7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
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 It is with deep regret that I write that beloved musical director, pianist, friend, arranger and icon of the cabaret community died on August 22 at 3:37 pm in a hospital in Atlantic Cit…
  By Samuel L. Leiter  A word of advice for anyone writing a new musical: don't play a medley of pop hits before the show starts and during its intermission. As demonstrated by t…
  By Sandi Durell  "Theater Pizzazz mantra: "If music was everywhere and in everyone's life, the world would surely be a better place" (more than ever!) "  Falling into cabar…
 Photos: Maryann Lopinto    Tony Award Winning Revival, OKLAHOMA, released their original cast CD with a musical presentation by the cast and the signing of the CD on August …
 by Alana Silber   Basic Glitch, the first full-length play written by New York based playwright Stephanie Salazar-Amaro, takes place in a world similar to our own, but with one …
 by Edward Medina  While watching the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival production of Heloise one could imagine what it was like watching a first draft workshop rehearsal of The Lion i…
  By Ron Fassler  The annual Rave Theater Festival is underway on the Lower East Side of Manhattan this August with theatre, dance and music to entertain (as the circus once said…
   By Samuel L. Leiter  Ah, the variety of New York theatergoing! One night it's the raucous, decadently spectacular, nearly three-hours-long, jukebox musical Moulin Rouge in…
   By Marilyn Lester  That familiar opener, Billy Strayhorn's "Take the A-Train" (the Duke Ellington Orchestra's theme song from 1940 on) was a sure bet to herald a delightfu…
  by Magda Katz  On the first day of rehearsals, the cast and creatives of Fern Hill held a meet and greet with the press at Theatre Row Studios. The play, written by Michael Tuc…
  Theater Review by Brian Scott Lipton   The power (and limits) of imagination. The ways we repeat (and defy) our own family history. The ways we lived then (and now). These …
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 Theater Review by Edward Medina  Let's play a ghoulish little game. Let's create a fast paced comedy thriller that puts four characters in a spooky setting. Let's play up who's dead…
  The Lambs, America's first professional theater club and the oldest professional theatrical organization in the US, marks the 100th Anniversary of the Actors' Strike of 1919. A cen…
  by Magda Katz  Friday, August 2, 2019, Grammy Award winning Canadian-born singer-songwriter, pop star Sarah McLachlan took the stage of the Forest Hills Stadium backed by t…
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 by Michael Bracken  Rachel (playwright Domenica Feraud) is home for the weekend, and everyone is walking on eggshells. Well, not quite everyone. Her brother, Brody (a fearlessly dir…
  by Matt Smith  It's been said that life is a cabaret, and nowhere was that more apparent than at Robbie Rozelle's zany new late-night romp, which launched last Tuesday night at…
 By Sandi Durell  Welcome back Rita Rudner in this charmer of a musical comedy, at 59e59 Theaters, where laughter is the name of the game, written by Ms. Rudner and hubby Martin Berg…
  by Carole Di Tosti  The New York Musial Festival 2019, currently in its 16th season has been offering entertaining, seamlessly performed productions by talented casts and creat…
 by Adam Cohen  A spectacular New York debut is made in the New York Musical Festival production of "Leaving Eden."  Sarah-Anne Martinez commands the stage as Lilith in this…
  By Sandi Durell  Waiting for this new musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Jamie Jackson and book and music by SoHee Youn, to begin, the chatter amongst some of my nearby se…
  Theater Pizzazz' Shoshana Medney had the time of her life on July 16 at an early unprecedented preview of the first-ever Blue Man Group interactive exhibition featuring one of the …
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