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 writes
Peter Filichia's Diary for www.theatermania.com. He is the author of
Let's Put on a Musical, now in its third printing, and the forthcoming
The Biggest Hit of the Season / The Biggest Flop of the Season: The Last 50 Years of Broadway Musicals. He is a past president of the Drama Desk, and the current president of the Theatre World Awards. He is critic-in-residence at the University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music.