314 stories by "Ron Fassler"
Interview by Ron Fassler . . . Though Ann Kittredge is well known as a consummate cabaret singer, she is also a lifelong performing artist who has performed on Broadway and Off-Broa…
"Buena Vista Social Club" has reason to celebrate with its ten Tony nominations announced today.May 1, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
It's always a thrill for me to rea…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . On the wings of angels comes The Billy Stritch Trio for a six-performance engagement at Birdland Jazz Club. Joined by Michael O'Brien on bass and Eric Halvorson o…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . At the age of twelve, I began weekly sojourns into Manhattan from my home on Long Island with the mission of seeing every Broadway show possible. Keeping strict r…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . With the Tony Awards deadline fast upon us, two final shows are slipping in under the wire, Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves, both opening tonight …
A pensive Al Pacino, circa the 1970's, his most defined decade as an actor.April 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
I've written about him before, but there's always…
By Ron Fassler . . . Having made her Broadway debut at the age of eight as a replacement in the title role of Matlida at the Shubert Theatre, actress Fina Strazza has returned to…
Donna McKechnie onstage at 54 Below in her new Sondheim show.April 22, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
In her current three-performance engagement at 54 Below, the am…
Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke perform "Rosie" in "Bye Bye Birdie"Â (1960).Producer Edward Padula was worried. He liked the show he was working hard to raise money for, but he was taking a…
Eleven of the twelve beauty contestant combatants in JR2 Spotlight Musical Theatre Company's production of "Smile" (Photo by Russ Roland).April 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by R…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . One time, at the finish of one of the gatherings in his honor that Stephen Sondheim received regularly in his later years, the master composer-lyricist took to th…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . When a truly old-fashioned musical like Boop! The Musical opens, offering a beatific heroine, dazzling choreography, and hummable tunes that send you out in…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . A dozen or so years ago, when journalist Patrick Bringley found himself unsure of what to do with the rest of his life, his restlessness caused him to quit his hi…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . You may be forgiven if you're not familiar with playwright Bertolt Brecht's The Mother, as it did have its premiere nearly a century ago in 1932 Berlin. Writte…
George Clooney as Edward R. Murrow in "Good Night, and Good Luck" (Photo: Emilio Madrid).April 5, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
The current state of journalism in …
Review by Ron Fassler . . . I wasn't sure what to expect when the location of Ken Urban's new play Danger and Opportunity took me to a theater called East Village Basement. Located at …
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The first time that audiences heard the precise and profane language of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross was nearly forty-two years ago in September of 1983. …
Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kate Baldwin in 2025's "Love Life" (photo by Joan Marcus).March 28, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
You would think that the only musical ev…
By Ron Fassler . . .  The York Theatre, founded in 1969 by Janet Hayes Walker, has rightly earned its place as an integral part of the city landscape from which it draws its name. Wal…
Stephen Sondheim (1930"2021). Photo by Richard Avedon.March 22, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
"Oh, if life were made of moments,Even now and then a bad one "…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Upon entering A.R.T.'s Mezzanine Theatre on Manhattan's West Side for the off-Broadway premiere of Max Mondi's Maybe Tomorrow, you are greeted by a ¾ wrap-a…
My ticket stub from 56 years ago (note the tape marks). It used to hang on my bedroom wall.Fifty-six years ago yesterday afternoon, I took my seat as a just-turned twelve-year old in seat…
By Ron Fassler . . . Two-time Tony nominee Jessica Hecht, an actress who seems to always be working on the New York stage (that is when she isn't shooting films or television shows), is t…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . For those of you who only know Norbert Leo Butz from his numerous Broadway and off-Broadway credits in both musicals and straight plays (nineteen of…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . I was an adolescent-teenager in the 1960s and 70s when Judy Collins was among the most prolific and influential singer-songwriters of her generation. I actively l…
