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By Alix CohenOver twenty-five years in, Michael Feinstein’s Standard Time continues to be the...

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography Additional photos by Delia Dumont Suite...

By Stuart Miller… Martyna Marjok’s play examines the struggles and heartbreak endured by women who emigrate here for work or a new life.

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography The new musical Reunions...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . While sitting through Kyoto, which opened this week at the Mitzi...

By Alix Cohen“Blow the bugle/Sound the cymbal/All my troubles fill a thimble/I’m as happy as...

By Eyal Solomon… You’ll never watch Grease the same way again.

A Woman Silenced and MaddenedBy Alix CohenWritten in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper was published as a...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . When George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion first premiered in...

By Stuart Miller… Natalie Palamides plays both sides of a couple in this laugh-a-minute clowning play

By Alix CohenNothing comes close to the rollicking madness of a Joe Iconis & Family...

By Ron Fassler . . . I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Linda Purl, an actress and...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . “This is a play about my mother. For my mother. Who recently . . ....

By Alix Cohen The Big Band Era spanned roughly from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. It was the...

By Alix CohenHannah Senesh – an anglicized Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944) is revered by Jewish people...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . Oscar Hammerstein II’s words to Jerome Kern’s melody “The Song is...

Pianist-entertainer Chris Autore is marking an extraordinary 75 years in show business with a...

The New York Cabaret Convention Third NightHost K.T. Sullivan, Artistic Director -The Mabel Mercer...

The New York Cabaret Convention – Second NightHosts Klea Blackhurst and Billy StritchBy Alix...

Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Art of Leaving is the unpropitious title of an amateurish new...

By Adam Cohen… “Bull Durham The Musical” gets close but lacks the double romantic poetry necessary to drive both romances for the grand slam the creators want.

By Alix CohenFriends Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch go back a looong time. At the urging of...

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Joan Marcus One of the most unique and entertaining theater...

By Alix CohenIf work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . The 34-year-old Ari’el Stachel is blessed with charm for days. Anyone...

By Alix Cohen In 1935, New York Times reviewer Brooks Atkinson found Awake and Sing! a story of...

By Alix Cohen“We’re not selling objects—we’re selling ideas, emotions, and the aura of cultural...

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography www.melissagriegel.zenfolio.com Ava...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . Eleven months ago, the City Center Annual Gala...

By Alix CohenChaconne (1942- José Limón) is inspired by a dance originating in Mexico during the...

By Samuel L. Leiter… Casual notes on show biz books, memoirs, and studies, dust gatherers and hot-off-the presses.

By Alix CohenWith Let’s Love! Ethan Coen gives us a contemporary La Ronde, the French anthology...