After a few technical difficulties, ‘Take Me to the World’ was the Sondheim celebration that theater-starved Broadway babies were waiting for
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Intermission Talk: Five Bites of the Apple (Family)
Richard Nelson’s newest installment in his celebrated Apple Family series “opens” online on Wednesday, and the first four plays are available for viewing
Intermission Talk: Buyer & Cellar Online—Sold!
Performing Jonathan Tolins’s Streisand-centric fable live and online, Michael Urie hits it out of the park
The Feingold Column: My Recycled Repertoire, and Why (Barrie’s ‘Admirable Crichton’)
I have a notion for what might be a four-play repertory season. The title most likely to be recognized is the British specimen, James M. Barrie’s ‘The Admirable Crichton.’
Intermission Talk: Outrageous Slings and Arrows
The exceptional Canadian series, set at a facsimile of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, is re-released just in time for us to savor it
Intermission Talk: One Man, Two Guvnors, Your Screen
National Theatre Live brings James Corden and his Tony-winning performance into your home
Intermission Talk: Bob Avian’s Fleet-Footed Show-Biz Memoir
The choreographer-director recalls his active career, including the Michael Bennett years
The Feingold Column: Songs to Write Plays By–Part 2
The simplicity, even the banality, of a popular tune can be the arresting feature that gives a play its strength
Intermission Talk: About the Alan Jay Lerner-Kurt Weill “Love Life”
An influential, pioneering concept musical from 1948 which lost its way
Intermission Talk: How Broadway Singing Fell Prey to Pop Music’s Excesses, and Why There’s Hope
On keeping singing in musical theater about storytelling, rather than showboating