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If Adam Lambert Fails to Win American Idol, Is America Homophobic?
So now we’re down to three finalists on American Idol. But as far as I’m concerned, there has only been one realistic contender this season: Adam Lambert. Mind you, I’m not a rabid American Idol fan. I find the product-placement pseudo-commercials that are de regueur at the top of each episode cheesier than an Amsterdam grocery. Then
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On Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Legacy and American Cultural Treasures
When I read last week that the rights to the oeuvre of Rodgers and Hammerstein — including the collaborators’ huge, beloved song catalog and the musicals themselves that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote — had been sold to Imagem Music
I Have Only 100, 200, 300 Words. How Do I Write a Fair Review?
On Performance Monkey, a nifty, jazzy blog by a Londoner named David Jay that I have been following, there is a post about a problem I have often faced myself as a theate critic: insufficient word
The Tony Nominations: Torn Between Two Feelings, Feelin’ Like a Fool
Is it maturity or disillusionment? When I was a kid, starting when I was about 12 or so and continuing on for years, the annual announcement of the Tony nominations was the second-holiest day of the year for me, right behind the Tony Awards ceremony itself each June. But in recent years, including all
Bad Behavior at the Theater: Reviving an Old Tradition
Sitting quietly and immobile this evening as I watched (endured? felt sympathy for?) Manhattan Theatre Club’s rather wan revival of Accent on Youth, the sound of crinkle-crinkle-crinkle catapulted from the rear of the house toward the front like a gust of wind. Everyone turned around — it
The Pleasures and Perils of Chasing the Fox (News)
This past Monday was an interesting day. Not just because, if you don’t mind me tooting my horn a little bit, Crain’s New York Business came out with a profile of me and The Clyde Fitch Report, but
Artists Fight Urban Blight: Casualty of the Recession?
The process by which neglected and depressed urban areas are revivified by artists, who are always seeking cheap rents and spaces in which to do their work, has been written and examined so closely and for so long that I’m unsure if there’s anything else to be said about the dynamic beyond
When Does the Backlash Against the Susan Boyle Backlash Begin?
It was inevitable, you know. Really, it’s a classic American trait to build up our heroes and then tear them down in a merciless feeding frenzy. Why? To create the kind of second-chance-comeback story we love to lap up. In the case of Susan Boyle, what has happened is that this typically American
How Walter Brandes Plans to Storm the Barricades of Actors’ Equity
Yesterday I became privy to an email that went out on Glory’s List that was actually copied from a string of posts on the website of the Oberon Theatre Ensemble. One of its members, Walter Brandes,