7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
by Michael Bracken Best known for her recurring role as Rachel Heineman on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Iris Bahr is also a writer to be reckoned with. Her latest solo effort, I Lost …
by Marcina Zaccaria The interrogation: does a Mayoral candidate, perfectly dressed, have blood on her hands? Politics can be a dirty business. When so many parties are involved…
The Serious Side of Gerard Alessandrini (or) Why Did Our Most Hilarious Musical Theater Parodist Conceive and Direct a Show Devoted to the Music of Maury Yeston? By Barb…
by Marcina Zaccaria Café Play is a rare, blissful experience conceived, structured, and directed by Erin B. Mee. Joining a small group at 10:30AM at the Cornelia Street Café, it fel…
"City Girl, Country Boy" by Peter Haas It seemed like an unlikely combination: songs recorded and popularized by Willie Nelson, one of country music's most beloved figur…
By Sandi Durell The press was invited on board the luxurious Princess Regal docked at the Brooklyn Terminal on Saturday October 7 for the latest peek of shipboard entert…
By Sandi Durell Song and dance man, Lee Roy Reams brought the house down at 54 Below Celebrating 42nd Street. Originating the role of Billy Lawlor in the Tony Award winning mus…
By Myra Chanin You say you wanna create a perfect 21st century musical, with A toe-tapping unforgettable score of fifteen hummable tunes and precise expressive lyrics that say …
By Sandi Durell Advice to those who are in need is a double-edged sword . . . especially from one who isn't licensed other than by life's experiences.  Try…
by Samuel L. Leiter It's not till near the end of William Donnelly's No Wake that the playwright clarifies the meaning of his title; by then, sleepy theatregoers …
By Brian Scott Lipton Despite his Broadway credentials (as composer of "Spring Awakening" and "American Psycho"), Duncan Sheik is anything but razzle-dazzle. In his low-…
by Hazen Cuyler A love letter was sung to Rufus Wainwright at 54 Below on Sunday, October 1. 54 Sings Rufus Wainwright was a gift from respectful colleagues designed especially for hi…
The Kaufman Music Center presented the 19th Season of "Bound For Broadway" at its Broadway Close Up Series at Merkin Hall hosted by Liz Callaway Oct. 2, 2017 by Linda Amiel Burns …
By Myra Chanin On or about 8:30 pm on the last Friday (occasionally the last Thursday) of every month (except December) since July of 2015, a beaming companion and I …
by Magda Katz Andrea Wolff brought her new show “Prisoner of Love” to Don't Tell Mama this past Saturday night. She opened with the haunting Kander and Ebb’s …
by Sandi Durell The Vineyard Theatre held a press meet and greet to introduce Tony Award Winner Billy Crudup (The Coast of Utopia, Spotlight, The Metal Children) who wil…
By Sandi Durell The new musical comedy Desperate Measures opened on October 1 at the York Theatre to thunderous applause with book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music …
By Sandi Durell A mixture of sadness, joy and great spirit prevailed at the last evening at the Metropolitan Room at 34 West 22 Street on September 30, 2017. Mana…
Andrea McArdle returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below in ‘An Evening with Andrea McArdle’ October 10, 12, 13 & 14 at 7 pm. She  celebrates the Great American Songboo…
by Carol Rocamora The key to appreciating Suzan-Lori Parks's wildly original Red Letter Plays is knowing that she's jazz musician as well as a writer. As she hers…
by Samuel L. Leiter No one says "the cat's pajamas" in George Kelly's The Show-Off  but, in 1924, when this drawing-room, domestic comedy in the well-made play tradition ope…
It was media day at the McKittrick Hotel for the musical comedy that features original songs and Jimmy Buffet classics, Â Escape to Margaritaville, as a send-off party ensued…
By Marilyn Lester Here's a sure-fire formula for success: take a groundbreaking musical masterpiece, add an immeasurably talented cast of singers, a skilled music direct…
By Brian Scott Lipton Sixty years and one day after history was made at the Winter Garden Theatre with the opening of the "West Side Story," history of another sort happ…
by Hazen Cuyler Dean's kid sister has dropped off two male hamsters and they're humping. Dean and his long-term partner, Mikey, are expecting their first child any day n…
