With the voice of an angel and the acting chops to match, Ryan Silverman is poised to have quite the bright future on the Great White Way. In just a few years he’s gone from playing supporting parts to headlining shows that include the Classic Stage …Read more
The statuesque Luba Mason commands any room she’s in, just recently at Broadway by the Year where she performed “Come Rain or Come Shine”, she made the Town Hall feel as intimate as a smoky piano bar. With her smooth voice, sensual movements and larg …Read more
“Life upon the wicked stage ain’t ever what a girl supposes,” Oscar Hammerstein II famously noted. Now French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce concurs. Lagarce’s play Music Hall (mounted by TUTA Theatre Chicago at 59E59 Theaters in a version translated by …Read more
Now more than ever, the relationship between men and women threatens to explode into an all out war. Thankfully Robert Dubac still feels that we should be able to laugh at the flaws both sexes carry with them. Produced by Urban Stages and running in …Read more
Does the truth really hurt, or does it make you laugh? As Robert Dubac illustrates in his one-man show The Book of Moron, presented by Urban Stages, the answer is a bit of both. Not to be confused with the similarly titled musical – “If you came here …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
The notes of George Gershwin’s “Summertime” filled Birdland Jazz on March 23, as Anika Larsen took the stage to celebrate the release of her first album, Sing You to Sleep, a collection of standards Larsen considers lullabies, “more Norah Jones than …Read more
Jack Karp’s Irreversible, playing now at the 14th Street Y theater, concerns the Oppenheimer brothers as they race against the clock and the Nazis to construct “the gadget,” the atomic bomb that would go on to famously end the war and bring in a new …Read more
Before “Girls” and “Sex and the City” but after “That Girl” and “The Mary Tyler Moore” show came “The Heidi Chronicles”, a comic look at a modern-day woman who wants and deserves to have it all, but balancing career, romance, life and family wasn’t a …Read more
Many pieces of theater, dance, and multimedia performance effectively target social issues and open an audience’s eyes to their privilege and personal social responsibility. In Quit the Road, Jack, Jerry Polner sets out to commentate on the negative …Read more