This is quite the show that comes knocking sometime “after midnight” at the New York City Center Encores!. “Open up, damn it!” he bellows, and boy, are...
New York City Center today announced complete casting for the Encores! production of Mack & Mabel. Joining previously announced cast members Douglas Sills as Mack Sennett and Alexandra Socha as Mabel...
I never planned or imagined I would want to write about these two shows in the same review, but the parallels couldn’t be erased from my...
Encores! Off-Center always sparkles up the summer months with fun and wild experiements, and I’m happy to say this summer is no exception. I was lucky enough to...
Encores! latest, Call Me Madam is billed as a light political satire musical from the 1950’s, but it fits quite well in the landscape of modern America, where politicians,...
Going to see the New York City Center Encores! production of A Chorus Line is a most wondrous trip down memory lane to a time when...
A Chorus Line, is Encores 2018 Annual Gala Presentation. This incisive portrait of the life of the Broadway dancer received twelve Tony Award nominations, winning nine—in addition...
When I was a wee teenager, decades ago, I used to sneak away to New York City from London Ontario via a People’s Express flight from...
Encores! Off-Center Co-Artistic Directors Anne Kauffman and Jeanine Tesori announced casting for New York City Center’s popular summer musical theater series Encores! Off-Center. Songs for A New...
Encores! at 25 tap dances in the often revised Me and My Girl, a 1930’s musical that originally opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre in the West End in 1937. It...
As with any Encores! production, I always find myself swept up in the history of these shows, dying to look them up on Wikipedia and ingest...
Part of Encores! 25th season, is the Tony Award winning Grand Hotel, inspired by Vicki Baum’s 1929 novel. The Encores! production, directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes, will feature...
This city has been blessed with 25 years of New York City Center’s Encores!, and what a way for this organization to celebrate. Bob Martin, whose character...
It’s funny how the world works sometimes. Yesterday was not a typical day, but because we find ourselves in the middle of summer, I was particularly...
The Golden Apple, which debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre back in 1954 was praised back then for its all American sound and passion (although...
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to...
Presented by New York City Center Encores! One of the joys of the New York City Center Encores! series is the opportunity to see shows that I...
