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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Every Brilliant Thing, Ulster American @ Irish Rep, Zack @ Mint Theater Company, The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits @ SoHo Playhouse, Calf Scramble @ 59e59, Timeless: Ben Jones Sings 100 Years of the American Songbook @ The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Trash @ the Perelman Performing Arts Center, and Spare Parts @ Theatre Row.
Tony Award® winner Daniel Radcliffe returns to the stage in the hilarious and heartwarming play, Every Brilliant Thing.
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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! Peter also has columns at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select, and many other places.
Showtune for Today: A Married Man from Baker Street
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.
An Evening with Charles Busch, Tuesday, March 31, 2026 @ The Laurie Beechman Theatre + Live Stream!
James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
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MP + PF: Every Brilliant Thing @ Hudson Theatre, through May 24, 2026
One Actor.
One Audience.
One million reasons.
Tony Award® winner Daniel Radcliffe returns to the stage in the hilarious and heartwarming play, Every Brilliant Thing.
In this one-of-a-kind solo show, a man looks back at his life and the glimmers of hope that carried him through. All told through a list of every wonderful, beautiful, and delightful thing—big, small, and everything in between—that makes life worth living.
After being performed in over 80 countries, this beloved hit finally arrives on Broadway for thirteen weeks only at The Hudson Theatre.
MP: Ulster American @ Irish Rep, through May 10, 2026
Ulster American by David Ireland is a savagely funny play that dissects the intersection of identity politics, ego, privilege, and the Northern Irish “Troubles” with satirical precision.
On the evening before rehearsals begin for her new work, Ulster-born playwright Ruth Davenport (Geraldine Hughes) visits the home of English director Leigh Carver (Max Baker), along with Oscar-winning Hollywood star Jay Conway (Matthew Broderick) who has just arrived in London to star in the world premiere. What begins as a cordial gathering to discuss the upcoming production quickly descends into a brutal psychological brawl as egos, ideologies, and historical baggage collide. A theatrical hand grenade disguised as a drawing-room comedy, Ulster American explosively reveals some raw contradictions at the heart of modern storytelling and political posturing.
PF: Zack @ Mint Theater Company, through March 28, 2026
(Michael reviewed Zack on last week’s show)
MP: The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits @ SoHo Playhouse, through March 28, 2026
(Part of the SoHo Playhouse International Fringe Encore Series)
The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits centers around a mysterious dinner between two couples that unexpectedly erupts into a gripping 21st-century class war. As the characters clash with their wits, nostalgia, and sexual tensions, the play raises provocative questions about relationships and the complexities of a reunion with an ex-spouse and her new partner.
What begins as an awkward evening between two couples evolves into a revealing battle of desire, economics, and personal history, gradually escalating through a series of surprising revelations that push the characters—and audience—into darker emotional territory.
The play features four characters, each portrayed by Richardson Cisneros-Jones as Carson, Rebecca Larsen as Danielle, Leigh Wulff as Elise, and Schoen Hodges as Bobby.
PF: Calf Scramble @ 59e59, through April 12, 2026
By Libby Carr
Directed by Caitlin Sullivan
With Ferin Bergen, Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Marvelyn Ramirez, Elisa Tarquinio, and Gabriela Veciana
Deep in a dusty East Texas barn, five teenage girls raise calves and wrestle with what it means to be good – at school, at God, at girlhood. CALF SCRAMBLE is a fiercely original, darkly funny coming-of-age tale soaked in sweat, scripture, and competition, where faith is tangled with survival, and tenderness bucks like a wild animal.
James Caverly and Andrew Morrill in TRASH, An Out of the Box Theatrics Production Written By James Caverly and Andrew Morrill and Directed by Nathaniel P. Claridad running at Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) through March 28, 2026. Photo by Rebecca J. Michelson
PF: Trash @ the Perelman Performing Arts Center, through March 28, 2026
An Out of the Box Theatrics Production
By James Caverly and Andrew Morrill
Directed by Nathaniel P. Claridad
Living together is one thing. Understanding each other? That can get messy.
Tim and Jake may be Deaf roommates sharing an apartment in the city, but not much else. They’re polar opposites—each with very different views on what it means to be Deaf in a hearing world. When it comes to taking out the trash, they spiral into a comic and insightful examination of their personal garbage—and their perceptions of each other’s lives.
Trash offers audiences an extraordinary theatrical experience. Performed almost exclusively in ASL (American Sign Language), the staging employs inventive devices that allow all audiences to understand the play (and each other) in new and profound ways.
PF: Spare Parts @ Theatre Row, through April 16, 2026
A New Play
Written by: David J. Glass
Directed by: Michael Herwitz
Starring Two-Time Tony Nominee Rob McClure, Michael Genet, Matthew Walker, and Jonny-James Kajoba
From the writer of Love + Science, praised by The New York Times for its “meticulous drama” and “precision… like a lab experiment,” Spare Parts is a sharp, darkly funny, and deeply unsettling new play that collides cutting-edge science with unchecked ambition.
When a billionaire obsessed with immortality funds radical aging research, ethical lines blur, power dynamics implode, and a shocking secret comes to light—one that turns the quest for longer life into a chilling examination of identity, consent, and what it really means to be human.
Spare Parts asks the question we’re all thinking but rarely say out loud: what does it cost to live forever?
News:
Future Episodes:
PF: Tru @ The House of the Redeemer Truman Capote w/ Jesse Tyler Ferguson opens March 19
Peter’s Brainteaser:
He produced 16 shows on Broadway. Seven had titles that had many words in common. He also produced a revival of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that became a musical in the same year that he produced one of those seven similarly named shows.
Who is he? What are the seven shows? What’s the play that he revived and what’s the name of the musical that it became?
Michael’s Musical Moments
MY FAIR LADY, OBC
Music Opener: Overture
Music Closer: “The Rain in Spain” – Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Robert Coote
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Weeknight Cassoulet
Ingredients
4 tablespoonolive oil, divided
4 sweet Italian sausages (about 1 pound total)
1 onion (any color), chopped
1 stalk celery, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, smashed and chopped
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Two (15.5-ounce) cans cannellini or white northern beans (undrained)
1 cup water
1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
1 cup panko, coarse fresh bread crumbs, or cracker crumbs
1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley
Directions
• Step 1
Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Prick sausages all over with the tip of a knife. Add the sausages to the skillet and cook, turning occasionally, until brown all over, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board.
• Step 2
Add onion, celery, and garlic to the skillet and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring often, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add beans and their liquid, the water, and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer. Slice sausages and return to the skillet. Stir in the vinegar and remove from heat.
• Step 3
Preheat broiler with rack in the top position. In a small bowl, stir panko, parsley, and remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil. Season the bread crumbs with a little salt and pepper and scatter over beans and sausage. Transfer the skillet to the oven and broil (watch carefully! Broilers vary like crazy) until the top is golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes. Let cool slightly before serving.
