I recently discussed the upcoming theater season on WNYC with Adam Feldman from Time Out New York. You can listen to us go at it here. What bears repeating is that while some quarters are bemoaning a tired-looking slate on Broadway (as opposed to the cutting edge we usually get?), I see the glass as half-full. OK, so new American authors can’t get a break on Broadway (you have to look off for that) and the play revival are a snooze, but the upcoming tuners are promising. “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” and “Spider-Man”? You’d have to have zero interest in musical theater not to be at least intrigued. Add the transfer of “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” and “The Scottsboro Boys” — two radically different works — and those declaring the genre dead need to wait a bit longer before calling the “CSI” team.

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