By Andrew Poretz***If you thought you saw smoke coming out of Birdland the other night, you are correct. Jazz singer extraordinaire Catherine Russell returned to Birdland with a quartet for a recent five-night, ten-segment stint. […]
By Bart Greenberg***It’s not often that a cabaret show is flawless. But it does happen and it did happen when Tony Award winner Jenn Colella brought her highly personal program to The Laurie Beechman Theatre. […]
By Marilyn Lester***It’s a case of everything old is new again—or more accurately, in the instance of vocalist Jane Scheckter‘s Before They Were Virgins, timeless. Originally performed in 2000 at the late and legendary Firebird, […]
By Michael Portantiere***For about 13 years, the incredible force of nature that is Marilyn Maye performed annually at the Art House in Provincetown, Mass., under the aegis of producer Mark Cortale. Maye’s popularity in the […]
By Marilyn Lester***Auf Wiedersehen, Au revoir, Hasta luego, Arrivederci—phrases so much more delicate and hopeful than the implied finality of the English “goodbye.” These former are true expressions of “see you soon,” which we know […]
By Andrew Poretz***Author Deborah Grace Winer’s latest monthly Songbook Sundays series at Dizzy’s Club was a big winner in this latest installation, Come Fly With Jimmy Van Heusen. Winer celebrated the music of the legendary […]
By Michael Portantiere***Wildcat, which opened on Broadway in December 1960 with television icon Lucille Ball as its star, and closed the following June after a troubled run of 171 performances, is probably not on anyone’s […]
By Marilyn Lester***Is there such a thing as a perfect perfect storm? The answer is moot since Broadway, film and TV star Carole Demas created one at 54 Below. Her show, Firefly, was sheer perfection […]
By Andrew Poretz***Most audiences get up to leave a movie the moment they see “The End” on the screen. If you’re the rare type who stays through to the final credit, you have no doubt […]
By Maryann Lopinto***Prior to her upcoming Stephen Sondheim concert in London, Tony®-nominated Broadway star and writer Melissa Errico offered an evening of Stephen Sondheim songs and stories about her friend and teacher. She worked with […]
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