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Review by Ron Fassler . . . While sitting through Kyoto, which opened this week at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, I couldn't help being reminded of several other recent plays best described …
By Alix Cohen "Blow the bugle/Sound the cymbal/All my troubles fill a thimble/I'm as happy as it's legal to be/Come on, kids, let's hear it for me!" Mason Prickett sings from the bar. Playfu…
By Eyal Solomon… You'll never watch Grease the same way again.
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By Andrew Poretz . . . Back in 1968, an advertising poster for Blackglama furs featured a Richard Avedon photo of iconicc star Bette Davis with the tagline, "What Becomes a Legend Most?" Whe…
The Power of Women's Voices is a soul-stirring celebration of prose, poetry, art, and music that honored the unapologetic brilliance of women over 40. The Triad had a packed house, and the s…
A Woman Silenced and Maddened By Alix Cohen Written in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper was published as a series of diary entries by an unnamed woman suffering from postpartum depression. Her phy…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . When George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion first premiered in London in 1914, it boasted two of the greatest stars of the British Theatre as its leads: Herbert Be…
By Stuart Miller... Natalie Palamides plays both sides of a couple in this laugh-a-minute clowning play
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By Alix Cohen Nothing comes close to the rollicking madness of a Joe Iconis & Family production. Holidays are an excuse to take these even further. The Laurie Beechman stage is gleefully…
By Ron Fassler . . . I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Linda Purl, an actress and singer with decades in the business. Her resume includes starring in over 45 made-for-TV movie…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . "This is a play about my mother. For my mother. Who recently . . . who's not here anymore. And so, it's about her, and her friends, her beautiful friends"and a th…
By Alix Cohen The Big Band Era spanned roughly from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. It was the golden age of large jazz orchestras lead by icons. Evolving from New Orleans style dance and…
By Alix Cohen Hannah Senesh " an anglicized Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944) is revered by Jewish people as a symbol of courage, resistance, and Zionist idealism"an enduring heroine of World War I…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Oscar Hammerstein II's words to Jerome Kern's melody "The Song is You," could have been written to perfectly describe the songstress Marilyn Maye: Beautiful rhaps…
Pianist-entertainer Chris Autore is marking an extraordinary 75 years in show business with a special performance of Look at Me Now on Wednesday, November 5 at 7 PM at Don't Tell Mama. He'll…
The New York Cabaret Convention Third NightHost K.T. Sullivan, Artistic Director -The Mabel Mercer Foundation By Alix Cohen Opening tonight's show, Mardie Millit and Michael Garin ebullientl…
The New York Cabaret Convention " Second NightHosts Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch By Alix Cohen Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein 1905-1994) was a British American songwriter who contribut…
OPENING NIGHT- The 36th New York Cabaret Convention By Alix Cohen Weeeeeeere back! Under the aegis of the venerable Mabel Mercer Foundation, the cabaret community gathered once again to supp…
By Andrew Poretz . . . On October 21, the 36th annual Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention opened at the Frederick P. Lowe Rose Room (Jazz at Lincoln Center) on with The Best Is Yet to Come: A Ce…
Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Art of Leaving is the unpropitious title of an amateurish new domestic comedy by Anne Marilyn Lucas, whose cardboard dialogue and plywood acting had me po…
By Adam Cohen... "Bull Durham The Musical" gets close but lacks the double romantic poetry necessary to drive both romances for the grand slam the creators want.
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By Alix Cohen Friends Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch go back a looong time. At the urging of uber-fan, the late Barry Day, they developed a Hoagy Carmichael show, repeatedly performing, t…
By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Joan Marcus One of the most unique and entertaining theater offerings this season is André De Shields is Tartuffe. Running at the House of the Redeemer (7 Ea…
By Alix Cohen If work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to rectify its notable absence. The genre-defying collaboration, "in the place where speech and mus…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The 34-year-old Ari'el Stachel is blessed with charm for days. Anyone who saw his Tony Award-winning performance in The Band's Visit were enchanted by his i…
