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Pop meets policy in Central Park on the Great Lawn September 23rd 2017 – Doors open at 1pm The Global Citizen Festival brings together top music from Stevie Wond…
Review by Adam Cohen Life in the big city can be difficult. Residents face challenges with housing, transportation, finding jobs and romance. In the hands of the…
by JK Clarke William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a fan favorite. It's one of those plays that survives a heavy editing process and always seems to …
Review by Marcina Zaccaria In A Wall Apart, Lord Graham Russell, Founding Member of the band, Air Supply, creates big rock sound against a black and white video of a tor…
Review by Brian Scott Lipton If aging is indeed optional, Tovah Feldshuh has clearly made the choice not to do so. Seeing her on the stage of 54 Below reprising her 2003 show o…
Review by Brian Scott Lipton To use the lyric from her opening number, Natalie Douglas may not have "nursed and rehearsed" her new show "Sammy!," the first of a s…
Review by Alix Cohen Once a year or so Catherine Russell and her band return to Dizzy's Club Coca Cola with a show so reliably authentic one feels as if in anothe…
The new musical Ben, Virginia and Me: The Liberace Musical will get its NY debut as part of the New York Musical Festival. Ben, Virginia and Me: The Liberace Musical has a book by Rog…
by Cooper Lawrence Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize winning, and Oscar nominated playwright, actor and director has died at the age of 73. To many of us …
by Marilyn Lester Who couldn’t love a Cole Porter song? Certainly there must be very few, as Jazz in July Artistic Director and host Bill Charlap explained,…
by Sandi Durell The Broadhurst Theatre will celebrate its 100th Birthday this year and 54 Below will hold a fabulous centennial evening of songs and stories on Au…
by Martha Wade Steketee July 25, 2017 really is the 87th birthday of Annie Ross and marks the 11th year of regular appearances at the venue by this …
by Martha Wade Steketee Linda Lavin is a New York City girl who holds audiences rapt by comedic and dramatic performances on television, film, and stage. W…
by Martha Wade Steketee The scene at Birdland this steamy July evening skews young"tables of college-aged pals, a large group of teens from Britain. The bu…
 by Alix Cohen  Fanfare. Four business-suited men in an elevator erupt with staccato impressions of ongoing commerce as if finishing each other's sentence…
A gleeful revival of a musical that still manages to keep audiences laughing. by Joel Benjamin It's impossible to imagine a more talen…
By Brian Scott Lipton To paraphrase the title of one of the songs in her brilliant tribute to the 1960s, "The Beat Goes On," no one owns Liz Callaway. More import…
by Michael Bracken You can take it to the bank: money talks. Literally. At least it does in Money Talks, the Musical, at the Davenport Theatre, where Benjamin Franklin (…
by Carole Di Tosti The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest arts festival in the world, which takes place in Edinburgh, United Kingdom is right around the corne…
by Sandi Durell The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein, returns to his namesake Feinstein’s/54 Below August 8 thru September 3 (see calen…
by Marilyn Lester The punning title of Guys and Dolls Play the Greater Loesser was a sure indication of many smiles to come in this warm and reverent tribu…
By Sandi Durell Playwright Dominique Morisseau has written an intense and powerful play that is thought-provoking, but nothing new. Do private school kids …
By Eric J. Grimm Much as the warm and textured world of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series encourages rereading for millions of fans, PUFFS, a loving c…
by Matt Smith "Where is your sense of adventure? Aren't you curious what life will be like in several thousand years?" Such is the question posed at the top of the whims…
 By Marilyn Lester Possibly there could have been no better way to kick off the 92Y’s annual Jazz in July series than to honor its original Artistic Director, …
