7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
by Bonnie Tandy Leblang Russian Samovar, Theatre District, NYC + Angels in America We for sure needed sustenance between “Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika,” …
The 15 Award nominated Desperate Measures, and winner of Outer Critics Circle & OBA Best New Musical, has now moved from the York Theatre to its new home at New World St…
by Brian Scott Lipton High expectations, tinged with just a little bit of dread and a pinch of skepticism, may be in the minds of many people as they enter the Booth Theater fo…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel When we look back at theater history, we can see the ebb and flow of its many changes and pinpoint the reasons for its often sei…
By Bernie Furshpan It seems like everything around us is going through, what Cosmologists refer to as inflation. Everything is expanding at a rapid rate, so much so that so…
By Ron Fassler The choice of Maggie Bofill's Devil of Choice to launch the Labyrinth Theater Company's 25thseason is an odd one. This world premiere play about an adulterous…
Learning More From the Women in Pomegranate, Avocado and Coconut  By Sandi Durell Staunch feminist, activist, playwright and actress, Eve Ensler, embodies political …
By Sandi Durell You'll have to go an extra mile to keep up with the raging, ranting characters, all former students of the fierce and alcoholic Sister Rose whose funeral…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Last year we wrote a column about the significant increase in the number of new shows on Broadway that featured Latin and Afro-Ameri…
By Marilyn Lester Who can know what passes through the mind of a person near death, especially those under the influence of mind-altering drugs? Irish playwright Marina …
by Sandi Durell What makes the Outer Critics Circle Awards so unique and loved?  I’ll tell you. It’s that the winners have already been announced a…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel First comes the discussion of who should be nominated. Then comes the complaining about who was snubbed. That's followed by who will win ve…
by Alix Cohen Few vocalist/actors connect with an audience as directly as Liz Callaway. Once, she tells us, cripplingly shy, the artist always seems disarmingly unaffect…
Review by Sandi Durell John Kander (Cabaret, Chicago, The Scottsboro Boys) is an endless well of musical talent that suddenly surprises with something so extraordinary t…
by Sandi Durell A most unexpected pleasure is the debut of film icon Kathleen Turner at the sumptuous Café Carlyle. One doesn't have to look at the stage, but ju…
by Michael Bracken Need another fix of Britannia after the royal wedding? Not to worry. Head over to 59E59, where Brits Off Broadway 2018 is in full swing, and get a loa…
By Marcina Zaccaria At McHale's, a bartender asks you to know his friends, understand their problems, and hear some awesome blues music from the musician on the perch, Shelly.Ã…
By Ron Fassler Letters Live began life in 2013 in the United Kingdom as a unique theatrical event, with a purpose to entertain, as well as to offer some of its procee…
by Barbara and Scott Siegel We recently returned from a emotionally potent production of Alan Ayckbourn's A Brief History of Women at 59E59, part of the theater complex's exemp…
by Alix Cohen  As a longtime observer, it fascinates me that some career vocalists, having reached a plateau, then achieve better voices later in life. Michael Feinstein, S…
by Sandi Durell Playwright Dominique Morisseau writes about what she knows. . . Detroit, its history and inner-city turmoil in African-American neighborhoods. She is the…
A nifty, literate literary mystery   By Joel Benjamin Peter B. Hodges' Marlowe's Fate is a nifty, literate mystery. For centuries scholars and theater spe…
By Brian Scott Lipton Have you ever wondered (and I had) what would happen if the First Lady of Birdland paid homage to the First Lady of Song? That question was answered with …
(Short Video Piece by Magda Katz) Photos: Magda Katz Video Interviews: Sandi Durell On Tuesday, May 15, the Marriott Marquis hosted the 69thAnnual Spring L…
by Carole Di Tosti In its US premiere as a part of Brits Off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters, Operation Crucible tells a fateful story through a dynamic drama perfo…
