During her Frank Sinatra tribute at 54 Below, Marilyn Maye explained that she was not there to give us a biographical account of Ol’ Blue Eyes, “I’m here to sing the songs” she continued, “that’s where I live!”, and indeed, it’s the songs where the l …Read more

When your Broadway musical is based on not one, but two, quite beloved properties, it seems like there would be little to do in order to recreate the magic of the previous incarnations, and that is precisely what the creators behind Finding Neverland …Read more

While there is nothing remotely original about the sitcom-like It Shoulda Been You, there’s also something perversely reactionary about it. It’s a musical about a wedding that singles out everything that could possibly go wrong during a ceremony, not …Read more

It makes sense that on many occasions during the length of Doctor Zhivago, the eponymous hero (played by Tam Mutu) is referred to as “Y.A.”, short for Yurii Andreyevich, and also a perfect, if unintentional, embodiment of the show’s adolescent intens …Read more

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop quite literally in Robert Askins’ Hand to God, an irreverent hybrid of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Avenue Q and The Beaver in which a demonic sock puppet called Tyrone takes over his creator Jason (Steven Boyer) leadin …Read more

Bard envy consumes the lead character of Something Rotten! an Elizabethan playwright by the name of Nick Bottom (Brian D’Arcy James) who simply can not understand why he’s unable to write a single hit, while his rival William Shakespeare (Christian B …Read more

April 8, 2015 marked a unique occasion as some of Broadway’s greatest composers got together in a showcase of their chorale pieces conducted by the one and only Judith Clurman of Essential Voices USA. The Di Menna Space for Classical Music turned int …Read more

It was a night to remember. One could pretty much use that expression about every single performance of The New York Pops, and yet it seems that with their tribute to Frank Sinatra on April 10, 2015, they were simply outdoing themselves. The last con …Read more

In less than a decade Hannah Herzsprung has become the most exciting actress in German cinema. After her breakthrough role as a murderer in Four Minutes she had supporting parts in the Oscar nominated The Baader Meinhof Complex and the Oscar winning …Read more

After his breakthrough role in The Nance, Jonny Orsini’s career seems to be in constant ascent; in less than three years he has appeared on Broadway three times, has done Shakespeare on both coasts, and has played small roles in films with the likes …Read more