Samuel French for anyone who has ever participated in a regional, community, school or amateur theatre production is a name recognizes from the cover of his...
In watching the Roundabout Theater Company production of Thérèse Raquin, at Studio 54, I was transported into a film by Ingmar Bergman or Lena Wertmuller. It is...
Topher Payne’s new play Perfect Arrangement at the Duke Theater is the perfect play for Gay Pride week. This is the play that states not only did straight...
President Obama Goes to Hamilton As did Scarlett Johansson Manhattan Theatre Club honored stage and screen vet Christine Baranski at its annual fall benefit, held Monday, November...
At first glance it appeared that the NYC police department had gotten a heads up about the Barrington Stage Company Benefit last night as I noticed...
The Drama League had it’s Centennial Gala, celebrating the organization’s 100 years of service. Honoring Golden Globe and three-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters, the...
On October 5, 2011, the world lost a visionary in Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. Revolutionizing society with his various unique products such as the Mac, iPod,...
STAR WARS and the Power of Costume The Exhibition opens November 14th. Featuring 70 hand-crafted costumes from the first six blockbuster Star Wars films, this exhibition...
I saw the original Dames at Sea when I was around 8. I fell in love with a young Bernadette Peters and this show that spoofed old movie...
Michael John LaChiusa First Daughter Suite, at the Public Theater is not exactly what I’d call a musical. It is more like four mini opera’s tied together....
Stephen Karam’s new play The Humans, at the Laura Pels Theatre, is well acted, but uneventful. I know shoot me now, I heard most everybody loves this...
Saturday night saw Tony and Emmy winning, pint-sized, powerhouse singer Kristin Chenoweth sharing her unique brand of sass and vocal prowess with the Windy City. Backed...
Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies, at the Westside Theatre, is a light comedy romp. Witty, clever, on topic about infidelity and what love and marriage really mean, this...
Multi-hyphenate artist and filmmaker Chris Rock will return to host the Oscars® for a second time, producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin announced today. The 88th Academy...
This weekend at the beloved New York City Wine and Food Festival a wonderful session was cooked up on the ins and outs of what is...
This weekend at Pier 92 Food Network & Cooking Channel for New York City Wine & Food Festival served up the best tailgating fan event with...
Landscape design includes activities of specifying the location of flower beds and shrubs to beautify the garden, lawn or roof terrace. Whenever you are buying a...
Week 3 was a little slow with the High Holidays. Truthfully I felt a little demoralized after that boring date last week but we must get back...
Brilliant and charming, his new app, “It’s Young, It’s Fast, it’s Jewish” for the next-generation of cyber daters launched on Rosh Hashanah. The godfather of cyber...
At the 53rd New York Film Festival the internationally acclaimed science fiction comedy The Lobster played to audiences at The Lincoln Center. Yorgos Lanthimos’ feature tells...
During the 53rd New York Film Festival the much-anticipated Steve Jobs premiered to roaring applause. The film set backstage at three different launches for the legend...
Deaf West’s revival of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s musical Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, speaks not just in words but also in poetry of the...
The 53rd annual New York Film Festival came to a close with the world premiere screening of Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead. The biopic of musician Miles...
New York Film Festival has proven during its 53 years to always promote the best of filmmaking from around the world. Todd Haynes latest classic melodrama...
This year at New York Film Festival the stars came out to celebrate the world premiere of Steven Spielberg’s latest masterpiece Bridge of Spies. The director,...
My power over you grows stronger yet And though you turn from me to glance behind The Phantom of the Opera is there Inside your mind. The...
On September 25, Pope Francis traveled via motorcade through Central Park to bring hopeful cheer to 80,000 people. Lucky New Yorkers and visitors were able to...
Oscar ® -winning filmmaker Michael Moore’s film Where to Invade Next played to a responsive crowd this year at the New York Film Festival for the Film...
When you look at this artist by the sheer numbers alone, Madonna Louise Ciccone is a one of a kind, iconic entertainer. This 5’ 5” Bay City,...
The stars were out during a special sneak preview of The Martian for the 53rd New York Film Festival. The Film Society of Lincoln Center hosted...
Since the 1960s, the New York Film Festival has brought important films from across the planet to Lincoln Center. For the 53rd anniversary of the beloved...
