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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about La Cage Aux Folles @ City Center Encores!, West Side Story @ Paper Mill, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic @ Carnegie Hall, HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts @ The Public Theater, The 15th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, and Camping @ HERE.
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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!
Showtune for Today: That’s Your Funeral from Oliver!
“Happy Birthday to You and to You” (“Side Show” Original Cast Recording) (Peter Filichia and Jason Robert Brown’s birthdays were yesterday — June 20)
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.
July 1-3: See Michael in 1776! @ Ghostlight Players on Staten Island
James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
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Reviews
PF: La Cage Aux Folles @ City Center Encores!, through June 28, 2026
MP: West Side Story @ Paper Mill, through June 28, 2026
MP: National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic @ Carnegie Hall, Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Led by Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist Marin Alsop, the NOI Philharmonic makes its Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage debut in a program that weaves together multiple perspectives on the American experience. The evening includes selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story and On the Town, alongside Gabriela Ortiz’s lively, percussive Antrópolis and Kevin Puts’s concerto Contact, a work that highlights the need for human connection. The orchestra is joined on Contact by the genre-crossing trio Time for Three.
PF: HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts @ The Public Theater (Newman Theater), through July 19, 2026
By William Shakespeare
A Trilogy in Two Parts
Adapted and Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried
Part 1: Foreign Wars
Part 2: Civil Strife
PF: The 15th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, June 16, 2026 @ Sardi’s
PF: Camping @ HERE, through July 11, 2026
“This is a love story. It’s hands that smell of Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue after days spent clutching fistfuls of her hair. It’s the rain hitting the earth in a way that reminds you of blood, that makes you think the world’s holding a knife to your underwear. It’s the spins. It’s running out of air because you gulped too much of it while you were sobbing. It’s waking up hot and sticky. It’s desperately falling in love with your best friend inside a camping tent while everything outside rages.
In Victoria Lynne Barclay’s Camping, Brit and Ari collide over and over again, reaching for each other across the fractures that are born of time and distance. Three decades. One tent. A million things left unsaid.”
News:
MP: Upcoming – Misterman by Enda Walsh @
Trump’s name Removed from Kennedy Center
‘A Literal Coverup’: What Is the Kennedy Center Hiding Behind Those Tarps? By Elizabeth Williamson
The arts center says it pulled President Trump’s name from the building front. But the result remains hidden by tarps, prompting questions and speculation.
Renovations Approved for Studio 54 Theater At 254 West 54th Street in Midtown, Manhattan
Under a Turtle Shell, a Stunning New Home for Shakespeare By Jesse Green
After 38 years in a tent, Hudson Valley Shakespeare opens one of the most spectacular outdoor performance spaces in the country.
Future Episodes:
Peter’s Brainteaser:
A character’s original name was Baldi in a property that became a musical that’s currently on the boards.
What the character’s name in the musical?
What’s the musical and name of the original property?
Michael’s Musical Moments
EMMET CAHILL
LINK TO LIVE SHOW AT 54 BELOW:
Music Opener: “The Impossible Dream”
Music Closer: “Beauty and the Beast”
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