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 the Tony Committee wants to promote any particular season, and for this season, it’s not much. Pop superstar Pink, whose sole connection to Broadway is … Read more
Welcome back to the final round of the 6th Annual Marco Awards, this time for Excellence in Theatre. Looking at this year’s nominees we are getting a valuable lesson in the mindset of Broadway theatre. These awards arose on 2020-2021 as a comforting mechanism for all of us to deal with the way Covid affected … Read more
So Oscar has moved their ceremony pretty much right on the anniversary that I have rolled out the Marco Awards since their inception, which takes a little of the steam out of my Movie Awards. Thanks Oscar. So I pushed the Movies, which used to be the lead-off of the three, to after TV, and … Read more
Welcome back to round two of the 6th Annual Marco Awards. I time the awards to go off around the anniversary of the event which inspired them—March 13th when covid shut the world down and we were all confined to our TVs and I fielded a myriad of “what are you watching” queries. I have … Read more
This annual wrap up becomes a bit more challenging each year, not only because movies have become so predictable (as well as so brutally violant and so damn long–and I’m not just looking at you, Wicked for Mediocre, I’m hard pressed to find a film under an excrutiating 2 hours and 45 minutes running time), … Read more
This past Sunday evening, excellence and art took center stage as the cultural heartbeat of the nation welcomed the brightest stars of a generation for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors. It’s a night dedicated to artistry, impact, and legacy, and it all began on the red carpet. The parade of cultural icons, in comparatively conservative … Read more
So it’s Tony night again. What used to be a the Superbowl of Broadway has devolved into a 3 hour commercial for whatever the Tony Committee wants to promote any particular season. For the first time since Covid, the Tony’s have decided that Ariana deBose isn’t quite the equivalent of Neil Patrick Harris or Hugh … Read more
It’s 2025. And while life has pretty much returned to normal as far as our entertainment habits, it’s obvious that our viewing habits have changed. The criteria for going to the movies for most is stricter now that we’ve spent years watching first run movies immediately to weeks later on our home screens. Virtually no … Read more
Welcome back to the 5th Annual Marco Awards. Another round of writers’ strikes have made this year an odd one, which is more the norm than not after covid. Many new series, missing old series, and some that have come back after a long absence as they finally have been able to complet their work. … Read more
Can I tell you again how badly I was caught off-guard for this weekend’s Tony awards because of simple ennui. Broadway has been on an assault of it’s audience since Covid. New Broadway was going to show their audiences what they need to be seeing, and the audiences are being asked to fork over hundreds … Read more