Playing Around Archives

While something innately French has been lost in translation, Amélie is a winsome musical (not cloying) with a solid cast. Condensation of [...]

April 7, 2017

Sunday night, Feinstein’s/54Below hosted a banquet of widely diverse selections from the work of collaborators Lynn Ahrens and Stephen [...]

April 6, 2017

In the early-70’s, I spent over three months on a kibbutz in the Negev. It was an amazing experience in many ways, but the food was not [...]

April 4, 2017

Ted Wallace (Roger Allam) is a famous poet who hasn’t written a poem in decades. When he isn’t getting to the bottom of a whiskey [...]

April 3, 2017

Musicals Tonight’s 95th revival, Du Barry Was a Lady, is its 14th Cole Porter Show. The 1940 meringue-weight musical ran 408 performances [...]

April 2, 2017

April Fool’s Day is upon us where we all get free reign to play pranks on one another and lie with impunity. In the spirit of this [...]

March 31, 2017

I do not want a sound to pretend that it’s a bucket or that it’s a president or that it’s in love with another sound, I just want it [...]

March 29, 2017

Thos Shipley presented a tribute to Nat King Cole Saturday evening, March 25, at the Metropolitan Room to a sold out audience, both vocal [...]

March 28, 2017