Barry Singer (on The ARTS and Otherwise)
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Notes
Archive
About
"OEDIPUS:" The Candidate Self-Smeared
Oedipus is a tough one.
Dec 30, 2025
•
Barry Singer
Latest
Top
"SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS:" Match me, Sidney
I walked into MasterVoices’ recent concert revival of the musical Sweet Smell of Success at Jazz @ L.C.’s Rose Theater carrying a lot of baggage; or…
Dec 13, 2025
•
Barry Singer
3
"QUEEN OF VERSAILLES:" The Country Takes A Bow
I called Stephen Schwartz to talk about Queen of Versailles after I saw it.
Dec 6, 2025
•
Barry Singer
2
"LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD:" Grasping For Life Behind A Screen
Sometimes you turn up the TV to hear better; other times, to hear better, you just turn it off.
Nov 28, 2025
•
Barry Singer
"BAT BOY:" A Bloody Fountain of Youth
I am not really the audience for Bat Boy: The Musical, so I’m writing about its recent high-octane revival at Encores! as an outsider looking in — kinda…
Nov 17, 2025
•
Barry Singer
"ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS:" Sing Out Loramentum
Oratorio for Living Things, by the recently-MacArthur-awarded composer Heather Christian, has its own antecedents but is still unlike almost anything…
Nov 13, 2025
•
Barry Singer
"RAGTIME:" NOW!
The devastating new production of Ragtime that just opened at Lincoln Center Theater has hurled me back in time to the original Ragtime, which I first…
Nov 3, 2025
•
Barry Singer
2
TROUBLE? Right Here in River City?
We are back.
Oct 13, 2025
•
Barry Singer
See all
Barry Singer (on The ARTS and Otherwise)
Music - Theater - Musical Theater - Books. And Otherwise
Subscribe
Recommendations
Uta’s Substack
Uta Hagen & Herbert Berghof
MARQUEE: The Broadway Maven's Weekly Blast
David Benkof
Theatrewise
Ruth Leon
MuchoMusic by Dan Fortune
MuchoMusic from Dan Fortune
Barry Singer (on The ARTS and Otherwise)
Subscribe
About
Archive
Recommendations
Sitemap
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts