7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
A pleasant, but not very original combination of lights, music and choreography By Joel Benjamin Frantic Beauty, reduced to its basics, was just a not very imaginative l…
By Sandi Durell On September 25, Feinstein's/54 Below was packed with supporters for the New York PopsEd Fundraising event to help support music programs in all five bor…
 By Sandi Durell Cinderella is back at the Café Carlyle in a tribute to the World of Rodgers and Hammerstein! Looking like a princess in a long white gown, the impeccable pitch-p…
by Michael Bracken Parents grow old. It's a fact of life. And with age come issues: health, care, and, as Max Posner hammers home in The Treasurer at Playwrights Horizons, mone…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude Up the Rabbit Hole is a touching play about a young man seeking acceptance. It's neither a "coming of age" nor a "coming out" piece, bu…
by Marcina Zaccaria Statistics about prison are on the walls. An audience ready to see and hear walked around a space that includes quilts, and squares of fabric with phrases o…
Review by Sandi Durell Depravity and violence mark this dystopian society that seems to no longer be a future prediction as when first published in 1962, written by Anth…
by Michael Bracken You have to give her credit. A luminous Carrie Coon strives fearlessly to make Mary Jane, Amy Herzog's latest, at New York Theater Workshop, work as a drama.…
by Sandi Durell Barry Levitt, a gentle man, a talented musician, orchestrator, arranger, songwriter, a brilliant professional, known to everyone as the Maestro. On September 19…
by Maya Werner On Sunday, September 24, 2017 the broadway community celebrated the 31st Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction in Manhattan's Theatre District. Broadway …
By Marilyn Lester The blues ruled mightily at The Town Hall with the David Bromberg Big Band Birthday Celebration with Bettye LaVette. Both Bromberg and LaVette a…
by Alix Cohen Frank Baum (1856-1919) authored The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 14 sequels (41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.) …
by Sandi Durell The incomparable Lee Roy Reams, known by many as Broadway royalty, is returning to Feinstein’s/54Below Celebrating 42nd Street on October 6 and 7 at 7 pm.…
By Sandi Durell Music runs through every inch of Walter Willison, a man filled with great soul-filled interpretations of songs that make his heart sing. It's joyful, uplifting …
by: Matt Smith As we all know, the late, great Irving Berlin once wrote, “There’s no business like show business.” While it may be  argued tha…
 Academy award winning filmmaker Michael Moore and Tony Award winning director Michael Mayer both joined the legendary wall of caricatures housed at New York City's Sardi's re…
by Brian Scott Lipton There can be little dispute, if any, that Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim are the true twin titans of musical theater " the former, a composer equa…
By Sandi Durell For a taste of something different, away from the mainstream, meet Adam Levowitz who has gathered up some of the quintessential music from Quentin Tarantino's a…
On September 19th, the cast of The Play That Goes Wrong was honored with a portrait and unveiling at Tony’s di Napoli that now sits on their Broadway Wall of Fame. Cast members …
By Beatrice Williams-Rude Distant Star presents a group of Chilean poets living through the overthrow of the democratically elected Salvador Allende, and its consequ…
Maria Friedman, three time Olivier Award winning Star of Woman in White and Chicago is appearing at Feinstein’s/54 Below in a solo debut. It’s an extraordinary even…
                     They glittered and made us gay By Beatrice Williams-Rude W…
By Eric J. Grimm In her debut at Cafe Carlyle, actress Dianna Agron knows what the people want to hear. Two years after the finale of Glee, the hit television series that shot …
by: Carole Di Tosti How do two artistic geniuses mute their hefty egos and collaborate? How does such teamwork create a kaleidoscopic, visual masterpiece which sp…
by Matt Smith There ain't no party like a Kyle Dean party, and diehard Massey fans and first-timers alike found that statement all too true when the acclaimed per…
