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2024:

My twisty history with Miss Saigon and Yellow Face - 11/14/24
Book Review: Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage - 11/5/24
Book Review: Closer Than Ever: The Unique Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire - 8/26/24
Interview with James Carpinello - 6/19/24
Book Review: Mary & Ethel... and Mikey Who? - 2/12/24
Book Review: Beyond Ridiculous: Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York - 2/5/24
Book Review: Here's to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater - 1/8/24

2023:

Interview with Jim Walton - 11/27/23
Interview with Douglas Sills - 11/2/23
Public/Private - 10/17/12
Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation - 5/18/23
Chita: A Memoir - 5/1/23
The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love) - 4/17/23
Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical - 2/20/23

2022:

Broadway Musicals on CD: A Conversational Guide by Ethan Mordden - 10/21/22
The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love) - 4/17/23
Book Review: The Book of Broadway Musical Debates, Disputes, and Disagreements by Peter Filichia - 9/12/22
Book Review: Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers" by By Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green - 8/25/22
Interview with Sam Gravitte - 7/19/22
Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune - 4/28/22
Book Review: I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein - 4/7/22

2021:

Side by Side With Sondheim: My Favorite Stories About Steve - 12/2/21
Book Review: Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George - 11/18/21
Book Review: Hirschfeld: The Biography - 10/6/21
Book Review: The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 4 - 4/5/21
Book Review: Tom Stoppard: A Life - 3/8/21
Book Review: I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby: Dorothy Fields and Her Life in the American Theater - 2/23/21
Book Review: Mike Nichols: A Life - 2/10/21
Book Review: Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm, and Race - 1/29/21

2020:

Feature: An immersive musical theatre experience, 2020 style - 12/7/20
Book Review: Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway by Michael Riedel - 11/13/20
Book Review: Pulling Harvey Out of Her Hat: The Amazing Story of Mary Coyle Chase - 11/5/20
Book Review: Nichols and May: Interviews - 10/27/20
Book Review: Stages: A Theater Memoir - 7/17/20
Book Review: Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey by Bob Avian with Tom Santopietro - 2/18/20
Book Review: James Kaplan's Irving Berlin: New York Genius - 2/6/20

2019:

Book Reviews: Elaine Stritch: Still Here and The End of Pretend - 10/31/19
Merely Marvelous: The Dancing Genius of Gwen Verson - 9/18/19
Book Review: Ethan Mordden's On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide - 6/25/19
Interview with Everett Quinton - 6/11/19
Interview with Mark Eden Horowitz: Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions - 3/27/19
Interview With Dan Amboyer - 1/28/19

2018:

Interview with Irina Dvorovenko - 11/28/18
Book Review by Ken Bloom: The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner - 8/30/18
Book Review by Ken Bloom: Todd S. Purdum's Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution -5/24/18
Book Review by Ken Bloom: Ethan Mordden's All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago - 4/26/18
Interview with Kevin Winkler, Author of Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical - 4/19/18
Interview with Eisa Davis, Kings at Public Theater - 2/28/18

2017:

Book Review: Harold Prince's Sense of Occasion - 9/8/17
Interview with Paloma Young Natasha, Costume Designer for Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - 3/1/17
We're 20 Years old... Warn the Duke! - 1/29/17

2016:

Book Review: Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs by Gerald Nachman - 11/3/16
Book Review Show & Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes by Ken Bloom - 11/3/16
Book Review Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical Robert L. McLaughlin - 10/3/16
Interview with Chukwudi Iwuji: Hamlet, Public Theater Mobile Unit - 8/24/16
Book Review Agnes De Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance by Kara Anne Gardner - 8/22/16
Book Review: Now & Then: A Memoir by Barbara Cook - 6/21/16
Interview with Donna Lynne Champlin: The Taming of the Shrew - 6/6/16
2016 Theatre World Awards Awards Photos - 5/24/16
Interview with Zachary Levi of She Loves Me - 5/19/16
2016 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards Nominees and Winners with Photos - 5/17/16
Book Review: 57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future by Matt Windman - 5/13/16
2016 Lucille Lortel Awards - 5/2/16
Interview with Keith Edwards on 1776 - 4/21/16
Book Review: The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows are Built by Jack Viertel - 4/13/16
Book Review: Noel, Tallulah, Cole, and Me: A Memoir of Broadway's Golden Age by John Wilson - 2/8/16
Isaiah Johnson: The Color Purple - 1/7/16

2015:

