When Eulalie Spence died in 1981 at age 86, her obituary noted that she was a retired school teacher but didn't mention that she was als...

While Betty Smith is famous today for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , her great love was playwrighting; she wrote over 70 one-act and f...

As made clear in James Lapine's must-read Putting It Together (review here ), the development of his and Stephen Sondheim's  Sunday ...

Among Václav Havel's extraordinary traits--talent, bravery, more bravery--his compassion is in some ways the most impressive. In his one...

It was sad to see Ain't No Mo' come and go so quickly, but was Broadway the right place for it? I get the attraction of Broadway. It...

My third viewing of the amazing Hadestown  was from third row mezz on a Wednesday matinee. Although I have an aversion to Wednesday matinees...