7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
by Carol Rocamora  "If we're going to make a bold statement, then I want us to be really bold." So says Paulette Randall, director of the lively production of Marlowe's Doc…
Feinstein’s/54 Below announced this evening that a series of performances from Broadway legend Chita Rivera have been postponed due to illness. Ms. Rivera was scheduled to pe…
The Bard Summerscape production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's American classic 'Oklahoma,'Â received outstanding reviews at its recent limited run at St. Ann's Warehouse in …
by Adam Cohen There's a moment in every performance where the audience is in awe. Thursday evening at Feinstein's/54 Below it came from an off the cuff remark from singer An…
By Myra Chanin The New York Women in Film and Television's 39th Annual Muse Award was a rare and worthy event. The six being recognized were noteworthy for their tale…
A Futuristic Dance Theater Narrative by Choreographer-Artistic Director Chase Brock By Sandi Durell Body language, movement and music can create and say more than…
A SPECIAL WISH AND THANK YOU TO ALL OUR READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS FOR MAKING 2018Â ONE OF OUR MOST MEMORABLE YEARS! THEATER CONTINUES TO KEEP US INQUISITIVE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE …
Here’s a chance to catch up on theater mini-style on New Year’s Eve watching CNN Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen as they welcome Broadway’s best and biggest…
by Susan Hasho Lovely day. Man comes out on his roof to read the paper and have a quiet drink in his folding beach chair and is disturbed by birds chirping. It is obviously a w…
by Elizabeth Ahlfors Michael Feinstein returned to Feinstein’s/54Below with Swingin' With The Season, delivering timeless songs punctuated with jolts of surprise. Stan…
Winter Rhythms Series at Urban Stages produced by Tom Toce concludes with an all star cast singing optimistic SONGS OF HOPE by Linda Amiel Burns On December 21, t…
It was “shush shush, keep it quiet” until December 23 when a Surprise Birthday Party was thrown by Max St. James and friends at the new location for …
by Matt Smith The New York Pops are back on the boards, returning to their New York home at Carnegie Hall for their annual holiday extravaganza, and they're ringing in t…
by Brian Scott Lipton For 57 years, Harper Lee's novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" has not only been required reading for most schoolchildren, but the book is still being devoured …
Why Is Everyone Laughing? Because Hanna Burke is Divine as Madeline Kahn! by Lisa Reitman Dobi Every year, Winter Rhythms presents a series of performances sel…
By Myra Chanin For over a 100 years the Workmen's Circle has promoted Jewish identity through cultural programs, teaching Yiddish and promoting social justice with th…
   By Sandi Durell   Did I just write 2019? Well, how did that happen so fast? But here it is a New Year on the horizon as we all wish for a more peaceful, harmonious world…
by Sheila Watko "Wake You Up" is a musical from the all-female writing team of Taylor Pearlstein and Shannon Molly Flynn. A talented cast of vocalists performed a concer…
by Carol Rocamora It was a razor-sharp satire in 2004, and it hasn't lost its cutting edge today. Fabulation: or the Re-Education of Undine, is Lynn Nottage's absurdist …
by Elizabeth Ahlfors In his fourth Christmas show at Feinstein’s 54/Below, Broadway baritone Norm Lewis’ Nutcracker Cool promises a warm, friendly, &#…
by Sheila Watko The entire room is decked out in tinsel, stockings are hung on various walls and two adorable elves known as the Mistletoe Munchkins (Joseph Allen…
By Marcina Zaccaria The Apple Boys: A Barbershop Quartet Musical celebrates every aspect of turn of the century artistry. The race to win a singing competition begins hu…
by Carol Rocamora "When does a place become a home?" It's a profound question asked by one of the survivors of the refugee camp in Calais, founded in 2015. They fled from oppressi…
By Myra Chanin Madelaine Warren graduated from the Boston University School of Fine Arts, having majored in voice. A trained soprano and an aspiring opera sing…
 by Linda Amiel Burns From 12/12 to 12/22, 2018 Winter Rhythms at Urban Stages will present 20 different shows in 10 days. In 2009,  Frances Hill, the founder and Arti…
