You’ll Never Get to Heaven If You Sell Out

I can’t remember the last time I fled a show at the intermission. I must have done it only once or twice in my life. I always feel I should stay, partly out of professional duty and partly because something might happen in the second act to lift the spirits and save the day. You Read More

Rocco to the Rescue! Remember Your Raison d’Etre

I love a man who’s trouble. And exactly how Rocco Landesman turned out to be a man after my own heart is the pretext for this week’s column.

My love for Rocco will doubtless surprise some people, including Rocco himself. He is, after all, the president of Jujamcyn Theaters, whom I once challenged to sit Read More

Peanuts With Your Bard? All Aboard Air Broadway

There goes the neighborhood! (Again.) The news that the Roundabout Theater Company has sold off the name of the historic Selwyn Theater–its new home on Broadway–to American Airlines is only the beginning of the corporate end.

“Let’s take in a show at the American Airlines Theater” lacks a certain something–call it magic–but let our righteousness Read More