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...

For the next two weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I continue to celebrate my mentor and teacher...

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...

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...