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Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . When I was a boy interested in musicals, the scores Anthony Newley wrote (with Leslie Bricusse) for Stop the World I Want to Get Off and The Roar…
Broadway's brightest stars are gathering for an unforgettable night to celebrate and raise funds to save The West Bank Cafe. On Tuesday, October 8th, the iconic restaurant and its famed down…
October 6, 2024 Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . It's big (well, not that big). It's gay (it's very gay). And if a log line like "Stacey woke up in some b*tch ass Music Man…
Theater Review by Stuart Miller… In the middle of "Yellow Face," David Henry Hwang's funny but pointed look at ethnic identity and bias in America, the character of David Henry Hwang empha…
October 5, 2024 Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you like a play that starts slowly and takes its time setting up characters and the world in which they live, then builds inexorably to…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Richard E. Grant. A Pocketful of Happiness: A Memoir. (Ne…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . Ghosts can be scary. Ghosts can be troublemakers. Ghosts can be destructive. Witness the ones in Shakespeare's Hamlet, or Ibsen's Ghosts, or Brendo…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . Jacob McNeal, celebrated American novelist and playwright, has a problem. He's trying to kill himself. Wait a minute, you say to yourself at the on…
Producers Wessex Grove, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Kater Gordon announced today that the Olivier Award®-winning actor Andrew Scott will reprise his wildly acclaimed pe…
Here's exciting news about new music releases from Jane Monheit, Allyson Briggs and CelloVoci. Jane Monheit Jazz and adult contemporary vocalist Jane Monheit's new eponymous album, Jane Monh…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel… A Summer Sampling: Once Upon a Mattress, Job, Forbidden Broadway, and More! Before all hell breaks loose with a flood of new shows opening between October an…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . This past spring, song stylist Ann Kittredge released an album titled "Romantic Notions," her musings on the theme of love covering more than a …
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Alan Rickman. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman …
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . George Tabori's The Goldberg-Variations shifts swiftly between light and dark, serious and comical, while diffusing tension and disappointment with …
Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, written by Jenny Lyn Bader and directed by Ari Laura Kreith, will play at 59E59 from October 18 to November 10. The show stars Ella Dershowitz,…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . .  . Conceived and directed by Stephen Sachs, Fatherland is a powerful verbatim play that is currently at New York City Center Stage II through No…
Theater review by Carol Rocamora… Come down to La Mama in the East Village and you'll see an amazing sight: a David facing a (metaphorical) Goliath, on a basketball court, in a theatre. Th…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Cabaret regular Renee Katz is back with a new show at Don't Tell Mama titled "Lost in His Arms." It doesn't take much of a sleuth to fi…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . I've never had the pleasure until the other night at 54 Below of seeing Cheyenne Jackson onstage. Well aware of his talents, and having seen him in such f…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy with Catherine Kemm . . . Every time I see a show I learn something. After seeing A Fairly Odd Musical! at the Jerry Orbach Theater I learned that there a…
Music Review by Marilyn Lester… When the Wynton Marsalis-led Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO) is in Rose Hall, the venue is known as the House of Swing. That appellation was never …
Theater review by Carole Di Tosti… In Nancy Harris' The Beacon, directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull, we witness a family drama that grows more complex in its unraveling. Son Colm (Zach Appel…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Political satire isn't an easy thing to pull off. Ask the folks at Saturday Night Live who've been doing it for fifty years (and those are just …
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you aren't aware of who Kara Young is by now you are missing out on one of the best actresses currently working in the theatre. And man does she wo…
Musical duo The Bengsons (Abigail and Shaun Bengson) will be performing songs live on stage from The Magnetic Fields (composer, Stephin Merritt), including selections from their album "69 Lo…
