7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
Photos by Maya Werner Dear Evan Hansen had their special Fan Day performance on Sunday, December 10, with an audience comprised almost entirely of Dear Evan Hansen fans,…
By Marilyn Lester The ninth season of The Ziegfeld Society got off to a boffo start with a celebration of Meredith Willson and his best-known work, The Music Man. To celebrate …
Let's talk about Money and SpongeBob Squarepants By Barbara & Scott Siegel If talent is the lifeblood of the theater, then money is at the heart of it all, because c…
by Susan Hasho Marilyn Maye appeared at the Iridium Friday and Saturday nights, December 7 and 8th. Question is, how do you capture and write about Marilyn Maye? You can…
Sandra Bernhard Brings Music, Edgy Wit and Plenty of Laughs to Sandemonium By Marilyn Lester For the last several decades, Sandra Bernhard has been …
Mercedes Ellington Receives Lifetime Achievement in Dance Award & Surprise film from Columbus State University! Columbus State University ‘s College of the Arts recently presen…
by Sandi Durell It's raining rocks in Steve Martin's latest Broadway offering. Meteor Shower is a zany absurdist comedy that keeps repeating over and over again in varying scen…
By Marilyn Lester Often, when an Irish American returns to the auld sod and discovers ancestral roots, a kind of possession takes place. Such has been the case with sing…
The Acting Company honored playwright John Guare and film and theater producer/philanthropist Anne L. Bernstein"two individuals whose exemplary work aligns with the artist…
by Myra Chanin The New Yiddish Rep's current production of Awake and Sing, Clifford Odets’ 1935 American masterpiece, is a 21st century miracle. It validate…
By Sandi Durell Resounding with spirit and vitality, Cross That River tells the tale of a runaway slave in the 1860s who had a dream. . . a dream of freedom. With…
By Sandi Durell In the Washington, D.C. scene there seems to be no end to surprises. Our day-to-day lives are replete with the can-you-top-this kind of politics t…
On Monday, December 11 at 7:30PM, The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture presents two-time Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris (Fun Home, Assassins, The Who’s Tom…
by Lisa Reitman-Dobi The lights dimmed, the music rose and Richard Holbrook took the stage. I scribbled the following: "Starry eyed as boy xmas, child's sense of wonder, look a…
New York Stage & Film's annual Winter Gala, celebrating 33 years of service to the American stage and screen, honored Tina Fey and Founder & CEO of Audible, Inc. Don Katz…
by Michael Bracken First and foremost, there's the journal. It's where Describe the Night, at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, begins, it's where it e…
by Michael Bracken He may not look like a sponge, but boy does Ethan Slater act like one. Like one sponge in particular, that is, for he's the title character in SpongeB…
By Sandi Durell It's a joyous holiday time year round when Richard Skipper Celebrates! His successful monthly series at the Laurie Beechman Theatre have come to be known…
By Marcina Zaccaria Chains rattling in your ears? Ghosts flying from the rafters? If you're aching to consult old colleagues to figure a better future, or are just hopin…
by Michael Bracken Twenty-six years after it was nominated for a Tony Award, Once on This Island is back on Broadway, performed in the round at Circle in the Squa…
By Grace Treston Financial struggles; racial tensions; the USA. No, these aren't buzzwords from the headlines of today " though they very well could be. This is Downtown…
Review by Alix Cohen Jason Bishop has a thing about boxes. Assistant Kim climbs into one that collapses to an empty  12" x 12" x 12" structure which is pierced by sabers; sh…
  Review by Elizabeth Ahlfors  Broadway’s knockout sister act, Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner, are back at Feinstein's/54 Below, still Unattached!, and ready to …
By Sandi Durell Actually it's not a song, but many of the best songs that make up the great American songbook; songs that Steve Tyrell has sung for a lifetime, many fill…
By Sandi Durell On a recent Saturday November 25 early evening, two-time Bistro Award Winner Vickie Phillips was on stage at Don't Tell Mama plying her art form; something she'…