Book Review: On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide by by Ethan Mordden - 12/13/15
K. Todd Freeman: Airline Highway - 5/21/15
Book Review: "How I Did It: Establishing a Playwriting Career" by Lawrence Harbison - 4/27/15
Joe DiPietro: Living on Love - 4/21/15
Marc Kudisch: Hand to God - 4/14/15
Sting and The Last Ship Company "Songs in the Quay of Life" at 54 Below - 3/4/15
Book Reviews"The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical" and "Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way" - 1/22/15

2014:

Linsey Abrams: Rappaccini's Daughter - 9/17/14
Zak Resnick: Piece of My Heart - 8/22/14
Elizabeth Canavan, Rosal Colón, and Liza Colón-Zayas: Between Riverside and Crazy - 8/18/14
"The Untold Stories of Broadway: Tales from the world's most famous theaters (Volume 1)" - 7/23/14
Mary Rodgers - 7/22/14
Robert Petkoff and Rob Campbell: All the Way - 3/18/14
Charise Castro Smith: Antony and Cleopatra - 2/14/14
Book Review: "Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater" by Eddie Shapiro - 2/12/14
Book Review: Newsies: Stories of the Unlikely Broadway Hit by Ken Cerniglia - 2/4/14

2013:

Book Review: "Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre" by Ethan Mordden 10/30/13
Jay O. Sanders The Apple Family Plays - 10/29/13
Brian J. Smith The Glass Menagerie - 10/3/13
Edward Watts Goes Under the Sea - 5/29/13
Jonny Orsini The Nance - 5/21/13
Jeremy Shamos Assembled Parties - 4/24/13
Celina Carvajal Kinky Boots - 4/4/13
Ed Watts: It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman! - 3/30/13
Book Review: Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical by Todd Decker 3/27/13
Charles Strouse - 3/27/13
Ben Rimalower's Patti Issues - 3/15/13
Elaine Paige Brings Her Concert Tour to The Town Hall - 2/27/13
Ryan Silverman: Passion at Classic Stage Company - 2/13/13

2012:

Interview: Jay Armstrong Johnson Working at 59E59 Theaters - 12/19/12
Book Review: "Look, I Made a Hat" by Stepen Sondheim - 12/18/12
Miguel Cervantes: Giant at the Public - 11/1/12
Book Review: A Ship Without a Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart by Gary Marmorstein - 10/26/12
Book Review: Places, Please! (Becoming a Jersey Boy) - 9/19/12
Book Review: "All Fall Down: The Brandon deWilde Story" by Patrisha McLean - 8/15/12
Book Review: Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady by Dominic McHugh - 7/24/12
Gideon Glick: Into the Woods in the Park - 7/23/12
Chad Kimball in Murder in the First - 6/28/12
Book Review: "Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater" by Jeffrey Magee - 5/9/12
Arnie Burton: Peter and the Starcatcher - 5/3/12
Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them by Frank Langella - 4/16/12
Eric Simonson: Magic/Bird - 4/16/12
Terence Blanchard: A Score for A Streetcar Named Desire - 4/11/12
Seth Numrich: Yosemite - 2/27/12

2011:

André Holland: All's Well That Ends Well and Measure For Measure
Annie Golden: The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World - 6/7/11
Patrick Breen: The Normal Heart - 5/17/11
Lisa Howard - Songs of Innocence and Experience: The Music of William Finn - 4/7/11
Crayton Robey: Making the Boys - 3/14/11
To Broadway, To Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick by Philip Lambert - 2/8/11
Ciaran O'Reilly: Molly Sweeney - 1/31/11
Lance Horne: First Things Last - 1/12/11
Book Review: "Finishing the Hat" by Stephen Sondheim - 1/6/11
Mark Russell: Under The Radar Festival - 1/3/11

2010:

Adam Pascal - 12/14/10
Book Review: South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten by Jim Lovensheimer - 11/28/10
Titus Burgess - Rockers on Broadway - 11/1/10
Interview with Matthew Bourne - Swan Lake - 9/20/10
Interview with Carolee Carmello - The Addams Family - 8/18/10
Book Review: There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You by Bruce Kimmel - 8/13/10
Interview with John O'Hurley - Chicago - 7/26/10
Book Review: Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers (Fourth Edition) by Steven Suskin - 7/19/10
Interview with Robert Hogan - Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party - 7/14/10
Interview with Colin Quinn - Colin Quinn Long Story Short - 7/6/10
Interview with Stark Sands: American Idiot - 4/28/10
Interview with Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young: Hair - 4/22/10
Interview with Sean Dugan: Next Fall - 4/15/10
Interview with Mary Catherine Garrison: Lend Me a Tenor - 4/8/10
Book Reviews: "Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told" and "The Play That Changed My Life: Americas Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them" - 2/25/10
Interview with Richard Thomas: Race - 2/2/10

2009:

