On the second floor of a nondescript building in midtown Manhattan, metal folding chairs lined the walls of a drab classroom-like room. The audience was sparse and could have been waiting for a high school play or amateur improv show to begin. In fac …Read more

The New York Pops delivered Christmas treats in style at their holiday concert held at Carnegie Hall. In It’s Christmas Time in the City, the orchestra was joined by Essential Voices USA, and guest artists Stephanie J. Block and Brian d’Arcy James, w …Read more

At the top of this show, a famous quote is echoed.  “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”  This is a fair assessment. However, the talking in The Count Meets the Duke: The Andersons Play Basie and Ellington only augments this homa …Read more

Multiple murders at the Players Club! At first glance, a headline that could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a historic social club dogged in recent years by financial controversy. But not so! This macabre message is, in actuality, a ban …Read more

The excellent Christian Thom plays the title role of Alfo Idello in Vincent Amelio’s romantic comedy How Alfo Learned to Love (at 59E59 Theaters, directed by Daisy Walker). But the real star of this production may be its casting director, Judy Bowman …Read more

Buster Poindexter quietly stepped onto the stage. Butler, Bernstein, & The Hot 9, the musical collaboration featured for the 3rd annual holiday variety show at Town Hall, was already in full swing. Poindexter, the evening’s host, lingered in the …Read more

In Marjorie Prime, a Pulitzer Prize finalist written by Jordan Harrison, pixelated holographic robots called “Primes” help humans navigate and renew their memories, some sweet, some grief-laden.  Constructed sparely, with deep rivers of emotion under …Read more

Pavarotti once said, “It’s like an injection of hormones to work with a great conductor,” which is certainly the experience of working or training with David Dabbon. He has an unusually charismatic and profoundly inspiring energy that shoots right in …Read more

  In 2013, 24-year-old James More appeared in Britain’s Got Talent, where he made judge Simon Cowell’s eyes roll as far as his corneas would allow, when he explained he was doing magic as a full time job. Dressed in black, except for a grey blaz …Read more

On Saturday, December 12th at the Japan Society, the Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company proved that humor knows no bounds of time or place. Mansaku Nomura brought his company to New York City for a three night exhibition of Kyogen, one of the four classic …Read more