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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about MP: Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody @ The Culture Club, Girls Chance Music @ Vineyard Theatre, Indian Princesses @ Atlantic Theater, Dad Don’t Read This @ St. Luke’s Theatre, Spamilton: An American Parody 10th Anniversary Concert @ 54 Below, Bedlam’s Othello @ West End Theatre, Turandot @ The Met, Small @ Signature Center, and Celebrity Autobiography @ Shubert Theatre
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Panel:
Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day desk calendar – A SHOW TUNE FOR TODAY – 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year – is available at finer retailers!
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Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE has been a theater journalist for more than 50 years. The founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other publications, and he writes reviews of cabaret shows for NiteLifeExchange.com. Additionally, Michael is known as a producer and director of shows at 54 Below, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and other venues.
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James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
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In Review: ‘Masquerade’ Off-Broadway production
Topic: Awards Season
Next week (June 7) we will make our Tony Awards picks (The morning of The Tony Awards)
Reviews
MP: Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody @ The Culture Club, through September 7, 2026
Adam Feldman
Pet peeve of the day: Marketing is marketing, I know, but it bugs me a little that Titaníque keeps saying it started in the basement of a Gristedes! It started at Asylum NYC, which was located in a long-established downstairs theater space that had formerly been the Upright Citizens Brigade, and before that the Maverick, and before that the American Jewish Rep, and before that the Roundabout. Yes, there was a Gristedes above that space for a time, but Asylum was very much a real theater, not a grocery-store basement pop-up.
PF: Three reviews of plays about teenage girls:
Girls Chance Music @ Vineyard Theatre, through June 21, 2026
Indian Princesses @ Atlantic Theater‘s Linda Gross Theater, through June 7, 2026
Dad Don’t Read This @ St. Luke’s Theatre, closed May 30, 2026
MP: Spamilton: An American Parody 10th Anniversary Concert @ 54 Below, May 24, 2026
PF: Bedlam’s Othello @ West End Theatre, through May 31, 2026
MP: Turandot @ The Met, through June 6, 2026
PF: Small @ The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, through July 25, 2026
PF: Celebrity Autobiography @ Shubert Theatre, through August 16, 2026
Linda was back for her SIXTH helping of Celebrity Autobiography!!
News:
MP + PF: The New Dramatists Annual Spring Luncheon, honoring multi-award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, was held on Tuesday, May 26, in the Broadway Ballroom at the New York Marriott Marquis (1535 Broadway, between 45th and 46th Streets).
MICHAEL’S NEW DRAMATISTS PHOTO FEATURE FOR TALKINBROADWAY:
https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/rialto/past/2026/Dramatists.html
Future Episodes:
Peter’s Brainteaser:
Gwen Verdon, Lucinda Ballard, Phyllis Newman, Beatrice Arthur and Carlyn Glynn are all Tony-winning women who had something else in common.
What?
Michael’s Musical Moments
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
Music Opener: “Morning Glow” – Michael Jackson
Music Closer: “Beautiful City,” Caissie Levy performance at May 26 New Dramatists luncheon honoring Stephen Schwartz
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