Interview with Christopher Fitzgerald: Finian's Rainbow - 11/5/09
Interview with Andrew De Shields: The Bacchae - 8/12/09
Interview with Susan Yankowitz: Night Sky - 6/10/09
Interview with Deborah Rush: Blithe Spirit - 5/27/09
Interview with Sergio Trujillo - 4/29/09
"White Boys" Trio: Sasha Allen, Nicole Lewis and Saycon Sengbloh of Hair - 4/20/09

2008:

Interview with Alma Cuervo: Road Show - 11/18/08
Interview with Carolyn McCormick: Equus - 11/04/08
Interview with Kelli O'Hara: South Pacific - 6/2/08
Interview with Omar Metwally: The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East - 4/28/08
Interview with Matt Cavenaugh - 4/16/08
A White House Cantata - 3/31/08
Interview with Michael McKean - 2/7/08

2007:

Interview with Concetta Tomei - 11/7/07
Interview with Mark Hartman - 10/18/07
Dividing the Estate: Interview with Hallie Foote - 9/24/07
Passing Strange - 5/14/07
Interview with John Ahlin of Journey's End - 2/22/07
Book Review: "The Musical as Drama" - 2/14/07

2006:

Charlotte Rae Has Her Say - 12/8/06
Interview with Betsy Capes of Capes Coaching - 11/24/06
Interview with Amy Justman & Matt Castle of Company - 11/17/06
Book Review: "The Alchemy of Theatre - The Divine Science: Essays on Theatre and the Art of Collaboration" - 11/16/06
Daphne Rubin-Vega and Redemption Songs - 10/25/06
David Alan Basche and Alysia Reiner: Wasps in Bed - 10/16/06
Jay Johnson: The Two and Only - 10/5/06
Interview with Stephen Cole Part Two - 9/27/06
Interview with Stephen Cole Part One Part One - 8/30/06
Interview with Jaclyn Sokol The Death in the Juniper Grove - 8/21/06
Interview with Jessica Brickman The Insomnia Play - 7/13/06
Interview with John Ellison Conlee - 7/7/06
Interview with Jonathan Rayson - 6/29/06
Accomplice: New York - 5/21/06
Dread Awakening Interview with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Clay McLeod Chapman, Eric Sanders, and Justin Swain - 4/5/06
Interview with Ann Duquesnay of Hot Feet - 3/16/06
Interview with Euan Morton - 3/12/06
Interview with Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen of [title of show] - 3/3/06
Update with Rick McKay of Broadway: The Golden Age - 3/3/06
Irving Berlin Exhibit at Lincoln Center - 2/21/06
Book Reviews: Without You by Anthony Rapp and Present at the Creation by Stuart Ostrow - 2/8/06
Book Review: The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators - 1/19/06
Book Review: The American Songbook: The Singers, The Songwriters & The Songs by Ken Bloom - 1/17/06
Stagedoor Manor or Mommy, I Want to Be Elphaba When I Grow Up! - 1/5/06

2005:

Behind the Scenes at The Phantom of the Opera - Broadway's New Longest Running Show - 12/31/05
Backstage at Secret Garden: Part One and Part Two - 12/2/05
Book Review: Letters from Backstage: The Adventures of a Touring Stage Actor - 11/28/05
Henry Stram and Mary Testa: See What I Wanna See - 11/17/05
Book Review: How Sondheim Found His Sound - 10/25/05
Book Review: A Fine Romance: The Magic. The Mayhem. The Musicals. - 10/3/05
Book Review: Singing a New Tune: The Rebirth of the Modern Film Musical from Evita to De-Lovely and Beyond - 9/19/05
A Trailer Park Musical - 9/14/05
Best Plays Theater Yearbook - 9/7/05
Book Review: John Simon on Theater: Criticism 1974-2003 - 8/30/05
Interview with David Javerbaum - 8/12/05
Lee Lessack and LML Music - 8/1/05
Brian Lowdermilk & Kait Kerrigan - 7/15/05
Interview with Jason Robert Brown - 6/28/05
Book Review: Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre - Expanded Edition - 6/16/05
Book Review: The Tricky Part by Martin Moran - 6/16/05
Interview with Bob Baliban on Manuscript - 6/9/05
Interview with Frederick Weller of Glengarry Glen Ross - 5/31/05
Eric Rockwell, Joanne Bogart and Melanie Herman of Musical of Musicals - 5/25/05
Garth Wingfield and Kerry O'Malley of Flight - 5/18/05
2004-2005 Season Wrap-up - 5/15/05
all wear bowlers - Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobelle - 5/13/05
Book Review: Gentleman Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth Century Drama - 5/11/05
Interview with Stephen Schwartz - 5/5/05
Book Review: Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage - 4/29/05
Book Review: The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity - 4/15/05
Book Review: Ethan Mordden's Sing for Your Supper - 4/15/05
Mimi Hines: Talking and Singing - 3/31/05
Interview with LAByrinth Theater Company's Yul Vázquez and Stephen McKinley Henderson - 3/23/05
Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim Post-Show Reports - 3/22/05
Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim Pre-Show Report - 3/18/05
Interview with Victoria Clark - 3/14/05
Interview with Faith Prince - 2/23/05
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical - 2/11/05
The New Group - Interview with Scott Elliot - 2/7/05
Interview with Roger Rees - 1/13/05

