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Marin Mazzie was a three time Tony Award nominee and it’s painful to write that this lovely, talented and brave lady has passed away from ovarian cancer at the young age of 57. …
By Marilyn Lester In The Naturalists, the Pond Theatre Company has tackled an ambitious play by Irish playwright Jaki McCarrick, featuring an interesting premise and strong act…
By Sandi Durell If you're a millennial, this will probably have some meaningful impact. Generation Y or Z can readily relate to and understand the temporary hooku…
by JK Clarke Note: If you are the sort of person who is offended by candid discussions of female genitalia and sex in general, and by the rampant use of th…
Review by Brian Scott Lipton Put two women who have made TV audiences laugh out loud for years on a stage together and you can expect hilarity. Add in the fact that both…
Review by Brian Scott Lipton The cabaret world is chock full of great artists, but few measure up to Amanda McBroom. A California-based singer-songwriter whose compositi…
 Review by Beatrice Williams-Rude As Joe Papp was to Shakespeare, Jose Quintero to Eugene O'Neill, David Staller is to George Bernard Shaw. David Staller is the best thing …
by Michael Bracken Basketball is the prism through which segregation is viewed in Separate and Equal at 59E59 Theaters. Presented by the University of Alabama, Seth Pani…
By Myra Chanin Jennifer Blackmer, the author of Unraveled, won the 2015 Pen/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Emerging American Playwrights as…
By Myra Chanin Like many of the folks at Feinstein's/54Below on Tuesday night September 4, I remembered the musical Ballroom very fondly. How fondly? Fondly enough that as s…
The Songs of Kander & Ebb " They Just Move On! By Sandi Durell Happily Jana Robbins & Haley Swindal's Songs of Kander & Ebb are already scheduled for …
by Brian Scott Lipton Blonde, beautiful and both possessed of stunning voices that soar to the heavens, Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert are almost a modern-day, grown-up…
Marilyn Maye Will Receive an ASA Lifetime Achievement Award Presented by Bob Mackie! By Sandi Durell Cabaret keeps growing because there are enough people …
The press was invited for a sneak peek to see what’s up with the new comedy beginning performances shortly at the Davenport Theatre and featuring the directorial debut of two ti…
by Brian Scott Lipton There are few more daunting theatrical challenges than making the familiar seem fresh, which is why one must salute solo performer Shane O'R…
 A Great 21st Century Jazz Singer Honors Immortal 20th Century Songbirds and the Songs They Made Famous by: Myra Chanin Actress/Jazz Singer Linda Purl c…
"The Greatest Songwriter that has ever lived." (George Gershwin) "Irving Berlin has no place in American music " he is American music." (Jerome Kern) …
Emmy and Golden Globe nominated star of ER, Raising the Bar and Mr. Robot, Gloria Reuben is getting ready to present an intimate evening of song – The Men I Love at F…
The Box Office is Open, tickets are on sale in person, by phone or online for the upcoming Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center October 9 …
By Marcina Zaccaria The Scottish play is always a bloody, vengeful riot, fit to topple any pre-existing play structure that might rival it. Fans of this Shakespea…
by Alix Cohen Looking like a page out of Vogue magazine, Kat Gang approaches her music with as much style as she does her appearance. Understated charisma and subtle voc…
by Samuel L. Leiter Scraps is an angry play. Not that it doesn't have plenty to be angry about. However, the solution it takes to dealing with its issues suggests…
Ann Hampton Callaway Returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below with The Linda Ronstadt Songbook Award winning singer, pianist, songwriter and actress Ann Hampton Callaway, a…
Not only is David Friedman one of the top composers of our time, he also happens to be the composer of the hit new musical Desperate Measures (with book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg) c…
By Sandi Durell The interesting background on this show gives it more panache than one would realize . . . it's a little bit of this n' that . . . w…
