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

Everyone has a favorite movie, but odds are you’re not able to reenact almost every scene of it, sprinkle in some humor and entertain a packed theater. Nick Abeel, Kyle Schaefer, and Foley artist Kelsey Didion are doing just that with Hold On To Your …Read more

Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be headlining her first solo show at Carnegie Hall on March 13. The show, titled One Night Only: Sutton Foster, will feature the New York Pops under the conduction of Steven Reineke and will see Ms. Foste …Read more