Fatalism, consumerism and a heady love triangle lead to a deliciously wicked conclusion in director Lucia Cox’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ One Hand Clapping. The 1961 novel, originally published in the UK under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, is a fri …Read more
Metropolitan Room will host the 2015 annual fundraising gala on Sunday, May 17th for Cabaret Cares/Help Is On The Way Today. Actress/singer Anita Gillette will receive The Ruth Kurtzman Lifetime Achievement Award and performers Gary Lizardo and Ricky …Read more
Coffee and Biscuit is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House set in 1950’s suburban America with puppets. At first, the idea seems outlandish and twee. A classic play that revolutionized the theatre and was a major step forward for feminism d …Read more
The fourth night of the IN SCENA! Italian Theater Festival NY was presented at the beautiful and intimate Casa Italiana in Greenwich Village. There in the downstairs auditorium, I experienced Cingomma, written and performed by the wildly talented Jes …Read more
SEE or SKIP: The Audience VENUE: Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, to June 28, 2015. INFO: Broadway continues its slavish Anglophilia with this look at the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Still in power at age 89, HRH came to power in 1952, whe …Read more
Godlight Theatre Company’s Cool Hand Luke begins how it ends. In the Brechtian-mode, it doesn’t pull any punches as to where Luke Jackson, convict, plumber and liberator, will end. A boot hill grave is written in this man’s stars and so, when the cho …Read more
NEWARK, NJ (April 22, 2015)—The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra celebrates the Great White Way with “Broadway Spectacular” NJSO POPS concerts May 30–31 in Newark and New Brunswick, respectively. Conductor Todd Ellison— music supervisor for the acclaime …Read more
Once, when I tried to argue that reality and game show TV is at an all time, depraved high, my father laughingly countered with Queen for a Day, a show that ran in the 1950s and ’60s when he was a kid, featuring female contestants who competed with o …Read more
According to The Broadway League, since 1984 there have been between 28 to 46 new shows on Broadway each season, which is why it’s astounding to realize that between June 1,1963 and May 31,1964, a whopping 68 new productions made their Broadway debut …Read more
While moviegoers continued flocking to the theaters to see Thor, Captain America and the Hulk battle it out against Ultron in The Avengers sequel, on May 4th at Carnegie Hall there was a different kind of superhero assembly, as the brightest stars of …Read more