2004:

The Phantom of the Opera: From Stage to Film - 12/22/04
Interview with Patrick Cassidy - 12/15/04
Hart to Hart: The Metropolitan Opera Guild Honors Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart - 11/22/04
Interview with Craig Lucas - 11/18/04
Interview with Margaret Colin - 10/25/04
Book Reviews Jerry Herman: Poet of the Showtune and Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical When It Went to Hollywood - 10/13/04
The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen by Ethan Mordden - Review - 9/27/04
A Must See! - Interview with Steven Suskin - 9/14/04
Shameless - an Interview with Laura Bell Bundy - 9/2/04
Behind-the-Scenes Look at The New York Musical Theatre Festival - 8/13/04
Do You Have Anything Closer?: Interview with Lawrence Paone and Matthew Aibel - 7/1/04
Broadway: The Golden Age - A Review - 6/10/04
Rick McKay & Broadway: The Golden Age - Interview Update - 6/10/04
Voices of Spring: Interview with Cris Groenendaal - 6/2/04
Interview with Carol Channing - 5/31/04
Interview with Stewart Lane - 5/3/04
Book Reviews The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser and Enchanted Evenings - 4/27/04
Remembering Spalding Gray - 4/18/04
Book Reviews Shakespeare's Songbook & The Complete Lyrics of P.G. Wodehouse - 4/15/04
Interview with Michael Dansicker - 16-Bar Theatre Audition Series - 4/1/04
Interview with Michael Dansicker - 16-Bar Theatre Audition Series - 4/1/04
Interview with Dorothy Lyman - 3/28/04
Interview with Robby Benson on Open Heart - 3/17/04
Book Review: Take Ten II: More Ten-Minute Plays - 2/27/04
Book Review: Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical - 2/16/04
The Firebrand of Florence - 1/16/04

2003:

Interview with John Yap of JAY Records - 12/15/03
Talking to Jeanine Tesori and Veanne Cox about Caroline, Or Change - 11/25/03
Book Review:
Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne by Margot Peters
Plus reports on Jerry Herman: The Lyrics and Enter the Players
- 11/17/03
Epic Repertory Theatre Company - Speaking with Richard Kuranda - 11/12/03
Stephen Mosher and The Sweater Book - 11/4/03
Book Review Colored Lights Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz - 10/30/03
The New Telecharge.com - 10/22/03
They'll Take Manhattan - For Pete's Sake - 10/15/03
Mindy and Brenda and Matt & Ben - 10/5/03
"Working in the Theatre" Seminars - 9/19/03
Book Review Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies - 9/29/03
Chicago City Limits: America Idles - 8/6/03
Ruthless! with Joal Paley and Marvin Laird - 6/24/03
Interview with Deven May - 4/25/03
Hank Williams: Lost Highway Moves to Little Shubert - 3/26/03
Interview with Amanda Green - 3/14/03
Theatre for a New Audience - 3/6/03
Interview with Anne Runolfsson - 3/2/03
Broadway: The Golden Age and Rick McKay - 1/29/03

2002:

