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Are you ready to put your acting chops on the line and battle it out in front of a live audience and top entertainment industry professionals? Get ready for your big break beginning Jan. …
NYC Winter Outing Jan 17 thru Feb 12, combines prix-fixe NYC Restaurant Week menus at nearly 500 restaurants; 2-for-1 tickets to 22 NYC Broadway Week shows; and 2-for-1 tic…
By Stuart Miller . . . The small town Irish wedding is packed with characters. There's Declan, the best man who goes by Hobbit because of his huge feet and who gives a "toe-curlingly awful" …
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 22nd year, continues celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with …
By Andrew Poretz … Broadway, film and pop star John Lloyd Young returned to 54 Below for a four-night residency. The Jersey Boys star had a new backup band, led by that long-haired gen…
by Melissa Griegel… Stepping into The McKittrick Hotel at 542 W. 27th (between 10th and 11th) felt like sneaking into a speakeasy or being invited into a secret hidden private club. The si…
By Andrew Poretz … Prodigious Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano celebrated his 70th birthday with an eight-set, four-night run at Birdland Jazz with his large jazz ensembl…
In an unprecedented collaboration, HERE, IndieSpace, New Ohio and Rattlestick have formed the West Village Rehearsal Co-Op located at 60-74 Gansevoort Street New Y…
Anthony Rapp's Without You " The Best We Could ( A Family Tragedy) " I Love My Family But … " The Coast Starlight " Dog Man the Musical " On Set with Theda Bara " Peter Pan Goes Wrong The …
On January 22 @ 7 pm The Green Room 42 (570 Tenth Ave. NYC ) presents Broadway Sings for She Angels, produced by Joan Ryan, hosted by Roma Torre and directed by Will Nunziata. The Musical Di…
By JK Clarke . . . Great Expectations is one of those great novels most of us encountered in a sturdy high school English curriculum. Riveting and multi-layered with a multitude of confl…
With special guest Nicole Zuraitis By Andrew Poretz … This writer has reviewed or simply attended hundreds of shows by dozens of artists who have graced the Birdland stage over the years.�…
Broadway will look dark in the next couple of months as many shows are set to close between January and February: 1776, Almost Famous, Bettlejuice, Into The Woods, A Strange Loop, Death of a…
By Walter Murphy . . . Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore debuted in 1878 during England's Victorian era. One could choose to study the decline of the empire since that d…
By Carol Rocamora . . . If you braved the crowds at MOMA (The Museum of Modern Art) this holiday, as I did, looking for the vibrant canvases of the Neo-Expressionist painter Jean-Michel Basq…
The Public " Under the Radar Festival January 4 " 22, 2023 The Public Theater's UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL is a world-renowned international theater festival that shines a spotlight on new the…
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By Melissa Griegel . . . Three-time Tony Award Winner Patti LuPone has taken up a residency at 54 Below, performing 16 solo shows from December 20th 2022 through January 8th 2023. Tickets to…
By Walter Murphy . . . Imagine a teenage playwright beginning his career by addressing the sacrifices an accomplished woman must make when she weds a less-talented partner. Add societal …
By Ron Fassler . . . Stage monologues are tricky things, difficult to pull off in both writing and performing. Over the years, I've seen some magnificent plays and actors triumph in the genr…
Last night, November 20 '22, history was made on Broadway as the musical sensation KPOP marked their opening celebration, ahead of the show's official opening night on November 27. Fea…
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Life is about second chances. So believes Juliet Capulet, the once tragic female protagonist of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, who steps out of 14th cen…
By Marilyn Lester . . . Every so often all the parts of a show might just come together in a beautifully optimal way. Such was the case with Judi Mark's Merely Marvelous"The Songs Of Gwe…
By Melissa Griegel . . . The Museum of Jewish Heritage (36 Battery Place, New York) brought the award-winning picture book When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street to life with a concert readin…
By Andrew Poretz … Susan Mack is the living embodiment of the saying, "Hard work pays off."Â Long successful personally and professionally, and beloved in her community, she did not pur…
