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Here's exciting news about new music releases from Jane Monheit, Allyson Briggs and CelloVoci. Jane Monheit Jazz and adult contemporary vocalist Jane Monheit's new eponymous album, Jane Monh…
By Barbara & Scott Siegel… A Summer Sampling: Once Upon a Mattress, Job, Forbidden Broadway, and More! Before all hell breaks loose with a flood of new shows opening between October an…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . This past spring, song stylist Ann Kittredge released an album titled "Romantic Notions," her musings on the theme of love covering more than a …
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Reviews by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Alan Rickman. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman …
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . George Tabori's The Goldberg-Variations shifts swiftly between light and dark, serious and comical, while diffusing tension and disappointment with …
Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, written by Jenny Lyn Bader and directed by Ari Laura Kreith, will play at 59E59 from October 18 to November 10. The show stars Ella Dershowitz,…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . .  . Conceived and directed by Stephen Sachs, Fatherland is a powerful verbatim play that is currently at New York City Center Stage II through No…
Theater review by Carol Rocamora… Come down to La Mama in the East Village and you'll see an amazing sight: a David facing a (metaphorical) Goliath, on a basketball court, in a theatre. Th…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Cabaret regular Renee Katz is back with a new show at Don't Tell Mama titled "Lost in His Arms." It doesn't take much of a sleuth to fi…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . I've never had the pleasure until the other night at 54 Below of seeing Cheyenne Jackson onstage. Well aware of his talents, and having seen him in such f…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy with Catherine Kemm . . . Every time I see a show I learn something. After seeing A Fairly Odd Musical! at the Jerry Orbach Theater I learned that there a…
Music Review by Marilyn Lester… When the Wynton Marsalis-led Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO) is in Rose Hall, the venue is known as the House of Swing. That appellation was never …
Theater review by Carole Di Tosti… In Nancy Harris' The Beacon, directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull, we witness a family drama that grows more complex in its unraveling. Son Colm (Zach Appel…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Political satire isn't an easy thing to pull off. Ask the folks at Saturday Night Live who've been doing it for fifty years (and those are just …
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you aren't aware of who Kara Young is by now you are missing out on one of the best actresses currently working in the theatre. And man does she wo…
Musical duo The Bengsons (Abigail and Shaun Bengson) will be performing songs live on stage from The Magnetic Fields (composer, Stephin Merritt), including selections from their album "69 Lo…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . Martin Short. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legen…
Theater review by Stuart Miller… In 1941, Nazi invaders marched the 1,600 Jews of the Polish village of Jedwabne into a barn and set it ablaze. At least, that's the story that Poles told t…
Tony Award Winner Danny Burstein will be playing "Herbie" opposite six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald "Rose" in GYPSY. Directed by the legendary six-time Tony Award-winni…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . See What I Wanna See is a musical written by composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa, first produced at the Public Theatre in 2005. Inspired by the sto…
Three leading ladies from Hairspraywill star in I'm A Big Girl Now! are back and better than ever! Tony nominees Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde), Kerry Butler (Beetlejuice, Xanadu), and To…
The 2024 edition of the Chain Summer One-Act Festival features the New York premiere of Banshee by award-winning writer John Patrick Shanley, the world debut of the Jesse Eisenberg-produ…
The Overlook Sessions is a new weekly event on Monday nights in September at The Overlook Bar, featuring live performances by Jesse Gelber, the renowned pianist from Speakeasy Magick, and hi…
WaldenBabeReal Women Have Curves: The Musical Motell Foster Joins Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters in "Walden" Motell Foster will complete the cast of Amy Berryman's play WALDEN, joining the p…
Music review By Andrew Poretz …. Quintin Harris returned to Birdland Jazz in September for several concerts in the new 5:30 slot. This reviewer last reviewed Harris with his quintet back i…
