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By Brian Scott Lipton . . . No one can accuse Victor I. Cazares of having nothing to say. In american (tele)visions, now premiering at New York Theater Workshop in a co-production with Theat…
By Andrew Poretz … We started and ended our week with Billy Stritch, first with his Mel and Ella show with Gabrielle Stravelli on Monday (reviewed here), and capped off the week with his C…
By Carole di Tosti . . . Once again, the New York Film Festival has an incredible slate of films created by global filmmakers who have been selected to present their work during the two-…
By Marilyn Lester . . . What hasn't Tony Danza done? He's been a prize fighter; an actor on stage, film and television; a high school teacher; a talk show host; an author; a recording ar…
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Early on in her spectacular new show at the Café Carlyle " shortly after spot-on renditions of Sting's "Fragile" and Stephen Sondheim's "Not a Day Goes By" " Bet…
by Adam Cohen . . . The Wolves is a high school indoors girls' soccer team and the play reveals itself gently in a series of scenes before games while the players stretch and warm up. Nev…
by Sandi Durell . . . Tonya Pinkins began performances September 27 at the Public Theater in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. The production runs through November 6th. Tickets are a…
TheFrontOffice Foundation, charitable arm of Director/Producer Wendy C. Goldberg's entertainment company, will be awarding a mid-career grant to a female identifying theater director that wi…
By Ron Fassler . . . Phillip Officer, a performer with strong ties to New York City's cabaret world, returned last night"after a long absence"to a warm and inviting crowd at Birdland. Th…
The new David Geffen Hall opens to the public on October 8, 2022, the home of the New York Philharmonic and new welcoming cultural home for New York. Completed two years early with a transfo…
Featuring the Julie Wilson Award Recipients in two very special shows! Appearing in the order performers won on Friday October 14 @ 7 pm and 9:30 pm Sue Matsuki Hosts  7: 00 pm " Jeann…
Four plays by women " including a solo work written and performed by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo " will be featured in the third season of BARD AT THE GATE, the digital theater streaming se…
By Alix Cohen . . . "Back in the day when there were television variety shows, these ladies would come out in beautiful gowns, sing a song and leave " clean and simple." Tonight, with minima…
Some of the Conversations at 92NY include: Willie Nelson in Conversation with Whoopi Goldberg ""Me and Paul: Untold Tales of a Fabled Friendship"on Wed. Sept 28 @ 7 pm Thurs. Sept 29 @ 7 pm …
By Ron Fassler . . . When my colleague, Marilyn Lester at TheaterPizzazz.com, reviewed the Irving Berlin revue Cheek to Cheek late last year, she called it "a singing and dancing jewel box r…
LYNN NOTTAGE and LAUREN GUNDERSON American Theatre magazine, published by Theatre Communications Group (TCG), has released Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Pla…
New York City Center has announced new performance dates for Encores! The Light in the Piazza as part of the 2022 " 2023 season. Due to scheduling conflicts, the Tony Award-winning …
By Ron Fassler . . . The stage was set on September 22, 2023 at Carnegie Hall for the one-night only premiere of composer/performer Jon Batiste's "American Symphony," self-described as "a la…
Upcoming productions set for fall 2022 and winter 2023 include: The Little OPERA Theatre of NY, in association with Harlem Opera Theater and National Black Theatre, will present a double bil…
By Andrew Poretz … Mel Tormé and Ella Fitzgerald were two of the greatest jazz singers of the twentieth century, masters of singing and performance whose legacy continues long after their…
Writers Celebrate Sondheim at 54 Below on Sunday Sept. 25th @ 7 and 9:30 pm www.54Below.com Birdland Theater will present singers Stacy Sullivan and Todd Murray in the new sho…
By Ron Fassler. . . Peter Cincotti, virtuoso jazz pianist and vocalist, is back in town right where he belongs and is very much in a "New York State of Mind" (yeah, it was his rousing closin…
The world premiere of Textplay, by Archer Eland, a virtual play that may be the world's first text play. In Textplay, presented by NYU Skirball, dialog appears as an ex…
By Carole di Tosti . . . The truth is not easy knowing. Indeed, human beings have infinite capacity to ignore things that are not convenient. The words are from the New York premiere of …
Broadway favorite Elizabeth Stanley headlined The New York Pops Underground cabaret performance on Monday, September 19, 2022 at 54 Below, performing selections from The…
