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Magical “Mostly Mozart”

Saturday, August 13th, 2011
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around

The first thing you notice is that the Mostly Mozart Festival draws a younger, hipper crowd than what is usually seen at the awe inspiring

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Life of Galileo—Fighting the Powers That Be

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
by Quan Lam on Playing Around

In the midst of the unbearable heat wave in New York, I found myself at the Lincoln Center Campus for Ian R. Crawford’s adaptation of

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Don’t Even Think of the Olive Garden—Try this Instead

Thursday, July 21st, 2011
by Woman Around Town on Dining Around

Your out-of-town visitors have arrived. You have a great day of sightseeing planned—the Empire State Building, Lincoln Center, the Statue of Liberty, maybe a ride

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Woman Around Town: Hilary Kole—Jazz is Her Bailiwick

Monday, February 21st, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town

Twenty-one year-old Hilary Kole attended The Manhattan School of Music as a Jazz Commercial Composition major, one of three program auditions she passed with flying

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Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Living Around

“If the devil is to be personified in any form, it should be as a bed bug.” Dr. Amy L. Fairchild, Columbia University, Mailman School

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I Hate To Say It But….

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around

A Free Man Of Color is boring and preachy. There, I’ve said it. And I really hate to make that judgment about any play, especially

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I Went To A Marvelous Party* A Profile of Simon Green

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

Simon Green was in Manchester happily playing Whizzer in March of the Falsettos (by William Finn), which was scheduled to move to The West End.

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The New Americana: The Johnny Rodgers Band—
Too Marvelous for Words at the Oak Room

Thursday, May 27th, 2010
by Carol Toscano on Playing Around

There’s something very American about sitting back in the Algonquin Hotel’s legendary Oak Room listening to the music of a new American classic: Johnny Rodgers

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