Interview with Lauren Kennedy - 12/2/02
The 2002 - 2003 Theatre Season: With Five Months To Go Before The Tonys - 12/29/02
Interview with Barbara Walsh - 11/20/02
Teddy Bears for Teddy Care - 11/1/02
Interview with Michael Kunze - Dance of the Vampires - 10/27/02
Shakespeare's Haunted House - 10/22/02
Gimme a Break II - 10/6/02
Sherie Rene Scott and Debbie Does Dallas - 10/2/02
"Show People" Magazine - 9/27/02
"On and Off" Magazine - 9/22/02
Overtures and Earth Girls at the Lark - 9/13/02
Brave New World: American Theatre Responds To September 11th - 8/20/02
The Genesius Guild: An Interview with Tom Morrissey - 8/16/02
Broadway Revisited: Les Miserables - 7/28/02
Remembering Clooney's 'Rosie' Outlook on Singers - 7/21/02
Interview with Naked Boys Singing - 7/14/02
BROADWAY BARKS 4! - A Message From Bernadette Peters - 7/11/02
Interview with Neil Patrick Harris - 7/7/02
It's the Right Place, and the Wong Song! - 7/2/02
Interview: the Prince and the Pauper - 6/30/02
Interview with Phil Bond of The Duplex and Storefront Theatre - 6/27/02
Revisiting Phantom of the Opera - 6/23/02
Into the Words: A Student Journalist Review - 6/20/02
Review of Rhapsody in Seth - 6/20/02
Interview with Seth Rudetsky - 6/9/02
Interview with Lonny Price - 6/5/02
2002 The Drama Desk Awards - 5/21/02
Chicago City Limits - 5/12/02
Musical Theatre Works - 4/28/02
Interview with Jana Robbins - 4/25/02
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - 4/19/02
The Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center - 4/7/02
Prodigal Arrives at the York - 3/10/02
Broadway By the Year - Scott Siegel - 3/3/02
Moving Parts Theater - 2/20/02
Strip's TEASE - 2/10/02
Broadway's Last Audience - 2/3/02

2001:

Into our 6th Year ... a reflection - 12/31/01
Interview with Danny Zolli - 12/23/01
Interview with Craig Schulman - 12/23/01
Hirschfeld's New York - 12/9/01
Interview with Craig Bierko - 12/16/01
The Lark Theatre Company - 12/2/01
Interview with Gary Beach - Part Two - 11/25/01
Interview with Gary Beach - Part One - 11/18/01
Interview with Neil Berg - 11/12/01
Gowns by Adrian - 11/4/01
Musicals in Mufti 10/18/01
Take a Chance on Me - An Interview with Louise Pitre - 10/7/01
Gimme a Break! - 10/4/01
Simply Classic Part II The Pearl Theatre Company - 9/16/01
Interview with Raul Esparza - 9/9/01
Simply Classic The Pearl Theatre Company - 9/3/01
It's Us Again -
A Report on the Pete 'n' Keely Recording Session
- 8/23/01
Chess in Concert - 8/16/01
Interview with Norm Lewis - 8/16/01
SHOWTUNE! - The Aftermath! - 8/12/01
Broadway ... it's a Baby Boomer thing - 8/5/01
SHOWTUNE! ... and the dream came true! - 7/25/01
Interview with Gerard Alessandrini - 7/22/01
Interview with Brent Barrett - 7/15/01
Interview with John Chatterton & the oobr Awards - 7/8/01
Showtune, Writer's Digest & Other Summer Doldrums - 7/1/01
A "Curtain Call" Unlike Any Other - 6/24/01
Interview with Jarrod Emick - 6/17/01
Tony Weekend 2001 - 6/5/01
Interview with Harold "Stumpy" Cromer - 5/20/01
Friends & Fiends: An Interview with Brad Little & Robert Evan - 5/13/01
Sam Norkin - 5/6/01
Showtune! - 4/29/01
An Interview with Bat Boy's Laurence O'Keefe - 4/22/01
Amy Dolan 42nd Street Gypsy - 4/8/01
Town Hall Gives Its Regards to "Broadway" - 4/12/01
Behind the Scenes at ELEGIES: a history - 3/29/01
A Tony Memory - 3/27/01
Talkin' Broadway - Into our 5th Year! - 3/18/01
Everybody's Chattin' - 3/15/01
STORM, Mandalay Bay - Broadway West - 3/8/01
Broadway ... a state of mind! - 3/4/01
SUBURB - 3/2/01
Modern Classics Stage Company - 2/26/01
Judy, Judy, Judy: The Legend's Legacy Reaches Yet Another Peak - 2/22/01
Broadway USA - 2/18/01
Liza Minnelli Adds Another Award to her Theatrical Achievements - 2/11/01
Theater - An Equal Opportunity Obsession - 2/4/01
An Interview with David Rossmer - 1/28/01
The Box Office Adventure: A Treasurer's Guide to Averting Disaster - 1/21/01
Bess Eckstein and Glass Slipper Theatricals - 1/11/01

2000:

