Words and Phrases that Bug the Hell Out of Me (especially when they're Overworked in Commercials, Diplomatic-speak or Columns like Mine)

By Hal Drucker

July 2010

Legally Blonde; The Musical, Time Stands Still, Everyday Rapture, Fences, Come Fly Away, Promises, Promises, Race, Fela!, Rock of Ages, With a Song in His Heart

By Hal Drucker

Hal Drucker's Picks For The 2009/2010 Theater Season
Red, Sondheim on Sondheim, Fences, Closer Than Ever, Finian’s Rainbow, Zero Hour

By Hal Drucker

February 2010
Time Stands Still, Ragtime, A Little Night Music, Race, The Understudy, Present Laughter, A View from the Bridge, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Fela!, Rock of Ages, The Book of Eli, It’s Complicated!, Me and Orson Welles, North Face, The Messenger, Brothers, The Girl on the Train, Crazy Heart, The Frick Collection, American Folk Art Museum, Wild Thyme

By Hal Drucker

Hal Drucker's Top 9* Movies of 2009
(*in deference to the movie Nine, and because I don’t have a 10th top movie)

By Hal Drucker

November 2009
Finian’s Rainbow, Hamlet, A Steady Rain, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Superior Donuts, The Royal Family, The Night Watcher, Bye Bye Birdie, Memphis, ‘Broke-Ology’, Amelia, The Informant!, An Education, American Stories; Paintings of Everyday Life, Kandinsky, Serge Sabarsky Collection, Rosemary Connor

By Hal Drucker

August/September 2009
Julie and Julia, Cloud 9, A Woman in Berlin, The Hurt Locker, God of Carnage, Pure Confidence, Kalkwerk, Jazz in July Festival, Anita O’Day, Celebrating Giacomo Puccini's 150th Birthday

By Hal Drucker

June/July 2009
Twelfth Night, Free Concerts, Mostly Mozart, Jazz In July Festival At The 92nd Street Y, Bloomsday On Broadway, Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files, They Called Me Mayer July, Rarely Seen Drawings in the Middle Ages, First Complete 2-Disc Recording Of Allegro

By Hal Drucker

Top Broadway and Off-Broadway picks for the 2008-2009 Season

By Hal Drucker

May 2009
God of Carnage, West Side Story, Hair, Next to Normal, Happiness, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, South Pacific

By Hal Drucker

March 2009
Guys and Dolls, The Cripple of Inishmaan, 33 Variations, Blithe Spirit

By Hal Drucker

My 25 Favorite Movie Comedies

By Hal Drucker

Februrary 2009
God Save the Scream, The Class, Speed the Plow, Pal Joey, MoMA

By Hal Drucker

January 2009
Slumdog Millionaire, Doubt, W, Revolutionary Road, Last Chance Harvey, The Changeling, Burn after Reading, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Yonkers Joe, Cargo 200, Waltz with Bashir, Saturn Returns

By Hal Drucker and Zach Drucker

Top Ten Movies of 2008

By Hal Drucker

November 2008
Billy Elliot the Musical, American Buffalo, A Body of Water, A Tale of Two Cities, All My Sons, A Man For All Seasons, Three Changes, Dividing the Estate, Boleros for the Disenchanted, The Seagull, Tell No One, I've Loved You So Long, A Secret, Happy Go Lucky

By Hal Drucker