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Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Martin Short. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legen…
Theater review by Stuart Miller… In 1941, Nazi invaders marched the 1,600 Jews of the Polish village of Jedwabne into a barn and set it ablaze. At least, that's the story that Poles told t…
Tony Award Winner Danny Burstein will be playing "Herbie" opposite six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald "Rose" in GYPSY. Directed by the legendary six-time Tony Award-winni…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . See What I Wanna See is a musical written by composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa, first produced at the Public Theatre in 2005. Inspired by the sto…
Three leading ladies from Hairspraywill star in I'm A Big Girl Now! are back and better than ever! Tony nominees Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde), Kerry Butler (Beetlejuice, Xanadu), and To…
The 2024 edition of the Chain Summer One-Act Festival features the New York premiere of Banshee by award-winning writer John Patrick Shanley, the world debut of the Jesse Eisenberg-produ…
The Overlook Sessions is a new weekly event on Monday nights in September at The Overlook Bar, featuring live performances by Jesse Gelber, the renowned pianist from Speakeasy Magick, and hi…
WaldenBabeReal Women Have Curves: The Musical Motell Foster Joins Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters in "Walden" Motell Foster will complete the cast of Amy Berryman's play WALDEN, joining the p…
Music review By Andrew Poretz …. Quintin Harris returned to Birdland Jazz in September for several concerts in the new 5:30 slot. This reviewer last reviewed Harris with his quintet back i…
A Broadway production of the acclaimed new musical Buena Vista Social Club will hit Broadway in early 2025. With a book by Marco Ramirez (Drama Desk Award, The Royale), director Saheem Ali (…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler… In 2023, the fabled supper club 54 Below became a non-profit organization. Since that time, its longstanding goals of expanding the art of cabaret have taken…
Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . Do good things come to those who wait? In the case of Empire Records: The Musical, the extremely entertaining adaptation of the flop 1995 film …
Cabaret Review By Marilyn Lester… Seventy-six years ago, in 1948, a radio show entitled "Life Begins at Eighty" debuted, eventually moving on in 1950 to that new invention: television. At …
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Julian Schlossberg. My First Book"Part 2: A Producer's Lif…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . The oversized names and faces of Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone command a large space over the Booth Theatre for Jen Silverman's comedy, The Roommat…
Dwayne Washington and McKenna OGrodnik in "That Parenting Musical."
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Cafe Carlyle Fall LineupCelebrity Autobiography at The TriadLinda Purl and Billy Stritch at 54 Below Café Carlyle Fall Lineup Celebrates Bobby Short This fall, the legendary Café Carlyle i…
Multiple MAC Award-nominated Cabaret and recording artist, Renee Katz, is reunited with the critically-acclaimed arranger and Musical Director, Christopher Marlowe to celebrate the words and…
The off-broadway play Cellino V. Barnes is running now at Asylum NYC. You may know the story of these lawyers. You probably definitely know their jingle. Stars of Cellino v. Barnes Eric Will…
Renee Katz/Don't Tell Mama " Ann Kittredge/Chelsea Table+Stage " Goldie Dver/Don't Tell Mama " Margaret Curry/The Green Room42 " Bryce Edwards/Birdland MAC Award Winner Goldie Dver has two s…
Peek into the rehearsal room of Sump'n Like Wings by Lynn Riggs as the cast and company come together to read the play. (Click HERE). The show, directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges, features Jul…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Julian Schlossberg. Try Not to Hold it Against Me: A Produ…
Broadway For All, will launch its Front Door Reading Series program with three new works by both new and established playwrights. The Front Door Readings Series begins on Monday, September 1…
Rehearsals are underway for the Broadway premiere of Jez Butterworth's new play The Hills of California, directed by Sam Mendes. The limited engagement begins preview performances September …
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . What? You've never heard of Solderville, Colorado? That tiny mining village "on the highest mountain of the highest mountain range in North America…
