The past sneaks up on you when you least expect it to. That seems to be the idea at the center of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, which focuses on the friendship between composer Franklin Shepard (Jack Mosbacher), lyricist Charley Kringas ( …Read more

Blythe Danner is in every single scene in I’ll See You In My Dreams, and yet somehow this still feels like too little. Theatergoers have known for decades that Ms. Danner is a triple threat who can dance, sing and act, by age 25 she had won a Tony fo …Read more

At The New York Pops’ Christmas 2014 concert, a young singer by the name of Arlo Hill practically stole the show from Kelli O’Hara and Matthew Morrison; performing a number called “Songs of Freedom: A Celebration of Chanukah”, the baritone’s voice fi …Read more

The most surprising thing about Slow West is realizing that it’s the first feature length by director John Maclean, who could fool anyone into thinking he’s been making movies for decades based on the confident pacing and bold, stylistic choices at d …Read more

You’ve got to give it to Scott Siegel, he always knows how to surprise you. His Broadway by the Year series, now in its landmark fifteenth season, is a perennial reminder that Broadway is much more than its hits, and we were reminded of that with the …Read more

According to The Broadway League, since 1984 there have been between 28 to 46 new shows on Broadway each season, which is why it’s astounding to realize that between June 1,1963 and May 31,1964, a whopping 68 new productions made their Broadway debut …Read more

While moviegoers continued flocking to the theaters to see Thor, Captain America and the Hulk battle it out against Ultron in The Avengers sequel, on May 4th at Carnegie Hall there was a different kind of superhero assembly, as the brightest stars of …Read more

After watching Jean Renoir’s The River and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, a young Satyajit Ray felt compelled to make a film out of Bibhutibhushan Banerjee’s novel Pather Panchali, the first in a series of beloved books by the Bengali author. In …Read more

Tom Santopietro’s The Sound of Music Story might very well be the definitive book on the making of the beloved motion picture musical. From its real life origins, to its Broadway incarnation, and finally the Oscar-winning film starring Julie Andrews …Read more

It seems that the more we age and learn about the world, the less we really know about those who shaped ours growing up. What we once believed to be absolute truths, slowly reveal themselves to be nothing but images we composed to our convenience; bu …Read more