Alan Jay Lerner’s 100th Birthday Celebration Rocks the 2018 Cabaret Convention Finale       by Myra Chanin   Alan Jay Lerner supplied rhymes for one unfinished and 17 produced Broadway Musicals as well as librettos for several of them. He wrote the words for the...

    by Ron Fassler   Of the legendary musical theatre actors who made their New York stage debuts as far back as nearly sixty years ago, we must be grateful that Anita Gillette is not only one of the most enduring, but still going as strong as ever. Beginning as a replacement...

  A stellar cast of Broadway’s finest performers was on hand April 11, when The New York Friars Club honored show business tour de force Jamie deRoy at a celebration marking her 30th anniversary as one of the Club’s first eight female members. The event, Jamie deRoy, 30 Years a Friar,...

    By Martha Wade Steketee   It feels as if Anita Gillette has been part of our lives forever. On Broadway and Off-Broadway stages, and on television and movie screens, we’ve seen her play the funny sister or the off-beat cousin or the distracted mom or the deliciously goofy...

  By Sandi Durell   Song and dance man, Lee Roy Reams brought the house down at 54 Below Celebrating 42nd Street. Originating the role of Billy Lawlor in the Tony Award winning musical (1981), the man referred to as Broadway royalty showed us how it’s done. With backstage stories...

    By Martha Wade Steketee       Broadway performances past and present were evoked in the newest “Jamie deRoy & Friends” cabaret show on the intimate Birdland stage. This established, curated, and regular series of ensemble shows hosted by the personable deRoy...

            Monday night, March 13 the Vineyard Theatre held its 2017 Gala at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square, this year honoring the 10th anniversary of [title of show] along with Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff with a special...

      By Sandi Durell     The island of La Grande Jatte is alive and pulsating with the complexity of Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine’s (book) revival (the last revival 2008) of Sunday in the Park with George, a mystical, magical production at the...

     by Alix Cohen                                                                                                  On the last night of its 27th annual celebration, the New York Cabaret Convention pays homage to theater icons Sheldon Harnick and Charles Strouse, both in...

  By Brian Scott Lipton     It’s been over 20 years since My Fair Lady has had a Broadway run, and if any question remained that the show’s brilliant score by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner deserves to be heard nightly, 54 Sings My Fair Lady delivered a resounding answer...

    Bold faced names turned out at the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village on Monday night, June 6 for the opening night production and festivities of the new musical, Himself and Nora, produced by R. Erin Craig and Cherie King and Merrie Davis; music, book and lyrics by...

    by Joe Regan Jr.     Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller returned to the room where they did “Sin Twisters” in 2014, a show title a spooner on “twin sisters” on February 24 to a sold out house full of Broadway celebrities. Once again “Sin Twisters, Too” was superbly...

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                            Broadway legend, Len Cariou celebrated quite a Birthday at 54 Below on October 5th with a bevy of Broadway stars and friends honoring this great gentlemen of Broadway. The...

            by: Joe Regan, Jr.   At 54 Below in New York City underneath the Roundabout‘s Studio 54 theatre where another revival of the classic musical “Cabaret” is previewing, actresses Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller, both of whom played Sally Bowles in...

      Two beloved Tony-nominated Broadway actresses Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller join forces for a delectable evening of humorous reflection and harmonious song in Sin Twisters, a show with a devilish spoonerism of a title. On the streets of Manhattan and Los Angeles, these...

by: Sandi Durell In the small intimate Theatre C cabaret room at 59e59 Theaters, Virginia Carpolotti, new widow of Ed, hums a lot. She does that when she’s nervous and who wouldn’t be when, after 40 years together she loses him and is suddenly, and surprisingly, saddled with $1M in debt! Did...