Feb 25, 2021 | Picture of the Day, Theater
Looking for something to watch today? Try this Picture Of The Day. Ken Levine, who spent years writing and producing such TV classics as “M*A*S*H,” “Cheers,” and “Frasier,” has written a one-act play called “America’s...
Feb 6, 2021 | Blog, Theater
When I heard yesterday that Christopher Plummer had died at 91, I racked my brain to come up with a story about him. Sure, I’d enjoyed his work on the big screen in “The Sound Of Music,” “Knives Out” (my review is here), “Inside...
Nov 26, 2020 | Picture of the Day, Theater
For the Picture Of The Day, here’s Broadway star Brad Oscar (“Something Rotten,” “Spamalot,” “The Producers”) singing a parody version (written by Joe Keenan) of a “Guys and Dolls” song aimed at the...
Oct 15, 2020 | Television, Theater
In May, 2019, I raved after seeing Heidi Schreck’s “What The Constitution Means To Me” on Broadway: The show is mostly a monologue by Schreck about how the founders ignored women (and others) when writing the US Constitution, and about efforts —...
Sep 17, 2020 | Magicians, Theater
Three weeks ago, I wrote about how much my wife and I enjoyed a performance over Zoom by magician Siegfried Tieber. He had a limited audience of just a couple dozen viewers and established a very nice rapport with many of us as he chose people to take part in his...
Jun 19, 2020 | Television, Theater
A year and a half ago, I wrote about going to Lincoln Center to see a wonderful revival of Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady,” one of the great American musicals that can still pack a theater more than a half-century after its Broadway debut. In 1956,...
