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Amplify 2024 with Bonnie Milligan and J. Harrison Ghee

Amplify 2024 with Bonnie Milligan and J. Harrison Ghee

Maestra Music, the Obie Award-winning nonprofit organization founded by Georgia Stitt to support the women and nonbinary musicians in the musical theatre industry, is pleased to announce hosts Tony Award-winner Bonnie Milligan and Tony Award-winner J. Harrison...

Getting to Know John Philip

Getting to Know John Philip

Don’t Tell Mama will present vocalist John Philip in Oceans of Love and Life, in a four-night encore engagement - Friday, March 22 at 7pm, Sunday, April 28 at 4pm, Friday May 17 at 7pm, and Friday, June 14 at 7pm. The evening will be directed by Marilyn...

THEATER and MUSIC COMING YOUR WAY

THEATER and MUSIC COMING YOUR WAY

Windows/The Town Hall - Lucy Simon Tribute/Joe's Pub - A Wonderful World Armstrong Musical/Studio 54 - Queen of Versailles/Kristin Chenoweth  On Monday, March 25th at 7:00pm, a bevy of Broadway luminaries will be honoring the work and life of Grammy Winner...

CABARET and MUSIC UPDATES

CABARET and MUSIC UPDATES

The Wicked Stage:Songs About Show Business - Ann Hampton Callaway - Lauren Worsham & Kyle Jarrow - Justin Elizabeth Sayre/La MaMa - Tim Connell - Late Night Vibing:Asian R&B - Chasing the Thrill/Allan Nicholls - Betty Buckley Ann Hampton Callaway returns to...

THE SIEGEL COLUMN

THE SIEGEL COLUMN

By Barbara & Scott Siegel . . . IN ORDER TO SURVIVE, BROADWAY GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE! Back to the Future: The Musical has been playing to packed houses for months, with no signs of letting up — including during the bleak months of January and February. Other than...

2st Tony Kiser Theatre Proving Far Too Costly to Maintain

2st Tony Kiser Theatre Proving Far Too Costly to Maintain

Second Stage Theater, a leading nonprofit that presents work by living American writers both on and off Broadway, is giving up its Rem Koolhaas-designed Off Broadway home in a former bank near Times Square, saying its rent was too high and its lease had unfavorable...

The Ally

The Ally

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Since when can theater of ideas be as exciting and as powerful as, let’s say, a Beethoven symphony? When you emerge from a performance with the themes and motifs and strains spinning round and round in your head, playing not...

Grand Hotel – Original Cast Reunion Concert at 54 Below

Grand Hotel – Original Cast Reunion Concert at 54 Below

Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . While living in Los Angeles thirty-five years ago, I came to New York City for a wedding weekend and had the chance to see only one Broadway show. With the two biggest musicals that season being City of Angels and Grand Hotel, I...

Stephanie J. Block Soars at the 92nd Street Y

Stephanie J. Block Soars at the 92nd Street Y

Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . . On February 22nd, last week, some three months prior to the next Mother’s Day, Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block performed a solo show titled The Mother at the 92nd Street Y’s Kauffman Concert Hall. This versatile actress and...

The Hunt

The Hunt

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Brace yourselves. Rupert Goold’s riveting production of The Hunt, now playing at St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, will have you hanging onto your seat—and often hiding under it.  Rarely have I been as shaken in the theater...

The Seven Year Disappear

The Seven Year Disappear

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . I met Jordan Seavey, playwright of The Seven Year Disappear, the New Group’s current production at the Pershing Square Signature Center, only once, and just briefly enough to shake his hand and say hello. I must, however,...

Upcoming Music and Theater

Upcoming Music and Theater

KILL THE WHALE, a new rock, hiphop, and folk opera by 2023 Larson Grant Recipient Daniel Emond, will premiere at Joe’s Pub (435 Lafayette St. NYC) on Sunday, April 14 at 6:00 PM.    Directed by Jason Sparks and featuring music direction by Simone Allen , the 90-minute...

Deadly Stages

Deadly Stages

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . For cheesy New York cheesecake, few can top Junior’s. For cheesy New York theater, I recommend Deadly Stages—which opened today at Theatre Row—where you’ll get acting, production values, and writing that rivals Limburger in...

