7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
Irvin Berlin's Holiday Inn will begin performances Wednesday, November 21, 2018, and will continue through Sunday, December 30 2018, at Paper Mill Playhouse (22 Brookside Drive, Milbu…
by Hazen Cuyler When your show is titled, Medicine the Musical, it's easy to jump to conclusions. Even before walking into the theater, I envisioned a half-baked, mon…
By Myra Chanin Pangea is a magical space. Change the overhead lights to fuchsia and the art deco-cum-SNL-conehead wall sconces move the setting from Weimar Berlin " i…
By Ron Fassler The musical revue was a staple of Broadway (then later off-Broadway) from the early part of the 20th century and on into the 1950s. As time marched on, su…
By Joseph Pisano “If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.” Anton Chekhov’s sardonic advice could serve as a solid epigraph for the Brian Friel dou…
By Marcina Zaccaria It could be just the confetti or posters of adoration, but there's something absolutely electric about Bobby Kennedy. Leading Actor David Arrow meets…
By Marcina Zaccaria How do we present ourselves? Who will be there to see us later?  The Chinese Lady begins triumphantly a woman in silks, played by Shannon Tyo, …
by Hazen Cuyler An avid art audience, of any form, searches for the new. A resounding voice, never before experienced, expressing the evolved emotional lives of people today.Â…
By Marcina Zaccaria A plaintive, subtle presentation, Everything Starts from a Dot is much more than a shape study or a deconstruction of a painting. With …
By Sandi Durell Some, but not many, may be aware of recent upsets in the long and illustrious career of theater critic Frank Rizzo, who spent 33 years at The Hartford Co…
By Myra Chanin If an actor wants to utter words that are truthful and accurate, he/she better write those words himself, which is exactly what Ronnie Marmo, a playwri…
By Ron Fassler Whether you are a visitor to New York, or a die-hard resident, almost everyone loves a night on the town that might include stopping in someplace in searc…
By Sandi Durell It's a truly reimagined rendering of the giant silverback gorilla as you may have seen him in the 1933 movie, where the lissome and beautiful Fay Wray wa…
Only Make Believe Gala 2018: Broadway Stars Celebrate the Charity and Award Recipients Joe DiPietro and Bethenny Frankel By Iris Wiener Broadway's best cam…
by Alix Cohen Melina-The Last Greek Goddess Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (1920-1994) was a fiery, Greek actress, singer and national heroine/politician, the latter in …
by Ron Fassler  "Natural Shocks is not just entertainment." This according to Pascale Armand, currently starring in Lauren Gunderson's new one-person play, Natural Shocks…
by Brian Scott Lipton While much of the world sat glued to their TVs, waiting for one of the most important American stories of the past 20 years to unfold, lucky patron…
by Carol Rocamora "Let's put on a play!" How many times have we heard those words uttered in our line of business – right?! But rarely have they delivered the glee…
by Adam Cohen In a desolate land lies a stone, shaped by waiting for who knows how long to a stool.  A sad dying tree with three branches undulates.  And a dry tabl…
by Ron Fassler Sierra Boggess, a red haired dynamo of a singing sensation, brought her new cabaret show to Feinstein's/54 Below last night. Before she sang a note, her o…
By Magda Katz What do you get when you blend four magnificent voices in one show.? Yes, you get Magic – the show’s theme on Saturday night at the Schimmel…
by Sandi Durell The ATCA traditional highlight of its weekend conference is always the ‘Luncheon with the Stars’ at Sardi’s Restaurant where wri…
by Ron Fassler I recently had the pleasure of putting a few questions to the versatile singer and actress Ute Lemper, who is bringing her cabaret show Rendezvous with Marlene t…
By Sandi Durell If you're fortunate enough to attend a Melissa Errico concert, then you can truly understand the meaning of the term genuine! Yes, she's the real …
by: Alix Cohen Broadway Experiments, Company and Follies  "Let's begin once again by listening to a demonstration recording that Stephen Sondheim made of a song from 1964's…
