7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
By Myra Chanin Pangea, the sophisticated one-of-a-kind East Village Mecca for cabaret, song and performance since 2015, reminds me of the kind of dimly lighted, classy, …
By Samuel L. Leiter Each New York theatre season brings a small number of one-act programs to the New York stage. Some are part of regular programs, like Summer S…
 By Sherry Amatenstein  The night Seth Greenleaf turned 9, Nine won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The now 46-year-old theater producer http://greenleafproductions.com was m…
by Alix Cohen  Deb Berman's cottony alto happily doo-wahs from the back of the club. Rhythm seems second nature. Taking the stage after a hiatus, she frames this show with …
Bite of the Best’s Bonnie Tandy LeBlang keeps searching for the latest, greatest and best of when it comes to NYC restaurants. Here are some of her updates: Make a Special Trip …
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by Carol Rocamora No one commands the stage and screen quite like Glenn Close. Whether she's descending a grand staircase (Sunset Boulevard) or boiling bunnies (F…
By Sandi Durell  Can grief be good or bad or rather an emotional adjustment to the human condition of loss? Whatever the road one travels to assuage the pain is not usually within…
by Michael Bracken It might take you a while to figure out what playwright Steven Levenson is up to in his Days of Rage at the Tony Kiser Theater. Presented by 2nd Stage, Leven…
By Myra Chanin I know, I know. I say this almost every month, but only because it's absolutely true almost every month, so … THE MOST RECENT INSTALLMENT OF RICKY RITZEL…
Presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation Harbinger Records is pleased to announce their premiere DVDÂ release. And for this prestigious debut they’ve chosen to present …
by Sandi Durell Women come out in droves at the Daryl Roth Theatre off Broadway to witness the spirited performance by Christine Lahti as the one and only Gloria Steinem in thi…
By Ron Fassler At the beginning of Daniel’s Husband, Michael McKeever's play, the lights come up on a well-appointed living room set (designed by Brian Prather). Four men…
by Carole Di Tosti The third American woman poet to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923) was Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay's rooted passions drove deeply and widely …
By Bernie Furshpan According to Wiktionary, to "kvetch" is to whine or complain, finding fault with anything.  Well, you may not consider yourself a Kvetch and yo…
by Michael Bracken "Listen, it's no fun to get old." So Howard (David Cromer) tells his mother-in-law, Gladys (Elaine May), in The Waverly Gallery, currently in revival …
By Myra Chanin Jeremy Lawrence, best known for creating and starring in several one-man shows which explore Tennessee Williams' persona in the playwright's own words,…
By Marcina Zaccaria On October 22, Actress Lois Smith spoke at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center to discuss her work in theate…
by Cathy Hammer A solo performance can be memorizing: a swirl of character and story painted with varying brushstrokes by a single talented hand. As an actor, Orlando Pabotoy h…
By Ron Fassler In 1970, about a week before Christmas (and at the height of my teenage theatre-going years), I had the pleasure as a thirteen-year-old of attending a pre…
By Myra Chanin Sidney Myer is the incarnation of multifaceted. His morning noon and night job? He's the kind, attentive, generous, supportive, sensitive and savvy, be…
by Ron Fassler As she modestly states near the start of her new cabaret show, which opened last night at Feinstein's/54 Below, Lindsay Mendez has had a very good year. I…
   By Sandi Durell   Once again, this year's 29th Cabaret Convention proved a huge success of four evenings filled with exquisite talent and tributes. Congratulations KT S…
Sunday, October 21 was the opening night of The Ferryman on Broadway. Maya Werner from Theater Pizzazz was on the scene to capture the attendees and cast members at the opening …
 By Steve Nardoni I told someone I had seen this. He accurately surmised that is was some kind of spoof on "The Book of Mormon" but had no idea who Ethel Merman was. He had…