Tag: Chicago Int’l Puppet Theater Festival

By Alix CohenPart I: Downton Abby era London. Harry Sims (Bryan Fenkart) is about to achieve the...

By Alix CohenSixty five years in, the Paul Taylor Company continues to reflect and innovate....

By Alix CohenArchduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia by...

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography In her 54 Below debut, Laurie Roldan...

By Stuart Miller… As Sarah she sneers and snarks her commentary on life but her actions reveal a hidden heart.

By Alix CohenBetween Acts I and II of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice the production is shut...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . Now in its 55th year, the 92NY Lyrics & Lyricists Series is as...

By Alix CohenThis is, or will be, the third revue in a trilogy of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David...

By Andrew Poretz Performer Kay Kostopolous is a highly accomplished Bay Area jazz singer for whom...

By Abbe Sparks… The Consummate Musician Continues to Push the Boundaries to New Heights

Theater Pizzazz’s Eyal Solomon in conversation with Casey Holloway and Catie Hogan, creators of “Vape! The Grease Parody”

By Alix Cohen Though Queens takes place from 2001 to 2017, the phenomenon of immigrant women...

Elizabeth I – In Her Own Words is a solo performance of the “Virgin Queen” remembering significant events of her long reign, brilliantly played by Tammy Meneghini

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...