Singer/songwriter Grace McLean has a deliciously eclectic style that sees her combining elements from jazz, folk, musical theatre and pop. In songs like “Natural Disaster”, which she performs with her band (Grace McLean & Them Apples) she sounds …Read more

In their 33rd birthday gala, called Do You Hear the People Sing, The New York Pops celebrated the works of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg best known for Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, and truly, one of those would have been enough to save …Read more

Leah Nanako Winkler is a New York-based playwright, but before that, she made a home in Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her work is consistently playful, painfully frank and delights in skewering stereotypes and cliches — often by amplifyin …Read more

In The Woodsman, we discover how the Tin Man from Frank L. Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, encountered his fate. Imagined by the wizards of Strangemen & Co. as a folk tale, we learn the title character’s story through gorgeous music and evocative puppet …Read more

In the Secret Sea, now playing at Theatre Row, is centered around a sensitive decision: whether or not to abort a fetus suffering from an incurable degenerative disease. Needless to say it stirred up the emotions and moral opinions of every audience …Read more

If you’re a fan of British theater and want to enjoy some fine acting, then you may want to help yourself to a slice of Toast. Now playing at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off-Broadway season, this quirky play by Richard Bean tells the amusing …Read more

Among the more enjoyable productions I’ve seen in New York in recent years have been stripped-down versions of classic and new works directed by Austin Pendleton. Among them was a highly satisfying 2013 take on Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré (for th …Read more

Last time Victoria Clark and Kelli O’Hara shared the stage they played mother and daughter in Adam Guettel’s gorgeous The Light in the Piazza; more than a decade later they are portraying mortal enemies in City Center’s production of Henry Purcell an …Read more

In a rural village in Vietnam lives a young woman named Thao who is a little different. One of many victims of the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange, a deadly chemical used for wiping out wide swaths of jungle in Vietnam in the 1970s to smoke out t …Read more

Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night is considered by many to be the absolute finest American play of all time; as such, it provides actors with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to portray characters that secure their legacy in the pantheon …Read more