Manhattan was painted green and yellow Sunday as Brazilians took to the streets. About 1.5 million people, mainly Brazilians, living in New York, celebrated on 6th Avenue, extending...
There is no doubt Idina Menzel has a fervent guardian angel keeping a watchful eye out on her and her career. Initially cast in the original...
Actress, singer, trumpet player, stripper, producer and consummate artist is what you get when you see Jana Robbins perform in her new cabaret act “I’m Still...
SAGAPONAK, NY – Wölffer Estate Vineyard once again was the perfect venue for the summer’s hot event Chefs & Champagne® in the Hamptons this weekend. The...
Single Wide, the new musical at NYMF, does something that most of the musicals at NYMF have failed to do and that is make us know...
When it is time to purchase tungsten wedding bands, buyers have wide choice to make while selecting online retail stores. Often the task becomes confusing, as...
In judging musicals at NYMF they fall into categories, those you love emotionally and those that are commercial. Real Men is just that, a producers dream, a show...
What a novel idea for a musical touring partnership. Blondie and Melissa Etheridge rotating double-billing on a concert stage. What seemed initially like an unconventional enterprise...
It might have been a drizzling Friday evening in the Northern Chicago suburbs, however the talent center stage was nothing short of white hot. Grammy Award winning...
Get ready for a new play that explores sexual boundaries and what constitutes an intimate relationship in the gay world. Consent, is by playwright David Rhodes and...
Victory is sweet. After 37 years America finally has a Triple Crown winner. American Pharoah took home the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes with a...
A. R. Gurney ‘s revival What I Did Last Summer is touching, warm, an homage to a gentler time, when war abound and children looked for mentors to...
The song-and-dance concert version of Bombshell, became a one-night-only event at the Broadway’s Minskoff Theater, which sold out in minutes. The fundraiser for the Actors Fund, defer costs by raising more than $300,000...
Thursday night brought three time Grammy Winner, four time Golden Globe Winner and three time Emmy winner Bette Midler and her brash and bawdy new show The...
For the Last Time, has a great score by Nancy Harrow with wonderful singers, but a confusing mediocre book. The later is surprising since the source material...
Cynthia von Buhler’s theater extravaganza The Speakeasy Dollhouse Ziegfield’s Midnight Frolic is darkly entertaining. With a floorshow, cirque de solieil moments, immersive interactive theater based on a real...
Belmont Stakes is going to be amazing tomorrow. Triple Crown hopeful American Pharoah has drawn the No. 5 post position and it will put him in...
Athol Fugard ‘s new play The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek makes little sense and at the performance I saw was unprofessional. The first act takes place in...
I thought I would adore Broadway’s newest installment, An Act of God. I absolutely love TheTweetOfGod, the Twitter by David Javerbaum, based on his 2011 best-selling “The...
Cagney the new Americana song-and-dance musical about James Cagney is like a poor man’s George M. It was wonderful to hear the story about how Cagney paid for the...
Little Wars, What Was Lost and Shades Of Blue, Der Kanarienvogel, 28 Marchant Avenue and Neat & Tidy are five plays that have been playing in repertory by playwright Steven Carl McCasland in a...
With The Prince of Broadway, making news, director-producer Harold Prince (Cabaret, The Phantom of the Opera, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sweeney Todd), talking at The New-York Historical Society...
54 Below always is a place to hear great music but there were more good notes than usual below street level last night because Alex Rybeck...
The first clue that this show would be different was given by the pianist. He had a wonderful technique and interesting melodic harmonies. He musical ideas...
I missed Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winning play The Flick last year, so I was excited to experience it. Like most plays I am going to review, I...
The new production of In Flight by Jenny Lyn Bader at first was like watching an adult version of Dr. Seuss. Then I realized the exquisite wording, which...
By Rick Ruiz and Cindy Marinangel From May 16th to June 28, 2015, an energetic gentleman caller entertained audiences in West Los Angeles’ Fairfax District in...
Last July, I reviewed the erotic Queen of The Night. Since it was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, I went back to see if what I experienced still...
Zachary Fine, with a goofy puppy dog look and a shiny black ball over his nose, says more with a look in the Fiasco’s newest production Two Gentlemen...
