Tag: Elaine Brier

by Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography The Who’s Who of cabaret turned up...

Piano player, composer, arranger, musical director, orchestrator, conductor, and uber-fan Marc...

Fusing opera with funk, Constance Hauman offers a gimmick-free approach organic in nature and orgasmic in execution.

By Alix Cohen”CO＿LAB Theater Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing...

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by  Melissa Griegel Photography     Avenue Q...

The pot is kept boiling throughout its tension-filled 85 minutes.

“A soothing balm in these troubled times.”

A production that feels half-baked.

By Alix CohenWhen Frenchwoman Margot Sergent appeared at the doors of Berklee School of Music 12...

By Alix Cohen“No one could have predicted this is an ironic moment for traditional patriotism…I...

By Alix Cohen”First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes...

By Alix CohenPeter Calo has worked with such diverse artists as Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah,...

By Eyal Solomon, Publisher & Editor, Theater Pizzazz… Ms. Dean discusses her career and her involvement with the hit musical, from its early Broadway success to its current revival

The Phantoms of Masquerade

By Alix CohenWhile fearful about AI’s ability to create fake information, its replacing humans at...

By Alix CohenChristopher Domig was an increasingly self-produced actor when asked to become...

By Alix CohenProtest songs proliferated in the 1960s. Writer/adapters like Pete Seeger made way...

By Alix CohenJanuary 2017: Fifty-something Carey (Janet Zaresh) has always had unerring instinct...

By Alix CohenOklahoma! redefined the American musical by fully integrating songs, dances, and...

By Alix CohenComposer Burt Bacharach’s harmonically adventurous pop songs reshaped popular music...

By Alix CohenGenre-defying Happenstance Theater offers an arsenal influences, inventiveness, and...

By Samuel L. Leiter… This unusual reimagining deftly expresses the play’s inherent drama even as its historic visual and aural attractions have been replaced or pared away.

By Melissa Griegel… Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography Matthew Morrison (Hairspray, The Light...

By Alix Cohen40ish Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a low end motel room on an interstate...

By Ron Fassler . . . A cabaret show that’s the perfect way to start the New Year off with optimism and heart.

By Alix CohenWhen Jordan Harrison wrote Marjorie Prime, (a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize),...

Review by Carol Rocamora… This raucous revival reaffirms Moliere’s immortality as a satirist of society and human foibles.

By Alix CohenOn winter vacation from Harvard, Charles Kirsch returns to 54Below with 15 Broadway...

A New Play with Old Music- Returning to Urban Stages January 25- February 22, 2026By Alix...

“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells…If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things...

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

Review by Ron Fassler . . . It’s that time of year and Broadway stalwart Norm Lewis is back at 54 Below with “Christmas Lives Here.”

A VaudevilleBy Alix CohenImagination, theatrical skill and physical puppet craft has had a home at...