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
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
Brooklyn-based playwright Cory Finley’s eerie domestic comedy The Feast is playing now through April 5th at The Flea Theater. But though the play, receiving its world premiere in the TriBeCa venue, is new to the boards, Mr. Finley’s work is anything …Read more
Old-fashioned, nostalgic glamour is big on Broadway this year, what with the eccentrics of “You Can’t Take it with You” and the retro vibe of “Honeymoon in Vegas”, not to mention the upcoming openings of “An American in Paris”, “Gigi”, “The King and …Read more
The Memory Show tells a simple story: a daughter (Leslie Kritzer) moves back home to take care of her mother (Catherine Cox) who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The two women have clashed throughout their entire lives, and illness doesn’t seem t …Read more
The Great White Way and graphic design have had a long, storied love affair, from the simple lines of a Hirschfeld caricature to the show-selling broadsheets, cab toppers and streetlamp pennants that seem to grab the man on the street by his sharp la …Read more
Josh Gondelman: comedian, writer, former teacher, and all around fantastic cardigan-loving guy. You may know him as the co-creator of the genius Modern Seinfeld Twitter handle. Maybe you have seen his work in esteemed publications like The New Yorker …Read more