2 K + 1 - 12/31/00
XMAS 2000 - 12/25/00
Variety Buzz - 12/17/00
Who Woulda Thunk? Rosie! - 12/14/00
Movin' Along - 12/08/00
Children's Hope Foundation - 11/30/00
Thanksgiving 2000 - 11/23/00
Eleanor An American Love Story ... on the Grammy List - 11/19/00
Interview with Judy Kaye - 11/16/00
Mack & Mabel - Reprise - 11/13/00
Chicago ... the Steak! - 11/9/00
Tantalus - 11/5/00
Live...Broadway - The Credit Card - 11/2/00
From Tallulah to Mae West & Stokes to Bierko - 10/29/00
Re: Candor and Web et al. - 10/22/00
Gwen Verdon - 10/19/00
Final Thoughts by Paul Weinstein - 10/12/00
Notes on Tallulah - 10/8/00
Revisiting Forever Plaid - 10/5/00
Jane Eyre / A conversation with Annette Niemtzow - 10/1/00
WBAI Listener Gathering and This Life: The Songs of Portia Nelson - 9/28/00
Fynsworth Alley by Bruce Kimmel - 9/24/00
Sing A Song of Seuss - Interview with Lynn Ahrens - 9/21/00
Interview with Karen Mason - 9/17/00
Where the Past Lights Up the Future - the Broadway Theater Institute - 9/14/00
A Moment Too Soon - A new play proves it's never too late - 9/10/00
A Tunesmith for Our Times - 9/7/00
Broadway in your Living Room - 9/3/00
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Glass Slipper Theatricals - 8/24/00
Christiane Noll Brings an Evening of Jazz to Arci's Place - 8/20/00
Smokey Joe's Cafe - 8/15/00
Super Summer Theatre - Fiddler - 8/10/00
Always...Sally Struthers - 8/3/00
Behind the Scenes on Broadway - 7/30/00
The Poet-Sandalmaker of Athens - 7/27/00
Ron Bohmer: Another Life - 7/23/00
TheatreGrams - 7/20/00
Help Wanted - 7/16/00
The Actors' Exchange - 7/13/00
What makes a novel sing? by Paul Gordon - 7/9/00
Utah Shakesperean Festival - 7/6/00
Eat The Runt - 7/2/00
Cats Make-Up Artist Purring - 6/29/00
The Cabaret Artist's Handbook - 6/27/00
Eleanor - An American Love Story - 6/22/00
Straight-Jacket - 6/18/00
The Party's Over - 6/13/00
Everything Old Is New Again - 6/11/00
Spinning Into Butter - 6/8/00
Tony Award Weekend, The Aftermath - 6/5/00
Tony Awards 2000, The Musical Categories - 6/1/00
Tony Awards 2000, The Non-Musical Categories - 5/28/00
WBAI ... 99.5 - 5/22/00
45th Annual Village Voice OBIE Awards - 5/17/00
Midtown International Theatre Festival - 5/14/00
Tony Nomination Notes - 5/11/00
The Playwright Remains The Primary Focus - 5/7/00
TOPA Benefit at the Triad - 5/4/00
Hansen's Cab - 4/30/00
Awards Season Begins - 4/23/00
STORYBOOK: The Lyrics of Nan Knighton - 4/20/00
Enter the Guardsman Previews May 9 - 4/16/00
Sumi Jo sings Broadway - 4/13/00
The Power of One - 4/9/00
A Chat with Betty Buckley - 4/6/00
An Evening With Carol Channing - 4/2/00
Just Me and My Friends' Cabaret - 3/30/00
Callaway to SWING! with POPS! - 3/26/00
Fred Kelly - 3/23/00
Rose - 3/19/00
Foxy Ladies Love/Boogie 70's Explosion! - 3/16/00
Living in the Bonus Round - 3/12/00
Confidentially, Sean - 3/6/00
The Selwyn - What's in a Name anyway? - 3/2/00
Zona, The Ghost of Greenbrier - 2/27/00
Minnelli on Minnelli - 2/24/00
Patti Lupone Matters of the Heart - 2/20/00
TAP 2000 - 2/19/00
Glamorous Night - Lorna Dallas - 2/13/00
The Laramie Project - 2/10/00
Phantom's Unrelenting Fans - 2/7/00
23 Skidoo! - 2/2/00
The Broadway Classroom - 1/30/00
Seth's Broadway Chatterbox - 01/27/00
Ballet - Three of the Best - 01/23/00
Jane Eyre the Musical (part two) - 1/20/00
Jane Eyre the Musical (part one) - 1/16/00
When the Cat's Away! - 1/12/00
Mr. Spectacular - 1/7/00
A 'Storybook' Beginning for 2000 - 1/5/00
Millennium Musings - 1/3/00

1999:

