220 stories by "Sarah B. Roberts"
Today, we went to the first Voce at Pace: Rising Opera Stars in Recital supported by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation in honor of the late Dr. Agnes Varis. The first singer to…
Last night I walked 10 minutes from my apartment to Denmark and I never left the Upper West Side. The Frog and Peach Theatre Company has mounted another terrific Shakespeare…

There's some extraordinary Shakespeare going on with the production of Julius Caesar at St. Ann's Warehouse until November 3rd. We trekked over yesterday to take i…
The cast album of last fall's off-Broadway "Marry Me a Little" is out! i LOVED the show when it played at the Clurman and went back twice. Friends, it's so, so good!&…
I wasn't planning on attending the annual Broadway Flea Market thrown for Broadway Care/Equity Fights Aids. I'm in fact very glad that I made a quick run through with Noah Himmelstein befor…
Chamber Opera Chicago passed through town last week to present the new, original work "Persuasion" based on the Jane Austen novel. This is the first opera written of Jane A…
On Saturday night, I was fortunate to see Dale Soules in the closing performance of The Capables. Dale played Anna Capable, a woman who has been hoarding - or collectin…
A new play about President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his ambition to wage legislative war on poverty opens off-Broadway this week. THE GREAT SOCIETY will play a four-w…
View behind the Weston Playhouse
Last weekend, my friend Kari and I road tripped north to blissful Vermont. It was my first time in the quiet state (physically and more or less …
I got on the ball to catch VOLLEYGIRLS at the New York Musical Theatre Festival on Saturday. I felt like I was at the gym with all of the fans cheering on the team in their champi…
My Brit friend Suzanne wants to know, "Do you think I'll be able to watch the live streaming of Renée being Knighted, over here?" In our world as American Arts Lovers, "knighted" is a…
Last weekend, I attended a concert in San Francisco that will no doubt stay with me for many years to come, for many special reasons.
As soon as I heard from my dear friend Noah Himmelstei…
How is it possible that my nephew, my special little love, Cody turns 14 today? He'll be in high school come August. I'd like to keep him out of those damn long pants just a litt…
Last week I managed to see two remarkable and unusual productions of Macbeth. They could not have been more different from one another. One was Alan Cumming's one …
The Frog & Peach Theatre Company has launched its spring Shakespeare at the West End Theatre on the Upper West Side. This season, it's a great production of Measure for …
I fight being sentimental and patriotic and any kind of teary crap, but my God, this makes me feel everything that I can feel about America and being good and doing good and what's right for…
Tomorrow night, the 2012 Tucker Gala will be broadcast on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center. I attended the concert at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center on November 11th and it remains my favo…
Baby, It's Cold Outside by Lauren Molina and Wesley Taylor
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I was fortunate enough to catch Bruce Graham's "The Outgoing Tide" at 59E59 last weekend. This is the play's New York premier.
Starring Michael Learned, Peter Strauss and Ian Lithgow…
For the last four years or so, Karigee and I have looked forward to October (and sometimes February) in New York City more than any other month because it would mean the return of Betty Buck…
Yesterday, I took advantage of the Public Theater's benevolence and scored a free ticket to see the new Michael John LaChiusa musical GIANT. The book is adapted from the Edna Ferber's …
I've been waiting to find out if the clue in the photo of Angela Lansbury's desk in the New York Magazine Shoot that appeared last May was anything. Finally, she reveals to the Sydney …
The Frog and Peach Theatre Company has done it again: another terrific, wonderful accessible production of Shakespeare. This time it's The Taming of the Shrew. &n…
Of the many and varied holiday performance events in available in New York City each year, my favorite is the Pipes of Christmas and I can't wait to go again this year. It causes my we…
On my walk to work this morning, I stumbled on a free art exhibit in midtown. In the lobby of the UBS Building, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, there is a fabulous free exhibit…
