Sure, you’ve got the Tonys, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards to honor theater, but what about cabaret, jazz, stand-up comedy and other staples of New York nightlife? The MAC Awards do their bit for cabaret, but it’s the Bistro Awards, now i …Read more

“Til Divorce Do Us Part”, a new original musical inspired by the true story of writer and choreographer Ruthe Ponturo, is the musical to catch this season.  Ponturo takes her experience of a tragic divorce and uses comedy through song and dance not o …Read more

If you shoved “Rosemary’s Baby”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, and “Fatal Attraction” into an atom smasher, the result might come out looking something like Erin Mallon’s new play, “Branched”, now playing at the HERE Arts Center.  New Age yuppies Tamara …Read more

“Art is the thrilling spark that beats death – that’s all.” Brett Whiteley With lamentations over the deaths of the Amato and the City Opera fading, LoftOpera has come along at just the right time. In its sterling production of Puccini’s “La Boheme”, …Read more

Plays tend to fall into two general categories: those where the characters change or grow and those where the characters’ past is revealed, allowing us to see why they are as they are. “Dying City” by Christopher Shinn (nominated for a Pulitzer for d …Read more

Playwright Monica Bauer has a way with words.  And she’s a natural-born story teller.  And she can act.  And she’s funny.  All of these talents come together beautifully in her one-woman show “The Year I Was Gifted”.  This hour-long piece of autobiog …Read more

One summer when I worked at an arts school, a woman named Mary Susan Slawter would call the admin office and leave longwinded voicemails, sometimes three or more in a row, always between the hours of midnight and 2am.  She puzzled my colleagues and m …Read more

John Tiffany’s wildly acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” ends its extended run today, Feb. 23, at Broadway’s Booth Theater. The production was first scheduled to end Jan. 5 but stuck around after critics used words like “m …Read more

“If You Can Get To Buffalo”, a cleverly splashy and quirky multimedia play, is a personal reflection loosely based on real events.  The time was 1994, and the place was both nowhere and everywhere: a new world we now call the internet. This is a stor …Read more

More than 50 million people have bought copies of Robert James Waller’s 1992 novel, “The Bridges of Madison County.” How many people will come to see a musical version of the material? Broadway is about to find out with the arrival of composer Jason …Read more