American Theater Group presents: Broadway Tales and Tunes

May 17 @ 7:30pm & May 18th @ 2:30pm.  Tickets $40. – $50.

Featuring Veteran Critic Peter Filichia and Broadway’s Erin Davie and Nehal Joshi.

American Theater Group presents a unique 90-minute “behind-the-scenes” look at Broadway with veteran theater critic and “insider” Peter Filichia!  Peter will regale the audience with anecdotes, gossip and entertaining tales of his life on the aisle, including his 20 years as the state’s top critic for the NJ Star-Ledger.  He will be joined by Broadway artists singing popular songs from the shows mentioned. Peter has seen 13,000 shows in 47 states and 17 foreign countries, appears on the “Broadway Radio” podcast and has a weekly column for Masterworks Broadway. He wrote a regular column, “Peter Filichia’s Diary,” for Playbill.com and TheaterMania.com for many years and is also the author of several books about the industry. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience a Broadway Insider’s view of the Great White Way and hear some of your favorite show tunes — a “must-see” event!

Erin Davie’s numerous Broadway credits include appearances as Camilla Parker Bowles in Diana, Yvonne/Naomi in Sunday in the Park with George, Violet Hilton in Side Show, Rosa Bud in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Countess Charlotte Malcolm in A Little Night Music, Young Little Edie in Grey Gardens (Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut) and Niki Harris in Curtains. Off-Broadway credits include: The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theatre); Eve Harrington in Applause (Encores). She has appeared at the La Jolla Playhouse as Camilla Parker Bowles in the world premiere of Diana and Violet Hilton in Side Show. Her tours include: Swing!, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Guys and Dolls. TV: Tales of the City, Orange Is the New Black, Law & Order, The Good Wife. Film: Angelfish, King Jack, Easter Mysteries

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Nehal Joshi’s Broadway credits include: The Cottage, Phantom of the Opera, Flying Over Sunset, All My Sons, School of Rock, Threepenny Opera, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Les Misérables (Original Revival Cast). Off-Broadway, he has appeared in: Cyrano, Falling for Eve. Working (2008 revision) and Grand Hotel (Encores!). He recently appeared in the world premiere of Babbitt with Matthew Broderick at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC.  His other select regional credits include: Disgraced (Arena Stage); Peter & the Starcatcher (Actor Theatre of Louisville) Oklahoma! (Arena Stage); Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center), Les Miserables (Dallas Theatre Center), Disney’s The Jungle Book (Goodman Theater/Huntington Theater). Film/TV: Law & Order SVU (NBC), The Wire (HBO), Search Party (HBO), Blackout.  Honors: Special Drama Desk Award.

American Theater Group is a professional Actors Equity Association company in residence at the Sieminski Theater.