A Scythe of Time, an impressive new musical and part of the 2016 New York Musical Festival, combines expert storytelling with a musically complex score and an absolutely superb cast.  Based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, How to Write a Blac …Read more

Last time I saw the incomparable three-time Tony Award nominee Brian Murray was as the imperious Lady Bracknell a few years ago in Roundabout Theater’s The Importance of Being Earnest. In Simon Says, a new play written by Mat Schaffer and playing Off …Read more

Versatile soprano and chanteuse Wren Marie Harrington’s show Tropic of Broadway at the Metropolitan Room creates some summer heat with a Latin beat as she takes us on a musical tour of songs from both the American and Global songbooks.  Along with a …Read more

Put a great Greek myth together with an awesome genre-spanning score plus a superb cast and you get the downtown hit Hadestown, written by the versatile singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and playing at New York Theatre Workshop.  Hadestown is a unique …Read more

Now in her 70s, Margaret Beals, dancer, choreographer, actress, improviser and founder of Impulses Dance Theatre Arts is an inspiration, a tribute to what it means to be a fearless artist and do what you are called to do, no matter what.  I had the p …Read more

Evening-1910, a new musical at the Axis Theater, poetically intertwines moments of New York history from the turn of the last century with softly drawn portraits of characters seeking their dreams and discovering their paths have many bends and curve …Read more

I had the privilege of seeing mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn’s astounding performance as Brother in The Scarlet Ibis, a new American opera by Stefan Weisman produced at HERE for the 2015 Prototype Festival.  Ms. Chinn is back at HERE with a new opera-t …Read more

Prepare to be dazzled by some extraordinary tap dancing when you go see Cagney, the new Off Broadway musical playing at the Westside Theater.  Director Bill Castellino, choreographer Joshua Bergasse, superstar Robert Creighton (James Cagney), and a t …Read more

From Cupid’s love-tipped arrows to Shakespeare’s Puck administering the juice of a magic flower upon a quartet of young lovers in A Midsummer’s Night Dream, to the tragic tale of Tristan and Iseult, a love potion is a powerful way to propel a plot fo …Read more

Want a wonderful antidote to the mid-March winter blahs?  Take a trip to sunny 19th-century Italy via the Metropolitan Opera’s sparkling production of Don Pasquale.  One of Gaetano Donizetti’s most popular operas, this comic treasure is steeped in th …Read more