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A Roller Coaster Ride through the Life of Rupert Murdoch By Alix Cohen In 1996, Primary Colors was published with authorship credited to Anonymous-later revealed to be journalist Joe Klein. …
By Stuart Miller... John Leguizamo's family drama tackles too many issues with too much exposition
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Identical triplets in formidable harmony By Alix Cohen Identical triplets from Nairobi, Kenya, Mary, Magda and Marta Moipei, were appointed UNICEF ambassadors at age twelve championing girl …
By Staurt Miller... Mike Bartlett's play shows two colleague gleefully goring the office's weak link.
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By Adam Cohen... The Underground Railroad, hip-hop, looped musical offers sick beats to history (recent and past)
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By Stuart Miller... Julia McDermott generates heat in Brian Watkin's one-woman show about a woman falling apart… and a planet doing the same.
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Review by Ron Fassler . . . The one time I attended Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival was forty years ago. I saw play after play and was charmed by much of the theatre, though a bit surpr…
By Samuel L. Leiter... Casual notes on show biz books, memoirs, and studies, dust gatherers and hot off the presses.
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Review by Alex Eichholz . . . Whether you're in the front pew every Sunday or you've never set foot in a chapel, you must let the dazzling company of the new musical Saturday Church, which o…
Great authentic folk music and a timely, touching play By Alix Cohen Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfriend Beckett (Morgan Morse) …
By Samuel L. Leiter… New York has a number of institutions part of whose function is to introduce the artistic expressions of a particular national culture. I don't know of any that, over …
Songs by James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Clint Holmes performed with brio By Alix Cohen There are entertainers and there are entertainers. We north-easterners think of Las Vegas performers …
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . New York has a number of institutions part of whose function is to introduce the artistic expressions of a particular national culture. I don't know of any that, ov…
A confirmed Francophile lyrically shares her love of The City of Light By Alix Cohen Karen Akers may be a reincarnated French woman. Her love of Paris runs beyond personal experience to a ki…
A Preview of The Metropolitan Opera's Imaginative, Upcoming Production By Alix Cohen Tonight's glimpse into The Metropolitan Opera's upcoming production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier…
France's welcome to American jazz " Edifying and Entertaining By Alix Cohen After World War I, American jazz musicians"many of them Black expatriates"found a welcoming audience in Paris. The…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The last time I attended a production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music forty-eight years ago. The second time, in a full c…
One more performance at 54 Below " September 14, 2025 By Alix Cohen Billy Stritch and Nicolas King swing like the rest of us breathe- naturally, as if informed by DNA. Clearly a mutual admir…
Review by Stuart Miller . . . The Brothers Size is a transportive meditation on siblings, the way they can (and can't) protect or hurt each other and on how if you live with your head in the…
By Ron Fassler . . . Although Avery Sommers is coming to town doesn't quite scan the same as Santa Claus is coming to town, the talented singer/actress will undoubtedly be spreadin…
By Alix Cohen A well researched, little known, true Civil War story featuring three formidable women, each dedicated to her own divisive patriotism. 1861- 1865. The Richmond, Virginia home o…
By Andrew Poretz . . . Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography (www.griegelphoto.zenfolio.com) Theater Pizzazz was on the scene to cover the Al Hirschfeld Foundation's cocktail party and openi…
By Alix Cohen "Give me time and I'll give you a revolution." Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) Though set in the world of fashion (marvelous costume and accessory design by Kaye Voyce), this mig…
By Alix Cohen Without other similarity to the character Baby June from Gypsy, Rachel Matz Hunter might be called "a five foot two bundle of dynamite." Diminutive only in stature, the talente…
By Alix Cohen Lisa Viggiano puts her whole self into a song. You can practically see the music coursing through her body. She has control, range, and offers distinctive phrasing. Wells Hanle…
