7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
 Award winning playwright (2019 Writer's Guild Award & Emmy Award television writer) Anna Theresa Cascio's new play St. Peter's Foot touches on abortion and right of choice and about…
 by Alix Cohen  In the 1950s, lyric soprano Barbara Cook made a splash with ingénue roles in successive musicals. Work became less frequent in the 60s, and by the 70s the artist was…
The Price of Thomas Scott Offers Social Themes, a Dutiful Daughter and Dance Breaks   by Martha Wade Steketee (review as originally published in Urban Excavations, Feb. 20, 2019) …
 By Ron Fassler  If I were granted a wish to travel back in time and see any one entertainer of the 20th century strut their stuff on a nightclub stage, it would be Sammy Davis, Jr. …
*See All Your Favorite Performers Right Here on Video! Photos/Video by Shoshana Medney  Patti Murin, Jenny Laroche and Julie Gold joined New York Yankees legend and Latin Grammy-n…
 Fresh on the heels of starring in Spamilton and Smokey Joe's Cafe, Nicole Vanessa Ortiz will make her debut at Feinstein's/54 Below on March 7, 2019 at 9:30 pm in Becoming Her: A Div…
 2019 MAC AWARD NOMINEES REVEALED! The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) is pleased to announce the 2019 MAC Award nominees. The nominees, in a majority of the categories, were det…
Broadway By The Year celebrates 19th Season with a concert of musicals born in the years 1928 and 1935 at The Town Hall on Monday, February 25, 2019  by Linda Amiel Burns  After near…
 Critically acclaimed for her roles on Broadway in The Last Five Years, Falsettos and now off her shift at Waitress, Betsy Wolfe is one of musical theater's keenly intelligent performers…
 by Adam Cohen Turning Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel Lolita into a musical took incredible chutzpah.  The show hadn't made it to New York until the York Theater Company's Musica…
 by Adam Cohen  Jack Viertel and Deborah Grace Winer remind me of my high school Social Studies teacher " knowledgeable and dogged.  The classes were not lectures but impassion…
 by Matt Smith  "You better call the cops and give 'em warning / Sound the siren, bang the bell / A main marine rolls in this morning / On his way to raise some hell…." Though they…
By Marilyn Lester It's been 96 years since the premiere of Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman, a sturdy classic that The Irish Repertory Theater has breathed extraordinary l…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel We have not been writing this column for awhile, due in large part to Scott's major Citibike accident that put him in the hospital for 19 days wit…
By Marcina Zaccaria City of No Illusions provides the right bit of magical realism, in a larger, more pointed discussion about living space and the afterlife. Written and Direc…
By Sandi Durell "If music was everywhere and in everyone's life, the world would surely be a better place" … And on that note, I do believe there is a slight whiff of Spring …
by Maya Werner The cast and creative team of Chick Flick the Musical met the press on Friday, February 15. Chick Flick the Musical features Sharon Catherine Brown as Karen, Linds…
By Ron Fassler Marilyn Maye, the nonagenarian cabaret superstar, is back in New York City for the weekend, in the heart of the theatre district, with a Valentine's Day show. It…
 The Psychoanalytic Odyssey of a Once Glorified Chorus Boy by Alix Cohen Sometimes over the top works. Dr. Bradley Jones' colorful, personal history is rather …
By Ron Fassler The New York City premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith's Switzerland arrived at the 59E59 Theaters in a production first produced by the Hudson Stage Company, Westche…
by Alix Cohen       Steve Ross is a self-admitted, dyed in the wool Francophile. Hosting the first of what one can only hope will be a series at the 92Y, he shares th…
by Carole Di Tosti Have you ever wondered what the flight attendants, pilot and co-pilot talk about as they host your flight? Wonder no more! The witty playwright and comedic a…
If you’re one of the first 100 patrons at the Winter Garden Box Office (1634 Broadway) dressed in Beetlejuice black and white between 10 – 11 a.m., you’ll be entered…
by Adam Cohen My Very Own British Invasion, a new rock and roll jukebox musical, has taken over the Paper Mill Playhouse.  This is a slick, well-designed production that is visu…
By Ron Fassler When it first opened on November 22, 1945, Lewis Nichols wrote in his New York Times review that The Day Before Spring was "a likable musical show in a good many…
