7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
By Brian Scott Lipton Anyone who has ever felt unloved, rejected, isolated, or gone to high school (have I left anyone out?) will relate to Dear Evan Hansen, the heart-s…
By Sandi Durell If you could live forever, would you want to? The Tuck family, hiding out in the woods of Treegap, New Hampshire (of all places) after drin…
By Eric J. Grimm A bioethical dilemma brings the worst out of privileged Connecticut baby boomers in Cate Ryan’s new play In the Secret Sea. Director Martin Charnin stages the o…
The Marvelous Wonderettes, created by Roger Beane, opened at the Kirk Theater on April 28 and Theater Pizzazz’ Maryann Lopinto was on the red carpet to capture pho…
Review by Marilyn Lester It's the 1958 senior prom at Springfield High School in Anywhere, USA " and you and your date are there, right on the gym floor, primed a…
By Marcina Zaccaria Elizabeth Van Meter takes to the stage for Thao's Library, a one person show playing at The Lion Theater. Elizabeth Van Meter's play, Thao's L…
They trash taboos and smash stereotypes!  You can never under-estimate them! Dames Like Us is the brainchild of award-winning playwright/director/actor Francesca Rizzo, who plays S…
by Monica Charline Brown The opening words of playwright Justin Kuritzkes's mind sear through the space like paralyzing ice beams. Jake Horowitz conversationally …
by: Myra Chanin Jonathan Brielle, an energetic, ambitious creator of musicals presented himself, his past, present and future productions in a Broadway at …
By Sandi Durell Jessie Mueller can turn mud into sweet sugary pies and she's doing it now at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre as Jenna, the abused pregnant wife…
Nominations for the 2016 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this morning at Feinstein’s/54 Below by Vanessa Williams (Into the Woods, The Trip to BountifulÃ…
By Brian Scott Lipton Many a performer's first cabaret show is marked by one or all of the following: stories about their childhood, reminiscences of the early theate…
Broadway mainstays are happily joining the ranks of many who have successfully segued to television. Mercy Street‘s new cast members now include: Tony Award-winner and Em…
The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theatres, general managers, press agents and marketing professionals, has announced the nominees for the 6th Ann…
Teen Idol Bobby Rydell, looking pretty darn good, was at the famed Patsy’s Italian Restaurant on West 54th Street on April 25th to celebrate his book Teen Idol on the Roc…
MAYBE THIS IS IT! is a new comedy written and performed by Steve Bakunas, a self-described Road Scholar " and for those in the know, the other half of the couple of a…
By Jordan Cohen Kiki and Herb, the audacious and innovative cabaret act brought to penetrating life by downtown performance legends Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman, have c…
Dena Blizzard, One Very Funny Mother Makes Audiences appreciate the Normality of Their Own Crazy Lives By Myra Chanin Thirteen years ago, Dena Blizzard had just given…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude The theater is all a-twitter with birds this season what with two takes on The Sea Gull and now the turkey, Le Dindon in French, which in t…
  By: Sandi Durell   At last . . . it's spring again and birds on the wing again . . . trees and flowers in bloom, no coats, no boots nor gloves and for the …
by Monica Charline Brown In the late, late hours of Friday, April 22, Broadway's favorite supper club, Feinstein's/54 Below, presented The Girls in White: Songs f…
Living proof of the benefits of the NYC Dance Alliance Foundation By Joel Benjamin Destiny Rising, an evening of dance to benefit the NYC Dance Alliance Foundatio…
by Sophia Romma Enthusiasts and admirers of musical theatre and pop culture caught an enthralling overdose of Steven Schwartz on April 16th, when a star st…
By Sandi Durell Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and produced in 1777 at the Drury Lane Theatre, The School for Scandal invokes the Restoration…
by Sandi Durell Take a peek to see what Broadway’s longest running Phantom and Tony nominated star of Gigi has to say about his one night only performance on May 11th , 7 pm,…
