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 Critically acclaimed for her roles on Broadway in The Last Five Years, Falsettos and now off her shift at Waitress, Betsy Wolfe is one of musical theater's keenly intelligent performers…
 by Adam Cohen Turning Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel Lolita into a musical took incredible chutzpah.  The show hadn't made it to New York until the York Theater Company's Musica…
 by Adam Cohen  Jack Viertel and Deborah Grace Winer remind me of my high school Social Studies teacher " knowledgeable and dogged.  The classes were not lectures but impassion…
 by Matt Smith  "You better call the cops and give 'em warning / Sound the siren, bang the bell / A main marine rolls in this morning / On his way to raise some hell…." Though they…
By Marilyn Lester It's been 96 years since the premiere of Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman, a sturdy classic that The Irish Repertory Theater has breathed extraordinary l…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel We have not been writing this column for awhile, due in large part to Scott's major Citibike accident that put him in the hospital for 19 days wit…
By Marcina Zaccaria City of No Illusions provides the right bit of magical realism, in a larger, more pointed discussion about living space and the afterlife. Written and Direc…
By Sandi Durell "If music was everywhere and in everyone's life, the world would surely be a better place" … And on that note, I do believe there is a slight whiff of Spring …
by Maya Werner The cast and creative team of Chick Flick the Musical met the press on Friday, February 15. Chick Flick the Musical features Sharon Catherine Brown as Karen, Linds…
By Ron Fassler Marilyn Maye, the nonagenarian cabaret superstar, is back in New York City for the weekend, in the heart of the theatre district, with a Valentine's Day show. It…
by Sheila Watko Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre has been home to over thirty shows since it opened its doors almost a century ago, including favorites l…
 The Psychoanalytic Odyssey of a Once Glorified Chorus Boy by Alix Cohen Sometimes over the top works. Dr. Bradley Jones' colorful, personal history is rather …
By Ron Fassler The New York City premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith's Switzerland arrived at the 59E59 Theaters in a production first produced by the Hudson Stage Company, Westche…
by Hazen Cuyler To document your mother's suffering as she dies from cancer requires courage. To expose a family's feelings and desires throughout that traumatic …
by Alix Cohen       Steve Ross is a self-admitted, dyed in the wool Francophile. Hosting the first of what one can only hope will be a series at the 92Y, he shares th…
by Carole Di Tosti Have you ever wondered what the flight attendants, pilot and co-pilot talk about as they host your flight? Wonder no more! The witty playwright and comedic a…
If you’re one of the first 100 patrons at the Winter Garden Box Office (1634 Broadway) dressed in Beetlejuice black and white between 10 – 11 a.m., you’ll be entered…
By Sheila Watko The year is 1963.; Martin Luther King, Jr. will soon lead one of the country's largest civil rights demonstrations, the Walk to Free…
by Adam Cohen My Very Own British Invasion, a new rock and roll jukebox musical, has taken over the Paper Mill Playhouse.  This is a slick, well-designed production that is visu…
By Ron Fassler When it first opened on November 22, 1945, Lewis Nichols wrote in his New York Times review that The Day Before Spring was "a likable musical show in a good many…
By Iris Wiener With a flash, bam, alakazam, a wonderful tribute to Nat King Cole was given on February 8th when The New York Pops paid tribute to the timeless artist's centenni…
By Marcina Zaccaria A figure of a man is cast across the stage in a large shadow. His head, his heart, and his soul can no longer compete. Though raised in a glorious m…
By Joseph Pisano Love is no match for the past in Mies Julie, playwright Yaël Farber’s blistering update of the notoriously overheated August Strindberg classic. In th…
Another Look at Both Joshes By Ron Fassler I often adhere to an opinion from the British writer Tobias Hill, who once said, "I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good…
by Bernie Furshpan I’ve been in the business of helping people and organizations in making lasting impressions and selling their stuff for over 30 years. I absolutely…
