7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
By Barbara & Scott Siegel It's rather remarkable that in a season in which everyone knows that Hamilton is the odds-on favorite to sweep the Tony's in most of the ma…
Guests gathered at The Plaza Hotel in New York City for the Nineteenth Annual ASPCA Bergh Ball celebrating the ASPCA's 150th Anniversary last night. Drew Barrymore was honored with th…
by Beatrice Williams-Rude The 94th annual Inner Circle dinner and lampoon show took place at the New York Hilton on Saturday. (The Inner Circle is a venera…
by Marilyn Lester There's little argument that the music of Tin Pan Alley provides fertile territory for jazz musicians. In World on A String: Swinging Songs of Broadway…
The 34th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which recognizes outstanding achievements in dance on Broadway and in film, takes place on Monday, May 16, 2016. This year's Award Recipie…
By: Jordan Cohen New York audiences first met Lea Salonga when the musical, Miss Saigon, transferred from the West End to Broadway in 1991. At the tender age of 20, she would win prac…
By Brian Scott Lipton No American actor has more arrows in his quiver than three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella, and it's little surprise that he uses each and ev…
by Joe Regan Jr. Jim Speake, who just won the LaMott Friedman Award at the MAC Awards this year for his recording of "Sweet Life The Show" chose to do a show celebrating…
by: Carol Rocamora An icy wind is blowing through the Walter Kerr Theatre, bringing with it Ivo van Hove's merciless and frightening new interpretation of The Crucible, …
by Marilyn Lester Nathan the Wise, a remarkable work advocating religious tolerance, was published in 1779 by the Lutheran pastor, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Ironi…
Drama Desk, Tony®, and Emmy® Award nominee and Theater World Award and NAACP Image Award winner Vanessa Williams (Into The Woods, The Trip to Bountiful, “Ugly Betty”…
Exit Strategy opened at the Cherry lane Theatre last night April 12.  The after-party was held at Mr. Dennehy's, where the cast and creatives were joined by invited ce…
By Marcina Zaccaria Carefully uncovering the world of van Gogh, Starry Night Theater Company presents Vincent at Theatre at St. Clement's. The play, originally written a…
by Myra Chanin Manhattan's Birdland, the Mother of All Jazz Clubs, has come up with a great way of getting paying customers' butts into showroom seats at 6 pm …
By Brian Scott Lipton Trust me, no one would pay " or even want to be " to invited to a Lipton family singalong, but audience members lucky enough to be at Sympho…
By Sandi Durell Photos/Video: Magda Katz When the indomitable Marilyn Maye has a birthday party, you can believe it's like no other. What more could she po…
by: Sandi Durell From Broadway’s On The Town, Hands on a Hardbody, Hair and Catch Me If You Can, Jay Armstrong Johnson will wow audiences at Feinstein’…
Photos: Maryann Lopinto Honorees Greg Louganis and Pete Nowalk; Performances by Billy Gilman, Lena Hall and the cast of Broadway's "Bright Star;" along with Laith Ashley…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude All politicked out? Tired of the parody that is our current political situation? Chill, take a deep breath, and…
By Samuel L. Leiter Rising young playwright Tarell Alvin McRaney's Head of Passes, which the playwright says was inspired by the Biblical story of Job, is an occa…
By Eric J. Grimm The New York Pops closed out their 2015-2016 season with selections from five decades of Academy Award winning composer John Williams’ nearly sixty-year …
By Marcina Zaccaria What would make a Sunday brunch better than buttered biscuits and jam? At The Nuyorican Poets Café, Brunch Theatre presented seven new plays at Buttered Bi…
Opera star turned Tony Award winner turns a sophisticate New York audience into mush. By Joel Benjamin At turns manly and boyish, opera star turned Tony winner, Paulo Szot entr…
Lyricist Michael Colby, otherwise known as The Algonquin Kid, has been under a bright and lucky star as of recent months. Â First the release of his book The Algonquin Kid and now t…
by Carole Di Tosti On the surface Keep written by Francesca Pazniokas, directed by Stephanie C. Cunningham, is a play about hoarding, the obsessive compulsive disorder that can…
