by Sandi Durell     The Broadhurst Theatre will celebrate its 100th Birthday this year and 54 Below will hold a fabulous centennial evening of songs and stories on August 16 at 7 and 9:30 pm, performed by many who graced the stage, hosted by Jennifer Ashley Tepper and...

    by Marilyn Lester   Is there a better way to celebrate the 100th birthday of the immortal Ella Fitzgerald than by opening with “Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald” by jazz giants Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn? In its rousing first movement, “Royal Ancestry,” the Jazz at...

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        By: Sandi Durell   Enter the Lyceum Theater and you immediately notice the rows of seating on opposite sides of the stage surrounding a stark, box-like, stripped down to nothing square space (but for two benches, a chair, an ominous opening at the back),...

      By Peter Haas   Throughout New York’s supper-club world of the 1930s, 40, 50s and 60s, one pianist was recognized and beloved as an original, imaginative artist, whose variations on the popular standards of the day had no parallel. He played in supper clubs and over...

      Marvelous Marilyn Maye is back!  Beginning on April 17th, she’s ready to wow audiences Her Way at 54 Below with a Salute to Frank Sinatra on his Centennial.     The particular magic of Her Way is its melding of two unique artists, one in spirit, the other in...