Piano player, composer, arranger, musical director, orchestrator, conductor, and uber-fan Marc Shaiman By Alix Cohen At age seven, Marc Shaiman parroted his sister's piano lesson by ear. At …
By Alix Cohen "CO＿LAB Theater Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing Creative Opportunities without Limits And Boundaries. The organization offers individuals with de…
By Alix Cohen When Frenchwoman Margot Sergent appeared at the doors of Berklee School of Music 12 years ago, she had a classical harp background. When she left, the vocalist was a jazz baby.…
By Alix Cohen "No one could have predicted this is an ironic moment for traditional patriotism…I worry about the direction of the country," Leon Botstein notes beginning his brief pre-conc…
By Alix Cohen "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." F. Scott Fitzgerald They meet in a church basement outside an AA Meeting. "She" is clearly an …
By Alix Cohen Peter Calo has worked with such diverse artists as Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Bernstein, Lesley Gore, and The Platters. He spent …
By Alix Cohen While fearful about AI's ability to create fake information, its replacing humans at the workplace, or its thinking for itself, most people don't consider insidious impact on h…
By Alix Cohen Christopher Domig was an increasingly self-produced actor when asked to become artistic director of The Firebone Theater Company in Manhattan. He'd fostered no such ambitions. …
By Alix Cohen Protest songs proliferated in the 1960s. Writer/adapters like Pete Seeger made way for original songwriters. Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Buffy St. Marie and Nina Simone were some of …
By Alix Cohen January 2017: Fifty-something Carey (Janet Zaresh) has always had unerring instinct for what someone should read. There's a kind of justice to her owning a bookstore after a ca…
By Alix Cohen Oklahoma! redefined the American musical by fully integrating songs, dances, and story into a unified dramatic whole. Richard Rodgers first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein…
By Alix Cohen Composer Burt Bacharach's harmonically adventurous pop songs reshaped popular music from the late 1950s onward. Working most famously with lyricist Hal David, he wrote dozens o…
By Alix Cohen Genre-defying Happenstance Theater offers an arsenal influences, inventiveness, and subtlety. Collectively devised, the company landscapes a stage with fine-spun virtuosity. Ju…
By Alix Cohen 40ish Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a low end motel room on an interstate highway in Oklahoma. A bar waitress, she seems to spend the rest of her time high. Today, ex-husb…
By Alix Cohen When Jordan Harrison wrote Marjorie Prime, (a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize), the play emerged among a succession of dramatic pieces concerning analog vs. digital. A.I.,…
By Alix Cohen On winter vacation from Harvard, Charles Kirsch returns to 54Below with 15 Broadway notables, most interviewed on his inimitable podcast. Once again, selections are wide, many …
A New Play with Old Music- Returning to Urban Stages January 25- February 22, 2026 By Alix Cohen Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfr…
"Nonsense wakes up the brain cells…If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack." Dr. Seuss By Alix Cohen Tom Lehrer (1928"2025) was a New York"born song…
A Vaudeville By Alix Cohen Imagination, theatrical skill and physical puppet craft has had a home at HERE Arts Center's Dream Music Puppetry program since 1999. Endowed by his grandmother an…
"If music be the food of love play on." Orsino, Twelfth Night By Alix Cohen In August 1956, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were performing in Canada when they crossed paths with the Stra…
By Alix Cohen Moses Pendleton's 2022 Alice, aka this Alice in Wonderland-ish dance/theater piece, is a visual feast: wildly imaginative, impressionistic and allusive, rather than depicting A…
A pick me up for the weary soul. By Alix Cohen For those of you sadly unfamiliar, throwback Bryce Edwards plays and sings 1920s/30s songs as they would've been performed at the time, often o…
Buckle your seat belts! By Alix Cohen The Hellzapoppin' holiday spectacle Pied Piper Joe Iconis annually engineers is wry, raunchy, subversive, sprawling, shamelessly exuberant fun. Though f…
By Alix Cohen Paul Williams (1940) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and actor whose career spans six decades. Known for penning enduring hits such as "We've Only Just Begun" for …
By Alix Cohen Love and Lunacy; Erroneous Conclusion, Blackmail, and Marriage or Not By Alix Cohen The thing begins when Bertie Wooster's chum, Gussie Fink-Nottle begs him to come to Totleigh…