7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
By Marcina Zaccaria What is it like to find traces of the past in you? Port Cities NY, a unique performance event, explores this very question. Port Cities…
An imaginative, if awkwardly constructed, rethinking of the themes of sexual exploitation in Madama Butterfly.  By Joel Benjamin The Brits Off-Broadway…
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for media covering New York theatre announced today its award winners for the 2015-16 season in 25 categories. …
By Barbara & Scott Siegel  Like petals from trees showering New York City streets in the Spring, award season in the theater showers adulation, appreciati…
by Marilyn Lester Massed male voices have long been a feature of the choral world, and the venerable Downtown Glee Club, one of five such remaining clubs left in …
A young Broadway star makes a smashing impression in her cabaret debut. By Joel Benjamin Laura Michelle Kelly took the Feinstein's/54 Below stage in All Th…
By Myra Chanin In order to fully understand, both intellectually and emotionally, that and how broadcast news reached its present nadir " and also how glorious it was…
The company of the new musical Himself and Nora: Matt Bogart (Jersey Boys), Whitney Bashor (The Bridges of Madison County), Michael McCormick (Chaplin), Zachary Prince (Honeymo…
by: Carol Rocamora Sometimes a production comes along that shakes up a classic, and you feel that you're seeing it for the very first time. Such is the case of Benedi…
By Peter Haas Cole Porter said it in song: "There's nothing, when you're out, like being fanned … by the leader of a big-time band." He was proved correct by Steve Ros…
by Carol Rocamora According to its subtitle, opening night of the legendary Shuffle Along on May 23, 1921 at the 63rd Street Music Hall (Broadway & Centra…
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle today named The Humans, by Stephen Karam, best play of the 2015-16 season.  Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 an…
Rockettes rehearsal for New York Spectacular starring The Radio City Rockettes are always great fun. The upcoming production, which celebrates New York City in the summertime and star…
 By Sandi Durell A marriage made in jazz heaven has come about with the pairing of the iconic Ann Hampton Callaway and Birdland Jazz Club! Not to be cliché but . . …
Former contributor to Theater Pizzazz, Cooper Lawrence, has won a coveted Gracie Award! The Gracie Awards, presented by The Alliance for Women in Media, is one of the most pres…
Jessica Lange, Steve Martin, Michelle Williams, Lupita Nyong'o, Frank Langella, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jane Krakowski, Sara Bareilles, Cynthia Erivo and Jeff Daniels were just a few of t…
By Brian Scott Lipton If you read a headline blaring "Hilty Does Clooney!," you could be forgiven for thinking a story about infidelity between two Hollywood star…
Changes  – Always With A Song In Her Heart by Lisa Reitman-Dobi Arlene Wolff didn't do a show. She didn't do a performance of musical in…
by Marilyn Lester The atmosphere in the Friar's Club Milton Berle Room was well-nigh dancing as the nominations were announced for the 2016 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, by th…
By: Jordan Cohen Last night, the New York Pops, conducted by the brilliant and playful Steven Reineke, celebrated its Thirty Third birthday at Carnegie Hall wi…
by Sandi Durell The Paramount Hotel was filled with press this morning at 8:30 a.m. as William Ivey Long introduced Tony Award Winner (Book of Mormon) Nikki M. James and Tony A…
The 2016 Tony Awards Nominations Announcement, Sponsored by IBM Tuesday, May 3 at 8:30 a.m. ET From the Paramount Hotel in NYC Video courtesy CBS News.        …
Lupita Nyong'o and the cast of Broadway's Eclipsed by playwright and "The Walking Dead" star Danai Gurira were joined onstage this weekend by U2 lead singer and ONE Campaign co-founde…
by Susan Hasho The play Toast written by Richard Bean and directed by Eleanor Rhode opens in a British bread factory canteen. We are introduced to the cast of cha…
The Theatre World Awards, Inc. Board of Directors (Dale Badway, President) has announced the 2016 Theatre World Award Honorees for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Pe…
