THEATRE'S LEITER SIDE

Saturday, November 30, 2024

LEITER LOOKS AT BOOKS (38th ed.): Ken Bloom. SHOW & TELL: THE NEW BOOK OF BROADWAY ANECDOTES

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  For my review of Ken Bloom's Show & Tell: The New Book of Broadway Anecdotes  please click on THEATER PIZZAZZ.
Friday, November 29, 2024

40. THE BLOOD QUILT (seen November 24, 2024)

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  Lauren E. Banks, Mirirai, Adrienne C. Moore, Susan Kelechi Watson, Crystal Dickinson. All photos: Julieta Cervantes. Pulitzer-winning Ka...
Monday, November 25, 2024

39. DEATH BECOMES HER (seen November 23, 2024)

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  On November 21, the Broadway musical version of the 1992 movie Death Becomes Her opened, followed a day later by the movie version of the ...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

LEITER LOOKS AT BOOKS (37th ed.): Richard Nelson. A DIARY OF WAR & THEATRE: MAKING THEATRE IN KYIV, SPRING 2024

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For my review of Richard Nelson's A Diary of Love and War please click on THEATER PIZZAZZ.  
Friday, November 22, 2024

38. ELF (seen November 21, 2024)

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Two and a half hours is kind of long for a glorified children’s show, even one with a few adult words and innuendoes. However, the Marquis T...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

37. BABE (seen November 16, 2024)

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  Marisa Tomei, nearing 60, retains much of the same intelligently feisty girlishness that blasted her to stardom in 1992’s My Cousin Vinny ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

36. TAMMY FAYE (seen November 17, 2024)

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    Even if not technically a jukebox musical, Tammy Faye , which opened on Broadway last week, often seems like one. This is the show that,...
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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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