220 stories by "Sarah B. Roberts"
Betty Buckley is coming back to sing in New York! She'll be performing three shows only at Joe's Pub October 9-11th. My anticipation is palpable! I haven't seen …
 From Baltimore Style Magazine, Ones to Watch by Ian Zelaya:Noah Himmelstein, theater and opera directorNoah Himmelstein is certainly making a name for himself in the theater worl…
Finally, FINALLY, Prettybelle is available digitally. This album was barely available at all and one had to obsessively comb thru ebay stalls to get even a vinyl recording and pi…
Sara Cooper has received the 2014 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Playwrighting for Things I Left on Long Island! Things I Left on Long Island, as part of the 19th annual 2014 F…
On Saturday, I finally made good on my promise to return to the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Gratefully, I accepted Amy and Dan's invitation to visit and accompany them in seeing…
My nieces had just been to the National WASP WWII Museum in Sweetwater, Texas, when I received an invitation from Petol Weekes, a producer at Infinite Variety Productions, to see their new p…
Things I Left On Long Island is funny, sweet, sad, and revelatory. Playwright Sara Cooper weaves the story beautifully and it's directed by Noah Himmelstein, a frequent collaborator of Coope…
For two weeks this summer, opera diva Renée Fleming is in a PLAY. When Renée told me that she would be doing a play this summer, my reaction was to screech, "A PLAY!?!" No need…
Finally the longest running show in Broadway history has modernized with color blind casting and it's brilliantly done. Starring as the latest Phantom of the Opera is the dashing Afric…
There's a marvelous production of "King John," one of William Shakespeare's rarely seen "History Plays" on through May 18th by the Frog & Peach Theatre Company. As is custom,…
I attended Blogger Night at Lincoln Center Theatre's Macbeth on Tuesday. We were wine and dined by 'wichcraft and swagged with wooden spoons engraved with the production logo and the q…
We are just weeks away from the annual Pipes of Christmas. It's the best holiday celebration in New York City, and this comes from a cynical soul who has all but given up on Christmas. …
We joined in the centennial celebrations for British composer Benjamin Britten by attending the concert of Peter Grimes at Carnegie Hall. The stars were Anthony Dean Griffey in t…
Went back to Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Met thanks to Sally and the Rush Ticket program. This production, this cast, this opera made me FEEL about opera again. Viewing it twice was barel…
Last week, Renée Fleming participated in an online answer/question series via Reddit. Besides it being downright fun and Renée got to show off some of her sense of humor, she shared some …
Noah insisted that I see Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Met. It's the only opera this season we planned to definitely see at the Met and actually purchased tickets for in …
On Thanksgiving Day 2001, my college roommate and I were on vacation in New York. We had just seen the parade and noticed kids dressed in letter jackets with clipboards at the Ed Sullivan T…
The 2013 Richard Tucker Gala marked the one hundredth birthday of its name sake American tenor Richard Tucker with an all American affair. American opera singers Stephanie Blythe, Stephen C…
Angela Lansbury earned two Oscar nominations in succession when she was only a teenager - for Gaslight in 1944 and The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1945. She earned her third nomination for th…
Oh, good grief: yet another Sondheim revue. How many does this make that I've seen? Who am I kidding? I can't resist especially when it's starring Bernadette Peters.&…
The Seeing Place Theater is staging a revival Men in White. It is playwright Sidney Kingsley's first major work and he won a Pulitzer for it in 1934. About a medi…
Something wicked this way comes! Again! Yes, there's another production of Macbeth in New York again. This promises to be a very sexy and sumptuous production at…
Click here to listen to my Aunt Beth, Elizabeth Woolls Johnson, talk about LBJ. It's so thrilling to hear her voice again! We lost her on April 12, 2007. She was 98 years old an…
I went to the Met Opera for the first time last Sunday night. Sally rushed for $20 orchestra seats for us (thank you Sally and to the late Dr. Agnes Varis and the other patrons who are…
I traveled to Vienna for the first time from October 22nd-27th, with stops in Berlin and Prague first. I built my trip around seeing Renée Fleming sing the Marschallin for the first time i…
