Bradford Rand, Ramona Singer, Candace Bushnell and Todd English (Photo Credit: Society Allure / Rob Rich) As detailed in our earlier feature, “Horsepower, Haute Couture and...
Penélope Cruz, Lee Chang-dong, Rosalind Eleazar, Siân Heder, Isabelle Huppert. Photo courtesy of TIFF The road to TIFF 51 suddenly feels a whole lot shorter and...
n an era where artists are expected to be constantly visible, perpetually productive, and endlessly available, Ariana Grande has made a different choice. The Grammy-winning singer...
Every Toronto International Film Festival reaches the point where my attention shifts away from the familiar names and toward the ones I have never heard before....
A great farce always feels a little like watching someone carry an impossibly tall wedding cake across a crowded room. Every wobble makes you gasp. Every...
Let’s face it. Chicago theater audiences are spoiled, and we have been ever since Steppenwolf burst onto the scene fifty years ago. New Yorkers often settle...
Iceboy! – The Musical now receiving its world premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is based on one truly wacky premise. The show is narrated by the...
The genius of Stephen Sondheim never grows old for me. It’s always a pleasure to revisit my favorite shows of his. The production of A Little...
SAG HARBOR, NY — Some honors feel ceremonial. Others feel deeply personal. On Saturday evening, Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts celebrated...
The most persistent conversations often happen inside our own heads. Medusa asks, or maybe demands, us to listen to them. Before the space ignites, audience members...
STONES RULE — After a brief get-a-way, we’ve been listening to the new Rolling Stones record, Foreign Tongues, are have just been dazzled. Its definitely one of their...
Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents, is normally filmed from the Hotel Edison, but today we went on location at The Bay Street...
For the first several minutes of Sleuth, I wasn’t entirely sure what kind of game playwright Anthony Shaffer (“Death on the Nile“) wanted me to play....
For a nation preparing to celebrate its 250th birthday, Cagney The Musical feels like exactly what America ordered. Produced in association with Riki Kane Larimer, Cagney...
Some overtures begin a musical. Others seem to unlock an entire lifetime of theatrical memories. Both are true as the first notes of Jule Styne’s unmistakable...
A musical flourish accompanies the parting of the red curtains, and a man stands, just to the right of the spotlight. He seems caught off guard,...
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic musical, “South Pacific”, based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “Tales of the South Pacific” opened on...
Darren Saad is a self-proclaimed Broadway babe. He loves show tunes, comedy and is a fan of all things Times Square. But Darren had a burning...
Forget Coachella. This August, Broadway gets its own music festival. For three magical days, August 14-16, the Hudson Valley’s stunning Hutton Brickyards will transform into a...
Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents, is normally filmed from the Hotel Edison, but today we went on location at The Bay Street...
“Matt McGrath doesn’t play Halston. He becomes him.” Fashion icon, celebrity, visionary, narcissist, survivor and victim. In Raffaele Pacitti’s beautifully crafted Mister Halston, all of these...
The Cher Show ended its month’s run at The Wick Theatre on Sunday, May 31st, playing to full houses. All I can say is leave it...
Memorial Day may unofficially begin the Hamptons season, though the real social calendar explodes between now and the end of June. This is the sweet spot...
Memorial Day weekend in New York City is less a holiday than a citywide mood shift. The coats disappear. Reservations suddenly become impossible. Rooftops reopen with...
There are singers and there are songwriters….then there is Melissa Manchester — one of the increasingly rare artists who fully inhabits both worlds with elegance, intelligence,...
