321 stories by "Ron Fassler"
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you aren't aware of who Kara Young is by now you are missing out on one of the best actresses currently working in the theatre. And man does she wo…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . See What I Wanna See is a musical written by composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa, first produced at the Public Theatre in 2005. Inspired by the sto…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler… In 2023, the fabled supper club 54 Below became a non-profit organization. Since that time, its longstanding goals of expanding the art of cabaret have taken…
Dwayne Washington and McKenna OGrodnik in "That Parenting Musical."
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James Earl Jones (1931"2024).September 10, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
James Earl Jones, who died yesterday at ninety-three, was not only the first dramatic actor to…
Cabaret review by Ron Fassler … While attending Isaac Mizrahi's new show at 54 Below, a well-known Shakespeare quote came to mind. In the scene from Hamlet where Polonius is chatting…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler. . . City Centers Encores! scored a winner with its 2022 staging of the distorted fairy tales created by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine for Into the…
August 9, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Richard Nixon address the nation on August 8, 1974, the night he resigned the presidency."So it's really happening," smiled Wil…
July 13, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today
Forty-seven years ago tonight, on July 13, 1977 at exactly 9:29 p.m., New York City suffered an electrical blackout that lasted into afternoon t…
Cabaret Review By Ron Fassler… I'm happy to report that old friends and top-notch singers and performers Liz Callaway and Jason Graae are in fine form at 54 Below this holiday …
"Titanic" at City Center "Encores!" (photo by Joan Marcus).June 24, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
As someone who saw all fifteen Tony-eligible Broadway musicals thi…
Starring Holland Taylor and Ana Villafañe, N/A is a new play by first-timer Mario Correa that is having its world premiere at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center. Correa…
A repurposed logo of David Byrd's original poster for "Follies" for the one-night only concert at Carnegie Hall, June 20, 2024.June 21, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassle…
Cabaret review by Ron Fassler . . . . Gavin Lee must know that he can't really go wrong musically by saluting songs first introduced by Fred Astaire, right?  Though naturally best k…
Nina Hoss as Ranevskaya in "The Cherry Orchard." Photo by Johan Persson.May 19, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
The Cherry Orchard is one of my favorite plays. I was…
Robert Morse as Jerry/Daphne and Tony Roberts as Joe/Josephine in "Sugar" (1972). Photo by Martha Swope.April 9, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Fifty-two years ago …
Chita Rivera (1933"2024). Photo by Gregg Delman for The New York Times from "The Visit" (2015).January 31, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
Chita Rivera first started…
2014 Revival of "On the Town" with Clyde Alves, Tony Yazbeck and Jay Armstrong Johnson in the front line.December 30, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
This week's two …
"On the Town" Playbill cover with photo by Chris Alexander, who played Chip. Later, he would go on to become a professional photographer.December 29, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ro…
Youth and work (and play): Leonard Bernstein at the piano, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green.December 28, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
It's hard to ima…
Frances Sternhagen (1930"2023).November 30, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
With fifty Broadway and off-Broadway shows to her credit over a career that spanned more than…
Modeling Raoul Pène Du Bois "76 Trombones" costume, built for Robert Preston in "The Music Man" in 1957.September 27, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
By chance last …
Cover of Alan Shayne's "The Star Dressing Room: Portrait of an Actor."September 16, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
There are not a whole lot of people around today …
Barnard Hughes in Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town" (1974). Photo by Martha Swope. "There wasn't a basement in New York I didn't work in."July 17, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ro…
Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Franklin in "1776" (1969). Photo by Martha Swope.July 4, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
I've been writing 1776-themed columns on July 4th…
