7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
Celebrating its 16th season, the critically-acclaimed Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher with a two-week run of The Dreyfus Affair –Â …
by Sandi Durell From Carol Hall to Liesl Tommy; Linda Cho to Lileana Blain-Cruz; Jess Chayes to Emily Simoness – the best of all categories of creatives were laude…
by Myra Chanin The world premiere of Vanity Fair, Kate Hamill's adaption of Thackeray's satirical novel, as directed by Eric Tucker, is a great and glorious, equal parts cab…
By Sandi Durell The Public Theater's Anspacher Theater is getting a shake up currently with John Leguizamo lecturing, classroom style, to us " morons that …
by Carol Rocamora Rarely does a production explode upon the theatre scene like Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, now receiving an extraordinary revival at the Park Avenue …
By Barbara & Scott Siegel The Most Talented and Consistently Innovative, and Entertaining Director Working Off-Broadway: Jack Cummings, III Play after play, a…
The Broadway Project at Symphony Space, in its second annual celebration of the Great White Way, explores the dynamic collaborative spirit that makes Broadway so exciting From chorogr…
by Marilyn Lester Judging by Annette Warren's awe-inspiring performance at 54 Below, she is far from being done. A nonagenarian (she'll be 95 in a few months), Warren's energy,…
by Magda Katz Theater Pizzazz’ Magda Katz visited with the cast of FIGARO! (90210) at rehearsals for interviews and musical previews as seen on this video piece. FIGARO! …
by Carol Rocamora A shiver went through me, watching the title character of Penelope Skinner's Linda giving a lecture to the audience. I thought the ghost of Heidi had passed o…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Sweat Might Give The Public Theater the Tony Trifecta Back in the day, The Public Theater earned its place in the theatrical mainstream whe…
by Samuel L. Leiter "Where was the helicopter?" asked the gentleman snaking his way out of my row at intermission at Miss Saigon. "It's in the second act," quickl…
by Matt Smith "Live entertainment… there's nothing like it!" shouts renowned actress Michele Lee, upon receiving her Lifetime Achievement Award at the sp…
by Marilyn Lester For those in love with words, song, theater and comedy, dash to the Café Carlyle now without hesitation. Award-winning actor/singer John O’Hurle…
By Martha Wade Steketee For the trio of society's cast-offs at the core of Jeff Talbott's 90-minute play The Gravedigger's Lullaby, life is having a pot wi…
Scott Siegel's Broadway By The Year celebrated the iconic musicals of the 1940's at Town Hall on March 27, 2017 by Linda Amiel Burns Hard to believe that Scott Siege…
by Matt Smith "It's so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself." Such is the opening line of the new, Alex Brightman/Drew Gasparini musical It's Kind of a Fun…
by Susan Hasho Loose Ends by Michael Weller is a play in eight scenes. It's a look at young people coming of age in the '70s. The opening scene is on a beach in Bali with a…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude Grand Theft Musical is meant to be a paean to Broadway in the form of a spoof. The plot involves a good-guy Broadway producer, Ja…
by Martha Wade Steketee The experiential onslaught of Chess Match No. 5 begins as you enter the steeply pitched seating of the June Havoc Theatre. Suspended iride…
By Marilyn Lester The room is packed to the rafters; an overheard conversation reveals the women at a nearby table have traveled three hours to be in this room. There ar…
by Carol Rocamora "In the dark times, will there be singing? Yes, and there will also be singing about the dark times."

So wrote playwright Bertolt Brecht, whos…
by Michael Bracken Talk about the disaffected working class. Just watch the locals have a drink at Stan's (James Colby) bar in Reading, Pennsylvania. That's where factor…
On April 21, 2017 at 8:00PM, The New York Pops, led by Music Director Steven Reineke, will continue its 34th season at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, by bringing to …
 By Eric J. Grimm The stories of potential gems that fell just short of playing on Broadway eclipse the shows themselves in 54 Below's first (and hopefully not last) editio…
