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If you’re attending that musical version of TWELFTH NIGHT on December 12, you can forget about seeing Malvolio and Sir Toby Belch. When Donald Driver, Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar adapted Shakespeare’s 1601 hit, they dropped two of The Bard’s most famous comic characters. They even had the cheek to drop Sir Andrew Aguecheek, too. […]

By Peter Filichia It’s already been a year since we lost Stephen Sondheim, but now we have another way of remembering him. Paul Salsini, who founded The Sondheim Review in 1994 and kept at it for ten solid years, has now published Sondheim & Me. Think of it as The Sondheim Review’s Greatest Hits. Many […]

So many have asked me “Have you read it?” without even naming the book. I know they mean Mary Rodgers’ SHY. Sure, I have, for I knew Mary. Although I can’t tell you the date on which I interviewed her, I know the year was 1991, for I headlined my story, “Hello, I’m Mary Rodgers.” […]

You’re a Good Man, Michael Presser. Hail to the founder and executive director of Inside Broadway, now in its 40th year of bringing theater to kids – and kids to the theater. One of Presser’s projects is the Summer Stock, Jr. series. It has allowed kids who ranged in age from nine through 16 to […]

Although many musical theater enthusiasts know that Stephen Sondheim criticized the lyrics of Lorenz Hart and Ira Gershwin, they may not know that he could be just as tough on Ted Chapin’s typing. On the 1971 production of FOLLIES – 10 years before he’d start a 40-year tenure as president and chief creative officer of […]