7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
by Marilyn Lester Miranda Music artists came together to celebrate the label's recently released album, A New York Holiday, with an array of songs traditio…
The Winters Tale Deserving of Varying Interpretations! by Carol Rocamora "Exit, pursued by a bear!" These famous stage directions are one of many challenge…
by Carole Di Tosti                    In the musical The Babies, written and directed by Lloyd J. Schwartz with music by Mat…
by Matt Smith You know the age-old argument that says husband and wife should never work together? The one that says being in such close quarters with no personal…
by Susan Hasho Christopher Martin was the founding Artistic Director of the Classic Stage Company and he has reimagined Harold Pinter's Old Times for this current production at…
By Marilyn Lester Calling it "the best Broadway musical that never was," host and producer, Will Friedwald presented the extraordinary story of Manhattan Tower, a…
By Sandi Durell This isn't your usual Broadway musical " it's better! It's funny, sad, tragic and filled with great heart. Moving from it's recent off Broadway run at Se…
by Michael Bracken With a "B" or with a "P"? That's the question that must be answered by the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra in The Band's Visit at the Atlantic …
by Marilyn Lester Broadway actress/singer and cabaret doyenne, Karen Akers, is a self-confessed Francophile and a lover of stories " two ingredients that add up to a passion fo…
By Michall Jeffers Right away, we know we're watching a Christmas myth, probably told to a youngster at bedtime. The heroes are the little guys great-great grandfathers,…
By Sandi Durell   The Grammy winning Renaissance man has returned to the Café Carlyle for his twelfth season " now a long time tradition in the month of Decembe…
On December 6 at the Edison Ballroom, Richard Kind opened the evening presenting the workshop of Shimmer, a new musical about  WWII when over 23,000 Jews landed in Shanghai s…
By Eric J. Grimm Thuli Dumakude, with her powerful voice of both resistance to oppressive forces and celebration of joy and the human spirit is the perfect antido…
by Carol Rocamora "Hey hey LBJ How many kids did you kill today?!" We haven't heard that ominous chant since the 60s, and yet here it is again, resounding …
by Marilyn Lester For anyone despairing that classical music is on the wane, the all-male string quartet Well-Strung is here to say different. In A Well-Strung Christmas…
by Kathryn Kitt There is something truly magical going on in Milburn, NJ. Opening last night and through to January 1st, 2017, Deborah Cox is giving a truly star-making perform…
by Michael Bracken Where's Luis Buñuel when you need him? Perhaps at Playwrights Horizons, at least in spirit. That's where Dan LeFranc's wry Rancho Viejo is c…
by Brian Scott Lipton There are stories within stories with stories in Richard Greenberg's complex and somewhat unconventional The Babylon Line " which is perhaps…
By Sandi Durell Hormones are flying, as the young adolescent teenage girls at the Duke on 42Â Street keep stretching in tandem on the field anticipating …
By Marcina Zaccaria In the desert, sweating and praying for the divine, we find unmistakable shamanistic glory in The Portal. Offering tribal music, it's not Hair…
By Jordan Cohen Self-described "Glamour Toad" and RuPaul's Drag Race favorite Ginger Minj hit the Laurie Beechman stage this weekend in "Mary, Did You Know?," her new show dedi…
Photos: Maryann Lopinto Night three of the 11-day Winter Rhythms Festival at Urban Stages, featured highlights from one of cabaret’s most popular new series, the New York…
iLuminate, named the best new act in America by "America's Got Talent," lit up the holidays with its "mesmerizing" ("Good Morning America"), "eye-popping" (Time Out) and "stunning" (B…
by Carol Rocamora It's got the longest " and most formidable – title of any of her dramatic works: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whol…
by Carole Di Tosti How many chances do we have to see a visually stunning show which electrifies our emotions and dazzles our senses with breathtaking alacrity? i…
