7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
by Sandi Durell Who is Derek DelGaudio? A magician, an illusionist . . . a storyteller who has mastered the art of unique unpredictability. DelGaudi…
by Linda Amiel Burns The youngest artist to ever sing at this legendary venue, classical crossover star Jackie Evancho made her debut at the Café Carlyle. Â Two days …
by Alix Cohen Did you know there was a society called Friends of Alec Wilder, or that there have been 31 annual concert tributes to the multifaceted artist up til…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel The power of expectations: Church & State and The Glass Menagerie The way we react to a play depends a great deal upon our expec…
By Marcina Zaccaria With bicyclists, jugglers, aerialists, and a skilled contortionist, Circus 1903 takes itself quite seriously. Evoking the Golden Age of Circus, the two hour…
by Michael Bracken Sometimes what we hate the most is what reminds us of ourselves. Perhaps that's why Raif Almedin (Ali Reza Farahnakian) has such disdain for practicin…
by Lisa Joy Reitman-Dobi Janis Joplin. Leslie Gore. Dusty Springfield. Nina Simone. The 1960s was the breakout decade for scores of now-legendary women vocalists,…
The entire cast of COME FROM AWAY was present at Barnes and Noble to perform and to sign their new Original Cast CD just released. On hand were writers David Hein and Irene S…
by Carol Rocamora That frightening figure high on his blood-red throne, staring out at you from the darkness, will haunt you long after you leave the theatre. He's the self-app…
Jen Fellman brings April in Paris to New York on a Blustery Spring Night By Myra Chanin Mon Dieu! Jen Fellman's All-American parents may have come to th…
MCC Theater’s annual Miscast gala, held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, has become one of the hottest tickets of the theatrical season. The reason: audiences get the …
By Marilyn Lester A huge attraction of Michael Feinstein's Jazz & Popular Song series (now in its seventh consecutive year) is a combination of extraordinary tale…
by Carol Rocamora Theater Pizzazz loves more than one review on a show. Here’s another one! The sign on the theater marquee is upside down, there are misprints in the pro…
by Marilyn Lester  If there is one man who epitomizes the New York City piano bar and cabaret scene, the odds are it's Scott Barbarino. Barbarino has worn many hats " pe…
Theater Pizzazz loves having two writer reviews on the same show. Â Hear what Sandi Durell and Carol Rocamora have to say! By Sandi Durell Murder, mayhem…
By MR Anderson At the West Park Presbyterian Church, there's a light in the attic. Far above the pews and pulpit hangs a balcony. Originally the home of the Riverside Sh…
By Sandi Durell Back from Down Under, the high seas and Piccadilly, Christina Bianco once again takes Birdland by storm. This lady of a thousand voices, wi…
by Michael Bracken Is it the time or the timing? It's both, of course, but I have to think brisker pacing in the current revival of Noël Coward's Present Laugh…
Hamish Linklater’s The Whirligig cast, a production by The New Group, met the press for a photo shoot recently at New 42nd Street Studios. Â Directed by Scott El…
The Off-Broadway League has announced the following nominations in 19 categories for the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. The Lortel Awards …
By Sandi Durell What makes a play an immediate 'sit up and take notice!' There's the sense that the quality of fine performances deal with insightful reali…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude The official title of the show is " Trumped! de Blasio to the rescue?" However, a case could be made for calling it "The Triumph of Gabe Pressman." Gabe, "th…
Point Honors New York brought 400 guests to The Plaza hotel last night for a celebrity-filled evening in support of Point Foundation (Point), the nation's largest scholarship-g…
by Michael Bracken You know you're in trouble when ten minutes into a show you're looking at a man with talking goldfish covering his head, especially when five minutes …
by Marilyn Lester As the name might imply, the all female DIVA Jazz Orchestra has been swinging a mighty sound for 24 years, most of them under the leadership of drum vi…
