7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
By Myra Chanin The premieres of two of A. R. Gurney's new one-act plays are cleverly grouped together as Two Class Acts. Both are about contemporary college life and mor…
By Sandi Durell Photos: Magda Katz For the few who actually remember hearing the chilling CBS Mercury Theatre radio program of H.G. Wells' The War o…
by Kathryn Kitt Welsh singer Iris Williams opened her show Let the Music Begin with the title number written by Chris Westlake. It was the perfect way to endear her to t…
Photo/Video Coverage by MR Anderson On Monday, October 2, Host committee members Betty Buckley, Misty Copeland, Kelli O’Hara, Bernadette Peters, and Janice Reals Ellig pr…
Interview by Brian Scott Lipton Photos/Video by Magda Katz A Broadway season without Kristin Chenoweth is, as the old saying goes, a day without sunshine. Fortunately, the Tony…
  By Sandi Durell   The leaves are still falling, the weather has gone from Fall to Summer back to Fall with a chill in the air, and the Cabarets and Clubs are …
by Marilyn Lester Incredibly, in a scant 85 minutes, playwright Adam Bock manages to examine, parse and possibly explain the entire meaning of life. What he reveals foremost in…
By Myra Chanin Bob Diamond's performance at Don't Tell Mama on Sunday Night October 23rd would have been amazing even if he'd been performing monthly solo musical shows seve…
 By Sandi Durell Feinsteins/54 Below was the place to be for animal lovers on Sunday evening October 24, as Dorothy & Bill Berloni presented "Best in Shows" wher…
Composers Ahrens & Flaherty and playwright Terrence McNally honored at a star studded gala benefit for the Encompass New Opera Theatre at National Arts Club by Linda Amiel …
by Marilyn Lester The term duat, in Egyptian mythology, signifies the mystic and sapient realm of the dead, presided over by Osiris and other gods of the ancient pantheo…
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by Michael Bracken Think 700 Sundays with Monica Piper instead of Billy Crystal. Who's Monica Piper? She's the star of Not That Jewish, an autobiographical one-woman show at Ne…
By Sandi Durell  Photo/Video: Magda Katz   With no down time from Ms. Maye's appearance at the New York Cabaret Convention on Thursday evening at Rose Theater, Linc…
By: Jordan Cohen A whole lot of charm, a healthy dose of sass, and some serious drama all marked the return of Carole J. Bufford to Feinstein's/54 Below, as she debuted …
by Linda Amiel Burns The Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret Convention paid tribute to the late Sylvia Syms in a gala evening hosted by Rex Reed. …
Multi Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and hubby Will Swenson are now proud parents with the birth of their baby girl, saying, “Our hearts are bursting,” McDo…
By Martha Wade Steketee Laine Kazan has a cold, we soon realize. Raspy vocal quality, tetchy intonation, and without the big sound and wild abandon we have seen from her…
by Alix Cohen Hey, old friend, are you okay/Old friend?/What do you say, old friend/Are we or are we unique?/Time goes by/Everything else keeps changing/You and I/We get…
By Eric J. Grimm Tilted Windmills Theatricals has created a loving parody and tribute to JK Rowling's Harry Potter series in their production of PUFFS: Or Seven Increasi…
By Sandi Durell  The autobiographical revival of iconic multi Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner, Jonathan Larson's life story, is alive and well through the Keen Company produ…
For the past 35 years Asbury Shorts has featured the best in non-competitive short film comedy, drama and animation, screening classic shorts from past and present winners, giving the…
The Mabel Mercer Foundation opened the 27th Cabaret Convention at Rose Hall for four nights to showcase over 100 performers and musicians of many genres by Linda Amiel Burns &#…
by Alix Cohen John Bocchino is an acquired taste. An evening of highly personal, original songs garnered from his sizeable trunk, reveal an often solitary man of deep fe…
by Carole Di Tosti Fisher Stevens, writer, actor and producer, was on the Red Carpet at the Hamptons International Film Festival 2016 with other celebrities like Edward …
