure enough her mother Leda is a...

‘China Doll’ at The Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in New York City

In 1955, Johnny Mercer published these opening lines to a hit song of his: “When an irresistible force such as you meets an immovable object like me, something’s gotta give.” These words kept flashing...

Filichia on Friday: ‘Steven Gross Has 7,655 Songs For You’

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‘Clever Little Lies’ at The Westside Theatre in New York City

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

Filichia on Friday: ‘November’s Leftovers and December’s Brainteaser’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘Duddy Kravitz: The Other Best Musical of 2015’

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‘Dada Woof Papa Hot’ at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater

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 West Wing. I remember admiring his early play The...

‘Misery’ at The Broadhurst Theatre in New York City

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 unfolds for us in its ninety minutes of playing time. “Misery” is the name of the...

‘On Your Feet’ at The Marquis Theatre in New York City

On Your Feet joins its fellow juke box musicals Jersey Boys and Beautiful in the growing list of this new genre that delivers a full evening’s entertainment using pop hits of another era to tell a...

Filichia on Friday: ‘From Reams with Love: HELLO, DOLLY’!

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‘King Charles III’ at The Music Box Theatre in New York City

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 might happen if and when Queen Elizabeth leaves us...

Pianist Olga Kern in Recital at the 92nd Street Y in New York City

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 which great piano recitals are made. But it’s a mark of the...

From Beethoven to Rachmaninoff to Billy Joel: An Interview with Superstar Pianist Olga Kern

If you believe that a good way to judge music is on whether it sounds good and moves you, then you have a friend in international concert pianist Olga Kern. The Russian-bred, New York-based classical...

A Talk with Michael Riedel on His Book ‘Razzle Dazzle’ by Richard Seff

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 for an hour on November 2nd, to discuss his valuable and readable new...

‘Thérèse Raquin’ at Roundabout Theatre at Studio 54 in New York City

Young Therese Raquin is in terrible trouble. We realize this the moment the curtain rises revealing a small and desolate village on the Seine in the year 1868. The entrance of Therese, (Keira...

Filichia on Friday: ‘We Can Always Go Back to Before ‘

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‘Sylvia’ at The Cort Theatre in New York City

AR Gurney is the rolling stone playwright that is certainly gathering no moss. As recently as August of this year I reviewed a new Gurney offering, Love and Money which deftly dealt with a matriarch’s...

‘Dames at Sea’ at The Helen Hayes Theatre in New York City

Way back in the dark ages (circa early 1930s) when musicals were musical comedies (if you don’t know what I mean, listen to “Musicals,” the showstopper in the light-hearted hit Something Rotten!), the...

‘Hamilton’ at The Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City

I was away in August when the musical Hamilton opened on Broadway so yesterday I caught up with it as it was about to enter its third month of sellout business at The Richard Rodgers Theatre. It is...

‘Ripcord’ at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City

David Lindsay-Abaire has an enviable record of success with a solid list of plays, and in many of them he has written rewarding roles for the actress Marylouise Burke. He’s done so again with Ripcord,...

Filichia on Friday: ‘Revisiting The Boys in The Band’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘Seating Plans’

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‘The Gin Game’ at The John Golden Theatre in New York City

Donald L. Coburn was born in 1938 in Baltimore to parents who were divorced two years later. His early life was unexceptional; he graduated from high school in 1957, then served in the U.S. Navy until...

‘Rothschild & Sons’ at The York Theatre Company

Who doesn’t have great respect and admiration for the musical team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick? Certainly no one who has seen and heard the great body of their work which includes She Loves Me,...

‘Travels with My Aunt’ at The Clurman Theatre in New York City

In 1969 Graham Greene published a light novel with this title, which was in the vein of earlier romps such as The Egg and I, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and most particularly – Auntie Mame – all of...

‘Fool For Love’ at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City

This play by Sam Shepard was first presented by Circle Rep in 1983; it was a great success for them with Ed Harris and Kathy Baker playing Eddie and May. It transferred from their home base to the...

The Reel Deal: Watch Kyle Osborne’s Movie Video Reviews of ‘The Walk’ and ‘He Named Me Malala’

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‘Old Times’ at Roundabout Theatre at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City

Harold Pinter must be smiling down on 42nd Street where the Roundabout is currently presenting his Old Times at the American Airlines Theatre. For starters, that street would hardly seem an...

Filichia on Friday: ‘Remembering The Rothschilds’ Hillard Elkins’

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The Reel Deal: Watch Kyle Osborne’s Movie Video Review of ‘The Martian’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘The Return of The Rothschilds — & Sons’

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‘Spring Awakening’ at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre in NYC

Some time between 1890 and 1891 Frank Wedekind managed to complete a play in his native German, which contained all sorts of forbidden fruits. It dealt with adolescence, puberty, sexuality, rape,...

The Reel Deal: Watch Kyle Osborne’s Movie Video Review of ‘Sicario’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘September’s Leftovers and October’s Brainteaser’

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‘The New Morality’ at The Mint Theater Company in New York City

The Mint Theater, in a 100 seat space on the 3rd floor of an office building on West 43rd Street, has been fulfilling its mission of re-discovering forgotten gems from the past, and offering them at...

Filichia on Friday: ‘The Other THE SEASON’

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‘Conversations With Chita Rivera’ Interviewed by Richard Ridge at The New School in NYC

I think we can safely call her the last Broadway Diva of the golden age. For she’s been putting together a career that is unique in this day and age in that it has been lived almost exclusively in...

Filichia on Friday: ‘My Favorite Story from the Summer’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘The 2015 Broadway University Entrance Exam Answers’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘August’s Leftovers and September’s Brainteaser’

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‘Love and Money’ at Signature Theatre in NYC

Master Playwright A.R.Gurney has used his own life as background material for some 50 plays, 4 musicals, plus 3 novels. Born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York, he decided early on to “write what he knew”,...

Filichia on Friday: ‘Give Us Liberty Smith!’

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‘John’ at Signature Theatre in New York City

There are many plays that are known for their sparkling dialogue, others for their rapid fire words that require actors who can deliver them in machine gun manner. Now we have the prolific and...

Filichia on Friday: ‘The 2015 Broadway University Entrance Exam’

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A Personal Tribute to No Rules Theatre Company and to Joshua Morgan Who is Broadway-Bound

A few days ago I received a letter notifying me that No Rules Theatre Company had closed. I looked at it, put it down, and then looked at it again and a lot of tears flowed because I loved this...

Filichia on Friday: ‘The Wiz That the Wiz Was and Is’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘July’s Leftovers and August’s Brainteaser’ by Peter Filichia

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: July 31, 2015: July’s Leftovers and August’s...