204 stories by "Holli Harms"
Dear God they did it! And thank God they did!
By Holli Harms Get Ready! Get Set! EMPIRE the musical is about to open at New World Stages July 1! This is the story of the men who built our American/World treasure standing on the corner o…
You may think that a show about climate change will carry the severity of the horrors of what is happening to our planet and nothing more. The loss is there, but mostly the love of our littl…
With Mention My Beauty the Pangea performance space is stripped down to bare bones with only Ayvazian, a music stand, and the script. It is a full 90 minute piece reconsidering of every prec…
It is an evening with some of Broadway's most iconic songs, sung by one of Broadway's most iconic performers. Lewis and his marvelous band, led by pianist and music director Joseph Joubert, …
The mostly bare stage of the vast Cino Theater at Theater for the New City was filled to the rim with amazing stories of the 80's: the crazy over the top parties of the rich and famous and n…
Flowing from Spanish to English - English to Spanish - nine marvelous actors tell the story of two sets of brothers, identical twins separated as babies by a stormy shipwreck and they find t…
Tony Danza, Tony Danza, Tony Danza! His name is a song! His life, a great story! His tap dancing, his joy, and his ukulele playing, his fun! He will beautifully scat and hilariously tell jok…
Kahlil Gibran wrote, "we humans are creatures of form and color." "Music," he said, "lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient works." Exactly what w…
The intimate stage at Axis Theater in the West Village is an ideal venue for this production. I, for the first time, really heard the words and the story and was even more wowed by Shakespea…
THIS JUST IN FROM PARIS!!! BAB ILO is a fabulously intimate find in a city that beckons at every corner. Settle in with a drink and some stunning music brought to you by some of Paris' an…
This is the musical every artist will want to be a part of and every audience member will be talking about. Commanding, towering songs that take your breath and demand your attention and a s…
This is a tight, strong, remarkable cast, and the staging, by Rebecca Aparicio, is directed as a dance of both struggle and joy for the senses.
Peter Kiesewalter has crafted a beautiful event exploring the mysterious life of moths, their profound similarity to humans - our transformations, migrations, conflicts, biodiversity, and co…
Much of the production is at a race pace that never gives us the chance to fall into the characters. We are never able to lock into the story. We are sitting back enjoying the wonderful perf…
Before The Drugs Kick In is funny, heart-wrenching, and not to be missed. How Lemme creatively rolls out the story, discreetly turning one card after the other over until the deck is face up…
This is a quiet, fun, frightening and beautiful performance by Trachtenberg as she wears the masks of her mother.
It was a wonderful, too short, evening. Come back Lucie Jones! Broadway - hello!
The play picks up beautifully in the last hour both visually and thematically. Moving with emotions and stories and desperation to save themselves and their vessel.
I happen to like Jeff Hernar's Cole Porter show so much because I get to step into places like Birdland and revel in the music, the songs, the place, and their history, and be joyfully trans…
A gathering of music and theater lovers with wonderful music and stories of one family and the change they made in the world of music.
Both of these consummate performers radiate their light in this meditative performance. They are sublime exuberance.
Both stories are compelling, and I say to anyone who loves Lanford Wilson check them out. I only wish that this production could have taken its cues from Wilson.
Borlenghi has created a compelling, funny, and thought-provoking play that smudges the ideas of what is a victim and what is a perpetrator. At the same time, she reminds all of us what being…
Greenspan captures the camp and mystery in On Set With Theda Bara as only he could through his unique performance style, illuminating the specific and airy as well as the beauty and grotesqu…
