7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
By Joel Benjamin My heart dropped a couple of inches as I stood outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village awaiting the start of the new musical, The Lightni…
By Sandi Durell City Center was packed to the rafters with fans of the iconic Diana Ross who opened last night, April 24, to unending cheers and a standing crowd through…
by Michael Bracken Whatever you do, don't go to Anastasia at the Broadhurst Theatre expecting to see the ghost of Ingrid Bergman or Yul Brynner; they're nowhere to be fo…
by Carole Di Tosti Debra Winger and Tracy Letts were on the Red Carpet for the World Premiere of The Lovers, Saturday, 22 April. The Lovers written and directed by Azaze…
The New York Pops season finale celebrates singers and songwriters who changed our musical landscape featuring a stellar cast. by Linda Amiel Burns The inc…
By Sandi Durell Veronica Swift is on a fast track to stardom in the jazz world now that she's been taken under the wing of Gianni Valenti at Birdlan…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel In 1964 Fiddler on the Roof opened the floodgates for Jewish related fare on Broadway. It's not that there weren't Jewish plays and musicals on Br…
By Sandi Durell Groundhog Day was temporarily stuck (not in a time warp) but due to its lead Andy Karl's leg injury pre-opening when understudy Andrew Call…
  By Sandi Durell   Spring is just fooling around because with all the flowers blooming and budding trees, it's here. The talent, however, in the New York City cabarets an…
In celebration of jazz singer legend Ella Fitzgerald’s Centeninal, Birdland is doing a two week celebration. On April 18, Ann Hampton Callaway started a ten performan…
by Carol Rocamora When Lincoln Center's leadership decided to remount Bartlett Sher's production of Oslo in the cavernous Vivian Beaumont Theatre after it opened …
by Michael Bracken A family that preys together…. never stops preying. At least not if the family in question is the clawingly, cloyingly, claustrophobically close-kni…
The Drama League (Executive Artistic Director, Gabriel Stelian-Shanks) has announced the 2017 Drama League Awards Nominees for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstan…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Theatrical Elite: Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole, John Leguizamo, Harvey Fierstein, Kevin Kline…They're Back! As we head toward …
By Joel Benjamin That showbiz magician, Scott Siegel, pulled yet another rabbit out of his endlessly deep hat. His 54 Sings Broadway's Greatest Hits!, despite bei…
by Susan Hasho Carmen Cusack popped up at 54 Below April 16th, rescheduled after NYC's only snowstorm in March left her marooned in Florida. Lucky us, we got to see her …
By Sandi Durell I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the star of A Bronx Tale, Bobby Conte Thornton who plays the pivotal role of Calogero. It's…
 By Eric J. Grimm Andrea Dantas' one woman show Fragmented Frida, now playing at BAM, dives deep into the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, detailing her struggles with …
Photos/Video by Magda Katz On Friday evening, April 14, Fox television anchor Kelly Wright performed with the Jeff Frazel Trio at the Metropolitan Room. He turn…
Or, plus ça change, plus c'est le même chose by Beatrice Williams Rude Angel & Echoes are two plays with the same theme: the oppression of women. It spans time, geography, e…
The New York Pops will celebrate its 34th birthday with a grand gala evening honoring Karen van Bergen, the CEO of Omnicom Public Relations Group, and Tony Award winners Kelli O'Ha…
By Sandi Durell This is the story that dreams are made of. And so let us give thanks to two extraordinary performers with extraordinary presence and voices tha…
By Sandi Durell And that torch is shining ever so bright and brilliantly as the doyenne of Jazz, lyric interpretation and storyteller extraordinaire, dress…
By Marcina Zaccaria At Cuisine and Confessions, anything can happen next. The tumbles, twists, and slides to the ground are truly extraordinary. The acroba…
by Samuel L. Leiter Film buffs, especially those who know the 1942 movie classic Casablanca and something of its backstory, will get a kick out of Casablancabox, Sara Fa…
