By Sandi Durell   A small dark dimly lit stage, a comfortable chair, a lamp and a throw blanket set the mood for Squeamish at the Beckett Theatre. Shortly, Alison Fraser, who plays Sharon, enters and takes a seat in her psychoanalyst’s office. She is a therapist on the...

    By Sandi Durell   Never has time been so succinctly brought into focus as in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s current revival of J. B. Priestley’s Time and the Conways. The concept of time, often unexplainable, always lingering in our psyche is a metaphysical phenomenon....

  Jay Armstrong Johnson like you’ve never seen him. . . in “Not So Scary Halloween Party” at Feinstein’s/54 Below on October 31 at 7 and 9:30 pm.  Yes, the Sanderson Sisters are Back!  It’s Jay or is it Winifred . . . accompanied by his kooky cast of...

      It was press day October 10 for MCC Theater’s World Premiere of School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play. Tony Award winning director Rebecca Taichman and 2017-18 Tow Playwright-in-Residence Jocelyn Bloh and the cast were on hand to speak with the press and...

    By Sandi Durell   The tall, good looking perky blonde is, once again, in residency at the Café Carlyle and is an appealing sight. Although, audiences are mainly used to hearing the great American Songbook or Broadway show tunes from the majority of talent that graces the...

      By Sandi Durell   The press was invited on board the luxurious Princess Regal docked at the Brooklyn Terminal on Saturday October 7 for the latest peek of shipboard entertainment. Theater Pizzazz  first attended a luncheon before being escorted into the theater to...

  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 Sandi Durell   Advice to those who are in need is a double-edged sword . . . especially from one who isn’t licensed other than by life’s experiences.   Trying to bring real substance to Cheryl Strayed’s popular book ‘Dear Sugar’ on stage creates its own problems....

    by Sandi Durell   The Vineyard Theatre held a press meet and greet to introduce Tony Award Winner Billy Crudup (The Coast of Utopia, Spotlight, The Metal Children) who will play ‘Harry Clarke’ in a one-man thriller that is funny and clever. It’s the story...

    By Sandi Durell   The new musical comedy Desperate Measures opened on October 1 at the York Theatre to thunderous applause with book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music by David Friedman. Bill Castellino (Cagney) directs this knee-slappin’ hee haw musical with a nod to...

      By Sandi Durell   A mixture of sadness, joy and great spirit prevailed at the last evening at the Metropolitan Room at 34 West 22 Street on September 30, 2017. Managing partner Bernie Furshpan and lovely wife Joanne, along with partner Peter Leavy bid farewell to the...

  Andrea McArdle returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below in ‘An Evening with Andrea McArdle’ October 10, 12, 13 & 14 at 7 pm. She  celebrates the Great American Songbook, Broadway along with more contemporary music taking her audience on a musical journey filled with...

  By Sandi Durell   Cinderella is back at the Café Carlyle in a tribute to the World of Rodgers and Hammerstein! Looking like a princess in a long white gown, the impeccable pitch-perfect soprano Laura Osnes was a little nervous but soon relaxed as she and musical director Ted Sperling...

    Review by Sandi Durell   Depravity and violence mark this dystopian society that seems to no longer be a future prediction as when first published in 1962, written by Anthony Burgess, followed by Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 much talked about movie. From London, comes director...

  by Sandi Durell   Barry Levitt, a gentle man, a talented musician, orchestrator, arranger, songwriter, a brilliant professional, known to everyone as the Maestro. On September 19, as the Maestro had finished rehearsal with Dawn Derow for her show ‘My Ship’ at the Beechman Theatre,...

  by Sandi Durell   The incomparable Lee Roy Reams, known by many as Broadway royalty, is returning to Feinstein’s/54Below Celebrating 42nd Street on October 6 and 7 at 7 pm. This legendary entertainer originated the role of Billy Lawlor in the Tony winning musical and will...

  By Sandi Durell   Music runs through every inch of Walter Willison, a man filled with great soul-filled interpretations of songs that make his heart sing. It’s joyful, uplifting and pinpoints what great entertainment is about. Willison is an extraordinary Broadway performer – an...

  By Sandi Durell   For a taste of something different, away from the mainstream, meet Adam Levowitz who has gathered up some of the quintessential music from Quentin Tarantino’s always unusual and controversial films that include everything from violence and pop culture layered...

    Maria Friedman, three time Olivier Award winning Star of Woman in White and Chicago is appearing at Feinstein’s/54 Below in a solo debut. It’s an extraordinary evening of music as Maria explores the work of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim  in ‘Lenny...

    By Sandi Durell     Dan McCormick has written a far reaching tale involving a 1710 Stradavarius violin to illuminate relationships between the old world tailor, Gio, and two unfortunate brothers, Bobby and Terry, who spend more time in his shop than anywhere else;...

    By Sandi Durell   The word has a variety of meanings, but has never been presented with such unique verve as in the current production of Charm at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Written by Jefferson Award-winning playwright Philip Dawkins, and directed by Helen Hayes Award...

    By Sandi Durell     It’s always delightful when I can speak with a star and it’s like talking to one of my girlfriends. And so it was with Lucie Arnaz who is about as down to earth as anyone I can think of, and will appear on Monday, September 25 at Feinstein’s/54...

      By Sandi Durell   From behind a closed curtain, emerges the charismatic Kathleen Chalfant (who plays the role of Ann) relating her most important and formative life memory . . . fifty years ago playing Peter Pan in a children’s theater production and meeting Mary...

    Directed by four-time Tony® Award nominee Randy Skinner and hosted by Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth, The Chita Rivera Awards were produced by American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21) and its Founder and Producing Artistic Director, Nikki Feirt Atkins in association...

    By Sandi Durell     As the unexpected swinging addition to their exciting show at the Café Carlyle reminds us . . . “get your coat and get your hat, leave your worries on the doorstep – just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street . . .” or, in this case, to...