7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
By Marcina Zaccaria Jazz singer Perez celebrated the songs of Frank Sinatra at The Metropolitan Room.  She opened the evening with a rendition of "Come Fly with Me…
Born in Wales, Iris Williams had huge success in the United Kingdom, with fourteen Royal Performances, an O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire) Award by the Queen. Â The BBC featured…
The cabaret community is very saddened by the news that Dana Lorge passed away yesterday. She was battling lung cancer.  Dana was an upbeat, special lady with a big personality …
Fun Home‘s much lauded creative team – Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron and Sam Gold – are now part of the legendary names whose portraits are hanging on the esteemed walls…
By Sandi Durell If you're seeing American Psycho expecting a visually specific turn on the bloody bloody movie starring Christian Bale (based on Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 …
by Sonia Roberts Alice Birch’s explosion of a play snaps us into a re-examination of the female experience, cleverly beginning with a series of vignettes in which the socially c…
by Marilyn Lester To say that Aoife Duffin's performance in A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is a tour de force may not be doing the actress justice. After 85 minutes of sustained intens…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel Greatness? Two Plays: The Father & The Humans While musicals have historically accounted for approximately ninety percent of theater ti…
by: Magda Katz At the end of the 1960s, three comedians changed stand-up comedy — Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Robert Klein. If you ask Jerry Seinfeld or Jay L…
By Sandi Durell With a magical smile that says "I've got a little secret," the inimitable Chita Rivera was up and running like gangbusters on opening night at the…
By Brian Scott Lipton No one would ever accuse of Patti LuPone of "monkeying around" on stage. Few performers show the kind of dedication and commitment to their …
by Joe Regan Jr. Carol Shedlin, a singer of certain mature age, each year announces that her current cabaret show is her last. That's what she did in 2014. Shedlin has been pe…
The Drama League (Executive Director, Gabriel Shanks) has announced the 2016 Drama League Awards Nominees for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstanding Musical, Out…
by Michael Stever With a dynamic presence The New York Times has heralded as "A singularly sensational mix of high-sheen professionalism and raw vulnerability,”  Broadwa…
by Linda Amiel Burns Ted Sperling and cast of great singers celebrate The Ethel Merman Songbook at the 92nd St Y's Lyrics & Lyricists Series in Everything’s Co…
by Joe Regan Jr. Sally Darling received the prestigious MAC Hanson Award this year which is presented for Excellence in Cabaret who has never been nominated in the past. After a l…
by Sandi Durell With a full house of fans and friends at Birdland, the ever-popular Jamie deRoy & friends series celebrated Spring and her new signature program for …
By Marcina Zaccaria Is science revelatory? Who are we in relationship to the dinosaurs? What does planetary rotation mean to us? There is almost no foul in Scienc…
by: Susan Hasho Listening to Jason Robert Brown sing his song "Someone to Fall Back On" full out, in beautiful voice, in complete honesty was soul stirring. Or to hear S…
According to Variety, Hamilton, Broadway’s smash and this season’s award favorite from the get-go, has been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama It’s rare for a mus…
Academy Award, Golden Globe Award & BAFTA winner and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace & Reconciliation, Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, The Butler, Bird, Broadway's …
by: Sandi Durell Laura Michelle Kelly, star of Broadway’s Finding Neverland (and Mary Poppins and Fiddler on the Roof), will be making her first debut at Feinstein’…
by Joe Regan Jr. Once a month Stephen Hanks with his associate producer Fr. Jeffrey Hamblin, MD, is producing a series entitled "New York Cabaret's Greatest Hits."Â The honoree thi…
By Marcina Zaccaria Happy daggers fly as a fierce production of Romeo and Juliet, performed by the Mobile Unit, opens at The Public Theater. Joe Papp created the Mobile …
By Eric J. Grimm There are singers whose skill is so great that their emotional investment in a song can become buried in perfect pitch and clean phrasing; it’s possible …
