7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
Part 2: The 2017-18 Season – The Dramas By Barbara & Scott Siegel Like this season's Broadway musical revivals, as detailed in our last column, the Broadway pl…
By Sandi Durell This has always been, in my estimation, Lerner & Loewe's perfect musical. With Bartlett Sher at the helm, it once again resonates with the grand hist…
Favorite Liz Callaway returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below with a brand new show entitled ‘A Hymn to Her‘ about the women who have been inspirational in her life. Still in the p…
The cast, producers and creatives of Desperate Measures had a ‘family’ celebration at Sardi’s on April 27th as they ready to open on May 30th at New World …
Photos: Magda Katz Unexpected Joy opened at the York Theatre on May 3. The new pop musical has a book and lyrics by Bill Russell with music by Janet Hood and features Courtney …
by Matt Smith "I can't tell you just how many of my childhood dreams are coming true right now."Â Such is the sentiment expressed by standout New York Pops conductor …
by Alix Cohen On the one year anniversary of his passage to "rock and roll paradise," Jump's common law wife Joy (Luba Mason) is planning a memorial concert. The two per…
By Ron Fassler Backed by a superb 17-piece band, Michael Feinstein was at his customary best last night, in the first of two evenings being presented at Jazz at Lincoln …
The Legend of Libby Holman    By Sandi Durell Lee Horwin>Libby Holman " a world premiere of a one act musical play emerged at The Triad Theatre. I…
by Brian Scott Lipton "I am what I am, I am my own special creation," six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald sang just seconds into her spectacular gala concer…
By Myra Chanin Bob O'Hare grew up in New Jersey, attended a Catholic High School and College and then, thought he'd always been interested in musical theater a…
By Marilyn Lester On the three days before Duke Ellington's April 29 birthday, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO) bestowed upon its patrons…
Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 72nd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards® were announced today by Tony and Grammy Award-…
by Magda Katz The IV Cherry Orchard Festival of the Arts returns to New York City and with it Russia's State Theatre of Nations production of Chekhov's Ivanov, starri…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Part 1: The Musicals… This is the first of a series of columns devoted to the 2017-2018 NYC theater season. It isn't about what wa…
by Myra Chanin On April 22, 2018 60 lucky cabaret lovers squeezed into the 60 seats in the normally 50-seat Pangea, an East Village oasis for food, drink and cutting-…
by Carol Rocamora It's been a season of strong women against great odds" from Albee's aging matriarch in Three Tall Women to Medoff's deaf protagonist in Child…
By Sandi Durell Talk about living in the moment  . . . it was a déjà vu evening as The Triad sizzled with the memories and in the spirit of the best cabaret and jazz NYC…
by Carole Di Tosti For centuries scholars have raised questions about Shakespeare's real identity because so little verified information is known about him. Shakespeare's lowly…
By Marilyn Lester Irish playwright, Conor McPherson, who favors the mystical and the supernatural, has written a gem of a play in The Seafarer, and The Irish Repertory T…
by Carol Rocamora A magnificent specter is stalking the stage of the Public Theatre. It's the ghost of a king called Mlima, whose domain was once the Kenyan wilds.…
by Magda Katz John Lloyd Young returned to 54 Below in New York City with a brand new show celebrating his album My Turn, Live! to screaming fans who flew in from…
by Cathy Hammer Inspired by her grandmother's life, Joyce Van Dyke's Daybreak centers on Victoria, an Armenian refugee. In 1915, the Turks had invaded her hometown in wh…
Carousel and SpongeBob Square Pants Lead with Mean Girls, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child not far behind The 63rd Annual Drama Desk Award nominees were announce…
by Magda Katz Daniel K. Isaac (Showtime's 'Billions') and Juan Francisco Villa (Oedipus El Rey), who play William Inge and Tennessee Williams in the upcom…
