And so Smash ends as it lived—with a weirdly self-referential musical number and a Tony Awards ceremony with all the…
Oh, Smash, poor Smash. NBC’s canceled you forever, and I’m feelin’ so sad.
From the start, Smash has been an exercise in reducing expectations. The pilot was good, but it wasn’t as good as it…
Oh my God, they’re pulling a Rent.
The opening of Bombshell is the moment Smash has been building to throughout its entire run. It was the show that…
Let’s just get this out of the way first. Jimmy’s someone who a.) changed his identity under shady circumstances to…
My wife’s birthday is on Wednesday, and a couple of days ago, she asked me what I was going to do for said occasion.…
Since this will be my last Smash review, I went ahead and plowed through the rest of Garson Kanin’s Smash: A Novel,…
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After last week’s reshufflings and consolidations, we’ve essentially been left with two Smashes—at least for now. In…
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Let’s say you want to tell a story about a man named Carl, who has a hankering for cake. If Carl already has a cake…
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God damn it, Smash. With “The Fringe,” this show comes as close as it’s been all season to being the smart, bright,…
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Friends, I’d hoped that spending two straight weeks watching Smash as a civilian, without having to register an…
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At the beginning of “The Song,” Jimmy Collins is sitting on a sofa flicking pennies in the direction of a small jar.…
(For the next several days, some of our writers will be swapping duties on some of our most popular shows. Some of…
Whenever a new season begins of one of the shows I cover, I re-read my reviews of the previous season, to remind…
After watching the Smash season finale “Bombshell” over the weekend, I started to think about Derek Wills in a new…
I was a theater person in college. I miss it, sometimes; the community, the enthusiasm, the wide-eyed, utterly…
My favorite moment during the “previously on” montage that kicked off this week’s Smash had to be the quick shot of…
I need some help from my Broadway historians out there. In Smash: A Novel, the musical the characters are mounting…
Smash, if you’ve got a moment, I’d like to pull you aside for a pow-wow. I know you’ve heard me give these notes…