Join writing duo Jacob (21 year old college senior theater major) and (Dr.) Jeff Foy along with Lahser Rd. Theatricals (producer) at the Front Row Fringe Festival for exciting new shows March 11 thru March 14, including webinars by Broadway notable producers. . . Cody Lassen (The Band’s...
26TH ANNUAL CRITICS...
The winners of the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards will be revealed on Sunday, March 7, 2021 from 7-10pm ET/PT, on the CW with acclaimed film, television, and stage star Taye Diggs returning to host for his 3d time, and SeeHer Award Winner Zendaya. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
THEATER-FILM-MUSIC...
Today Features: Jeremy O. Harris-Broadway Profiles, PlayhouseLive-Our Town, Final Boarding Call, Theater For the New City Gala, Rebecca Luker/Sally Wilfert-CD Release, Fusion Theater-No Exit, NY Theatre Barn-A Seat At the Table, Little Love Notes-CD Release, Public Theater, Disney Pinocchio,...
Applause Shop
Howell Binkley (1956-2020) . . . Laura Heywood, also known by her social media handle @BroadwayGirlNYC, and producer Susan Vargo (The SpongeBob Musical) have launched Applause Shop (www.ApplauseShop.com), an online marketplace designed to help theatre artists make...
Matthew...
New York City Center President & CEO Arlene Shuler announced Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Festival, a month-long digital festival featuring four of the most beloved New Adventures productions filmed live at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. Matthew Bourne’s intriguing twists on ballet...
Ashland Independent...
The Ashland Independent Film Festival announced the winners of the special Rogue Award, Pride Award, and James Blue Award who will be honored during this year’shybrid “Double Feature” festival running online for two weeks from April 15-29 and outdoors in Ashland and Medford from June 24-28,...
Music Box Theatre...
The new PopUp Series, produced by Scott Rudin and Jane Rosenthal, will now include The Music Box Theatre on West 45th Street as one of the flexible venues for the 100-day New York City and State PopUp Festival as a live indoor venue beginning April 2. Other venues included are LaMaMa, Park...
Live at the Lortel
Liz McCann – Mary Hodges . . . The Lucille Lortel Theatre announces its upcoming guest lineup for its popular “Live at The Lortel” podcast series. In March, the interview series pays homage to women in the theater, and the series talks to women who have impacted the...
LEITER LOOKS BACK:...
In the seventh volume of his Best Plays series, a disappointed Burns Mantle . . . admits to the usual difficulty in selecting ten plays he considered representative
HYMN
By Carol Rocamora . . . Adrian Lester -Danny Sapani “Papa was a rolling stone…” goes the song in the background. And that’s what Gil discovers at his father’s funeral, when a stranger named Benny appears, declaring to be Gil’s brother (from another mother). This startling first...
Tennessee Williams...
La Femme Theatre Productions’ presentation of Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana, directed by Emily Mann, was initially streamed this past December and raised nearly $17K for The Actors Fund.La Femme is thrilled to present an Encore streaming of The Night of the Iguana...
RISK
Join Kevin Allison on Friday, March 12 at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT and a fantastic crew of storytellers for RISK!’s first online show of 2021! Anyone can register for and watch this show from anywhere in the world. Please spread the word to friends worldwide! This show will be broadcast via...
Celebrate...
Hosted by Frank Dillella to air on Liza’s Birthday FRIDAY, MARCH 12 AT 8:00 PM ET – – Tickets, priced at...
Carmen and Geoffrey...
By Alix Cohen A 2005 Documentary Directed by Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob New to Broadway HD . . . Dancer/Choreographer Carmen de Lavallade (1931-) and Dancer/Choreographer/Director/ Artist/Designer Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014) had been married almost 5 decades when this documentary was...
On Beckett/In Screen
By Marilyn Lester . . . The work of Samuel Beckett, the Irish poet, playwright and writer, has long been a strong part of Bill Irwin’s stage life. It’s the perfect marriage of text and performer—the deeply intellectual author of absurdist and existential work, with the likewise deeply...
Theater-Film-Music...
Marsha Mason will direct Jill Eikenberry in the virtual production of Jericho, by Jack Canfora, for the New Normal Rep’s inaugural season. Tickets HERE. The reading of Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain will stream on demand March 11 thru March 21 with Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and...
