Peter Fitzgerald

Off-Broadway Review: “Smokey Joe’s Café” at Stage 42

“Faded pictures in my scrapbook/Just thought I’d take one more look/And recall when we were all/In the neighborhood.” – “Neighborhood” The revival of Grammy-Award-Winning “Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller,” having headed south from its recent engagement at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine, has landed at Stage 42 in New York City to positive notices from the…

Broadway Review: “John Lithgow: Stories by Heart” at Roundabout Theatre Company at American Airlines Theatre

February 19, 2018 | Broadway, mother night > | "Favoritres of Children", "Haircut", "John Lithgow: Stories by Heart", "Teller of Tales", "Uncle Fred Flits By", American Airlines Theatre, Daniel Sullivan, Jess Goldstein, Joan Marcus, John Lee Beatty, John Lithgow, Kenneth Posner, P. G. Wodehouse, Peter Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner, Roundabout Theatre Company

Currently in its Broadway debut, John Lithgow’s “Stories By Heart” first took shape in 2008 at Lincoln Center Theater in a special repertory presentation directed by Jack O’Brien. Then, Mr. Lithgow told one story on each of two nights. Since then he has evolved the play in theaters around the country, produced by Staci Levine, on evenings away from his…