By Brian Scott Lipton With its now-prescient take on presidential politics, including plotlines involving beauty pageants, foreign collusion and impeachment – it’s almost shocking no one has revived the 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Of Thee I Sing” this season. So one is...
Best in Shows and The Humane...
Bow Wow, Meow Meow . . . we animal lovers love our pets and anyone or anything that can help them. Best in Shows a BIG hit for The Humane Society of New York at 54 Below! By Sandi Durell Photos: Genevieve Rafter Keddy Dorothy and Bill Berloni, once again, presented...
Sweeney Todd
by Brian Scott Lipton They have over two dozen Broadway credits (and four Tony Award nominations) between them, but Norm Lewis and Carolee Carmello have found their respective roles of a lifetime in, of all places, a tiny Off-Broadway house—one that...
Meet the Cast of Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is ready to give you a shave at anytime down at the Barrow Street Theatre where the Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd (music and lyrics Stephen Sondheim/book by Hugh Wheeler) is playing to sold out crowds under the direction of Bill...
Photos: Sweeney Todd Opening Night
Wednesday, March 1 (the 38th anniversary of the original Broadway opening) saw the opening night of The Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler from an adaptation by Christopher...
Sweeney Todd at Harringtons Pie...
By Sandi Durell Harringtons has moved to the Barrow Street Theatre where the Demon Barber is back performing his gory deeds with the cast of the Tooting Arts Club, straight from London, and the newly inaugurated members from the States. It’s a bloody business watching...
Jamie deRoy Rings the...
by Sandi Durell With a full house of fans and friends at Birdland, the ever-popular Jamie deRoy & friends series celebrated Spring and her new signature program for The Actors Fund: Jamie deRoy & friends Cabaret Initiative – assisting people in the cabaret...
Ms. Show Biz Jamie deRoy –...
The Broadway at Birdland Concert Series welcomes Jamie deRoy & friends for a star-studded cabaret show, Sunday, April 17, at 6 p.m. The iconic Birdland is at 315 W. 44th Street in New York’s theatre district. In addition to producing the show, Jamie deRoy, a three-time Tony® Award...
York Theatre Celebrates Angela...
The York Theatre Company honored fêted theater legend Angela Lansbury on her 90th Birthday awarding her the 2015 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theater at Guastavino’s. Yes, it was all about Angela! Theater Pizzazz’ JK Clarke was on the red carpet to...
Cast of Something Rotten! CD...
The cast of Broadway’s “Something Rotten!” was on hand at Barnes & Noble signing original cast recording CDs and singing some of the tunes from that Tony Award winning show featuring Brian d’Arcy James, James Cariani, Heidi Blickenstaff, Christian...
Sneak Peek: Something Rotten!
by: Brian Scott Lipton Something familiar? Something peculiar? Well, the new Broadway musical “Something Rotten!,” which begins previews on March 23 at the St. James Theatre in advance of an April 22 opening, has both. Actually, Casey...