David Rockwell
OpenStages NYC Broadway’s David Rockwell (Tony winning set designer) and his architecture and design firm Rockwell Group have joined forces with TAIT, a global leader in the design and construction of solutions for live events, to create OpenStage NYC, a new initiative that utilizes...
Multistre.am is...
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . It’s a high energy rant by a lead character reading for his life. Letter to my Father follows the anxiety-filled vision of one yearning to advance beyond his 36th year. Seeing his marriage in the distance, he recalls past abuse from a father figure dominating his...
THEATER-FILM-MUSIC...
Today Features: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Squeaky, Keen Company, Milwaukee Rep Theatre, Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway Themed Cruises, Spirited Away to Stage, Places Please, Christina Bianco Squeaky (a virtual reading presented in Association with Creative Alliance) directed by Bob...
Mystery Science...
The Mads New YouTube Channel – Phantom From Space Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu (“Dr. Clayton Forrester”) and Frank Conniff (“TV’s Frank), known collectively as “The Mads,” have announced an official YouTube channel, which just launched featuring nine shorts that...
Mizrahi and Bond
Isaac Mizrahi presents the fourth and final show of his virtual concert series, ISAAC@CAFECARLYLE, full of stories and songs, delivered right to your living room. The show will premiere on March 19 at 8pm EST with special guest Justin Vivian Bond. Filmed (without an...
Golden Globe...
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in film and television. The telecast aired live coast to coast last night Sunday, February 28, 2021 from 5-8 p.m. PST/8-11 p.m. EST on NBC. Nominees for this year’s awards included...
ABSINTHE
Many of you have probably heard that Absinthe® is returning to its Las Vegas stage on March 17. That’s the kind of good news, say those in the know, that “should get The Gazillionaire out of his rose-petal, sour donkey-milk bathtub soak.” In this week’s episode of Spiegelworld’s VEGASHITSHOW,...
Three Cheers for...
By Myra Chanin . . . Purim is the one day of the year when Jews are given the go-ahead to drink, feast, gamble, gambol and gobble, allowed to don costumes, go to wild parties and make a hideously earsplitting din on a noisemaker called a grogger...
André De Shields Is...
by Sandi Durell . . . André De Shields’ performance live at Flushing Town Hall (YouTube) on February 26, doesn’t allow for enough adjectives to describe his brilliance capturing and embodying the spirit and genius of Frederick Douglass as part of this month’s Black History Trilogy. A benefit...
The Future of...
New York Theatre Barn and Joe Barros seem to be making new musicals happen at rapid pace. They are the incubator for new and known talent that are the future of musical theater. Coming up next, they will host a free live stream of their award-winning New Works Series on Wednesday, March 3rd,...
Thoughts of A...
Keenan Scott II, Brian Moreland, and Steve H. Broadnax III Photo: Emilio Madrid-Kuser . . . Producers Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana DiMenna, Samira Wiley, Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Shubert Organization, and The Nederlander Organization announced...
Theater-Film-Music...
Today Features: Goodspeed on Demand, Shakespeare@Home, Mill Girls-New Musical, Irish Arts Center, Broadway Backwards, New Ohio Theatre Film Festival, Bringing You Broadway, Radial Park-The Blues Bros. Mashup, Dixie’s Happy Hour-Kris Andersson, Lincoln Center-Restart Stages . . ....
LOVE LETTER TO LIZA
A 75TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE CELEBRATION ADDS EVEN MORE CELEBRITY GUESTS INCLUDING LORNA LUFT, JOHN KANDER, MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, JULIE HALSTON, MELISSA MANCHESTER, JASON ALEXANDER, PARKER POSEY, KATHY GRIFFIN, NICHOLAS KING, KATHY NAJIMY, HODA KOTB, MICHAEL YORK, CRAIG FERGUSON AND HALEY...
BAD DATES
By Adam Cohen . . . George Street Playhouse kicks off the new theater season with a filmed version of Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates. Haley Walker (Andrea Burns) is a single divorced woman raising her teenage daughter. She’s got a potentially unhealthy obsession with...
THEATER TALK
Featuring: Purim at The Actors Temple-Detective Mystery; MOTI; Voyeur Windows of Toulouse Lautrec; Headwall Theatre Co.-Separated; Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit NYC; August Wilson Cultural Center The Mystery of the Missing Haman: a Sam Shovel Detective Mystery – The Actors Temple – Purim...
