21st-Century Answer to It’s a Wonderful Life Boasts Two Real-World  “Angels:” Wilson Jermaine Heredia and Jai Rodriguez in Season 3 of  Around the Sun  Frank Capra, meet Jonathan Larson. You two have more in common than you might think.  In a surpris …Read more

As we continue to do the necessary work to make our world and our industry a more fair and equitable place for all (and make no mistake, we know that work has to be done), we can’t help but acknowledge that, were things up and running, the last few w …Read more

In the 1970’s, Harvey Milk, a gay charismatic politican, was assassinated for being openly homosexual. Using him as a pivotal character, Jerry James, Laura I. Kramer, Ellen M. Schwartz, and Cheryl Stern created a musical entitled “A Letter To Harvey …Read more

Full disclaimer: I am a John Cullum fan, so when I read that he was doing a one-man show tracing his long career, I looked forward to it. Filmed earlier this year and recorded with pianist Julie McBride, the 80 – minute show featured the 91 year old …Read more

Cabaret favorite, Kim Smith, returns to the stage this Christmas – even if he can only be watched from the internet, he’s still not to be missed. He’s performing a livestream from Club Cumming (Alan Cumming’s downtown venue) along with pianist Tracy …Read more

Everything old can be new again with creativity. The question is how to make the traditional relevant and, more importantly, how to attract paying viewers. John Caird and Paul Gordon collaborated to create Little Miss Scrooge, a combination of Charle …Read more

One of the many wonderful venues supporting live shows in New York City is a beautiful little restaurant in the East Village called “Pangea”.  Not only is there a great restaurant in front, but as you walk to the back room, you are taken to an old wo …Read more

Last night, I returned from a walk around the neighborhood to find red spray paint on the Black Lives Matter sign in my family’s yard. I wasn’t so much disturbed as surprised. Militant racism in our friendly little college town? Earlier that day, I’d …Read more

  I challenge you to watch The Line, streaming on The Public Theater site or YouTube, without being emotionally moved. Presented in the documentary style they used so successfully with Exonerated, Aftermath, and Coal Country, Jessica Blank and E …Read more

Women dance like primal, animalistic spirits. A female dog reminisces about life before COVID-19. A woman mourns her lover, knowing she will not be invited to the funeral. A wife seeks pleasure elsewhere when her husband turns a cold shoulder to her. …Read more