At a recent dinner with like-minded Broadway enthusiasts, one told of a director whose vision hadn't worked for what could have otherwise been a really good musical. Soon after, another spoke of a different director who had taken a musical that many ...

So why would the new musical Loving Repeating - called "a play within a lecture" - make me think of the slam-bang, razz-ma-tazz musical Mame?Well, for one thing, in Jerry Herman's 1966 smash-hit, he had Vera Charles tell Mame Dennis Burnside ...

It happens at many a performance attended by critics. An actor says a line that resonates with the aisle-sitters, and suddenly these men and women are reaching for their notebooks to precisely take down what they’d just heard.The line they’re ...