7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
By Sandi Durell  Back in their comfy room at the Café Carlyle for the twelfth season, the always adorable and adoring husband-wife team of John Pizzarelli and Jessica Mola…
by Alix Cohen On the double anniversary of the New York Festival of Song (30 years) and NYFOS's Founding Advisor, Leonard Bernstein ("nearly one hundred"), Co-Founder (with Mic…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude For theater aficionados the place to be Sunday, Nov. 5, was The National Arts Club, where the Kesselring Prize was awarded to luminous Laur…
Direct from an acclaimed run in London, the powerful Royal Court Theatre production of Lucy Kirkwood’s astonishing new play will make its American debut at MTC (Manhattan…
by Steve Nardoni This year on May 15, at a celebration of the Fiftieth anniversary of the Ridiculous Theatre, Everett Quinton, who assumed leadership as Artistic Director when …
Hello Again premiered on November 6 at Cinépolis Chelsea, 260 W. 23rd Street, NYC Principle cast members, including Tyler Blackburn, Al Calderon, Nolan Gerard Funk, Cheyenne Jacks…
Photos: Maya Werner Who’s Holiday met the press this morning and Theater Pizzazz’ Maya Werner was on hand to capture photos. Olivier Award winner Lesli Margh…
by Carol Rocamora "This is a story of kings, or what passes for kings these days…" So goes the opening line of Junk, Ayad Akhtar's riveting morality tale of money …
by Matt Smith "You were all promised nothing but stupidity tonight, and I am delivering it in spades." Such is the witty, spot-on remark made by the effervescent, theatrical jack-of-a…
By Eric J. Grimm Cafe Carlyle more often than not plays home to the familiar; this is not to say that the programming is stale, but revelations are quietly offered with artists subtly…
By Sandi Durell It's a battle of the sexes in John Patrick Shanley's (Pulitzer Prize Doubt/Oscar Moonstruck) latest comedy about love, which he also directed at Manhatta…
By Brian Scott Lipton With its now-prescient take on presidential politics, including plotlines involving beauty pageants, foreign collusion and impeachment " it's almost shock…
By Martha Wade Steketee Ann Hampton Callaway is a Chicago girl with one of the biggest hearts in cabaret. On a recent evening at Birdland, on a day when a derange…
Cast and  guests gathered after the opening night of Ayad Akhtar’s illuminating play Junk at Tavern on the Green for an evening of celebration. On the scene were Steve…
by Adam Cohen There's no doubt the world hasn't been clamoring for a parody of the television situation comedy show "Friends." But judging from the box office lines at St. Luke…
by Carol Rocamora Just when you think "you've seen it all" on the topic of drug addiction and recovery, along comes a play that blows the top of your head off. That'…
Photos by Maya Werner On Monday night, at the Town Hall, Broadway stars got together to perform in a concert raising money for the charity, "You Gotta Believe." Hosted by Siriu…
by Hazen Cuyler Before seeing this one-man-show, I'd heard some of the hype and excitement surrounding Strange Interlude produced by Transport Group Theatre Company, directed b…
Bette Midler poses with Bernadette Peters at Hulaween, the annual benefit supporting Midler's New York Restoration Project held at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Monda…
by Peter Haas A sparkling program of song filled Pace University's Schimmel Center on a recent Saturday night, as the auditorium hosted Salon Songbook: The Gershw…
by Carole Di Tosti A dance of love and antagonistic struggle by Young Woman and Pony William opens the intriguing U.S. Premiere of Knives in Hens by David Harrower, conc…
By Brian Scott Lipton The rather ramshackle new jukebox musical, "Red Roses, Green Gold," now at the Minetta Lane Theatre, inadvertently poses a rather thorny que…
By Sandi Durell Yes, this is what Marilyn Maye says is her middle name! Â And why not! It's a special treat to hear how Ms. M orchestrates in and through the st…
by Adam Cohen As iconic as the Empire State Building and Central Park " the Big Apple Circus has thankfully returned to Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park for a holiday season's wo…
By Sandi Durell  The always impressive and over-whelming feeling of sitting in the historical grandeur of Carnegie Hall is never surpassed. It is only heightened by the exq…
