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Peter Filichia
Specialties: Musical theater and its history, Broadway performers and performances
Home base: New York City
Web site: www.peterfilichia.com
Peter Filichia is a New York City–based theater critic and, since 1996, host of the annual Theatre World Awards. He blogs weekly for MasterworksBroadway.com and is the author of the upcoming book Strippers, Sharks and Showgirls: A Very Opinionated Look at Broadway Musicals that Didn't Win the Tony (St. Martin’s Press, June 2013). as well asThe Biggest Hit of the Season /The Biggest Flop of the Season (Applause Books, 2010) and Let’s Put on a Musical!: How to Choose the Right Show for Your School, Community or Professional Theater (Back Stage Books, 2007).
For 10 years, he also wrote “Peter Filichia’s Diary,” a colums that appeared Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on the website TheaterMania.com; Theatergoer's Diary for www.theater.com for two years; "Stagestruck" for Theater Week magazine for its entire nine-year run, and for three years on Playbill-on-Line. He has recently joined Music Theatre International as a guest columnist for MTI’s Web site, The Marquee, writing “Filichia Features,” original weekly articles on all-things musical theater. For 19 years, her reviewed for The Newark (N.J.) Star Ledger newspaper in New Jersey and New Jersey’s television station News 12, and currently writes for The Asbury Park (N.J.) Press and other publications.
Peter served four terms as president and chairman of the nominating committee of the Drama Desk, and has also been a member of the nominating committee for the Lucille Lortel Awards. He has also written the liner notes for many Broadway cast albums, including Jesus Christ Superstar and Fade Out - Fade In, and is the critic-in-residence for the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
He has appeared on television with Sally Jessy Raphaël, Phil Donahue, and on Saturday Night Live. In 2004 and 2005, he hosted, with Matthew Murray, the live theater discussion show Bitch or Brag About Broadway at New York's 45th Street Theatre.
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