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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Stephen Sondheim Trubute by Barry Gordin

Lyrics & Lyricists celebrated legendary composer Stephen Sondheim in "Wordplay" at the 92Y's renowned series on 3/30-4-1/19. By: Linda Amiel Burns April 2, 2019: In 1971 Stephen …

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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Anyone Can Fly by Barry Gordin

Benefit and Silent Auction Tuesday, April 2nd April 1, 2019: The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling with ACA Galleries is hosting The Anyone Can Fly Benefit and Silent…

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ACA Galleries by Barry Gordin

Bruce High Quality Foundation: The End of Western Art, March 29 through May 24, 2019 March 30, 2019: An exhibition by Bruce High Quality foundation opened at ACA Galleries, 520 West 29th…

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Kiss Me Kate ****1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons March 31, 2019: If Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, with its misogynistic undertones, is sometimes hard to swallow. Cole Porter, and Samuel and Bella Spewack�…

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Superhero **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons March 31, 2019: Superhero has a book by John Logan who won a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League award for his play Red, and is credited with man…

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Friday, March 29, 2019

Paulanne Simmons Unscripted by Barry Gordin

Life Is Filled with (Wonderful) Surprises April 1, 2019: Nine years ago I was holding auditions for a staged reading of my musical In the Schoolyard at the Dramatist Guild. Most of the p…

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Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

“They’re Gonna Make You Love Them (Oh, Yes, They Will)” By: Samuel L. Leiter March 29, 2019: There a lot of words in the full title of this latest jukebox musical but the essenc…

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The Ferryman by Barry Gordin

Brian d’Arcy James Leads New American Cast of The Ferryman By: Ellis Nassour Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman is one of the most acclaimed plays of this or any season. In its London …

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Nantucket Sleigh Ride **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward March 26, 2019: John Guare takes us on a wild romp through personal ups and downs, toxic pop culture, murder mystery tropes, literary and cinema allusions in his off-ki…

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Monday, March 25, 2019

Southern Promises Opens @ The Flea by Barry Gordin

Thomas Bradshaw’s provocative melodrama closes out The Flea’s Color Brave Season. March 24: 2019:  The Flea’s Artistic Director, Niegel Smith, has helmed a disturbing new productio…

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Saturday, March 23, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019

Broadway by the Year by Barry Gordin

Town Hall Presents Scott Siegel’s Broadway by the Year 1943/1951 on March 25 By: Ellis Nassour March 22, 2019: Town Hall presents Scott Siegel’s Broadway by the Year, now in it…

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

The Cake *** by Barry Gordin

By: Isa Goldberg March 21, 2019: Definitely a Hallmark play, The Cake lives fashionably in that zone where people-friendly, shallow social acknowledgements thrive.

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To Kill A Mockingbird Screening by Barry Gordin

Fathom Events and TCM Big Screen Classics Presents Screenings of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird By: Ellis Nassour March 22, 2019: Experience one of the most significant mileston…

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Grave Business: Vilna **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter March 20, 2019: The first Holocaust drama I ever saw was the original Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank, in 1955; I was 15. The second, in 1960, was The…

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Daddy *** by Barry Gordin

By: Isa Goldberg March 21, 2019: Subtitled “A Melodrama,” Jeremy O. Harris’ new play “Daddy,” exploits the perception that gay lives matter.  If you smell disgust and contempt…

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Monday, March 18, 2019

My Life on a Diet **** by Barry Gordin

By: Iris Wiener March 18, 2019: “My name is Renee and I am a food tramp. That is someone who eats around,” says Renee Taylor at the start of her touchingly hilarious memoir-on-stage,…

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Sunday, March 17, 2019

Kiss Me, Kate ****1/2, Be More Chill **** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward March 17, 2019: The new Kiss Me, Kate from Roundabout Theater Company at Studio 54tries a bit too hard to be au courant with feminist perspectives on the historically s…

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WP Theater Gala by Barry Gordin

Bonnie Comley to be honored at WP 40th Anniversary Season Gala This year, at their 40th Anniversary Season Gala, WP Theater is honoring Bonnie for her incredible accomplishments as a lead…

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Golden Shamrock Gala by Barry Gordin

The Gingold Theatrical Group honored Stephen Schwarz and Mary Pamela Singleton March 17, 2019: The Gingold Theatrical Group hosted their 2019 Golden Shamrock Gala on Saturday, March 16th…

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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Marnie Klar Sings Bobbie Gentry **** by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons March 18, 2019: Bobbie Gentry is not exactly a name we hear often these days. Yet the singer/songwriter was one of the first female artists to compose and produce he…

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Holy Day Opens at New Ohio by Barry Gordin

Premiere of a New Drama by Andrew Bovell March 15, 2019:  Andrew Bovell’s new drama,Holy Day, set in Australia, 1850  opened at the New Ohio Theater in the West Village directed by B…

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

The Mother ** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward March 14, 2019: French playwright Florian Zeller managed a rare feat in 2016. He made dementia a compelling topic for a Broadway play. After hit runs in Paris and Londo…

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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Into the Woods: In Concert by Barry Gordin

By: Iris Wiener Broadway stars headed Into the Woods in Patchogue on March 8th and 9th as a part of the Patchogue Theatre’s ongoing Broadway Series, a popular concert program that was c…

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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

The Disharmonic Misadventures Trio **** by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons March 15, 2019: In Jonathan L. Segal’s, Disharmonic Misadventure Trio, which returned to The Triad on March 13, Segal sings, tells stories and (corny) jokes, and p…

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Saturday, March 9, 2019

Hurricane Diane **** by Barry Gordin

By: Isa Goldberg March 9, 2019: A fun little romp about the apocalypse, Hurricane Diane, at the New York Theater Workshop, delivers a necessary moral about the way we keep our bodies, o…

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Fiercely Independent **1/2 by Barry Gordin

THE MARRIAGE GO-ROUND: FIERCELY INDEPENDENT By: Samuel L. Leiter March 9, 2019: Broadway producer turned playwright Kathleen K. Johnson’s Fiercely Independent, now at the Soho Playh…

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Friday, March 8, 2019

My Fair Lady by Barry Gordin

5 Reasons Why My Fair Lady is Worth a Second Visit By: Iris Wiener March 8, 2019: How can you improve upon a stellar musical that was nominated for ten Tony awards (of which it won on…

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

Merrily We Roll Along ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Isa Goldberg March 10, 2019: The Fiasco Theater’s staging of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, at The Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre reflects on friendship, love, and…

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

“Daddy” ***, Alice By Heart ** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward March 5, 2019: There’s a lot going on in “Daddy,” the new play by Jeremy O. Harris who burst onto the New York theatrical scene earlier this season with Slave Pla…

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