James Marino, Michael Portantiere and Jan Simpson review Pacific Overtures @ Classic Stage Company, The New Group’s production of The Whirligig, Seven Spots on the Sun @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Mint Theater Company’s production of The Lucky One. We discuss the controversy surrounding an Oregon production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? read more
This Week on Broadway for May 21, 2017: Pacific Overtures and WOOLF Casting [ 1:05:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPeter Filichia, James Marino and Jan Simpson talk about some of The 2017 Tony Award Nominations. This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since March 16, 2009. It is the longest running Broadway and theatrical podcast with more than 400 shows giving thousands of reviews and hundreds of read more
This Week on Broadway for May 7, 2017: The 2017 Tony Award Nominations [ 1:14:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadJames Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson talk with playwright Richard Greenberg. Reviews include The Encounter, Daddy Issues, All the Ways to Say I Love You, and The Midtown Men. ———————————- This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week (mostly) since March 16, 2009 and is the longest running Broadway read more
This Week on Broadway for October 9, 2016: Richard Greenberg [ 58:04 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadLindsay Barenz, James Marino, and Jan Simpson discuss talk with playwright Bess Wohl about Small Mouth Sounds and her other work. Peter Filichia and Michael Portantiere join after for reviews of All the Ways to Say I Love You, The Encounter, The Trial of an American President, Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Marni Nixon Memorial, and Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History read more
This Week on Broadway for October 2, 2016: Bess Wohl [ 1:05:53 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPeter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson discuss Cats, Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Men on Boats, Butler, La Fanciulla Del West, Quietly, Broadway Unplugged, and Alice in Black & White. ———————————- This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week (mostly) since March 16, 2009 and read more
James Marino, Michael Portantiere and Jan Simpson review Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of The Father. Jan catches us up with her reviews of Blackbird, Bright Star, Dry Powder and Kings. Michael is back from his visit to DC where he saw 110 in the Shade @ Ford’s Theatre, and Cat on a Hot read more
This Week on Broadway for April 24, 2016: The Father, I Am Anne Hutchinson, I Am Harvey Milk [ 1:10:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
James is a technologist who has an affinity for Broadway, the theatre and music. In the late 90's he started BroadwayStars.com, one of the first Broadway-centric websites. You can usually find James staring at a screen when not seated in a theatre.
