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James Marino, Peter Filichia, and Jan Simpson review Music City @ St. Luke’s Theatre, Jonathan Spector’s Birthright @ MCC Theater, Giulia: The Poison Queen Of Palermo @ Perelman Performing Arts Center, Sukkot @ 59e59, The Whoopi Monologues @ LCT, Noël Coward’s This Was a Man @ The Players Club, The Potluck @ Playwrights Horizons, and The Circuit: An Immersive Silent Disco Ballet
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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!
PF: Future Fest in Dayton Ohio
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The audience votes have been tallied and the winner of the Audience Favorite award goes to…Chagutok by Vince Gatton!!!
Congratulations, Vince Gatton, for winning FutureFest 2026 and the Audience Favorite Award!!!
Showtune for Today: Toledo Surprise from The Drowsy Chaperone
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.
James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
BroadwayStars
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
This Could Have Been Shorter By Tania Lombrozo (NPR, February 3, 2014)
Jan Simpson | [email protected] | Facebook | Twitter
Broadway & Me
Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the theater blog Broadway & Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts “All the Drama” and “Stagecraft.” She has served three times as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and currently sits on the executive board of the Outer Critics Circle, is a nominator for the Lortel Awards and is a member of the Drama Desk and the American Theatre Critics Association.
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Reviews
JS + PF: Music City @ St. Luke’s Theatre, through October 31, 2026
PF + JS: Jonathan Spector’s Birthright @ MCC Theater, through August 23, 2026
JS: Giulia: The Poison Queen Of Palermo @ Perelman Performing Arts Center, through August 2, 2026
PF: Sukkot @ 59e59, through August 9, 2026
JS: The Whoopi Monologues @ LCT‘s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, through August 30, 2026
PF: Noël Coward’s This Was a Man @ The Players Club, was one night only, July 20, 2026
Remarkably, this marks the first known New York presentation of the play since its original 1926 premiere.
JS: Soho Rep and INTAR Theatre present César Alvarez’s new musical The Potluck @ Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons, through August 9, 2026
Written by César Alvarez
Directed by Sarah Benson
with Signal Producing Support from Civis Foundation in collaboration with Spirits Go Blah
PF: The Circuit: An Immersive Silent Disco Ballet
THE CIRCUIT is an immersive, site-specific silent disco theatrical experience inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde. It fuses dance, theater, and a live original score into performance. Audience members wear wireless headphones, hearing a fully realized play—including dialogue, monologues, and a live EDM score—while watching choreography unfold in real time through the streets of DUMBO, Brooklyn. Attendees follow performers along a set route, creating a personal and fluid experience. While primarily spectators, audience members may occasionally be invited to join in and dance
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Peter’s Brainteaser:
The play in which he starred opened on the sixth anniversary of the opening of one of the world’s most famous musicals.
His wife opened a comedy 22 days later, on the sixteenth anniversary of a hit musical that’s more remembered for its film version.
His play was a flop; hers wasn’t.
Who are these people? What are their plays and what were the musicals that celebrated anniversaries?
Michael’s Musical Moments
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