Perhaps Kerrigan and Lowdermilk will get through to the larger public soon, possibly not--for the simple reason that they devote their tandem time to writing scores for musicals.
In just about every field, there are practitioners and then there are artists. In the still-cogent cabaret area, this distinction is usually between singers and those who take singing to a …
Matt Crowley's dark comedy, <em>The Boys in the Band</em>, opened at Manhattan's Theatre Four on April 14, 1968, little more than a year before the Stonewall Inn fracas.
The husband-wife team of Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano are currently doing the living-room honors in Manhattan's Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel through the first week of March.
What's missing is the effortless character charisma Salinger provided. It does no damage to the 1951 bestseller. <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em> continues to stand on its own, un…
Everyone should want to listen to and look at Hilary Kole in an understated black cocktail dress and high-heeled gold-strap shoes and tresses flowing past her shoulders.
In <em>The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives</em>, Brian Dillon goes into gory detail in describing the afflictions -- or presumed afflictions -- gripping the nonet.
Frenchmen sell berets. But Frenchmen don't buy them. Tourists do. In order to indicate they've been in France. One possible theory is that Frenchmen sell berets in order to spot foreigners m…
The only book my mother ever forbade me to read was <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em>. Perhaps if she'd used reverse psychology, I wouldn't have become an avid Salinger fan.
Tyne Daly has been acting for 49 years. She relays the astonishing fact during her current and irresistible cabaret act at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
It remains to be seen whether <em>Fela!</em> can survive its producers' blunders and triumph on Broadway. Hopefully it will--it's something different.
Just as the Hollywood Powers That Be are beginning to consider the lessening impact of box-office stars, the Broadway Powers That Be are concluding the only box-office sure-things are star n…
Pierce has a resonant baritone-bass that doesn't come as a total surprise after his stints in the one-word-titled musicals <em>Spamalot</em> and <em>Curtains</em>.
Cate Blanchett pulls out all stops throughout Tennessee Wiliams's supernal tragedy, <em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em>, now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The revival of S. N. Behrman's <em>Biography</em> has me thinking about someone who's fascinated me for years, someone well-known at the time the play debuted but virtually forgo…
Denying wide-spread downbeat feelings as the year's festivities loom can be problematic, as sufferers will only feel more removed from the general jubilation.
Too often the only review that counts is the <em>Times</em> pronouncement via Ben Brantley or Charles Isherwood. This time Brantley's response was not what's known as "a mon…
Roth and Allen are producing works it's difficult not to describe as clichés. What could be more commonplace than men obsessed with proving that male elders remain attractive to …