By Alix Cohen Paul Williams (1940) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and actor whose career spans six decades. Known for penning enduring hits such as "We've Only Just Begun" for …
By Alix Cohen Love and Lunacy; Erroneous Conclusion, Blackmail, and Marriage or Not By Alix Cohen The thing begins when Bertie Wooster's chum, Gussie Fink-Nottle begs him to come to Totleigh…
By Alix Cohen Under the leadership of Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack, an Ailey dancer and Judith Jamison mentee 2005 " 2014, the company begins a chapter with fresh energy. "This monumen…
By Alix Cohen Among dozens of holiday shows, Ann Kittredge's holiday album release proved particularly warm and original. Gathering talented friends, presenting lesser known, sometimes quirk…
By Alix Cohen Actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, director, and risqué Scheherazade, Lee Roy Reams is the Zelig of musical theater. He seems to have befriended everyone, laughed with most…
By Alix Cohen Taylor Mac is a groundbreaking playwright, songwriter, and performer whose work radically reimagines queer celebration, political critique, and communal transformation. "Really…
By Alix Cohen Unequivocally star of the production, Kristin Chenoweth was the moving force behind this glossy, twelve million dollar disappointment. Having originated Glinda in Stephen Schwa…
By Alix Cohen Part I: Downton Abby era London. Harry Sims (Bryan Fenkart) is about to achieve the culmination of years of single minded social and business climbing with a knighthood. He obs…
By Alix Cohen Sixty five years in, the Paul Taylor Company continues to reflect and innovate. Speaking in Tongues 1988Choreography- Paul TaylorMusic- Matthew Patton"The title refers to certa…
By Alix Cohen Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia by Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old member of the nationalist group Black Hand, which sought indep…
By Alix Cohen Between Acts I and II of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice the production is shut down by protesters. Saul Rubinek, as a version of himself playing Shylock, refuses to go ge…
By Alix Cohen This is, or will be, the third revue in a trilogy of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire's songs. Starting Here, Starting Now (1976) focused on young adulthood, romantic beginn…
By Alix Cohen Though Queens takes place from 2001 to 2017, the phenomenon of immigrant women sharing overcrowded apartments as part of survival strategy more than likely exists today. Econom…
By Alix Cohen Over twenty-five years in, Michael Feinstein's Standard Time continues to be the occasion to hear American Songbook as it was intended. The artist's respect for material, his s…
By Alix Cohen "Blow the bugle/Sound the cymbal/All my troubles fill a thimble/I'm as happy as it's legal to be/Come on, kids, let's hear it for me!" Mason Prickett sings from the bar. Playfu…
A Woman Silenced and Maddened By Alix Cohen Written in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper was published as a series of diary entries by an unnamed woman suffering from postpartum depression. Her phy…
By Alix Cohen Nothing comes close to the rollicking madness of a Joe Iconis & Family production. Holidays are an excuse to take these even further. The Laurie Beechman stage is gleefully…
By Alix Cohen The Big Band Era spanned roughly from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. It was the golden age of large jazz orchestras lead by icons. Evolving from New Orleans style dance and…
By Alix Cohen Hannah Senesh " an anglicized Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944) is revered by Jewish people as a symbol of courage, resistance, and Zionist idealism"an enduring heroine of World War I…
The New York Cabaret Convention Third NightHost K.T. Sullivan, Artistic Director -The Mabel Mercer Foundation By Alix Cohen Opening tonight's show, Mardie Millit and Michael Garin ebullientl…
The New York Cabaret Convention " Second NightHosts Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch By Alix Cohen Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein 1905-1994) was a British American songwriter who contribut…
OPENING NIGHT- The 36th New York Cabaret Convention By Alix Cohen Weeeeeeere back! Under the aegis of the venerable Mabel Mercer Foundation, the cabaret community gathered once again to supp…
By Alix Cohen Friends Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch go back a looong time. At the urging of uber-fan, the late Barry Day, they developed a Hoagy Carmichael show, repeatedly performing, t…
By Alix Cohen If work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to rectify its notable absence. The genre-defying collaboration, "in the place where speech and mus…
By Alix Cohen In 1935, New York Times reviewer Brooks Atkinson found Awake and Sing! a story of "noisy, lunging humanity" he felt was weighted by character development, but promising. Sea Do…