THEATRE'S LEITER SIDE

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

2025: WHAT I DID THIS YEAR

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 By Sam Leiter As Stephen Sondheim’s great song from Follies goes, "I’m Still Here,” but that tenuous grasp on existence was tested s...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

LEITER LOOKS AT BOOKS: Barbara Wallace Grossman's A SPECTACLE OF SUFFERING: CLARA MORRIS ON THE AMERICAN STAGE

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  For my review of Barbara Wallace Grossman's A SPECTACLE OF SUFFERING: CLARA MORRIS ON THE AMERICAN STAGE
Thursday, December 4, 2025

30. PLAYING SHYLOCK (seen December 3, 2025)

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  For my review of Playing Shylock please click on THEATER LIFE.
Sunday, November 23, 2025

29. CHESS (seen on November 21, 2025)

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  For my review of Chess please click on THEATER SCENE .
Thursday, November 20, 2025

28. REUNIONS (seen November 18, 2025)

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  For my review of Reunions please click on Theater Life .
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

LEITER LOOKS AT BOOKS: David Armstrong's BROADWAY NATION: HOW IMMIGRANT, JEWISH, QUEER, AND BLACK ARTISTS INVENTED THE BROADWAY MUSICAL

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       For my review of David Armstrong's BROADWAY NATION please click on Theater Pizzazz.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

27. OEDIPUS (seen November 15, 2025)

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  For my review of Oedipus please click on Theater Pizzazz .
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Samuel L. Leiter
Howard Beach, New York, United States
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre), Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Drama Desk voter. Author/editor of 31 books. Most recent: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE (2024); MEIJI KABUKI (2022); KABUKI AT THE CROSSROADS (2014). Selected others: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEW YORK STAGE, 1920-1930, 1930-1940, 1940-1950; SHAKESPEARE AROUND THE GLOBE; FROM BELASCO TO BROOK; FROM STANISLAVSKY TO BARRAULT; THE GREAT STAGE DIRECTORS; FROZEN MOMENTS; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN THEATRE; HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE TRADITIONAL THEATRE; THE ART OF KABUKI; KABUKI PLAYS ON STAGE (4 vols.), etc. “Back-translations”: THE LION KING, AIDA, and WICKED for Tokyo productions. Blogs: KABUKI WOOGIE and THEATRE'S LEITER SIDE. Regular contributor: THEATER PIZZAZZ, THEATER LIFE. slleiter@gmail.com
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