Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Punch @ Manhattan Theatre Club, MURDOCH: The Final Interview @ Theater555, Caroline @ MCC Theater, Oklahoma! @ Northern Kentucky University, Mexodus @ Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, The Other Americans @ The Public Theater, Pen Pals @ DR2 Theatre, Marilyn, Mom & Me, Sweeney Todd @ NYU, Torera @ WP Theater, and Nothing Like Broadway! @ The Marjorie S Deane Little Theater

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Will Harrison as Jacob, Lucy Taylor as Mum in Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Punch by James Graham, directed by Adam Penford. ©Matthew Murphy

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Panel:

Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day desk calendar – A SHOW TUNE FOR TODAY – 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year – is available at finer retailers! Peter also has columns at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select, and many other places.

Showtune for Today: Why Can’t We All Be Nice? from Goodtime Charlie

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Rehearsal of one of Peter’s play at a high school in Fairfield High School

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Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist. He is the founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.

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James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Facebook
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Will Harrison as Jacob in Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Punch by James Graham, directed by Adam Penford. ©Matthew Murphy

PF + MP + JM: Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Punch @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, through November 2, 2025
by James Graham
directed by Adam Penford
Based on the book Right From Wrong by Jacob Dunne
with Camila Canó-Flaviá, Victoria Clark, Will Harrison, Cody Kostro, Piter Marek, Sam Robards, Lucy Taylor

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Sam Robards, Vicki Clark, Camilla Canó-Flaviá and Will Harrison in Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Punch, written by James Graham, directed by Adam Penford. ©Matthew Murphy

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PF: MURDOCH: The Final Interview @ Theater555, through December 28, 2025
Controversial media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, faces the cameras, a live audience and a mysterious interviewer as he attempts to secure his legacy. Over ninety minutes Murdoch encounters family members, Presidents, newspaper editors, FOX NEWS creator, Roger Ailes, and finally, wrestles, literally, with an inscrutable monster. It’s the shocking, fair and balanced interview you’ve been waiting for written by an unnamed source, performed by a single actor.

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Caroline production photos by Emilio Madrid

MP + PF: Caroline @ MCC Theater, through November 16, 2025
When Maddie is forced to seek the help of her long-estranged mother, she finds herself unable to shield her daughter Caroline from the inescapable circumstances that fractured their family. A world premiere play by Preston Max Allen, directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer, Caroline is a luminous and intimate story about the possibility of redemption and the complex relationships between generations of mothers and daughters.

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PF: Oklahoma! @ Northern Kentucky University, through October 5, 2025
NKU Fine Arts Center – Corbett Theatre
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story. Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country r