By Ron Fassler   The choice of Maggie Bofill’s Devil of Choice to launch the Labyrinth Theater Company’s 25thseason is an odd one. This world premiere play about an adulterous triangle between a man, his wife and his mistress, is one we have seen many times before, and often...

    By Ron Fassler   Letters Live began life in 2013 in the United Kingdom as a unique theatrical event, with a purpose to entertain, as well as to offer some of its proceeds to benefit local literacy charities. Billed as “a celebration of the enduring power of the humble...

      By Ron Fassler   On May 8th, in the second of three shows at Feinstein’s/54 Below, in its “Classic American Songbook Series,” Deborah Grace Winer  presented “A Jerome Robbins’ Centennial Concert,” dedicated to musicals associated with the esteemed...

    By Ron Fassler   Backed by a superb 17-piece band, Michael Feinstein was at his customary best last night, in the first of two evenings being presented at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s glorious Appel Room, devoted to the song chanteuse Lena Horne. Offering wonderful stories,...

    By Ron Fassler     Having seen my first Broadway musical as a child in 1967, I have always been sorry that I missed the 1968 musical The Happy Time. With a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, its original cast album is one that makes you wonder why the show didn’t last...

  By Ron Fassler   If a solo cabaret show is to be devoted to a lyricist who came out of what is now lovingly known as “Broadway’s Golden Age” (1943-1959), you can’t do much better than to craft such an evening on the works of Alan Jay Lerner. And when that soloist is a lovely...

    By Ron Fassler   Though mostly known as a novelist and short story writer, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (1922-2007) wrote a few plays in his lifetime, one of which, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, had its premiere off-Broadway in the winter of 1970. Proving popular with audiences (as well...

  By Ron Fassler   “Well hello” are the first words spoken by Abigail Bengson, co-host and narrator of The Lucky Ones, the world premiere musical she has written with her husband Shaun Bengson, and with whom she shares the stage the entire evening. The program lists the playwright...

    By Ron Fassler   Some plays are written and some are constructed. If that doesn’t make perfect sense, seeing the Keen Company’s revival of A.R. Gurney’s 1993 comedy Later Life, might make the point clearer. Gurney, who died last June at age eighty-six, was a prolific...

Opening in Theatres March 16     By Ron Fassler   There isn’t a shot fired until seventy minutes into the war drama Journey’s End, British director Saul Dibb’s new film version of R.C. Sherriff’s old play. First produced ninety years ago in London, and then in New York, its...