Theater-Film-Music...
Featuring: Kleban Prize Winners MTF, NY Theatre Barn-New Works Series, Masked Megillah-Tovah, SuperYou, Broadway Cast Reunion Series, Vangeline Theater, Irish Rep-The Aran Islands Musical Theatre Factory Sunday, March 7th presents a one-night-only event starring musical theatre writing...
SHOOK
By Carol Rocamora . . . “This place doesn’t have to define you,” says the encouraging teacher to her students. Oh, but it will, it will…. Grace’s six-week course in childcare is not being held in an ordinary classroom. It takes place in an activity center at a young offender’s institution,...
YES! Reflections of...
By Marilyn Lester. . . Aedín Moloney (Photo: Carol Rosegg) . . . James Joyce’s modernist, enigmatic novel, Ulysses, has been a source of fascination for almost a century—and no less so for actress Aedín Moloney, who brings one of the central characters of the book, Molly Bloom, to vivid life....
Theater-Film-Music...
Celebrate “National Margarita Day” – Elevated Entertainment is pleased to announce Margarita Live, a captivating and tactile immersive telling of the legend of the Margarita cocktail and how it came to be a worldwide sensation. This will be a first of its kind production...
Behind the Burly-Q-...
Written and Directed by Leslie Zemeckis By Alix Cohen . . . bur·lesque /ˌbərˈlesk/ 1. an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody:2. a variety show, typically including striptease: This terrific documentary is peopled by...
Theater-Cabaret News
Ann Kittredge has launched a new online show Virtual Shorts on Friday February 26 at 5 pm ET, with opening night guest Steve Ross – a naughty mini-masterpiece of Cole Porter “But in the Morning, No” . . . Christopher Denny, music director; and tech guru, Matt Berman. Streaming...
FIAF Virtual...
By Marilyn Lester . . . FIAF, the French Institute-Alliance Française, has conceived a delightful three-part series, Love, Desire & Mystery—Il Parle, Elle Chante, with Broadway actress-singer, Melissa Errico, pianist Tedd Firth and writer and lyricist, Adam Gopnik. The idea is to explore...
On Women Festival
The Space at Irondale – On Women Festival, March 4-28, where women are busily rehearsing and filming their works to be digitally premiered next month. Irondale has reimagined the festival with the same important mission—to give women+ artists a place to tell their stories,...
Berkshire Theatre...
Beginning May 1, the Berkshire Theatre Group begins its spring season under the tent at the Colonial Theatre Parking Lot with Harvest and Rust – a tribute to Neil Young. Continuing May 8 see Ryan Montbleau; May 15 – The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow; May 22 Takin’ It to the...
Mint’s Silver...
Here’s your opportunity to celebrate the ever-popular Mint Theater Company in its continuing Silver Lining Streaming Series. On Monday February 22 (and continuing thru March 21) see the FREE and On Demand Women Without Men written by Hazel Ellis. The Irish Actress-Playwright only wrote two...
André De Shields...
Interview by Sandi Durell . . . When I received notice about Black History Month and the performers who were participating at Flushing Town Hall in its virtual 3-part stream of artists this month, I was excited to note André De Shields as one of them. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting,...
Theater-Film-Music...
Today’s Talk Features: Kleban Prize, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Podversation-Robert Cuccioli & Laila Robins, Broadway Profiles-Lena Hall & Cheyenne Jackson, Theater Reopening?, Tony Awards, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Golden Globes, Theatre Collective, Arena Stage, Folksbiene...
Blithe Spirit
By Carol Rocamora “I knew it was witty, I knew it was well constructed and I also knew that it would be a success,” wrote the great British playwright Noel Coward with characteristic flair, upon completing his draft of Blithe Spirit in 1941. Let’s hope that Edward Hall’s current film...
NATHAN LANE TO...
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . Three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane will join Julie Halston for a special edition of her popular online show “Virtual Halston,” on Wednesday, February 24 at 5pm. The pair delighted fans with their iconic portrayals of socialite Bitsy von Muffling and lounger...
Theater-Film-Music...
