As you read this, we are in the second day of summer, a season I appreciate (for all the life, the beauty, the cooling pool outside, the...

Stephen Sondheim was taken from us in late 2021, but since his posthumous cameo in Glass Onion, the wildly uneven follow-up to Knives...

Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...

I tried to understand cats for years. The animals, I mean. I’m such an animal lover now that most people would be horrified to know I was...

I either don’t remember or I don’t care. Not remembering can be forgiven, not being remembered cannot be. Not caring can be freeing, but...

A flop can close in one night or a week—a couple perhaps. On Broadway, that is. The West End is not known for too many gregariously long...

How do you follow up a colossal megahit like The Phantom of the Opera? That must have been the question on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mind...

In the 1960s-70s, the world of musical theatre changed rapidly. The introduction of rock and roll all but decimated the days when a...