6,352 stories by "Dan Bacalzo"
Duncan Sheik's original score breathes new life into Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man, currently being revived by Classic Stage Company under the direction of Brian Kulick. The opening song ha…
A catchy score, stylish direction, and outstanding performances help to make A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder an utter delight. This new Broadway musical comedy features book and lyric…
The music of Cole Porter " famous for such Broadway hits as Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate " is always a delight, even when performed in a show that is less than ideal. Such a vehicle is Lo…
Phoebe Legere radiates an aura of excess. Dressed in an Elizabethan-era costume with fetishistic accents, she has a buoyantly outsized presence and a tendency to indulge in a presentational …
Ann Hampton Callaway is a gifted composer and lyricist, having written a variety of tunes from the theme song to television's The Nanny to the Barbra Streisand recorded "At the Same Time." H…
Dark humor pervades the ironically titled Little Miss Sunshine, a new musical by composer/lyricist William Finn and book writer/director James Lapine. Based upon the 2006 film of the same na…
Bare torso glistening and jeans dripping with water, Stephen Williams slowly lifts himself out of a bathtub and into the air. He throws a sly smile to the audience as he maneuvers his body i…
A campy homage is paid to such films as The Poseidon Adventure, Jaws, and The Swarm in Disaster! A 70s Disaster Movie Musical, now at St. Luke's Theater. It's a fun show, even if it goes on …
One of the first songs in the excellent new musical Fun Home, adapted from Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, features members of the Bechdel family preparing …
Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church is burning in Hell. That's the premise for God Hates This Show, a satirical musical cabaret written and directed by John J. Caswell, Jr., …
No one sings like Janis Joplin, but Mary Bridget Davies comes close. The performer " who plays the title role in the Broadway premiere of A Night With Janis Joplin " rips into electrifying r…
It's easy to see why Big Fish " the novel by Daniel Wallace as well as the 2003 Columbia Pictures film " has the kind of appeal that makes it fit for a big Broadway musical adaptation. The t…
Dina Martina is a shock to the senses. Her bright red lipstick covers the lower half of her face in clown-like fashion, she wears a succession of gaudily ill-fitting outfits, and she sings s…
Betty Buckley delivers a tour de force performance in the world premiere of the late Horton Foote's The Old Friends, at the Pershing Square Signature Center. The Tony Award winner portrays G…
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster is currently back in New York and at the Café Carlyle for a three-week engagement. Joined by her musical director and frequent collaborator Michael …
Duncan Sheik tilts his head back and closes his eyes as he sings. The sounds he makes are sensual, passionate, and often tinged with a sly humor. In his weeklong cabaret engagement at 54 Bel…
Jinkx Monsoon, winner of Season Five of RuPaul's Drag Race, is a marvelous stage entertainer. Making her New York theatrical debut in the musical cabaret The Vaudevillians, Monsoon combines …
Bruce Vilanch is buried up to his neck in a mound of debris. No, he's not starring in a revival of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, although it's quite clear that playwright Mike Reiss is paying…
Interpreting Gertrude Stein has always been a challenge. The early 20th-century writer broke from conventional usage of grammar and employed repetition and wordplay in a poetically inventive…
Cowboys Dont_Sing. It's not a spoiler to note that Cowboys Don't Sing: A Western Musical fails to adhere to the strict meaning of its title. The publicity materials for this delightfully goo…
Lea DeLaria and Maggie Cassella " two bold, brash and very funny women " team up for The Loudest Show on Earth, the centerpiece of Dixon Place's HOT! Festival, a celebration of queer culture…
There are no songs from Jay-Z presented in Tales From the Jazz Age: An F. Scott Fitzgerald Songbook, the new late-night revue at the Café Carlyle. However, Emily Bergl does make a brief ref…
Pop icon Cyndi Lauper and Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein have teamed up for the fabulously entertaining new Broadway musical Kinky Boots, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Based on the 2005 …
Everybody loves to win free stuff. And when the reward is something that a lot of people value highly, competition can get quite fierce. That's certainly the case in Hands on a Hardbody, t…
Halston is best known for her outrageously comic performances in plays by Charles Busch and in Broadway musicals such as Hairspray, Anything Goes and Gypsy. She was particularly memorable in…
