Let's consider the male presumed perspective perceived by a woman playing-and playing with-male roles, from those women who dressed as men on stage. And then, an international all-male group…
"Gather around/ I've got a story to tell ..." sings Bebe Neuwirth ...
When artist and material connect and something rings true, the spark is one we want to experience again. This year, there were some fortunate matches of artists to material, and some rewardi…
The past year brought many pleasures to the ears and mind when it came to cast albums. Some were on the daring side, others were familiar musical comfort food in the form of revivals. Here's…
"A Swinging Birdland Christmas," Liz Callaway's "Merry and Bright" and "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Broadway Cares' Carols for a Cure Vol 15, Natalie Toro's Just in Time for Christmas, Megan McClannan Reardon's Dreams of Christmas.
We get her many flavors: pluck, pizzazz, passion, playfulness and unaffected sweetness (no artificial sweetness her). The 15-track album is a welcome mix of the standards (refreshened rather…
There's a sense of wild anything-can-happen excitement, daredevilry, and delightful defiance throughout this piece.
It's a competition and people keep getting eliminated. We find out about them along the way: what makes these Texans tick, what ticks them off, what drives them to want to drive off with the…
It's all about love and marriage and how they both fall apart for a couple in The Last Five Years ... precocious, peppy young 'uns who've trod the boards, have had their When I Grow Up show …
While the Osnes oeuvre is all Maury Yeston, both Ainsworth and Benanti have a mixed bag of show tunes and pop, and—fun fact: each acknowledges Johnny Mercer, who wrote the lyric to the tit…
Mark Hartman is often found behind the piano, as he will be for two big shows on September 24 at Iridium NYC, but he will also be behind the idea of making the shows fundraisers for The Play…
Aaron Tveit's live recording from 54 Below, and Maud Hixson sings the Music of Michael Leonard.
... at every turn, there's serious and shaded acting going on and that takes center stage in the Classic Stage Company interpretation directed by John Doyle and conducted by Rob Berman, who…
Four decades after its first Broadway incarnation, Pippin's peppy, pop-inflected score has popped up again on Broadway, fresh and flush with energy.
When looking for thoughtful, rich, articulate material about experiences and feelings that speak to mature adults with some life mileage, song sleuths, cabaret singers, musical theatre audit…
Dogfight fights to overcome some theatrical challenges—in a theatre or on disc ... You don't have to be a true detective or musical comedy sleuth to see where we're going in the dour and d…
Is that beloved, spunky, optimistic little redhead showing her age? To answer with a song title from the Annie score: Maybe.
One night!! Two sets!! Three cheers!! For it's five " That is, it's a five-piece band with Marilyn Maye at Iridium NYC on July 10, in an act titled Marilyn Maye Takes Five. The name referenc…
Dig in your heels to resist and say it's not much more than a well-done high-budget piece of force-fed fluff and pop puffery, or kick back and accept it as fine fun at best and a guilty plea…
One began as the Rodgers & Hammerstein TV special over a half-century ago ... The other, by way of an Oregon theatre production, has a charmer of a score by Ezra Weiss and taps into the love…
Welcome to the sophistication and very grown-up world of Noël Coward, inhabited by Steve Ross and guests, and the very much child-centric world of a kid named Nancy in the musical for kids,…
In the musical See Rock City & Other Destinations, various traveling characters embark on important trips ... intrepid jazz journeyer Mark Winkler navigates the adventurous Laura Nyro songb…
Two of the most heartfelt albums I've heard in quite a while make their gentle way to the column now on a calm April breeze.
Different types, Andrea McArdle and Faith Prince entertain their audiences, relating high points from their careers (with song samples). Included in both acts are things from Jerry Herman, t…