Celia Berk, Ari Axelrod, Kevin Dozier, Karen Oberlin Photo by Dave Goodside I love the Beach Café. Its velvet-draped walls surround its patrons like a cozy blanket. The...
Charles Bernard Murray as Scrooge, Eryn Barnes as The Ghost of Christmas Past Photo by Jill Jones For the second consecutive season, The Classical Theatre of...
A bright, shiny shooting star passed across Broadway Monday night, in the person of Ryan McCartan. If you were lucky enough to be in the audience at...
When I was 12 years old and a young performer, I was pretty talented. But I didn’t have the discipline to learn ten musical instruments. I didn’t...
The new magic and comedy hypnosis show, The Hypno Party with hypno-magician Jeffrey Powers, will debut in Atlantic City, but before it does T2C readers can get a...
I don’t know if conspiracy theory fans will rejoice as the incomprehensibly musical, Illuminati Lizards from Outer Space, riffs off the insane but remarkably popular premise that we...
Paolo Szot is the rare kind of ruggedly handsome and charismatic opera star who makes both men and women weak in the knees in equal proportion. He...
Star performers are defined by their unique gifts. So I’m always amazed when one performer manages to capture the essence of what made another performer so special. ...
Scott Siegel is New York’s leading impresario of the Broadway musical revue. He is the creator of Town Hall’s critically acclaimed Broadway by the Yearseries now in its...
I love sitting in Seth Rudetsky’s living room… or what feels like his living room, when he does his highly personal series of performance and conversation...
Anyone vaguely familiar with New York City’s famous families should know that Brooke Astor was the wealthy socialite who generously spread the great fortune of the...
There’s a full moon out tonight, and a terrible creature on the street. Yes, it’s Moonshiner, the noir-horror-comedy musical now playing at the Chicago Musical Theatre...
I’m so happy. Finally, I get to wax enthusiastically and unreservedly about a show at this year’s Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. The Incredible Six Thousand Foot Ladder to...
The new musical, Lucky, now playing at the Chicago Musical Theater Festival, hopes to get lucky with its audience, by appealing to the young women who grew...
If you’re a Japanese tourist coming to Broadway, go see King Kong. Really. You came a long way. Check out the big monkey puppet. It’s cool. But...
The wonderful cabaret venue, 54 Below, continues to graciously offer new musicals a place to be seen and heard on the road to full production. On...
When Lindsay Mendez opened her latest cabaret show at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Thursday night, she began by apologizing that she wasn’t going to share the story...
Santa brought New York City a lovely musical Christmas present this weekend. Wrapped up tightly in a silky, bright red dress, the powerfully charismatic and beautiful...
The Broadway musical, Hamilton, has made history, in no small part, by making history so much fun. With its multiracial casting, and its message of success in...
Proving that politics and the human condition haven’t really changed, a fine young cast presented an entertaining concert version of the 1933 topical musical revue As...
The joy of covering Chicago theater is as much about discovering talented new performers as it is about finding exciting new shows. Ever since a handful...
The fine young singing actress, Neala Barron, now starring as Lizzie Curry in the Boho Theatre production of 110 in the Shade at Chicago’s Theater Wit, sat...
Cabaret is the most personal of musical performing formats. It combines song, story telling, poetry on occasion, and most of all, the artist’s personal point of...
Every theater goer should be so lucky, just once in their life, to see an amazing artist give a performance that is unforgettable. Thanks to Music...
Throughout history, in male dominated societies, a wink, a smile, a quick wit and good looks have allowed women from all classes to rise in rank...
