Watching The Band’s Visit, a new musical at Atlantic Theater Company is like being drawn into the periphery of an intimate story and becoming a part of each small moment as it unfolds. The musical is based on Erin Kolirin’s screenplay for the award- …Read more
In her show Frenchy, A Parisian Affair in Story and Song at Don’t Tell Mama, Jen Fellman offers us an intimate portrait of falling in love in Paris and with Paris. Perfectly crafted, Ms. Fellman’s show is more like a cinematic musical monologue than …Read more
Susanne Mack is luminous in her new show RECONCILIATION, a gripping personal story interspersed with an eclectic choice of songs, as she tells us of growing up in a small town in Germany searching to find out who her father was and surrounded by secr …Read more
With a seamless blend of songs and stories that will break your heart or make you laugh until you plotz, cabaret singer Risa Finkel is just terrific in her new show Moment to Moment at Pangea, a sweet boîte in the East Village. Statuesque, with a gl …Read more
It’s been said it takes five to ten years to get a musical produced, which obviously makes writing a musical a genuine labor of love. I was fortunate to experience a few of these labors of love recently at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s …Read more
Royce Vavrek, one of the hottest librettists on the contemporary opera/music theater scene today, and Ricky Ian Gordon, a masterful composer and melodic genius, are a powerful duo in their new opera, 27, having a semi-staged production for two nights …Read more
Inspired by the solo storytelling in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, PREMIERES’ Artistic Director Paulette Haupt was curious to see how the one person show would transform if music were added to the words. And into existence came Inner Voices, which is …Read more
Opening her show It’s Today with the Jerry Herman song from Mame of the same title, cabaret singer Laura Jean Fumia turned Don’t Tell Mama’s back room into her own personal living room as she sang a set filled with songs from the Golden Age of musica …Read more
Jessi Blue Gormezano, a dedicated and passionate theater artist, is attracted to powerful subject matter that reverberates with up-to-the-minute social issues. Last summer I interviewed Ms. Gormezano about her producing and acting in the U.S. premie …Read more
Having a conversation with internationally renowned theater artist and activist Lisa Wolpe is a feast for the mind and imagination. A lover of words and their power and a fierce passionate woman, Ms. Wolpe is an award winning actress, director and f …Read more
