THE PLACE for Thoughtful, Frank Reviews and Commentary
You’ve read them all before-reviews that are pompous (the guy at the New York Times), rambling and incomplete (the other guy at the New York Times), or wait to hear what the big boys say and copy them (People, EW, and all other the gossip rag-azines). But here is the place to find the ones you’ve come to expect and respect-the one who tells the truth with a unique combination of introspection, humor, and honesty, even if it sometimes borders on the brutal. The new one-stop for everything about the arts in thoughts and words that speak to you, not down to you. Unless you’re Mariah Carey…
Maybe Happy Ending at the Hippodrome Theatre
In the grand scope of all things theatrical, 2026 has been flat-out disappointing. From a lackluster Broadway season capped by an underwhelming Tony Awards to the neighboring catastrophe as our…
A Beautiful Noise at the Hippodrome Theatre
I’ve heard it said that there are two kinds of people in this world: those who love Neil Diamond, and those who haven’t heard enough Neil Diamond to know they…
Moulin Rouge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Truth. Beauty. Freedom. And, above all, Love. These are the principles by which the young bohemian artists of the Bel Époque Montmartre district of Paris circa 1900 live in their…
2026 Tony Predictions
So it’s Tony night again, which marks the end of Awards Season here. What used to be a the Superbowl of Broadway has devolved into a 3-hour commercial for whatever…
Suffs at the Hippodrome Theatre
My first exposure to the Women’s Suffragette Movement (sorry, Suffragists, the former term was coined by men to belittle their female efforts) was Glynis Johns as Mrs. Banks in Mary…
Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell at the Kimmel Center’s Miller Theatre, Philadelphia
I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday… It was a gentle autumn afternoon early in my senior year at Bishop Walsh High in Cumberland, Maryland, and,…