PROVIDENCE – Producing a Broadway musical is an expensive, competitive, not-for-the-weak bloodsport that generates significantly more failures than successes. For every “A Chorus … more

PROVIDENCE – There is an unspoken contract between the creators of theater and those attending it. 

We in the audience agree that the artificiality of what is taking place on stage – the stylized unfolding of a scripted narrative, the representation of a time and a place that is not necessarily our own and the incarnation of invented others by actors – will be accepted as real. For the length of the production, we allow … more

BOSTON – It took nearly 60 years for “Funny Girl” to return to Broadway in revival, an astonishing length of time considering that the popular 1964 production earned eight Tony nominations and lasted 1,348 performances.

The primary reason for the delay was finding the right woman to play Fanny Brice – the legendary Jewish star of vaudeville’s Ziegfeld Follies at the turn-of-the-20^th century – once Barbra Streisand was done with her. It was Streisand’s Tony-nominated performance on stage (she lost to Carol Channing in “Hello, Dolly!”) … more

PROVIDENCE – In 2017, The New York Times  published a series of allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein from women who claimed that he sexually harassed them. The viral … more

PROVIDENCE – It’s tough enough mastering King of Pop Michael Jackson’s mannerisms, dress and moonwalk when earning loose change on big city street corners. … more

PROVIDENCE – It’s tough enough mastering King of Pop Michael Jackson’s mannerisms, manner of dress and moonwalk when earning loose change on big city street corners. It’s a … more

PROVIDENCE – What’s left to say about “Hamilton” – which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, 11 Tony awards including Best Musical, seven Drama Desk awards, a Grammy, and has been seen on Broadway by well over 4 million people and counting – except … more

PROVIDENCE – While the moral at the end of the jukebox musical “Mamma Mia!” is that true love comes but once in a lifetime, the show itself – which uses the highly synthesized … more

PROVIDENCE – I was dreading seeing this musical. Scarred by the rural TV comedies of my youth, the likes of “Petticoat Junction,” “Green Acres” and … more

BOSTON – “We are moving all too quickly from living history to historical memory,” notes the website for the National Jewish Theater Foundation, which serves as an archive for over … more