Today We Feature: Hershey Felder in Puccini-York Theatre’s Beggar’s Holiday-LAB Annual Barn Series-Metropolitan Playhouse, Deceiver’s-Becoming Dr. Ruth, 2020 Kesselring Prize-Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years-Roundabout Theatre Co – Director’s Fest...
THEATER-FILM-MUSIC...
Today’s “Talk” features NY Theatre Barn, TCN, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation, Unravelled, Smithtown, Food for Thought Productions, NYC Indie Film Festival, Quarantine Cabaret & Cocktails, NJ Theatre Alliance Stages Festival, Nexus Initiative,...
THEATER-FILM-MUSIC...
Tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, the Congress for Jewish Culture will host a special celebration of writer Sholem Asch, with an online event titled ASCH WEDNESDAY. Sholem Asch is best known for his play God of Vengeance, which he wrote in 1906 and was published in English-language...
Macbeth
By Carol Rocamora . . . “By the pricking of my thumbs/Something wicked this way comes.” Indeed, it has. Polly Findlay’s Macbeth, now live-streaming on BroadwayHD, is a “wickedly” entertaining production, if such words dare describe the bloody story of Shakespeare’s ambitious Thane of...
Jim Brochu Joins...
by Sandi Durell . . . One of the theater’s most beloved actors will be a guest host on Turner Classic Movies. Jim Brochu, writer, director and playwright, has won numerous awards including a Drama Desk Award for outstanding solo performance in the Off-Broadway production of Zero Hour (which...
LILLIAS WHITE GETS...
by Brian Scott Lipton . . . For four decades, Lillias White has been thrilling New York audiences with her virtuosic performances, from brilliantly playing Effie White in the 1987 revival of “Dreamgirls” to her Tony-Award winning work as the hardened prostitute Sonja in “The Life” to her...
A Touch of the Poet
By Marilyn Lester . . . Robert Cuccioli . . . Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet is a challenging play to mount at the best of times. It’s O’Neill’s last work (written in 1941) and far from hisbest, suffering from bouts of exposition and repetition over its four acts. In this on-screen...
Theater-Film-Music...
So many entertainment events. Keep Reading Below . . . Havana Film Festival New York brings you some of the darling gems of Cuban cinema to keep you company during this long winter. Every Saturday starting February 13th, HFFNY streams a Cuban film, free of charge, in its Virtual...
Hear TRUspeak
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces TRUSpeak … Hear Our Voices! Virtual Fundraiser on Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 5pm (eastern time) via Zoom, presented with the generous sponsorship of R.K. Greene and The Storyline Project, Patrick Blake and Rhymes Over Beats, Neal Rubinstein...
LAST MINUTE...
Still looking for some safe and unusual restaurants and more for love day? Here are a few . . . (see below) The Arlo Soho, is offering two fully-furnished cabins that you can book with a group of lumberjack cosplaying friends. This year, however, the cabins double as a perfect...
THEATER TALK
Borders by Nimrod Danishman (Kara Be’emet) and directed by Michael R. Piazza (One in the Chamber). Produced by Dirty Laundry Theatre and presented by The Tank in association with The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community...
Belfast Blues
A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN . . . By Marilyn Lester. . . Geraldine Hughes’ biographical one-woman show, Belfast Blues, is purely miraculous in any number of ways, from the masterful narrative to the stunning performance, to the many deep layers of meaning embedded in the text. Belfast Blues is...
Antigone
by Carol Rocamora . . . “Beware the Greeks, bearing gifts…” You’d better take that warning seriously – especially in the theatre! Those ancient Greek tragedies bring earth-shattering new insights in times of political crisis – especially now. We’re hearing lot about “the rule of...
Theater-Film-Music...
New streaming theater company NNR dedicated to producing reflective and inclusive plays, announces its inaugural four play season featuring works by playwrights Julia Blauvelt (Airline Disaster, Youthful Journeys of the World), Jack Canfora (Fellow...
LEITER LOOKS BACK:...
The New York theater season of 1924-1925 included a modest number of revivals, but only a handful of particular interest.
Happening at The...
The Apollo Theater will kick off its 87th season on Saturday, February 27 at 8:00pm EST with Apollo Film & Screen/Play Presents: 30 Years of House Party. The evening will feature highlights from the musical and comedy cult classics House Party (1990) and House Party 2 (1991), a...
