On a rainy Tuesday afternoon, I meet up with Jasper Grant, artistic director of B-Side Productions for a chat at Amy’s Bakery in Hell’s Kitchen. Although it is gloomy outside, sitting at a small café table with Jasper is like being surrounded with su …Read more

Singer Shepley Metcalf and her musical director and pianist Ron Roy are like coffee with cream, and sometimes champagne and caviar, in their new show Going Places at the Metropolitan Room.  The magnificent musicianship and innovative song choices of …Read more

I’ve been an ardent fan of the actor and writer Simon Callow since seeing his Orlando in As You Like It at the National Theatre years ago when I was a drama school student in London. Since then I’ve enjoyed his work in numerous films, his one man sho …Read more

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon at the BAM Fisher Theater is a magnificently transcendent piece of wor …Read more

See, see the heavens smile, with clouds no more o’er cast. In this now happy, happy isle, are all your sorrows past. Gotham Chamber Opera continues to set the bar high for innovation and creativity.  The company’s The Tempest Songbook at the Metropol …Read more

Long before the spate of apocalyptic science fiction disaster films with movie stars like Will Smith wandering through crumbling metropolises, there was the great American dramatist Thornton Wilder’s play The Skin of Our Teeth. A theatrical mixture o …Read more

80 years ago, on February 2, 1935, the great Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre. This performance was heard nationwide as part of the extremely popular Metropolitan op …Read more

  I am an avid collector of quotes about living an authentic life, and after seeing The Lion, written and performed by award winning singer/songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, I have a new one from the title song for my collection: Inside my gentle paw …Read more

As the world marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, New York audiences are given a gift in Miwa Yanagi’s visually splendid theater piece, Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape, which opens the Japan Society’s series Stories from the War. Using as …Read more

Anton Dudley’s fascinating new play City Of, a production of The Playwrights Realm at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, explores living in “The In-Between” — what one character in City Of calls “the sustained waking dream…eternal twilight: entre chien et …Read more