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By Alix Cohen... Jazz in Pergatory
By A;ix Cohen... Wendy Wasserstein’s excellent play skewers politics, media frenzy, and the double standards women face in public life. It asks why accomplished women are so often held to …
By Alix Cohen... A reframing of the story of Lilith to reflect burgeoning awareness
Review by Ron Fassler . . . With this being the centenary of Tony Bennett’s birth (in fact, he was born today, August 3, 1926), cabaret icon and pianist-singer Billy Stritch put together a…
By Ron Fassler . . . At the moment, playwrights seem happy to dig into the dangers of AI because—let’s face it—there’s drama in them thar hills. Disruption, Andrew Stein’s new play…
By Alix Cohen Michael (Ivan Howe) and Paul (Julius Rinzel), both in their early teens, chase one another competing in such chores as the speed of candle snuffing. Were they not wearing albs,…
By Yani Perez... Fast, physical, and fabulously strange, piss.jpeg (Working Title) finds unexpected humanity within a gleefully illogical world.
By Alix Cohen... Nicolas King II- Other Aspirations
By Andrew Poretz... With holiday standards, hilarious parodies, original songs and infectious good humor, Debi Toni\'s Naughty \'n\' Nice proved that Christmas spirit isn\'t limited to Decem…
By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography Kennedy Caughell (Paradise Square, Beautiful) celebrated the release of her debut album Just the Beginning on July 27th with a c…
By Alix Cohen... Nicolas King Part I- Lift Off - A boy destined for the stage
By Eyal Solomon, Publisher and Editor, Theater Pizzazz... For two unforgettable hours, Hejira transported the Iridium audience back to Joni Mitchell\'s groundbreaking jazz years with a perfo…
By Stuart Miller... A strong cast and an intimate setting give new life to monologues Whoopi Goldberg wrote and performed decades ago.
By Alix Cohen... A fractured family comes together through Jewish customs
By By Stuart Miller... Jonathan Spector deftly delivers fully human characters debating complex political issues.
By Alix Cohen... An extraordinary blend of Taiwanese and Western influenced dance
By Alix Cohen... A Buoyant Evening of Period Pop and Jazz in Dance
By Alix Cohen Were committee creations not so likely to manifest a camel instead of a horse, Ogden Nash, Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, and Tom Lehrer might’ve been the pla…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . One of the first things you might be struck by while watching Jonathan Spector’s impressive three-hour and twenty-minute Birthright, currently playing at MCC, …
By Alix Cohen An amuse bouche of Irving Berlin’s “There’s No Business Like Show Business” is punctuated by observations from Sophie Tucker, Carol Channing and, in the audience, Maril…
By Alix Cohen... Meg Flather doesn\'t just sing, she communicates.
By Alix Cohen... Two downtown legends revive a not-to-be-missed collaborative fantasy
By Alix Cohen... John Anastasi’s well crafted, original play snookers us into wondering about, but believing narrative while something else entirely is a foot.
By Andrew Poretz... Jazz singer and songwriter Deanna Kirk and storyteller Lisa Faith Phillips teamed up at Pangea to bring the songs and lives of Jacques Brel and Michel Legrand to life.
By Alix Cohen Who were you in 1969? Richard Nixon was inaugurated, The Vietnam “conflict” continued at full throttle, Women’s Lib expanded its footing, Woodstock cemented the power of …