The Year in Review ... 1999 - 12/29/99
On the 20th Century - 12/27/99
Encores! 2000 - 12/24/99
Soundtracks - 12/22/99
Dream Street Cabaret - 12/19/99
I Love New York, Part 3 - 12/17/99
I Still Love New York - 12/15/99
I Love New York - 12/12/99
Where are the New Musicals? - 12/10/99
For We Need A Little Christmas - 12/7/99
The Mad Hatter Experience: Kat and the Kings - 12/3/99
Annual Auction Time! - 12/1/99
STARBOARD HOME: The Turn-of-the-Century Musical - 11/29/99
Too much Turkey! - 11/26/99
ARCI'S PLACE - 11/24/99
Sparkleneelysparkle - 11/21/99
Teddy Bears for Teddycare - 11/17/99
DECONSTRUCTING HAROLD HILL: An Insider's Guide to Musical Theatre - 11/14/99
Last Train to Nibroc - 11/10/99
LANDLOCKED - 11/8/99
AQUILA...a British/American Equity Company - 11/5/99
Tinkering with...Kiss Me, Kate - 11/1/99
Elizabeth Ashley...If Memory Serves - 10/29/99
It Ain't Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings! - 10/27/99
Abby's Song - 10/24/99
CONTACT moving to the Beaumont - 10/21/99
Spalding Gray at Lincoln Center Morning, Noon and Night - 10/17/99
Miami Beach Monsters - 10/14/99
Wonderful Town - 10/10/99
Hello, Dolly! at BCBC Oct. 17th - 10/7/99
Barry Humphries - 10/3/99
Over the River and Through the Woods - 9/30/99
Scarlet Fever - 9/26/99
Boys - 9/23/99
The Rat Pack is Back! - 9/19/99
Boy Meets Girl - 9/16/99
We want Mamie...Where is Mamie? - 9/12/99
CATS...on tour, now and forever! - 9/9/99
Bargain basement prices for the DAME! - 9/5/99
Vuka Uzibuse - 9/2/99
Hal Linden Joins Vegas Chicago - 8/29/99
Enter the Guardsman - 8/26/99
Sandy Duncan...ROXIE! - 8/22/99
A Tale of Two Annies - 8/19/99
Cole, Ward, & Sockley...Millennium Trio - 8/15/99
The Broadway of Yesteryear - 8/12/99
Why Theatre Tickets Are So Expensive! Part II - 8/8/99
Why Theatre Tickets Are So Expensive! - 8/5/99
Tom Andersen fires up the FireBird! - 8/1/99 Farewell Matron Mama Morton! - 7/25/99
Can't help lovin' Gateway's Show Boat - 7/18/99
Should Auld Acquaintances? - 7/11/99
Brush Up Your Shakespeare! - 7/4/99
Hollywood Musicals - 6/27/99
If it looks like a Rialto and reads like a Rialto and quacks like a Rialto ... - 6/19/99
Dear Fergus - 6/13/99
The Reader's Poll for the 1999 Tony Awards - 6/3/99
Out of the Fire!...A candid talk with Douglas Sills - 5/30/99
The Acting Categories - The 1999 Tony Awards - 5/23/99
Those Revival Categories - The Tony Awards - 5/16/99
V.J. vs. Fergus, Round 1 The Tony Awards - 5/9/99
Those Tony Nominations & Fergus' Picks - 5/6/99
The Ages of Man - 5/2/99
Amy's View - 4/15/99
The Civil War - 4/11/99
A Storybook ending at the MAC Awards - 4/8/99
Never Never Land - 4/4/99
Falling in love again...can't help it - 4/1/99
Blame it on the Tourists! - 3/28/99
Now and...Forever Plaid - 3/25/99
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told - 3/21/99
Phantom Phans Strike Again! - 3/18/99
Life is a BROADWAY CABARET - 3/14/99
Roxie rocks CHICAGO - 3/12/99
Chicago is on fire again! - 3/11/99
CHICAGO...my kinda Las Vegas Musical! - 3/4/99
Tom Anderson..."The Journey" - 2/28/99
Tony Handicapping - 2/22/99
The Stephen Sondheim Society - 2/18/99
Making Peter Pope - 2/14/99
Cabaret at Studio 54 - 2/11/99
On Being Politically Correct - 2/7/99
Sneak Peak...Annie Get Your Gun - 2/4/99
The Bistro Awards - 1/31/99
Marcia Lewis - 1/28/99
Chita! - 1/23/99
CHICAGO at Mandalay Bay - 1/19/99
EFX Gets a TUNE-up! - 1/17/99
Possums - Happy New Year! - 1/12/99
An Open Letter to Andrew Lloyd Webber - 1/7/99
Parade - 1/3/99

1998:

