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Oct 28, 2021

Throwback Thursday: The Music of 'Hot l Baltimore'

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At American Theatre  I've often (though not often enough) had the pleasure of assigning and publishing pieces by my brilliant friend and...
Oct 27, 2021

That's Sahl, Folks

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The passing of humorist Mort Sahl has occasioned no better piece than Jason Zinoman's in the Times . You should go read that now . For a...
Oct 24, 2021

The Review Files: The Richness of 'Caroline'

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  Kenna Ramsey, Tracy Nicole Chapman and Marva Hicks personify a radio in Caroline, or Change . Photo by Craig Schwartz. I was fortunate las...
Oct 6, 2021

Lonergan, Off Again

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Major Matt Mason. In July of 2012, my friend and fellow blogger Isaac Butler asked me write a piece about Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our...
Aug 24, 2021

'Harmony': Pop Musik, 1935 Edition

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  In 2014, L.A.'s Center Theatre Group hosted a run of the  Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical  Harmony , a historical musical about th...
Jun 15, 2021

From the Review Files: Laurents Gets His Revenge on 'West Side Story'

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Karen Olivo and cast of the 2009 revival. (Photo by Joan Marcus) Is West Side Story really all that? I've always been much more smitten ...
Apr 1, 2021

The Passion of La Falconetti

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For a time around the turn of the aughts, I and the crew at Back Stage West did an annual "Actors We Love" issue. Over the years ...
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
is Editor-in-Chief of American Theatre magazine. He has written features and criticism for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Variety, Newsday, Village Voice, Time Out NY, The Guardian, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. He was the founding editor of Back Stage West.
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