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Jamie deRoy & friends Valentine’s Day Special: More From the Archives on Sunday, February 14 at 7:30 PM Appearing on this episode are Jamie deRoy and Taffy (The Huber Marionettes), LaLa Brooks (The Crystals), Haley Swindal (Chicago), E....
Theater-Film-Music...
One of our favorites, National Theatre at Home, the streaming service of London’s National Theatre, announces its next classic, the Tony award winning Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Marianne Elliott’s production was filmed during its 2017 run at the National, prior to its...
The Outside
Revisiting Susan Glaspell’s The Outside by Marcina Zaccaria . . . (Top) David Patrick Ford, James Ross (Lower) Lluvia Almanza, Jonathan Horvath, Teresa Kelsey Entering the experiment of watching “virtual” presentations of theatrical work about 11 months ago, I felt truly...
Kat Edmonson
Each week, vintage pop jazz vocalist and songwriter Kat Edmonson presents a weekly, live streamed variety show from her living room featuring varying themes, performances, skits, special guests and more.On Valentine’s Day, Sunday, February 14 at 7p.m. EST, “The...
NY Is Popping
NY PopsUp,an unprecedented and expansive festival featuring hundreds of pop-up performances (many of which are free of charge and all open to the public) that will intersect with the daily lives of New Yorkers, has been announced by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. This series of events, intended to...
Social Alchemix
Long time NY Bartender, Wil Petre, and his online project Social Alchemix (Live!) transformed quite successfully from a live event held in Chelsea (where it ran under the banner of Cocktail Party Social Experiment) into an online night of performative party game and intimate conversation,...
Mary Wilson Dies...
Mary Wilson, original and longest-running member of legendary Motown girl group The Supremes, died Monday night at her home in Las Vegas, according to her longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz. The singer, author, activist, and former U.S. Cultural Ambassador was 76 years old and passed away...
NYC TRIVIA NITE
The Museum of the City of New York and Gotham Center for New York City History have paired to present virtual trivia on February 9 at 8 pm. From architecture and theater to transportation and pop culture, test your knowledge about NYC in categories spanning a 400 year history. The event is...
Ma-Yi Theater...
Ma-Yi Theater Company has distinguished itself as one of the country’s leading incubators of new work shaping the national discourse about what it means to be Asian American today. Following the recent opening of Ma-Yi Studios, a digital streaming center and live capture studio,...
LOVE IS IN THE AIR...
Special Valentine Benefit Event! The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director; Evans Haile, Executive Director) presents *MARRIAGE, The Ups and Downs…in Song, a cabaret valentine featuring Diane Love and Jay Nickerson with music direction and accompaniment...
THEATER-MUSIC-TALK
The John Gore Organization announced today that the newest episode of “Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal” will feature Broadway favorites including Jane Krakowski, Jessie Mueller, David Josefsberg, plus Mentalist Jason Suran. This week’s episode will premiere on WPIX-TV on Sunday, February...
Plummering the...
Written by Harry Haun in 2012. . . Christopher Plummer Wins Oscar 2012 . . . There is a defining moment in Harold Pinter’s ”No Man’s Land” – a word, really—that betrays Christopher Plummer’s unbridled passion for the written text. Playing a shabby wannabe poet, he is taking his leave of...
Christopher Plummer...
(Photo: Jordan Strauss – Invision/AP). . . Christopher Plummer, has died at the age of 91. He starred in The Sound of Music, won an Oscar for Beginners and was nominated for All the Money in the World and The Last Station, and died peacefully today at his home in Connecticut, his family...
TEG and Sir Andrew...
by Sandi Durell . . . Andrew Lloyd Webber has called on the government to trial a “game-changing” chemical he claims could allow theatres to reopen. The composer and theatre maker has spent months lobbying the government to test the chemical triethylene glycol (TEG) and see whether it...
Theater-Music-Talk
The West End’s Slava’s Snowshow is about to become available streaming for the first time ever on BroadwayHD streaming service for live theater, having secured worldwide exclusive streaming rights and will stream in the U.S. and globally beginning February 8. Olivier Award...
Carole Di...
by Sandi Durell . . . I know Carole Di Tosti as a high-level professional writer/reviewer of theater here at Theater Pizzazz. So it doesn’t surprise me that her writing abilities extend even further to author of fiction. The Kew Gardens PhD. has written a thriller that apparently is filled...