Russian Troll Farm – Satiric, Mind-Bending, Disturbing

Russian Troll Farm – Satiric, Mind-Bending, Disturbing

Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . In the sardonic, brilliant Russian Troll Farm, Sarah Gancher takes an imagined deep dive into the operations of one of the Russian Internet Research Agency’s numerous troll farms, operating in St. Petersburg, Russia...

THEATER and CABARET MASHUP

THEATER and CABARET MASHUP

“Broadway Goes A Cappella Monday, March 4th at 8:00 PM. Following four sold-out performances, the 5th iteration of a spectacular event, "Broadway Goes A Cappella" returns. A unique and enchanting experience that brings together the magic of Broadway and the authentic...

The Upcoming 2024 Spring Broadway Season

The Upcoming 2024 Spring Broadway Season

DOUBT: A PARABLEDRAMA; OPENS 3/7John Patrick Shanley’s 2005 Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama returns to Broadway in a Roundabout Theatre Company production directed by Scott Ellis. Oscar and Tony nominee Amy Ryan and Tony winner Liev...

Hotel Happy 

Hotel Happy 

Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . “This is not a brothel! This is an erotic resort!” demands the proprietor of the business that gives Colombian-American playwright Camilo Almonacid’s Hotel Happy its name. It does make a difference in Bogotá, where prostitution...

The 38th Annual MAC Awards

The 38th Annual MAC Awards

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) makes its initial announcement of the upcoming 38th Annual MAC Awards. The awards presentation and show will take place on Monday, April 15, 2024 at 7:00 pm at Peter Norton Symphony Space at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in...

THEATER and CABARET MASHUP

THEATER and CABARET MASHUP

By Sandi Durell . . . Celebrated comedian-actor-singer Robert Klein and Grammy Award–winning songwriter and singer Julie Gold , Amber Gray,Tony Yazbeck, Karen Mack are among the 14 artists who will be honored for their musical and comedy artistry...

Between Two Knees

Between Two Knees

Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . It takes a lot of nerve to turn one of the most horrific genocides in American history Into a satirical romp. And that’s what the intrepid theater company, The 1491s, has done . . . on steroids. This irrepressible sketch comedy...

Jelly’s Last Jam – City Center Encores! 

Jelly’s Last Jam – City Center Encores! 

Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton . . . .  For decades, musical theater has asked us to sympathize or identify with—and perhaps even forgive—some very deeply flawed men, from Gaylord Ravenal to Billy Bigelow, Franklin Shepard, and even The Phantom of the...

Lianne Marie Dobbs Gives Dusty Springfield Her Due

Lianne Marie Dobbs Gives Dusty Springfield Her Due

Cabaret Review By Andrew Poretz . . . . Those cabaret fans who’ve experienced the joy of a Lianne Marie Dobbs show have been anxiously awaiting a new one. This reviewer caught three iterations of her acclaimed Why Can’t a Woman… show since 2019, and reviewed it in...

Opening Night Photos – Five the Parody Musical

Opening Night Photos – Five the Parody Musical

With the launch of the Presidential election year, Five Musical LLC is thrilled to announce the world premiere of FIVE: The Parody Musical. Look out SIX, here comes FIVE: The Parody Musical. Henry VIII and his six wives had nothing on Donald, the 45th, and these five...

Cabaret and Theater Mashup

Cabaret and Theater Mashup

Daryl Sherman with Peter and Will Anderson at Pangea NYC, 178 2d Ave. on February 28th @ 7 pm. romping through all kinds of songs and crazy rhythms!  http://www.pangeanyc.com 54 BELOW presents Michelle Bailey, Ali Ewoldt (The Phantom of the...

The Parliament of Poets at The Actor’s Temple

The Parliament of Poets at The Actor’s Temple

Theater Review by Marcina Zaccaria . . . . A memorable invocation began the show and, like a rocket, The Poet of the Moon is propelled into the Cosmos in a production by Apollo's Troupe called A Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem.  Frederick Glaysher At The...

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