Peter Filichia

ABOUT Peter Filichia

Peter Filichia is a theater critic in print for the Star-Ledger in Newark, and on television for News 12 New Jersey.

Three times a week, he also writes Peter Filichia's Diary for www.theatermania.com , and every Tuesday writes a column for www.masterworksbroadway.com . He wrote the weekly column entitled Stagestruck for Theater Week magazine for its entire nine-year run, and for three years on Playbill-on-Line. Then he wrote a daily column for www.theater.com for two years.

He is the author of Let's Put on a Musical, now in its third printing. His new book, Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit of the Season / The Biggest Flop of the Season: The Last 50 Years will be published in September, and his next book, Broadway Musicals: The Most Valuable Players will be published in 2011.

He served four terms as president of the Drama Desk, and wrote and hosted its annual awards ceremony. For the past 13 years, he’s done the same for the Theatre World Awards.

In addition, he has served on an assessment panel for the National Endowment for the Arts; has written liner notes for many Broadway cast albums; is the critic-in-residence for the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music; annually serves on the ASCAP Awards program; and is a Theatre Hall of Fame voter.

He can be reached at the Star-Ledger at pfilichia@starledger.com.