There is a terrible, pitiable creation in town. I’m not referring to the famous creature brought to life by Dr. Victor Frankenstein. I’m talking about Eric...
There are some people you just like to be in a room with. One of them is the stunning Bebe Neuwith. Everyone in the room with...
When Michael Feinstein took over the musical theater centric night spot, 54 Below, he broadened the programming there to include concert versions of new musicals as...
As the saying goes, nothing succeeds like success. So congrats to actress and singer Karen Akers for her 10thappearance to a sold out house of cabaret...
It’s common to talk about the British Invasion of our music, whether you mean the pop groups of the 60’s or the musicals of the 80’s....
Cabaret is a very personal musical art form. Broadway performers normally tied to the stories of the musicals in which they appear come to us in...
In the musical theater, it takes a lot of training, not to mention talent, to be a triple threat performer. That means years of study...
I go to musicals to take an emotional journey with the characters. So how wonderful it was for me to end the New York Musical Festival...
Great musicals are all about emotion. So, too, are emojis…those little digital images we attach to our texts and emails to quickly convey an idea or...
If Sand Were Stone, a new musical at the New York Musical Festival, tries very hard to hold to hold on to its audience. Similarly, its...
As a Chicago native of a certain age, 1968 always conjured images in my mind of police brutality at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. But if...
Sometimes, it’s good to get out of your theatrical comfort zone. Yiddish was never spoken in my house. None of my grandparents were from the “old...
It’s hard to be an immigrant kid forced to live in a new country, without your parents, where you don’t speak the language and you have to...
