170 stories by "Alix Cohen"
A compassionate look at being institutionalized by Alix Cohen
By Alix Cohen Irish Repertory Theatre founders, Charlotte Moore & Ciarán O’Reilly, throw a grand party. At 37, the theater is not only as vibrant and energetic as ever, it still has a…
By Alix Cohen There’s much to recommend The Public Theater’s first production of this Shakespeare classic in 40 years. Firstly, its cast contains stand-outs: Star-crossed lovers, Romeo (…
By Alix Cohen In October 1989, Donald Smith’s four year-old Mabel Mercer Foundation held its first annual New York Cabaret Convention. The New York Times headline read: Cabaret Convention …
By Alix Cohen Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman left one of the most enduring legacies in American songwriting, crafting elegant, emotionally rich lyrics that became part of the cultural fabr…
By Alix Cohen This is hands down the most thrilling dance production to which I’ve ever been treated. In words I’ve rarely written, there’s nothing I would change. Be prepared for hype…
By Alix Cohen People become jockeys not because it’s easy, but because they can’t imagine life without horses, competition, and the thrill of the ride. Robert Montano was the short kid p…
By Alix Cohen Imagine, dear reader, a young boy set adrift upon the bustling and often unkind tide of the world, furnished with little more than a hopeful heart and a talent for observing it…
By Alix Cohen Josh (Harrison Bryan) is successively suspended from NYU and kicked out of rehab. He goes on a bender, apparently flies to Miami, then finds himself literally on the ground in …
By Alix Cohen Lucille Carr-Kaffashan is a psychologist. This is a smart show with excellent, often little known song choices that relate to one another. Wise points are well made. The vocali…
By Alix Cohen It takes artistic audacity for a female artist to offer a show of Barbra Streisand material.Though Melissa Errico tells us the evening is an homage– trying to chart the ways …
By Alix Cohen This is a terrific presentation, terrific. Rarely do components come together with such finesse, feeling and craftsmanship. History and tradition provide whole cloth through wh…
By Alix Cohen The night before her wedding, Maggie (Quincy Tyler Berstine) almost opted out.Twenty-five years later when her husband dies, she wonders not only whether she loved him, but als…
By Alix Cohen Outside Mullingar is the tale of two lonely souls livin’ side by side on neighboring farms. Anthony Reilly’s a soft, odd sort of man, tangled up in thinkin’ somerthin’s…
By Alix Cohen “If Con Ed could wire KT Sullivan, Manhattan would light up like Christmas. Vibrating even when perched, she might be a humming bird with wing speed too fast to observe. Her …
By Alix Cohen In the last five years the U.S. has seen a record rise in censorship laws and enforcement mechanisms—particularly targeting education. The number of bills, the proportion ena…
1936. The Spanish Civil War began. American Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, undermining Hitler’s claims of Aryan superiority. In England, King Edward VIII abdicate…
On the stairs of a 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house, a young tenant plays the song “Joe Turner’s Blues:” They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone/They tell me Joe Turner’s come and go…
By Alix Cohen I think I’ve seen all thirteen of Stephen Hanks -produced Blue Wave/Blue Tsunami shows. What became clear again last night, the first of four new evenings, is though donation…
By Alix Cohen Established 1974 in New York City, Talking Band was founded by Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow, and Tina Shepard—all former members of Joseph Chaikin’s Open Theater. Tonight, both…
By Alix Cohen Former musical-theater actress Donna Rubin and former artistic director of Guild Hall Josh Gladstone have embarked on a third sparkling season bringing popular cabaret artists …
By Alix Cohen The United States government has censored – in part- the following from official documents: vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based, science-ba…
By Alix Cohen Like the 1975 film, The Rocky Horror Show is a gleefully outrageous, high-energy musical romp. On their way to visit former high school teacher, Dr. Scott- now a government ope…
By Alix Cohen Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) was a German actress, photographer and filmmaker best known for the last, making propaganda movies in service of Adolph Hitler. One of the few wome…
By Alix Cohen “He wants me to go in a date?!” Clara Schumann (1819-1896) anxiously and excitedly tells us.* Having not had a man in her life for 17 years, like any widowed or divorced wo…
