Amanda McBroom, once more bravely going where no one has gone before, brought this year’s first holiday concert to Birdland. Yes, there were tinsel and dreidels, but also intelligence, wit, and white-knuckled hope against hope,…
In an era when amorality is rampant, this smart, pinball-like cop play summarizes choices with fisheye specificity. A defense attorney himself, playwright Pedro Antonia Garcia, not only has an ear for language and an eye…
New to Broadway or, as she says, “adjacent,” Perla Batalla was an opening act for Leonard Cohen on tour and grew to love his music. After seeing Patrick Paige in Hadestown and hearing his unique…
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (1899 –1973) was an extraordinarily multifaceted talent, excelling as actor, director, vocalist (Frank Sinatra said, “If you want to hear how a song should be sung, go see Mr. Noël Coward”), songwriter…
This mystery-meets-dysfunctional-family play is so well crafted not a single twist peers out before its time. Two-hander scenes within the piece drop provocative clues like breadcrumbs, yet with multiple revelations to come, one’s path is…
After interviewing Basil Twist about his journey to the creation of screen-centric Japanese folk puppetry, Dogugaeshi – meaning “flipping mechanics”, I went to see the show. It was hypnotic. (Click to read the interview.) A…
Author Kevin Winker recalls the first time he saw Bette Midler on Johnny Carson. “She reminded me of the girls I was friends with in college – not beautiful, but striking and womanly, with earth…
This small, beautifully curated exhibition at The Society of Illustrators features sheet music covers and illustrations drawn from the collection of Harlem historian John T. Reddick whose research has focused on that community’s Black and…
