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The Way I Am – A New Light Shimmers in Cabaret
Monday, April 1st, 2013
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Eva Kantor fills a stage with fresh air. From songs made conversational to warm patter, sincerity anchors her debut solo show. Here I stand at
The Broadway Musicals of 1961
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
… President Kennedy announced we’d put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, the Berlin Wall was built, our first troops
New Girl in Town—A Pleasant Chestnut Gets a Terrific Production
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Eugene O’Neill’s 1927 play Anna Christie, New Girl in Town, is a melodrama about a prostitute who returns home to the sea captain father she
Rain, Rain Go Away
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
You have a closet filled with carefully selected clothes and a beige trench coat older than…well, we won’t go there, or a poncho you use
Extra! Extra Anita Gillette: After All…
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Baby June* had nothing on this 5’2” (well almost) red headed bundle of dynamite. With fifty years in theater, television, and film under her pave
Leading Cabaret Venue Celebrates Its Own
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Thursday night, December 8, one of the city’s leading, newly spiffed up cabaret venues threw its first annual Artist Appreciation Holiday Party honoring performers and
Sigali Hamberger: A Toast to Ava Gardner
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Ninety per cent of the way through Sigali Hamberger ‘s very personal retelling of Ava Gardner’s tumultuous life, she stands at the back of the
Bottle That Brio: Mark Nadler’s Crazy 1961
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
When Mark Nadler takes a stage, the word becomes possessive. His natural authority, urbane charisma and complete focus is magnetic. Voices still, heads rivet, people
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