Theater-Music-Talk
Shakespeare Theatre Company will stream a production of All the Devils Are Here with Patrick Page. The new solo show deals with the evolution of evil in Shakespeare’s villains. The 80 minute production will stream February 4 thru July 28. Tickets are HERE. Ballet Hispánico, the...
Patti LuPone
By Matt Smith . . . “And there it is. The sound of no applause,” the legendary Patti LuPone laments following her opening number. She’s center stage at the Shubert Virtual Studios within New World Stages in New York City, for Patti LuPone: Live from the West Side, the first of three separate...
Theater-Music-Talk
10glo and Broadway Records are thrilled to announce their partnership for a love song contest Measure in Love: Broadway Celebrates Valentine’s Day, featuring Broadway favorites Jackie Burns (Wicked, If/Then), Kevin Chamberlin (Seussical, The Addams...
Hal Holbrook Has...
Actor Hal Holbrook has died. He was 95 years old. An Emmy and Tony winner Hal Holbrook, was best known for his role as Mark Twain, whom he portrayed for decades in one-man shows. Holbrook played the American novelist in a solo show called “Mark Twain Tonight!” that he directed himself...
Theater-Music-News
In celebration of Black History Month, Flushing Town Hall presents a Black History Trilogy, a three-part series featuring outstanding Broadway performers showcasing the music and speeches of influential African American artists, scholars, and leaders. Alton Fitzgerald White kicks off the...
Nicolas King Act...
CD Review by Marilyn Lester . . . A career retrospective when you’re not even 30 years old? Well, yes—if you’ve been performing professionally since age four and your name is Nicolas King. Act One: Celebrating 25 Years of Recordings (on the Club44 Record label) is a remarkable release, both...
Little Wars –...
By Myra Chanin. . . (L-R) Catherine Russell, Sarah Solemani, Linda Basset, Natasha Karp, Juliet Stevenson, Sophie Thompson, Debbie Chazen (Photo: John Brannoch) . . . In May of 2015, I reluctantly shlepped over to a seedy Theater on the not quite lower East Side to see a play by a...
Theater-Music-News
The beat goes on with new alliances, new theater experiences, music and cabaret and information you want to know! Theatre Forward will hold its virtual Gala celebrating regional theatre and its champions on February 8 with performers and special guests to include Jason Robert Brown, Kate...
Cicely Tyson Dies...
by Sandi Durell . . . Most remember the great actress-activist Cicely Tyson for her Oscar nomination in Sounder as the sharecropper’s wife in 1972, followed by her role in TV’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. She achieved 16 Emmy nominations, winning three and was the first black...
Theater – Music...
NiCori Studios continues to inspire and entertain through Covid-19 helmed by Corinna Sowers Adler and husband Nicholas Adler. Corinna is a respected voice teacher and performer working with kids in theater, helping them reach their goals. Nick has been the familiar face at Jazz at Lincoln...
Hip Hop Cinderella
by Carole Di Tosti . . . Second Extension thru February 28 ! The story of Cinderella is a historical tale (one version from Greece is 2000 years old). In case you have missed it, it’s about a lovely teenager who, after oppression by her step-family, advances in her social status...
Falling Stars...
by Alix Cohen – – The premise of this genteel, entertaining piece (named for a Charlie Chaplin song) is discovery of a dusty, old music book for which the protagonist negotiates in a British antique shop. “You never know what glorious, forgotten melodies you might discover…”...
Theater Talk
Zooming The Movies: Steel MagnoliasFriday, January 29, 8 pm ET Facebook Tune in for a benefit reading of Steel Magnolias starring Joely Fisher, Joanna Cassidy, Vicki Lewis, Frances Fisher, Lisa Ann Walter, Erin Cummings, Louis Herthum and David Andrews,...
Cloris Leachman...
Cloris Leachman has died at the age of 94 from natural causes, her daughter Dinah at her side. With 22 Emmy noms, the actress, comedienne starred in some of the biggest movies and TV shows. She’s the most nominated actress in history, and her 8 wins is the most of all time … tied...
The Approach
. . . by Carol Rocamora . . . Derbhle Crotty and Cathy Belton – – Imagine you’re sitting alone in a restaurant, waiting for a friend. Time passes. Gradually, you find yourself eavesdropping on the conversation at the next table. Two women are discussing the...