Chip Deffaa is a polymath: an author, playwright, screenwriter, jazz/music historian, director and music producer, whose credits are, proverbially, as long as your arm—largely based in his knowledge of early 20th-century show business and the […]
By Chip Deffaa***On Christmas Eve, cabaret and theater folk gathered outside of the house where Irving Berlin lived, to sing songs that he wrote, just as they have every year since the 1980s. The tradition […]
By Kati Neiheisel***Intrigued by NLE’s Who Was Who!, I want to know who was where. I want to know about the hot and happening clubs and piano bars of previous decades. Perhaps the past can […]
Editor’s Note: Guest columnist Chip Deffaa remembers an important venue in the history of New York City and the driving force behind Michael’s Pub; Gil Weist opened the club in the early 1970s and successfully […]
George M. Cohan Tonight!, conceived, written and directed by Chip Deffaa and originally produced Off-Broadway in New York at the Irish Repertory Theater, and filmed at there and at other sites, has been released for […]
Author, playwright, jazz historian, songwriter, director, and producer of plays and recordings, Chip Deffaa, is an ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award-winner among many other illustrious credits. For 18 years, he wrote for the New York Post, covering […]
By Chip Deffaa***I wanted to write something in remembrance of Don Schaffer, who’s passed away. He was 82. He helped an awful lot of people in New York’s entertainment community, myself included. And I’ll always […]
By ROB LESTER****Santa Claus brought an early gift in the form of Irving Berlin reincarnated as the ever-engaging entertainer Jon Peterson in the one-man musical show Irving Berlin: In Person. Written and directed by Berlin expert Chip Deffaa, it is full […]
By ROB LESTER****At last! See Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand on the same stage for $20. Or, as Sidney Myer oft says, “…Or reasonable facsimiles.” Facsimiles Saturday night are Rick Skye as Liza and Steven Brinberg brings the music, the mem’ries to light the corners of […]
BY ROB LESTER**** Here’s a True or False Quiz on the iconic songwriter whose work is still heard today, though he was born 12 years before the 19th century ended. Here are 10 interesting facts (or lies) about […]
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