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by Sandi Durell Part 2 coverage continues with Video Interviews in the press room at the Marriott Marquis on June 3 with the 2018 Drama Desk Award winners.…
by Alix Cohen  The Danny Bacher Quintet communicates in musical shorthand. This purposefully upbeat (don't we all need it?) evening of swing/bop/jazz and a token ballad fizzes alo…
The Drama Desk Awards took place at The Town Hall on June 3rd, hosted by Michael Urie. Red Carpet Arrivals at Anita’s Way found Theater Pizzazz’ JK Clarke on the scene. Lo…
by Sandi Durell At a meet and greet at Feinstein’s/54 Below, it looks like a wealth of talent is about to make their way to the nightclub below ground. Here’s a sho…
by Adam Cohen Geniality is an art displayed in fine form by the compellingly winning cabaret act Tony Danza brings to Feinstein's/54 Below this weekend.  Danza is …
 By Beatrice Williams-Rude This work is about the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his extraordinary 14-year relationship with his patron, friend and confidante…
by Bonnie Tandy Leblang Russian Samovar, Theatre District, NYC + Angels in America We for sure needed sustenance between “Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika,” …
The 15 Award nominated Desperate Measures, and winner of Outer Critics Circle & OBA Best New Musical, has now moved from the York Theatre to its new home at New World St…
by Brian Scott Lipton High expectations, tinged with just a little bit of dread and a pinch of skepticism, may be in the minds of many people as they enter the Booth Theater fo…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel When we look back at theater history, we can see the ebb and flow of its many changes and pinpoint the reasons for its often sei…
By Bernie Furshpan It seems like everything around us is going through, what Cosmologists refer to as inflation. Everything is expanding at a rapid rate, so much so that so…
By Ron Fassler The choice of Maggie Bofill's Devil of Choice to launch the Labyrinth Theater Company's 25thseason is an odd one. This world premiere play about an adulterous…
Learning More From the Women in Pomegranate, Avocado and Coconut  By Sandi Durell Staunch feminist, activist, playwright and actress, Eve Ensler, embodies political …
By Sandi Durell You'll have to go an extra mile to keep up with the raging, ranting characters, all former students of the fierce and alcoholic Sister Rose whose funeral…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Last year we wrote a column about the significant increase in the number of new shows on Broadway that featured Latin and Afro-Ameri…
By Marilyn Lester Who can know what passes through the mind of a person near death, especially those under the influence of mind-altering drugs? Irish playwright Marina …
by JK Clarke Comedy is hard. Especially theatrical comedy. Even if the humor exists in the script, it doesn't necessarily make it to the stage. Ordinarily,…
by Sandi Durell What makes the Outer Critics Circle Awards so unique and loved? Â I’ll tell you. It’s that the winners have already been announced a…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel First comes the discussion of who should be nominated. Then comes the complaining about who was snubbed. That's followed by who will win ve…
by Alix Cohen Few vocalist/actors connect with an audience as directly as Liz Callaway. Once, she tells us, cripplingly shy, the artist always seems disarmingly unaffect…
by JK Clarke To bring a production of Long Day's Journey Into Night to New York City only two years after the powerful, arresting and Tony award-winning Roundabou…
Review by Sandi Durell John Kander (Cabaret, Chicago, The Scottsboro Boys) is an endless well of musical talent that suddenly surprises with something so extraordinary t…
by Sandi Durell A most unexpected pleasure is the debut of film icon Kathleen Turner at the sumptuous Café Carlyle. One doesn't have to look at the stage, but ju…
by Michael Bracken Need another fix of Britannia after the royal wedding? Not to worry. Head over to 59E59, where Brits Off Broadway 2018 is in full swing, and get a loa…
By Marcina Zaccaria At McHale's, a bartender asks you to know his friends, understand their problems, and hear some awesome blues music from the musician on the perch, Shelly.�…
