Peter Filichia is the theater critic emeritus for both the Newark Star-Ledger and its television station, News 12 New Jersey. He writes a weekly column for Music Theatre International. He has served four terms as president of the Drama Desk, the New York Association of Drama Critics, and is now head of the voting committee and the emcee of the Theatre World Awards. Filichia is the author of several books, including Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks: A Very Opinionated History of Broadway Musicals That Did Not Win the Tony Award and The Great Parade: Broadway’s Astonishing, Never-to-Be-Forgotten 1963-1964 Season. A frequent contributor to theater publications and the writer of many cast-album CD liner notes, he lives in New York City.