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Our Holiday Gift List For The Theater Buff In The House

Theater buffs are the easiest people to shop for on your holiday list, as our Brad Hathaway proves in his annual roundup. By Brad Hathaway Broadway Cast Albums: Hamilton 2015 Broadway Cast Atlantic...

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Bookshelf: Hirschfeld, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Michael Caine

By Bill Hirschman If you’re a theater aficionado and received a nice check from your mother for the holidays or maybe from a busy relative gave you a gift card to Barnes & Noble, what should you...

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Maltz’s Brighton Beach Memoirs Makes Strong Memories

Anthony Zambito as Eugene turns from the family dinner to talk to the audience in Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Brighton Beach Memoirs / Photos by Zak Bennett By Oline H. Cogdill Home is the place where they...

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Book Review: Bob Avian’s Engrossing Inside Look At Broadway “Dancing Man “

By Bill Hirschman Dancing Man, A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey, by Bob Avian with Tom Santopietro, University Press of Mississippi, 207 pages Theater, more than perhaps any other genre, is a...

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Book Review: Stoppard Bio Is As Complex As The Man Himself

Tom Stoppard: A Life, by Hermoine Lee. Knopf. 24 pages of photos. 872 pages. $35 ISBN 978-0-451-49322-4. Available Feb. 23By Bill HirschmanMost biographies factually mirror the life and times of their...

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Review: In The Room Where Sunday in the Park Happened

 By Bill Hirschman Putting it Together (How Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park With George), by James Lapine, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 390 pages, $40. It’s an oft-repeated truism that in...

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Noel Coward On Noel Coward, Acting, Writing And “Theatre”

Noel Coward On (And In) Theatre, edited and with commentary by Barry Day, Knopf. 183 photos. 496 pages. $40 By Bill Hirschman        Noël Coward meant to write a full tome on “Theatre” but time, health...

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Book Review: New Sondheim Volume More About Interviewer

By Bill Hirschman Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim, by D.T. Max, Harper, $20.99, 244 pages Backing into this: Early last month, deep into reading D.T. Max’s modest new volume Finale,...

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Book Review: Gorgeous, Insightful View of Collaboration in ‘Designing Broadway’

Designing Broadway, by Derek McLain and Eila Mell, Running Press (Hatchette Book Group), 272 pages; list price $45, $33.20 Amazon, used copies $30.   By Bill Hirschman As a rule, responsible critics...

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Review: New Vibrant Sondheim Volume Will Delight Sondheads

By Bill Hirschman Sondheim, His Life, His Shows, His Legacy; by Stephen M. Silverman; Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; 304 pages; $35 (other lower prices available including Kindle) Any Sondhead...

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