1998: The Year in Review - 12/31/98
Chicago goes Vegas with Chita and Marcia! - 12/24/98
The Blue Room: "I paid $650 for a ticket to see this? - 12/20/98
The Jolson Story ... Bran Pace - 12/17/98
Ragtime & Stokes - 12/13/98
Sail On! Titanic - 12/10/98
T.L.S. - "Coming Home" - 12/6/98
Captains Courageous, The Musical - 12/3/98
The Joey Award goes to... - 11/29/98
Thanksgiving 1998 - 11/26/98
Forbidden Talkin' Broadway - 11/22/98
LIVE eNTertainment and CABLE? - 11/19/98
The Drama Queen's Rules for Theatre: Part Three - 11/15/98
A Brief Excursion - 11/12/98
They Sailed "Into the Fire" and Came Out Winners! - 11/8/98
It Happened On Broadway - 11/5/98
I Love a Parade! - 11/1/98
The Drama Queen's Rules for Theatre: Part Two - 10/29/98
Sailing with the Stars! - 10/25/98
The Drama Queen's Rules for Theatre: Part One - 10/22/98
Making the links: Fall '98 - 10/19/98
Back To School - 10/15/98
Why, Die, Diana? - 10/11/98
Just what is the Theatre Development Fund, and what is it trying to tell us about Broadway and Ourselves? - 10/8/98
Phantom Reels - 10/4/98
The Capeman Speaks! - 10/1/98
Meeting Merman - 9/27/98
We Open in Venice - 9/24/98
Stillman Soars in Laguna's Session! - 9/20/98
The Last Session arrives in Laguna - 9/17/98
Broadway Cabaret - 9/13/98
Jekyll & Hyde...What a night! - 9/9/98
Paige O'Hara...just a Broadway Baby - 9/6/98
Oh, Jesus! or Why Producers Get Ulcers - 9/3/98
Talkin' Off-Broadway - 8/30/98
The RENT Settlement - 8/26/98
Talkin' Lincoln Center - 8/23/98
The Last Session finds a Buddy! - 8/20/98
Writers in Cyberspace - 8/16/98
Dearest Teacher - 8/13/98
Sweet Charity - 8/10/98
Hey, kids, what time is it? - 8/2/98
SERIOUSLY ENTERTAINING: An Evening With Jerry Herman - 7/26/98
Snatched from the Jaws of Madame Guillotine - 7/24/98
City of Angels ... Baltimore? - 7/23/98
Hermites! - 7/19/98
Canadian Summer Lovin' - 7/16/98
Summer Doldrums - 7/13/98
Cabaret & the Berlin Stories - 7/9/98
Backstage at Ragtime - 7/5/98
Dancing Through Broadway's Golden Age - 7/2/98
The Sound of Music - 6/28/98
Talent Unlimited - 6/25/98
Eviction Notice for RENT? - 6/22/98
We Are the Dreamers - 6/18/98
Rehearsing the Tonys - 6/14/98
Broadway at the China Club - 6/11/98
Tony Aftermath - 6/8/98
Travels with V.J. - 6/7/98
Tony Countdown - 6/4/98
Theatre at Sea - 5/31/98
Stalkin' Broadway - 5/28/98
Who Really Closed The Capeman? - 5/24/98
Cruisin' Down Broadway - 5/21/98
North to Alaska - 5/21/98
Riverdance and Dealer's Choice - 5/17/98
Link-O-Rama - 5/14/98
1998 Tony Award Nominations - 5/11/98
Rent Foreclosure? - 5/8/98
The Fix - 5/7/98
Broadway ... Off B'way Revisited - 5/4/98
Follies - 4/26/98
The Sixties - 4/19/98
Threepenny Fosse - 4/12/98
Broadway... Off Broadway - 4/8/98
The Seventies - 4/5/98
Tonight at 7:30pm - 4/2/98
Spectacle: Part II - 3/29/98
In Defense of Spectacle - 3/27/98
Jackie Mason - 3/22/98
Playbill? Showbill? Stagebill? - 3/19/98
Sally Bowles - 3/15/98
In Memory of Laurie Hope Beechman - 3/12/98
Rent Appeal: D-Day Near... - 3/10/98
Hasta la Vista, Capeman - 3/8/98
Getting Off Broadway - 3/5/98
Hooray for Hollywood - 3/1/98
Side Show Meets Reality - 2/26/98
The Webber Report - 2/22/98
Sparks! - 2/19/98
When You Care - 2/16/98
Everybody's a Critic - 2/9/98
Not Since Capeman - 2/2/98
It's Just a Broadway Birthday - 1/30/98
The Capeman - 1/29/98
Session... Simply Sensational - 1/28/98
Phantom's 10th - 1/27/98
Take Me Back to Manhattan - 1/25/98
Ragetime - 1/22/98
The Man with 1,000 Voices - 1/18/98
Stokes - 1/15/98
The Word on the Street... - 1/12/98
The Death of Broadway? - 1/8/98
N.W.U. to the Rescue in Rent Appeal - 1/5/98
Nik Venet - The Last Session - 1/4/98

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